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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: They'd be.

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Speaker 1: Rude time past is our man in the garden.

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Speaker 2: He's with us this morning, calder rude cure Jack. I

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Speaker 2: loved your intro mate. The way we are looking after

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Speaker 2: the planet house, you know, all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: The species that we are, you know, it's just unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: You know. I sometimes thought, if all the species on

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Speaker 2: the planet could talk or think or communicate, how would

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Speaker 2: they look at Homo sapiens. Are we Well, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing that'd be very complimentary somehow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. So this this is so, this

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Speaker 2: is the whole thing. I quite often talk to kids

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Speaker 2: and teach just about it, about nature, literacy and all

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Speaker 2: this stuff, because if you really study the creatures. Now

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Speaker 2: we're going to be talking a little bit about fungy today,

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Speaker 2: but anyway, if you study fungi or by or whatever,

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Speaker 2: they run on current sunlight, not fossil sunlight, and every

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Speaker 2: and everything that they have is recycled.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a I mean, that seems like that's actually

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Speaker 1: a very good point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no one's using and they with you exactly. And

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Speaker 2: also they work with an ecological system of cooperation, not

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Speaker 2: competition like all these bloody people in in in never Mind.

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Speaker 2: They operate on diversity too, and they use local expertise.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 2: In the end. Yeah, and in the end, of course

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Speaker 2: they use life friendly chemistry, which I think is nice.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is why we love you, so it it's not

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Speaker 1: just philosophy is straying into political areas, which I love

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Speaker 1: as well. So I'm happy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need but we need to really think about that, Jack,

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Speaker 2: you know exactly what I mean. And seeing you're dead

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Speaker 2: now that is far more prevalent for you right now,

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Speaker 2: you know, with with your with your son and all. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: So I in our place, it's been very dry. The

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Speaker 2: sum has been very dry, but then of course we've

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Speaker 2: obviously had a lot of rain in.

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Speaker 1: The last couple of weeks ago. And I have four

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Speaker 1: dinner plate sized mushrooms growing in my in the middle

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Speaker 1: of my lawn. They're white, they're just like dinner plates.

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Speaker 1: Very interesting, and you've got a whole range that might

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Speaker 1: be growing around the place at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Yes, there is right, you know, this is actually a

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Speaker 2: fantastic year for mushrooms. I've noticed that over the last

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Speaker 2: few weeks. But last week I saw Amanita muscaria, which

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Speaker 2: is that famous red mushroom with the white dots. You know,

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Speaker 2: quite a large thing to see it in the lawns,

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Speaker 2: and I thought, ships I haven't seen that since, well

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Speaker 2: some weird for a long time, and why is it

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Speaker 2: growing in my garden? And then I looked up and

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Speaker 2: I saw the birch tree, and I thought, I never

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Speaker 2: I know I had a bird tree, but and I

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Speaker 2: know they are related. But this is how you get

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Speaker 2: these little cock So here you go. This is why

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Speaker 2: that creature is there, That that wonderful red thing is

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Speaker 2: related to working with beach and some other bloets and pieces. Uh,

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Speaker 2: it's it's it's a microizal fungus again that works with

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Speaker 2: other fungi and other trees, with the birch, the beach,

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Speaker 2: the pine and all that sort of stuff. That's exactly

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Speaker 2: what you say. So that's why I thought that fitted nicely.

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Speaker 2: And then there are a heck of a lot of

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Speaker 2: these things, and you probably see them on the on

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Speaker 2: the on the website of a whole lot of different

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Speaker 2: creatures that I call creatures almost They are funky, but

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Speaker 2: they do a fabulous job of recycling forests, leaves, branches,

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Speaker 2: everything that's so beautiful. There's a little picture there of

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Speaker 2: what they what they what we call the what you

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Speaker 2: call it the bird's nest fungus looks like a little

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Speaker 2: bird's nest, sits on a branch and has little spores

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Speaker 2: in it that look almost like coins. But it's tiny, tiny,

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Speaker 2: beautiful big.

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Speaker 1: How big is that? How big is the bird's nest

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Speaker 1: the finger or something.

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Speaker 2: And a half?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, okay, nothing, nothing, they're tiny.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I like those fungus, those ones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I always have to tell kids, you know,

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Speaker 2: they look like an ear, they feel like an ear,

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Speaker 2: they smell like an ear, and they taste like an ear,

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Speaker 2: and they'll go hang on. In the eighteen hundreds, the

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Speaker 2: Chu Chung brothers in Taranaki were the first people to

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Speaker 2: send container loads of these ear fungi to China. That

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Speaker 2: was our very first material that we exported, is the

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Speaker 2: root overseas.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's amazing. I had no idea of it in

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Speaker 1: the eighteen hundreds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, early eighteen hundreds. Okay, there you go, oh, there

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Speaker 2: you are. And so you've got funky that that buggery

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Speaker 2: your plants I know, and your fruits and all this

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Speaker 2: sort of stuff. But here's the nice one, the last one,

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Speaker 2: the collaborative one, and it is the stinkhorn fungus with

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Speaker 2: brown material in that little red stinkhorn which is attracts

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Speaker 2: the flies and they slover it up and take the

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Speaker 2: spores to all over the forest. That is collaboration. Thank

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Speaker 2: you RhoD Photos on the website.

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