#1385 - Paul Stamets

three two one and we're live hello paul hey it's happening how are you sir very well how are you

and you have newfangled mushroom hats these are surprisingly durable so think about these mushroom

hats they're that you would think oh it's going to fall apart in your fingers but no it's got

like it's quite pliable it's quite pliable and known as german felt and this um allowed the

iceman otzi to be able to travel into the alps it was a fire starter mushroom really and this

were actually revolutionized warfare because it helped flint spark guns ignite the gunpowder

really so it's amadou and uh it comes from a birch polypore mushroom which is a subject of

much of our research these days now when this grows in the wild what does it look like because this is