Good day, fungal associates. Welcome to completely arbitrary. The podcast about trees and other related topics. I'm one of your hosts. My name is Alex Croson.

I'm another one of your hosts. My name is Kasey Klab. Good Aidea. Alex, I see what you did there.

Good Aidea case. Yeah, we're talking about a tree from Southeast Asia today.

Or down under, as I like to say. Is that offensive? To call Australia Southeast Asia?

Yeah, people sometimes refer to Portland as South Seattle.

I'm sure it would make a certain group of people upset.

Yeah, I'm sure. Sorry, everyone. You ever tried to look at things that way, Alex, like trying to imagine...

I don't know. We've talked a little bit about continents.

I don't like referring to seven continents because Europe is very Eurocentric. They're acting like they're their own continent.

When really they're just an extension of Asia? I don't even think you can say an extension. It's all just...

Maybe if there's an ismith, you know? Like a peninsula? Yeah, yeah.

Then you could say, yeah, that's an extension of something. Sure, but this is just part of it.

Yeah, exactly. I don't know. Is the West Coast an extension of the East Coast?

So anyway, I guess what I'm asking is if you ever feel like you specifically go out of your way to miss,

miss describe something because you think it's funny.

Or I'm making a point that I think the boundaries are silly and arbitrary.

I feel honestly feel that way about the United States often.

Yeah, the States of the United States. Like the South, right? Yeah, yeah.

I also think, and this is a little related, but mostly unrelated, pride.

Maybe we shouldn't even get into this because it's a whole different thing.

Let's go for it, though. Why not? This wasn't intended. Hi, everybody. Welcome to the show.

I think pride and something that you can control is very silly.

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