what's up fungal associates welcome to completely arbitrary the podcast about

trees and other related topics I am one of your hosts my name is Alex Crocens

and I am sitting across from Casey clap another host of this lovely podcast we

call completely arbitrary that's right hi Casey hi Alex how are you I'm doing

quite well thank you I'm very happy to hear that and are you also doing quite

well I am also doing quite well we're we're talking about a tree today that is

near the Middle East and I'm listening to a podcast about Rome as I always do

yes and so I'm just like looking at a map here showing off the you know the

world around the Mediterranean and and then further outreach is of it it's a

very fascinating thing how about that whole things very fascinating yeah well

we hope we we have a fascinating tree to talk about today oh boy do we now

out before you go any further I think you should actually pronounce it tree with

quotes oh another tree yeah so you might recall years ago it was more like a

couple weeks ago yeah we decided that we were gonna do not one not two

maybe three trees that are trees yeah sorry everybody yeah you thought you got

away with that one this is how our our podcast empire dies yeah everyone's

gonna just stop listening like I was listening to a tree podcast then it

became a monocot podcast and I'm just not into that yeah who it who would be

Casey before we even talk about any of that shit we have something exciting to

share yes let's share it we have a new t-shirt it is on our merch page

arbitrary pod dot com slash merch it is called the Douglas for t it's a very a

very loose pun on Douglas for tree yeah yeah yeah I think loose is the only way

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