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The Magic of Mushrooms

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Fungal Community

I'm on the side of the debate that this is a debate without a fun answer because it's just endlessly confusing. It's one of the ways that thinking about fungi makes the world look different. So I don't think there is a good answer, which is why it's so fun to ask this question. A fungus is cool, man, and I'm into that kind of fungus too, so edible fungus and fictional fungus. Those are my specialties. Have you ever been in that group of comedians who sometimes gather on The Last Night of Glastonbury, find something that's grown underneath a tree, eat it, and are then found in a little chef? Some months later,

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