Hello everyone and welcome to talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, March 9th, 2020 and I'm the

host of the show Kara Santa Maria and I want to start as I always do by thanking

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All right guys, so this week I had the incredible opportunity

to chat with a world-renowned mycologist.

He's also the author of a brand new book funjopedia a brief

compendium of mushroom lore so without any further ado guys, here he is,

Dr. Lawrence Millman, also known as Larry.

Well Larry, thank you so much for joining me today.

My pleasure, I'm delighted to be talking with you. Yeah so I'm

really excited to talk about your newest book and of course this is the newest of

several called let's see if I can pronounce all, because everybody loves to pronounce this word really differently.

I'm gonna say fungipedia, a brief compendium of mushroom lore.

Do you say fungipedia or fungipede.

You hit the nail on the head it's fungopedia.

Yay!

I had a professor once who said it's fungi not fun guy.

Right you know that joke, people coming up to me saying you must be a fun guy and then bursting into laughter.

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