Hi, everyone. It's Anne, and I've got one word for you.

Mushrooms.

Today, onto the best of our knowledge, we're going to take a deep dive into the intense world of mushroom fanatics.

It's all coming at you after this.

Wisconsin Public Radio.

It's to the best of our knowledge.

What if I told you that you owe your existence to a mushroom?

Oh, yeah. that you owe your existence to a mushroom. Oh yes, fungus man.

Fungus Man is very interesting.

He's the personification of a large bracket fungus.

Lawrence Millman sonification of a large bracket fungus.

Lawrence Millman, with a story from way back in the mists of time. Fungus man was a friend of Raven who created the world.

Raven created men, but then scratched his head.

What do I do next? There doesn't seem to be any more of the species I've just created.

But fungus man was quite smart.

He told Raven,

I can take you in my canoe to the island where female genitalias scamper around.

And they arrive on this island and there are all these female genitalists scampering over the rocks.

The description in the myth makes them look a little bit like chiton shell.

So Raven is really happy. He collects a lot of them and takes them back and affixes them to the men.

They therefore become women and then the men who don't have them fixed to themselves look very

happily at the men who do who are now women as the old man who told me this

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