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🗓️ 29 February 2024
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There is a shakeup in the bird world: ornithologists are renaming every bird whose common name is based on a human! So why can't we do this for trees? We can, and do, in this bonus episode unlocked from our support platform Completely Arbortrary Treemium! Become a Treemium member today and unlock a treasure trove of cool rewards at arbortrarypod.supercast.com
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0:00.0 | What's up? What's up? Fungal associates. Welcome to completely arbitrary Treremium. Only here on SuperCass. |
0:15.0 | Wow, I've never heard you say that before. |
0:18.0 | Welcome to Supercast Tremium because this is our first official side show. That's right Casey. Yeah real side show. This is a real |
0:26.7 | side show if you know what I mean we got the the bearded woman over there on the |
0:30.0 | couch. She's gorgeous. I'm the 600 pound man. I'm the bearded woman. Yeah. |
0:39.8 | Oh boy. Victorian freak show. Can you believe that was ever a thing, Casey? |
0:43.8 | You know, I really can. I really can. |
0:45.6 | Okay, yeah, I guess I can too. |
0:46.9 | And I also have to say, it turns out I'm pretty positive, a lot of those people |
0:50.9 | were quite happy with it. |
0:52.6 | Interesting. |
0:53.6 | Because they were outcasts in society otherwise. |
0:57.7 | And then they found this other group of outcasts and they're like, yeah, you're one of us. |
1:01.1 | And then they made money kind of being like look at how weird I am yeah |
1:04.5 | you know it's kind like they steered into it I know I'm not gonna say I'm gonna you can't speak |
1:08.7 | for all of those participants exactly but that's I that's a fair thing to assume. |
1:13.0 | I think there's probably a lot of that. |
1:15.0 | I think like, you know, we have this new language now about exploitation and sort of, you know, disability shaming or whatever, like, you know, I think that, I think that if they were alive today and having seen how society has changed, they might feel differently. |
1:32.4 | Yeah, I think you're right, but I... |
1:33.8 | But at the time, I don't know if we had those sorts of... |
1:36.8 | I don't know. |
1:37.8 | Ways of thinking. |
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