 Dude, fungi, they're so cool. When you think of fungi, you definitely think of mushrooms. That's not what, in fact, the mushroom part of a fungus is the most insignificant part. It's a reproductive structure, which shouldn't be difficult to remember. It's made of these strings. They're called hyphae. The hyphae are string, like look at, they're like these tubular strings of cells. And most of a mushroom's biomass is actually under the ground in these strings of hyphae. And then, super interesting, when the hyphae, which are just chilling underground, when they get disturbed, like by boys running around kicking up the yard, as mine have been known to do, it's kind of amazing. We're like, dude, what do you have on your shoes? Because look, everywhere that you kicked, there's like this little growth of mushrooms. Like, what happened? Well, when the hyphae underground get disturbed, they have this like, oh crap, like something, if I die here, I better reproduce so I at least get a chance to pass on my genes. And these mushrooms will pop up, which are their sexual structures. So the mushroom piece helps make babies. The rest of the fungus is actually underground. There are some unbelievably amazing fungal parasites. And you already have seen this guy, right? The fungus that infects the fly climbed to the top of a tree and hanged by his proboscis so it can explode at dusk. Awesome. Here's the fungus that grows through an ant and like digests it along the way, like that's phenomenal too. Another incredible fungus, this is the one that I was telling you about a little bit earlier, the lichen. Lichens are fungi that have literally like hijacked and taken over an algae and like made the algae live with them. They like have algae slaves. The hyphae of the lichen, the mushroom or the fungus, has captured algae and hangs onto them and keeps them hostage. And they actually, the fungus partner in a lichen will starve the algae. Like I'm not feeding you anything, man. You're any food that you create, I'm stealing it from you. So that the algae is like, oh my God, I'm starving. I better make more food for the fungus. It's kind of cold-blooded really. Most of the mossy structures that you see hanging from trees, especially around here in Humboldt County, like most of the time that the hanging moss is actually not moss at all. And as we know, moss are land plants, bryophytes. They're actually lichens. And you can look up close and kind of be like, oh, it's kind of rubbery-ish and kind of weird-looking, like that doesn't look real plant-like. And it probably isn't. There's a whole group of fungi that are associated with the roots of land plants. They're called mycorrhizal fungi. And they actually help the land plants get nutrients from the soil. If you try to plant a plant without mycorrhizal fungus in the soil, your plant won't survive. I don't know if they, I think the mycorrhizal fungi are like everywhere. I don't think you can get them out of most soils, but it's one of the reasons not to like, cook your dirt before planting things. Because I know you do that, right? And I think that might be all, that is all. So fungus, they're awesome. And you know where they come from.