Tobin chats with his friend and fellow nature lover Tyler Gaca, aka GhostHoney on social media, who has just released his first book Gentle Chaos: Poems, Tales, and Magic.

They dive into the joys(?) of putting moths in your freezer, natural imagery from your youth, the relationship between religion in your childhood and ritual in your adulthood, Tyler's identity as an artist, and the road from being a Tiktok comedian to an author conveying complex emotions and memories.

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For the premiere, Tobin gives a little background about the pod, then launches into an issue that concerns us all: the failure to properly anthropomorphize trees. Using an English Oak (Quercus robur) and a Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), he shows us how to bring out the multitudinous character of trees in a way that honors their complexity. Goodbye, oak that "is strong". Hello, oak that "has familial trauma owing to the pressures of its illustrious family lineage and also happens to be an egalitarian at heart."

Heads up: the wildcard episode will usually air Thursdays and the interview Mondays. This week is switched.

Book mentioned and quoted: Elderflora by Jared Farmer

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Coming soon from JewsLoveTrees creator Tobin Mitnick, "In the Company of Trees" will seek out the ways in which our experiences with nature stay with us even after we've gone home for the day. Mitnick will bring the same humor and off-beat energy from his social media videos to this long-form podcast, which will Mondays and Thursdays. Interviews with remarkable people in and out of the nature space, weekly installments like "This Week in Trees", and oddball segments like "Bonsai Eulogies" or the listener Q and A "Tree Therapy" make "In the Company of Trees" the place where listeners can learn to see and understand the world outside through the people who love it.

Thank you, trees.

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