What's up, 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 Croson and I am alongside. Wow, Casey clapped. Look at that, it's kind of fun.

Casey's playing with a little piece of rubber as is his want. Hey Casey, come on, come here, come on, we gotta focus,

we gotta do a podcast here buddy, there you go.

You wanna talk about trees, huh?

Yeah, I do.

You wanna talk about trees? Yeah, I do. Yeah.

Hi, Kase.

I'm not a dog, Alex. No, no No no no you're a man fully. Thank you I appreciate this

As am I good day. How are you? I'm okay Casey

How are you? It's the 24th year of our Lord this century 2000. That's right as they say

Yeah, it's it just rolls off the tongue. Are you having some new year even though it is now February are you having some some new year sort of you're still feeling the transition a little bit?

No not necessarily transition just I guess you know it's now past the solstice so everything's getting brighter.

It's true. And as I look to this year there's just a lot of unknowns like normally I got a really good idea of where everything's going to go, you know?

But I got a lot of little things happening all over the place and like projects that I'm working on all the time.

I got some trips planned. So it's just kind of like whoa how man there's all this stuff in front in the future.

Yeah.

Yet none of it to me seems very like like a ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba like structured or planned. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, these open wounds. Yeah, exactly. Open wounds. Yeah, well that's not quite the term I would use for it. Alex, how are you feeling?

Festering.

Getting infected and smelling like bubbles and things.

Smelling like bubbles.

It smells like bubbles in here.

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