The Backstory of a Boy's Bike

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A boy left his bike chained to a tree and then he went away to war in 1914. The real owner of the bike didn't have parents. In the 1950s on Vashan Island, this kid named Don Puts lost his dad in a house fire. And so he got a bike and he hated the bike. It sucked. So one day he just ditched it in a swamp; someone must have found it,. hung it in a tree, the tree grew around it. 40 years later, he's grown up. He visited this tree landmark on a vacation back in his hometown: "Hot damn, that's my bike"

Part 1 of a very special duo: Do trees have feelings? How do they talk? How old can they get? Are there any tree stories that will make me cry? Spoiler: YES. This episode aired in May 2018 and is worth a revisit, especially since Part 2 is a brand new 2020 interview with possibly the world's most enthusiastic tree expert, J. Casey Clapp. Learn about his many tree tattoos, new additions to those tattoos, how roots communicate to each other, "crown shyness,” social media shyness and the mental health benefits of tree proximity. Also: banana facts and Casey f*cking hates apples.

Be sure to hear the fresh catch-up interview in Part 2 to learn what Casey’s been up to since this originally aired. He’s been busy.

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Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris

Theme song by Nick Thorburn