What's up, up, Fungal Associates? Welcome to Completely Arbitrary,

the podcast about trees and other related topics. I'm one of your hosts. My name is Alex Krosin and of course

alongside me is Casey Clapp.

Copy that Alex, I'm here. Copy that Casey. We're right in front of each other. other yeah we should get walkie talkies though yeah

remember when walkie talkies were really fun and popular when we were kids yeah I didn't know that they stopped

well sure did you know that they stopped. Well, sure.

Did you know that there used to be an app that you could use on your phone that was essentially the same thing?

Yes.

Yeah, I used to have that with Frisbee friends.

We would be driving in different cars and we'd send these messages to each other.

Sounds like fun. My neighbor, before we get into this week's tree, I promise this is a normal episode.

My neighbor growing up had two walkie-talkie, they of course come in pairs.

Yeah, I was gonna say, that's generally the number.

Go by a single walkie-talkie.

You generally don't.

I think I used to get him like four so you can communicate with some friends.

Oh sure, yeah. I didn't have that many friends.

So that's not true. He's just talking into a can. So one of one of them was

Homer Simpson's head and the other one was Bart. Okay and that was the closest I ever

got to watching the Simpsons and I was a child that was not allowed. I also wasn't allowed

because Bart Simpson was a rude boy and was rude to his parents.

Yeah, you know it's good old-fashioned family fun is what it is.

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