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Completely Arbortrary

The City That Trees Built (European Alder)

Completely Arbortrary

Completely Arbortrary

Comedy, Education, Science

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

About 1600 years ago, a group of refugees settled on a mucky swath of land that would one day be known as Venice. What followed is one of the greatest marvels of human engineering: a city built entirely on trees in water. Enter European alder (Alnus glutinosa), an ordinary tree with an extraordinary role in history.

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Cover art by Jillian Barthold

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0:00.0

What's up, up, Fungal Associates? Welcome to Completely Arbitrary, the

0:08.4

podcast about trees and other related topics. I'm one of your hosts. My

0:12.1

name is Alex Croson. I am your other host. I'm Kaysh. other the context of what? Oh what? Come on you always ruin every good thing. Oh thank you.

0:25.6

Yeah you're welcome. Casey speaking of a good thing we have a t-shirt sale happening right now.

0:30.8

That is right it's we're in the thick of it. It's

0:33.7

things are worrying by us at this moment. Yeah. It's beautiful it's

0:36.6

wonderful. It's wonderful. It's commerce. That's right. For the month of June

0:41.3

we're having a t-shirt sale and it's 20% off all of our

0:43.9

t-shirts yep and a little extra little extra prize you get

0:48.0

a little prize is two cone stickers in it all that's right Casey vault, as it were, which is really just a stump with like a,

0:57.0

you know, like an old-timey wooden pot lid over the top of it.

1:01.0

Exactly. So you open it, it's like, ehh. Yes yes and then I pull out all these cool you know all these

1:05.2

cool vinyl stickers yeah exactly where did these come from and yeah I stick it in there inside that tshirt, so you open it up and why do you have a surprise, cone surprise?

1:16.0

Yes, it's like the best kind of confetti.

1:18.0

Exactly, and you can stick it onto somewhere and keep it forever.

1:21.0

Yeah, it's also beautiful.

1:22.0

For those of you who don't remember, all of our cone stickers are provided by local artists, Alex and I, and our printer here in Portland, Sticker Ninja, and they, altogether together we create this as part of the

1:35.4

the Kone Club that's right the cone club which you can become a part of it with our

1:39.5

Tremium membership and if you also sign up for that you can get all these cone stickers as a as a matter

1:45.9

effect you can get into our hidden cone store and you can go snag any of them.

1:49.5

We now have something like 30 cones.

1:51.7

That's awesome. They're all incredible.

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