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 Croson and of course it's no surprise to anyone sitting across from

Casey Clapton.

Honestly I was hoping you were going to say a random name not going to be surprised

anyone sitting next to Ralph Nader got to be amazing can you get Nader on the pod wait

a second Alex you think you'd be amazing to get Ralph Nader on the podcast no I don't

know much about Ralph Nader's politics he's green right green party yeah the green party

what was I don't know if net Ralph Nader is even still in politics I don't know if Ralph

Nader is even still alive let's go should we let it let's happen we can't start the

podcast that way yeah everyone we have an announcement Al Gore and Ralph Nader they've

both passed we have another announcement Casey and I will be running for joint mayor of

Portland yes 2027 I don't know how that's relevant to Ralph Nader and Al Gore you realize

their national politicians yeah okay just make sure oh thanks for poking a hole in any way

appreciate that everything was believable until you said that Alex Casey isn't it kind

of fun that to pivot really hard isn't it kind of fun that we can now hear the theme song

and all the musical stays while we record for those who don't know Alex is a magician oh

yeah I have a bunch of buttons and every now and then he comes up to me and he says Casey look

look at this and I'm like what and he presses the same button that he's pressed a hundred

times and it does something different yeah this time now it is playing all of our stuff in our

ears so we can like kind of get into the vibe yeah also you say I'm a magician and I was going to say

yeah I can drop an MP free onto a sampler yeah it's a magic button now you press those buttons

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