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**The Mushroom Hour Podcast**

Hi there…welcome to Mushroom Hour. Listen in as we venture into kingdom fungi with unique and beautiful humans who all share a passion for mushrooms. We’ll go forage for wild mushrooms, explore their potency as nature’s medicines, become citizen mycologists, transform human consciousness and learn how mushrooms inspired art, spirituality and culture throughout our history. There are so many ways that mushrooms can benefit (wo)mankind – we just need to tap into the mycelium network and let them share their gifts. Excited to have you along for the journey! Mush Love

Latest Episodes:

Ep. 172: The Very Merry Mushrooms - Mycology for All Ages, Learning through Play (feat. Tess Lassman) Mar 14, 2024

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GUEST:

MENTIONS:

MUSHROOM HOUR:

Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:

Fungi Freights - Growing from the Grassroots
Natural Restoration of Urban Detroit
Detroit Land Bank
Bringing the Fungal Freight Container to Life
Mycological Education Events
Introducing Kids to Fungi
The Very Merry Mushrooms
Novel Integrated Health
Psilocybin Advocacy
Exploring Local Fungal Diversity Around Detroit
Embracing Motherhood
Documenting with iNaturalist

Ep. 171: A Magical Dutchman's Journey - Building Community at Fungi Academy (feat. Jasper Degenaars) Feb 23, 2024

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GUEST:

MENTIONS:

MUSHROOM HOUR:

Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:

Discovering Magic in the Netherlands
Mushroom Call to Adventure
Finding a New Home at Fungi Academy
Laboratory Work as a Practice
What is Fungi Academy Today?
Sacred Mycology
Growing Your Own Food and Medicine
Fungal Ecology
Fungi Academy Online and In-Person Courses
Growing into a Mycology Educator
Working with Indigenous Mayan Community
Pursuing Solutions in Agricultural Waste
Sacred Mycology Summit
Embodying Fungi in Our Human Ecologies

Ep. 170: Oklahoma Fungi - Building Future Generations of Mycologists (feat. Jacob Devecchio) Feb 12, 2024

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GUEST:

MENTIONS:

MUSHROOM HOUR:
https://welcometomushroomhour.com
https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour
https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:

Starting a New Mycelium Web in Oklahoma
Cataloguing Local Mushroom Strains
The Majesty of Lions Mane
Cloning Wild Mushrooms in the Field
Wild Mushroom Foraging Tips
Becoming a Mycology Educator
Building Future Generations of Mycologists
Injustices of Legal Prohibitions on Mushrooms
Oklahoma’s Emerging Framework for Medicinal Use of Psychedelics
The Oklahoma Mushroom Festival
Creating an Oklahoma Mushroom Guide
Exploring the Fungal Diversity of Oklahoma
The Power of In-Person Workshops
Analytical Testing of Medicinal Mushrooms

Ep. 169: Mycological Analytics, Community Science, Entheogenic Genomes (Ian Bollinger) Jan 28, 2024

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GUEST:

Critical Consulting: https://www.critical.consulting/blog
Entheome: https://www.entheome.org/team-members/ian-bollinger
Hyphae Labs: https://www.patreon.com/hyphaelabs
Oakland Hyphae: https://www.oaklandhyphae510.com/

MENTIONS:

Chemical Analysis & Community Science
Human Beings as Scientists by Nature
Gatekeeping vs Guardianship
Tryptamines, Nucleocides, Ibotenic acid, Muscimol, Muscarine
Chromatograph Clusters
The Hyphae Spectrum
Empowering Producers and Consumers with Analysis
What Compounds are in Fungi?
Hyphae Labs & the Center for Mycological Analytics
Bioinformatics
Field Studies in Mexico
Muscimol-Containing Mushrooms are the Ancestors of Psilocybin-Containing Mushrooms?!
Field Studies and International Research Stations
Ian’s Surreal Journey

Ep. 168: The Myco Zine - Psychedelic Chemistry, Mushroom Cultivation, Mycelial Connections (Tomás Garret) Jan 21, 2024

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GUEST:
The Myco Zine: https://www.instagram.com/mycozine/
Hyphae Labs: https://www.patreon.com/hyphaelabs
MENTIONS:
https://www.oaklandhyphae510.com/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_Sower
MUSHROOM HOUR:
https://welcometomushroomhour.com
https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour
https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:

Oakland Psychedelic Conference
Hyphae Labs Nationwide Tour
The Book of Tomas
Birth of the Myco Zine
Testing Psilocybin-Containing Mushrooms
Identifying Tryptamines and Other Compounds
Explaining Chromatography
Analytical Chemistry in Cannabis & Other Industries
Syncing Compounds to Qualitative Effects
Academia & Institutional Science
Mimicking Mycelium
Foraging Into the Woods
Embracing Seasonality
Just Write the Date

Ep. 167: Behind the Scenes & Across the Universe with William Padilla-Brown Jan 08, 2024

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Part 2 of our mind-expanding interview with William Padilla-Brown. This interview was taped after our radio interview (Episode 166) and is even more informal and loose. Hopefully there's some wisdom and new thoughts you can integrate into your reality - take what resonates and leave what doesn't!
GUEST:
William Padilla-Brown: https://www.instagram.com/mycosymbiote
Mycosymbiotics: https://mycosymbiotics.com/
CRTFD: https://crtfd.com/
MENTIONS:
https://kajabi.com/
https://www.thepermaculturestudent.com/
https://www.entheome.org/
https://www.cambriangenomics.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanopore_sequencing
MUSHROOM HOUR:
https://welcometomushroomhour.com
https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour
https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour
Show Music courtesy of the one and only Chris Peck: https://peckthetowncrier.bandcamp.com/
TOPICS COVERED:

Mycosymbiotics Products
Learning Who to Trust
CRTFD Sustainable Garments
Uptopia vs. Dystopia
What is the Future of Cordyceps in the US?
Growing Engagement with Soil Microbiology
Nanopore Technology
Practical Applications of Molecular Biology & Genetic Data
Metagenomics & AI
Time Compression
Ethics of Manmade Biology
Human Origins, Genetic Manipulation, Ancient Teachings
7 Generations and Space-Time Collaborations
Remembering our Birthright

Ep. 166: Mycosymbiote - Regenerating Ecologies, Expanding Consciousness, Being Human (William Padilla-Brown) Dec 10, 2023

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GUEST:
William Padilla-Brown: https://www.instagram.com/mycosymbiote
Mycosymbiotics: https://mycosymbiotics.com/
CRTFD: https://crtfd.com/
TOPICS COVERED:

Providing Models of Regenerative Lifestyles
New Political & Economic Systems
The Singularity
Getting Comfortable with Chaos
Living a Life Guided by Faith & Purpose
Ancient Wisdom & Future Upgrades
Attention as the Currency of the Modern Age
Being Human and Making a Living
Navigating Reality from Within
Achieving Greater Awareness as a Community
Extending Consciousness to Other Organisms
Creating New Ecologies
Celebrating Nature’s Abundance
"Matsutake and Mary" and "Cordyceps Camp"

MENTIONS:
https://minddynamics.net/
https://charleseisenstein.org/
https://www.ishmael.org/
MUSHROOM HOUR:
https://welcometomushroomhour.com
https://instagram.com/welcome_to_mushroom_hour
https://tiktok.com/@welcome_to_mushroom_hour

Ep. 165: Hongos in Patagonia - Pedomorphosis & Rethinking Evolution (feat. Dr. Francisco Kuhar) Nov 13, 2023

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Today on Mushroom Hour we have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Francisco Kuhar. Dr. Kuhar is a Mycologist specialized in the fungal diversity of gasteroid and ectomycorrhizal fungi and biotechnological applications of fungal enzymes. He has a special interest in the evolutionary biology of sequestrate forms of fungi. Dr. Kuhar is an Associate researcher at CONICET in the Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologia Vegetal (IMBIV - UNC), curator of Fungi at the CORD Herbarium and one of the leaders of Inommy Labs helping to pioneer a new fungi-based product platform.
TOPICS:

Freud, Linguistics and Life Sciences
Hongos in Patagonia
See the Future in a Spore
Hypogeous & Sequestrate Fungi
Pedomorphosis
Mutations Happening too Fast in the Evolutionary Record
Are We Too Obsessed with Adaptation in Evolutionary Biology?
The Story of Rhizopogon and Suillis
Alan Turing Equations Predicting Biological Forms
Approaching Scientific Questions with an Open Mind
Burning Questions on Underground Fungi
Matching Genetics to Traits in Fungi
Inommy Labs
Fungal Bioprospecting

LINKS:

Francisco Kuhar IG: https://www.instagram.com/franfungi
Innomy Labs: http://innomylabs.com/index.html
Hongos De Argentina: https://hongos.ar/
"Ontogeny and Phylogeny": https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674639416
Turing pattern: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_pattern
Geastrum genus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geastrum

Ep. 164: Which Fungi - The Edibles, The Deadlies, The Wild Ones (feat. Elise Rothman) Oct 30, 2023

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Hi there…welcome to Mushroom Hour. Today on Mushroom Hour we are graced by the presence of author, researcher, and mycological maven Elise Rothman. Coming to us from her hideaway in the woods and wilds of France, Elise is here to share her newest creation – a set of mushroom identification card decks that have been lovingly crafted with beautiful artwork and thoughtful graphic design elements that will help mycologists and ordinary folk alike to identify common edibles, deadly toxic and psychoactive mushrooms in North America and Europe. And I’m excited to learn everything about this project including a brand-new form of mushroom identification methodology.
TOPICS:

Entering St. George’s Fairy Ring
Mushroom Identification Cards
Deck 1 – The Edibles
Collaborating with Scientific Advisors
Deck 2 – The Deadlies
Artistic License and Composite Mushroom Artwork
Features of a Mushroom
The Twins – Separating Edible from Deadly
What is a “Lookalike”?
A New Methodology for Mushroom Identification
Deck 3 – The Wild Ones
Rethinking Identification with Psychoactives
Mushrooms in France
Breaking the Publishing Mold

EPISODE RESOURCES:

WhichFungi website: http://whichfungi.com/
WhichFungi IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/CufBjBDMxwL/
Russula cyanoxantha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula_cyanoxantha

Ep. 163: Fruits of the Forest - Pacific Northwest Edible Mushrooms (feat. Daniel Winkler) Oct 22, 2023

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Today on Mushroom Hour we have the honor of being joined once again by mycological legend Daniel Winkler. A mushroom educator, trained ecologist and award-winning photographer, he grew up collecting mushrooms in the Alps. Daniel has been foraging for more than 25 years in the Pacific Northwest, in addition to South America and High Asia, where he is involved in ethnomycological fieldwork. He served as vice president of the Puget Sound Mycological Society, who recognized his lifetime of service with their Golden Mushroom Award. Through his travel agency, Mushroaming, Daniel runs mushroom-focused eco-tours to Tibet, Bhutan, the Amazon, Colombia and the Austrian Alps as well as in the Pacific Northwest. Today we’re going to dive into his newest field guide “Fruits of the Forest” – A Field Guide to Pacific Northwest Edible Mushrooms.
TOPICS:

Mushroaming Tours & Book Deals
Creating a Mushroom Guide Focused on Edibility
Lobsters, Scaberstalks and Wooly Chanterelles
How You Prepare Your Mushrooms Makes a Big Difference
Under-Researched Compounds in US Common Mushrooms
Old Mushrooms, Rotten Proteins and Stomach Upset
Gyromitra Controversy
Mitigating Toxicity When Eating Wild Mushrooms
Getting Comfortable with Bugs in Your Wild Mushrooms?
Shaggy Parasols
Nutritional Value of Mushrooms
Diversify Your Fungal Portfolio
Grounded Approach to Medicinal Mushrooms
Wild Mushroom Recipes

EPISODE RESOURCES:

BOOK LINK: https://www.mushroaming.com/node/253
Mushroaming Website: https://mushroaming.com/
Daniel Winkler IG: https://www.instagram.com/themushroamer/
"All the Rain Promises and More": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_That_the_Rain_Promises_and_More...
Chlorophyllum genus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyllum
Russula brevipes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula_brevipes
Leccinum scabrum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leccinum_scabrum
Turbinellus floccosus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinellus_floccosus
Laccaria amethystina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laccaria_amethystina
"Mushrooms Poisons and Panaceas": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6387576-mushrooms

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