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What is going on my friend? How are you? Hey, good to see you again. Good to see you brother. It's been a while.

It's been a while. There's a lot of interesting developments. So this is the never-ending story, I the never-ending story of mushrooms. Yeah, so this giant one that you brought me explain this again because you were telling me out there. I'm like let's save this for the show

Because this is crazy sure Sure, this is the best gift that I can give from a mycologist to a friend.

This is a rare old-growth mushroom called a garracon, only grows in the old growth forest is now on the red list of

threatened species in Europe this one was found on the ground folks so it's important

that people don't pick these. They're very rare.

Literally, one out of a hundred times in the old growth forest,

I'll find one.

So this is really important that people understand

how important biodiversity, mycoderiversity, when we're talking about fungi,

a garracon was first described by diasquarities over 2,000 years ago as elexirium

ad longum vitum, the elixir of long life is also revered by the

heida and the clique in the Northwest First Nations as a much from very important for their own pharmacopoeia.

So 2,000 years history of use, other sides of the world, and directly after 9-11 I was approached

by the Bio Shield,

Biodefence Department, and they ran over 2,200 assays.

The concern was weaponizable viruses.

So they saw an article I wrote in Erbogram called novel Antiviral

from Mushrooms, a whopping one page long.

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