7 Deadly Stems: GLUTTONY (Common Fig)

Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The common fig (Ficus carica): one of humanity’s first food obsessions. From covering Adam’s junk to covering other Eve’s junk, this plant has no shortage of cultural import. But does it deserve the valor it’s flaunted for hundreds of years?

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0:00.0	What's up?
0:06.0	What's up?
0:07.0	Fungal Associates.
0:08.0	Welcome to completely arbitrary.
0:10.0	The podcast about trees and other related topics.
0:13.0	I'm one of your hosts.
0:14.0	My name is Alex Croson, and of course we have...
0:17.5	Casey clapped the other host.
0:21.0	Wow, Casey, our third deadly stem you think so I can't believe we've made it this far you can't do you think we were gonna I think we're gonna get halfway through it gets struck down by lightning, smote, for our sort of flippant use of such
0:38.1	intense deadly stems?
0:40.1	Yeah, Igdrasil was going to come to life and come after us.
0:44.0	Uh, yeah, scary, real scary stuff.
0:46.6	And luckily, we're okay.
0:48.2	We're doing fine.
0:48.9	Yeah.
0:49.5	So far everything seems to be working out.
0:50.9	As long as we end the night with a prayer. Yeah, well, which we always do. Of course. I do that anyway. Yeah, that's pretty standard stuff, dude. I kneel at the foot of my bed.
0:59.3	Hi, case. Hello, Alex, good day to you, and I hope it's going very well. It is going okay. You know what I've been
1:07.9	eating very
1:09.6	Properly I would say yes yes yes yes, yes, yes, yes. Lots of vegetables and fruits and seeds and things. And this morning I got a
1:19.4	hankering for just a bagel egg and and cheese but I ate that and I cannot tell you how sick it made me feel
1:27.2	no way after like two weeks of fruits and vegetables that's right because you you've been going
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