What's up, up, Fungal Associates? Welcome to completely arbitrary. It's the

podcast about trees and other related topics. I am one of your hosts. My name is Alex Croson and of course

I'm here joined by Casey Clapp. Hello Alex. Hi case. How's everything going? Oh you know it's going. Oh is it then sure? Oh yeah.

Welcome everybody. Wow we're so glad to be. I feel I feel so out of out of out of out a step

case because we've had so many little hiccups and missteps. Maybe not missteps,

but just life stuff,

you know, kind of getting in the way of work.

No, it has been busy.

We've been busy, we've been doing things.

We've been out of town, we've been this and that.

Man, yeah, I mean, I told everyone last time my finger I broke it and then got a bunch of vaccines

and I'm better I'm fine.

I would say it was smashed to smithereens.

Yeah, that's a right term.

Yeah, how does everyone feel about seeing finger x-rays?

Oh, you want to post those on the on the Instagram?

Well, that's what gets the clicks, right?

Did it, did the doctor put it up and say say I don't want to get all technical on you but your

finger is broke like a motherfucker he did he said exactly exactly it was he was like you're

there Alex shout out to Maria Bamford.

Casey, we got to talk about a tree today.

Yeah, we do.

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