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Completely Arbortrary

Árbol Del Tule (Montezuma Cypress)

Completely Arbortrary

Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

We’re going on a Summer Vacation! First stop, Oaxaca, Mexico, to visit the sacred and legendary Árbol del Tule (Montezuma cypress, Taxodium mucronatum). This glorious and massive tree sits squarely in a church courtyard, and has found its way into the zeitgeist of Oaxacan culture. With a sordid taxonomic past, this tree tells a tall tale. But is it really a tree at all…?

Completely Arbortrary is produced and hosted by Casey Clapp and Alex Crowson

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Cover art by Jillian Barthold
Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals


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0:00.0

what's up fungal associates welcome to completely arbitrary the podcast about

0:10.5

trees and other related topics and you know what happy summer vacation I'm

0:16.1

one of your hosts my name is Alex Croce and I'm here with mr. Casey clap man

0:21.7

of the world that's me that's me don't find me anywhere but inside this here

0:25.9

world am I ever gonna go to space have you ever asked yourself how did I get

0:31.1

here I have and I've also asked myself where are my beautiful why my beautiful

0:36.6

wives it turns out that David Burns a polygamist wow yeah yeah who'd have

0:44.8

thought have you watched that uh that old film of the talking heads in

0:49.0

concert oh no I haven't got it so good it's really yeah that's actually how I

0:53.6

got into talking heads really yeah I had no idea despite having one myself yeah

0:59.1

you you were an engineer I guess not my thing no I was gonna drop it off

1:02.0

someone told me not to hey really good idea now like us talking heads a doctor

1:05.6

recommended not to cut my head off your prescription is keep your head on your

1:10.1

shoulders how gruesome yeah maybe good topic to uh to discuss some time

1:15.3

perhaps should head stay on or off the kids are calling it neck-chopping it's

1:23.6

the newest tick-tock trend oh you know what there is some

1:28.2

criminally person who's like I'd love to see that trend yeah just some some

1:33.1

some kids who are doing some stupid they think it's a real thing yeah this is

1:38.2

this is something they would be funny on like a TV show where there's no

1:41.1

there's no actual stakes I don't want to have to clean up that video yeah it's

1:45.0

let's move on anyway Casey here we are it is July happy July happy July to you as well

1:52.0

and we have decided to take a little trip that's right it's actually going to be a long trip

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