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Ep 206: Dryads
In this episode of F-Triple G-BT, the hosts delve into the enchanting world of Dryads, exploring their origins in Greek mythology and their unique connection to oak trees. Join Daniel J. Glenn, Michae...
Ep 206: Dryads
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Fascinating gadgets, gizmos, and gear-based technology.
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Welcome to F-Triple G-BT.
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Now this is the show that takes your favorite fictional science and technology and we make
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it a reality.
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We are the brain trust, I and the dungeon master, Daniel J. Glenn.
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With me, the wise and wizard doctor, Michael Dennett.
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Great to be here, Dan, and I love how in this episode we visit my love of Greek mythology
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and how it comes alive in dungeons and dragons.
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Very exciting to bring those two together.
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A lot of things are going to come alive in this episode, Dan, and not to do any spoilers
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here.
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But we are still in our forest episode and of course we got to go to our dynamic druid,
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Ben Seepsur, Ben.
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How are you living in the forest right now?
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Well, in harmony, Dan.
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I'm living with a lot of forests.
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And there's lots of different creatures in here and I'm excited that we're talking about
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another one today.
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It's true, we are going to talk about the Dryad and this is one of these weird creatures
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that I'm not sure many people know about but let's toss a picture up on the screen here.
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Dryad, there's a couple of different definitions.
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Some people may know, some people may not, but they're basically a forest creature, a
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face spirit as some people in the fantasy world know them.
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But they're basically a physical manifestation of an old oak tree's life spirit.
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They live in an oak tree and within the oak tree, it's kind of this cool thing.
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I'm sure they know a lot about acorns, am I right, Dan?
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I'm sure they do.
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Other tales tell that these are spirits that have been connected to a tree as punishment.
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And we will see just the limitations of their attachment here.
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But I don't know, I can't really tell if these are real definitions here, guys, or if
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these are mystical definitions.
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What do you think of a Dryad, Dan?
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Well, I actually think of, I kind of like the first versionish, you know, a spirit
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of a tree that is corpriol and can take on physical form.
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You know, the heart of the tree, the great bonding to the tree, I mean, a tree is alive
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after all.
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And maybe it has this deeper connection, particularly oak trees in their majesty and their age.
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So I like that spiritual element to it.
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That's where I'm leaning, particularly as we start talking about their other powers,
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because at the end of the day, spiritual beings and quantum wave and in this go well together.
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And we're going to get some quantum waviness later for those of you who are looking forward
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to that.
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I can't wait to learn about that.
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I got to go to our druid here, because you are, you know, you're the master of the forest
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and all the creatures that dwell within it, Ben.
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So what do you think about the Dryad?
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You know, well, I think of two things.
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I think of the giant oak trees in my home that I grew up in, where, you know, every year,
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you know, these were like, these must have been five, six story tall oak trees.
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You know, our driveway would be covered with acorns every fall, summer.
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I don't know.
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Some like that.
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It was pretty good enough.
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Whenever they did that, probably the fall.
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But I also, you know, I'm reminded of just, you know, I see Dryad's kind of also a little
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like trickstery.
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Like it kind of feels like, you know, you're going through the woods and, you know, they're
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kind of like the little creatures, you know, they're kind of like the imps of the forest.
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They're laughing at you.
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They're playing games with you.
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And you got to, you know, you got to be a little careful because they might trap you there
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in the forest.
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Right.
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It's a little, a little less misch ify.
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As we're going to learn later on, but I am glad I do have to say though, Dan, I know
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before you go on that, I don't know what it says about my mind at the moment that I could
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have sworn Ben was describing his druid home, not as actual trial to the home.
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Maybe it was both naturalistic.
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I am glad Ben that you mentioned acorns, but you have to be very careful doing that in front
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of Danny.
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You have to do it correctly.
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Yeah.
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Or, or turns into a triant and it will squash you like an orc.
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But I do like the idea of dry ads attaching themselves to an oak tree.
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And in some ways, here's what I love about this guy is that in some ways, this might be
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one of the truest forms of commensalism that we see in the fantasy world, right?
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The dry ad attaches itself to the tree and it benefits.
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But there's really no harm or good done to the to the tree itself.
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And these are all oak trees.
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I believe that yeah, they're all oak trees.
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So there's no harm done to the oak tree, but there's no good done to it either.
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And this, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong here, but I don't, I think this might be one of
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the purest forms of this.
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But you know, I can see that down.
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I feel like there is some good to the tree.
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I mean, having a dry ad around probably helps protect you a little bit.
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You know, there's some protection there.
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This is where I want to bring in my quantum waviness though, right?
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I think this is an amazing example of sort of wave function integration between two creatures,
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right?
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You know, we think of this only on the microscopic level usually of particles that become completely
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entangled and in the same quantum state together and are perfectly aligned.
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I feel like this is a cool macroscopic example of this quantum entanglement and two things
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being together in a tight way that only magic makes possible because of its special properties
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in the field.
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So I love bringing in the natural commensalism that you did.
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But I think there's some deeper physics here that will be running thread through this
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whole discussion.
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Okay.
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I think there's a benefit to that.
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I think there is a strong connection here and maybe it goes all the way down to the quantum
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state because, you know, I mean, even a dry ad physical appearance matches that of the
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tree.
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You know, when it's fall, their hair turns red and yellow and all that stuff.
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When it's wintertime, their skin is white, their hair is white.
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So there is a connection here.
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And I'm wondering, Bennett, if you have that same connection when the fall happens, is
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your hair change color in any way?
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Well, I'm always, I was going to say, Falk.
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I mean, my hair is barely brown.
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You know, it's still, it's arguably black.
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So I think I'm always in my fall mode.
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Yeah.
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You know, unlike where I live, which is always summer.
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Yeah.
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Something's wrong, something's wrong there.
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But I think also with the engineering aspect, you know, I like that this is a creature that
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essentially makes its home in in an oak tree.
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And, you know, oak trees are the big, the big powerhouses, I guess, of the forest.
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You know, these are large trees.
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And just from a practicality standpoint, you know, they're picking the right tree.
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You know, whether they're, you know, intertwining their spirits and like, they don't really need
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a home, you know, because they're, you know, they like, phase into the tree or whether they
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literally are a corporeal creature that needs to live in a space.
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You know, the oak trees are a great place to put it because you could, you know, they're
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space in that tree band.
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I can't tell if you're working real estate in the forest there because you're really,
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you're really hard to sell in that oak tree.
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This is a great fixer upper.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I want to live in an oak tree.
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And by the end of that little spiel, I mean, what am I doing?
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I'm losing money not.
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We're living in one.
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It's kind of, it's about this quantum waviness that you mentioned, Denon.
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Is that a couple of things here?
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You can't, well, if you can't, if you're a dry, but dry ads cannot live, they can't live
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and exist more than a thousand feet or so from their tree.
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And if that tree dies, they die.
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And that area has a specific name.
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It's called the, the terrell or the terrell.
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I don't quite know how to speak dry adpen.
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You can help me out on this.
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And if they leave that terrell, the terrell, then the glimmer, the, the, the glirigmer kicks
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in, which is the slow fading of their life, the wasting away of their soul.
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And you know, they can live supported by magic, but unsupported by magic, they'll die
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within hours of leaving their terrell, the terrell, the, so this, I think, really speaks
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what you're talking about here, Denon.
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Is there very existence depends on being close to that oak tree?
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Well, I think so.
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I think this is just the growing evidence for my, you know, macroscopic quantum view of
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the, the dry ad here.
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And though, as I said, most quantum effects are microscopic.
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We do have some examples like superfluids and superconductors in the physical world,
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where the quantum state becomes macroscopic and exists at a scale that we can see and
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interact with.
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And so it's not too surprising that this could happen for the dry ad and the oak tree.
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And a lot of this behavior is just totally reminiscent of what happens to wave functions.
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If you think of the wave function for a particle that's in some sort of protective
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well, it decays exponentially away from the well.
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So the tree is the protective well and the wave function decay and exponentially just
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means if the dry ad tries to be there, there's less of it, right?
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And it becomes insubstantial.
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So it's all very consistent.
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And so this is why I love this kind of quantum spirit, not quite physically,
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but it's a totally, corporal view of the dry ad.
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It's very intriguing to me as a physicist.
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Though, I want to get in line to buy some of Ben's tree property.
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Tree property here because that seems like a really good investment.
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You can't own the forest.
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You have to make a mutualistic agreement with the forest for it to bring you in, adopt
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you.
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That's one of its own.
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Exactly.
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But I think, Denon, maybe they're, I'm thinking a little more conventional here, not quantum,
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maybe a little more electromagnetic.
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I'm kind of thinking this is a, this is kind of like Wi-Fi.
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The dry ad can only get so far from its tree before it loses the signal.
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And maybe it's a mix of Wi-Fi, connecting their spirits together and some wireless charging.
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It gets too far away.
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It's not getting the energy transfer anymore.
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It doesn't have access to its tree cloud database.
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So it starts losing its life force in that way.
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So I think this is kind of more of a conventional thing where the dry ad is kind of wirelessly connected
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to the tree and electromagnetic waves fall over distance.
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And so it can't get that far away from its home.
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I love that, Ben.
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And what I really, really appreciate is it's clear that you're slowly overcoming your fear
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of antenna because you were the one who brought up antenna as an idea on this episode and
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not me.
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So I like to see growth.
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I'm always happy when my partners in this show experienced personal growth in various
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ways.
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Well, especially when you deal with, with forest stuff, you always want to see growth,
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you know?
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And I'm stunned, Ben, that you didn't take the opportunity to mention the wood wide
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web that they must be connected to.
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They're electromagnetic connection to the oak tree.
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Well, I mean, if I were to use access, that is a problem.
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Well, if they were using the wood wide web, they could go anywhere.
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So clearly, you know, it's a local web that drives the dry ad.
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You know, only have, you know, local access to their tree.
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And that's, that's like their hotspot to get into the wood wide web.
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So they have to stay close to their access point.
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You know, they can't just, you know, use any, you know, they only have the password for
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their, their own Wi-Fi, you know, that, you know, no trees are, no dry ads are sharing
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their Wi-Fi passwords.
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Definitely not.
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You don't.
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And I will say, congratulations on pulling that metaphor to the absolute extent.
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The root system of that metaphor went deeper to the forest for sure.
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But this connection, I think, is very important because it tells everything that the dry ad
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does.
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So for example, you know, the dry ad has connection to the plants and it can speak to
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the plants around them and they can get them to do things.
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It can trip people, tie them up, you know, and even some of the, the plants can act as
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spies.
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I don't exactly know how that works, but I'm just reading what the literature told me
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here.
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But this is, I think, kind of interesting.
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We mentioned with trance in our previous episode about fast moving plants, but I'm wondering,
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guys, when we're not talking about locomotion, where an actual plant is moving around and
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uprooting, we're just talking about, you know, vines whipping around things like that.
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How fast can plants move?
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Because tripping a human being, you know, I guess they're a lumbering barbarian, it's
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a little bit easier.
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But if it's a quick and nimble gnome or an elf, you're going to have a problem.
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Those vines got a whip around really quick here.
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Mm-hmm.
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Well, one nice thing is physics helps you a little bit here, Dan.
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I'm going to just start with that.
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You know, if I think of a vine whipping and moving, I'm probably going to be moving water.
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Okay.
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And just like cracking a whip, I don't have to move the whole vine, right?
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I make the snapping motion, say at the handle of the vine, and the vine does the whipping
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for me, right?
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So as someone who loves the physics of whips and the, you know, sonic boom, you get at
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the end of the whip because it actually breaks the sound barrier.
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But you're not breaking the sound barrier with your hand, right?
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You're just moving the end of the whip.
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So I think there's a basic physics leverage thing going on for most of this.
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But there may be more engineering and water going on, Ben, that allows other types of fast
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motions.
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But I think your core basic motion is the physics of a whip.
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Well, I think the trick also is the storing of potential energy for a rapid kinetic motion.
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You know, okay.
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You know, we talked previously about like the exploding cucumbers and, you know, peach
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woks in return of the Jedi, where, you know, you just have, you know, you just, you know,
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the vine grows horizontally and then just gets dropped at the right moment to trip, trip
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up these lumbering barbarians through the forest.
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Sure.
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You know, you have a good supply of vines that you've, you know, pre-raised, pre-loaded,
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pre-loaded for tripping power.
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You know, it only takes a little bit of motion to set off that big motion.
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That is true.
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And I will say one of the other interesting things about the, you know, you mentioned the,
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the exploding cucumber.
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The dynamite tree is also one of the these powerhouses that just kind of explodes.
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You know, so there is a lot of, there's a lot of what I would call fast twitch in the
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animal and the plant kingdom.
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And I think these kind of are part of that.
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And you mentioned pea pot tendrils.
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They grow really quickly.
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Um, cunts who bamboo grows really fast, you know, bamboo grows at three feet a day, I
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think.
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That's not quite fast enough to trip someone.
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But just since we're talking about fast growing plants, that's unbelievable.
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Three feet a day.
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That's a year.
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Oh, yeah.
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And a hundred days to the length of a football field, American football field, of course.
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Well, I will tell you, Dad, recently being in Hawaii on a coffee tour where they talked
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about bamboo growing fast.
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I did appreciate the tour guide saying, and that means watching bamboo grow is slightly
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more interesting than watching paint dry.
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Yeah, that is true.
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Uh, it grows faster or boiling water, you know, um, that makes playing water a little
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more interesting as well.
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Yeah, I mean, it's not fast enough to like, you know, hit somebody, but it is fast enough
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to probably disorient disorient somebody.
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You know, someone even takes like a short rest, you know, midday in the forest and the,
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the bamboo grows up around them, all of a sudden now, they might not even recognize
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where they are.
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You know, a lot, a lot can happen to change the, the look and orientation of the forest
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during a short afternoon app.
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Well, you know, Ben, you're just reminding me, I believe, didn't you mention the character
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that had an intelligence of three?
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Yeah.
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I think that's what it's going to take to be confused by bamboo growing.
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I'm just saying.
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I don't know.
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I like that.
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I like that idea.
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And I like using disorient.
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I think that's a really cool way.
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I mean, we all understand bamboo grows, but it can change the, the, the, the, the mile,
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the mile markers that you've used to navigate the forest up to that point.
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And that can be very dangerous.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I think you would probably have to sleep like dragon level sleep, maybe months or
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years, but, but I see what you're saying, because it can really change, because we are
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visual creatures and getting around in a forest is tough enough.
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And when things change and there's all the sudden a bamboo forest in your way that
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you didn't see before, it can get, it can get pretty tricky.
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I will say that if you can't, if you can't out dodge a growing piece of bamboo though,
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you're, you're in real trouble.
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Oh, yeah, you can definitely dodge it.
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It's more just not taking good stock.
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You know, you don't have GPS in the forest.
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So you gotta, you know, if your environment changes enough, you will get lost.
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And you know, it really messes with Dan is, is your trient guide that you want to use
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to get through the forest, because by the time they finish their poem, I can guarantee
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that bamboo has changed the landscape.
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Yeah.
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And then the growing bamboo becomes part of the poem.
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Then you gotta listen to that as well.
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But getting lost, you know, this is an important part of this lore because many people,
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especially good attractive ones, and I believe you guys, you know, would have said that I might
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get lost in the forest.
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And this is where my charm and my good looks are going to come back to bite me here, gentlemen,
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because that's who they go after.
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Dryads capture the good looking people who wander through the forest and they kidnap them
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using charm spells.
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This I think, you know, dryads seem to be these nice little forest creatures, but it turns
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out that they're evil kidnappers who should be, should be absolutely brought up on some
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kind of charges, but somehow shriants protect them, which we're going to get to in a second.
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So this is where I think this whole world goes topsy-turvy.
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Well, I don't know, Dan.
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I mean, that seems you accused me in an earlier episode of being judgmental.
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I'm not sure, you know, inviting good looking people to spend time in the forest in a relaxing
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way is evil.
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I, you know, I think we're jumping to conclusions here, but I do think I have to
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admit, as much as I'm a quantum guy, I think Ben, this does lend support to your electromagnetic
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theory, because I think the easiest way to charm people is through additional sort of
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electromagnetic pulses to their brain, right?
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And so if they are, you know, deeply connected with the electromagnetic fields around them
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through their Wi-Fi and others, and it also could be a way for them to play cool Spotify,
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song lists that draw you into the forest, which as part of the charm, right?
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Because if they're in that local Wi-Fi.
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So anyway, I see a good connection here with the electromagnetic and Ben.
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I don't know if you would concur with that or go a different way.
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Well, a good song list is definitely a key to seduction Ben.
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Don't forget about that.
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That's for sure.
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I mean, I think it also just goes to the, you know, you need, you know, you need the dryads
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need, you know, a little bit of help, whether it's, you know, you know, whether it's, you
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know, some fertilizer for their oak tree, whether it's sweeping up, whether they, you know,
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just want some, you know, take out, because, you know, they're sick of sunshine for food.
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You know, the beauty of charming these beautiful men that come into the forest is that they now
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have a gopher.
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They have someone to run errands for them.
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And everybody needs an errand boy.
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And I don't see what's wrong about the dryads using charm to get their own.
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I have to say I didn't expect you guys to turn kiddabbing into such a positive thing here.
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I think, you know, Chris Hansen would have a field day with the two of you.
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I think if we're trying to catch a predator here, we'll get to that in a second here.
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I like that.
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I like your magnetic, but you know, when we're talking about forests, what about, you know,
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what about fungal pheromones?
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What about mind controlling, you know, fungal pheromones?
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Are always great Dan.
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Yeah.
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I think so.
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But this could be another way.
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You know, we got spores get inside your brain, messed things up, mind controlling parasites.
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We talk about a bunch.
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You know, there could be something else at play here.
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You know, corniceps, who knows?
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They may not go quite the last of us route, but they will stick around for a long time.
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Because remember, it's nearly half of the people taken, never return home.
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And the ones that do have been gone a long time.
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So I'm not saying this isn't a consensual situation.
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I'm just saying that, you know, if you're drugging someone up and getting them high on all sorts of fungus,
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Bill and Simon, you know, marijuana and keeping them for a long period of time,
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I just think it should be investigated as all I'm saying.
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Okay.
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You know, you're making a good case, Dan.
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You're getting me more on your side, particularly, you know, the chemical route does feel a little more insidious.
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Yeah.
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Actually also very, very likely.
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I mean, you are right.
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We are in a forest situation.
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And many, many trees live in harmony with the natural fungi around them.
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And so I think there is a lot to be said that, you know, this either way,
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whether you're talking electromagnetic, a really good Spotify playlist or fungus,
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I think this is a great example of a natural charming rather than a magical charming,
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like an unexplained charming.
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I think this is, right.
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You know, this has got a solid physics and biological grounding by any mechanism.
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Yeah.
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That's true.
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I mean, I understand what you're saying about magical versus natural.
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And you know, you and I always pump heads on what exactly what natural means.
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But like our charm, I would be, yeah, okay, that's normal.
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If someone wanted to stay in our presence, you know, because of things we said or did is different,
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this seems to be enhanced by the pharmaceutical properties of the things around them that
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may not be in the best interest of the person being kept.
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So I can't believe I've got to like sell kidnapping to you on the dryets.
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And since that's literally their defining characteristic.
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But, but, you know, maybe, look, maybe it's like I dream a genie or something like that.
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They've got this cool little world inside of these trees that the people love to stay in.
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And they enjoy their time there, you know, the, the dry to make themselves attractive.
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So, you know, who am I to say?
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Maybe this isn't captivity.
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Maybe it's paradise.
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That's exactly right, Dan.
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I mean, the, the dryets are, you know, charming and create this great environment for their,
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their errand boys.
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A cool vibe.
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I think the kids say that they got a good vibe.
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A cool vibe.
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It's amazing there.
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But, you know, it is, it certainly is a little fake and not letting them have free will to leave.
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Yeah, that's a little problematic.
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It is.
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Yes, it is.
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Thank you for admitting that, Ben.
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I'm glad you came around on that.
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I was starting to worry about you.
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Yes, it's a little, a little problematic is a, is an understatement for sure.
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Especially when you consider that another one of their powers,
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and this goes back to your quantum waviness, Ben, and which I'd love to say,
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is these dimensional doors.
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So, in some evolutions, they can only create a door.
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Back to their oak trees.
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They can go in, they can walk into one tree and then they end up in their home oak tree.
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And then later evolutions have a dryet basically emerging from any tree within its terrell or tarot.
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So, this also speaks that quantum waviness and, and the fact that they could hide their,
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I don't know, kidnepies, charmed, their partners.
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I don't know what we're talking about where the spectrum is on this right now.
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Completely out of sorts here.
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But you could hide them anywhere.
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Should you want to do that?
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But who knows why you would want to do that?
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If it's consensual.
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I think there's a lot going on here in my mind and there is.
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There is.
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Yeah.
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Though I do think that, so what I love about this,
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we've talked a lot about portable holes.
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We've talked a lot about quantum teleportation and stuff.
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And in a lot of the sort of applications we know of,
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the cool thing is the quantum teleportation involves entanglement,
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which I've already mentioned, our dryets being entangled with the oak potentially.
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But the long distance teleportation happens because you're in a vacuum,
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whether it's space or a vacuum tube or something like that.
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Right.
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This is dryets trying to teleport or do dimensional stuff in the forest.
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And what happens is when there's a lot of the rest of the world to interact with,
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your distance of quantum entanglement becomes much shorter
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and can quickly become incredibly short.
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So the fact, I love this realistic element that they can't just teleport anywhere.
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Yeah.
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And to be honest, whether it's just their oak tree
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or just trees within the area in which their quantum entanglement works,
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I'm kind of happy with either.
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And it may be a species dependent thing.
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We've talked about this before.
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You know, when we look at the ecology of creatures in D&D
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and you find a conflict, it is probably just divergent evolution of a very similar species
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with slightly different abilities.
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Makes sense.
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So I feel like it's very likely that both occur and it's just different types of dryets.
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Okay.
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I think that makes sense.
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I mean, it is an interesting part of what they do, right?
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These little...
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Oh, it very much is.
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And I want to quickly mention here for you Ben.
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I just want to mention the reproduction because this,
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I've never heard of anything like this before.
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But dryets are always female.
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They can mate with humanoids and elves, including saters.
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But their offspring will always be female dryets unless they mate with a satyr.
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And satyr offspring, at least saters are always male.
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This always seems to be very confusing.
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Because this really speaks to XY dominance at the genetic level.
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So if you can comment on that or just let me...
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Your awkward silence will say more and I'll move on if that's the route you choose to go down.
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Well, it's not necessarily an XY thing.
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I mean, XY is a human thing specifically.
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There's all sorts of different versions of sexual chromosomes in the
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in the wide world of biology.
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So I think it's probably has way more to do with how you combine a human and dryad
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so genome that results in the female dryad,
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whereas the satyr somehow is perhaps a more dominant genome.
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And that's why you end up with a satyr and not a dryad.
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Got it.
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Okay.
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I think that makes sense or a genetic biologist out there.
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But that seemed crazy to me as the average solution in the world.
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Interspecies, sex chromosomes, working.
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That's, yep, that's how it works.
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Take it to work.
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Well, yeah, and I think it's amazing that you just have these cross species viable
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on mating, right?
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Because that's not as common.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, the whole idea of a half-elves wild when you really think about it.
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It is.
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And speaking of interspecies,
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we got to answer this question.
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We promised it in our last episode.
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But we have to explain the dryad-tree-ant connection.
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For some reason, trance care very deeply about dryads.
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And dryads, I can't tell if they're agnostic towards trance,
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but they certainly don't keep little trance in their home and collect them.
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So I'm trying to figure out their connection here.
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So I'm going to go with you first,
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and what do you think's going on here?
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Because it's definitely weird.
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All right.
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Well, I personally think I'm going to go back to Tolkien here.
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I think this is a missing the entwine situation.
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Okay.
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Right.
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I think the trance have done a sort of
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substitution, or what is it like when you have a psychologist and you project onto them?
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There's a word for that.
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Someone can tell us the connection.
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I don't know.
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Our transposition.
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I don't know.
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Anyway, it could be.
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There were places where...
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There were places where...
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And this is a good thing for our audience to look up.
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But anyway, I think that's what's happening.
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That's why I think you're finding the dryads to be kind of agnostic or not
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deeply involved in this relationship,
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because they're not missing that same thing.
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So I think this is
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a longing on the part of the trance for the entwines.
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I like it.
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All right.
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What about you Ben?
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What do you think's going on here?
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I think it's more that the trance are the gardeners of the forest.
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And so one, they want to protect the trees.
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So that inherently,
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the dryads being like the spirit of the oak trees,
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they have a compassion for those trees and want to protect them.
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Sure.
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And the spirits, which are the dryads.
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But I think also maybe the dryads with their errand boys,
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that maybe they're taking a little bit of the load off of the trance.
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Maybe they're doing some of that gardening and upkeep of the forest.
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And so the trance just like them as a labor savings device.
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Sure.
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It's a mutualistic situation here.
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Yeah.
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I like that.
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I like that these pool boys are getting very involved in the situation here.
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You know, I've got something here that I'm kind of working through, guys.
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I think that the dryads might be involved in the triant reproduction process.
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I don't know how.
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I don't know if they act as midwives and some way, shape or form.
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I don't know if they help with the sap and my previous borderline poorly thought out explanation.
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But I think they might be vital to the cause.
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And if they're vital to a trance reproduction cycle,
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which already seems very difficult as it is,
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that maybe their being part of that process makes them valuable to the trance.
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So they must protect them for their own survival.
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And the dryad could, you know, care less,
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but is it happy to be involved in the situation?
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And I'm guessing that the triant keeps quiet about all the people that they're storing in their little tree.
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So, you know, the tree keeps us mouth shut and the dryad helps them reproduce,
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which is how I think that's how the world really works, especially in the forest.
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That is that is a nice, thoughtful idea, Dan.
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You like that in plus?
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It's a beautiful relationship.
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It certainly is.
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And plus, I go from my, you know, I kind of turn and went towards a Ben's dark view of the forest.
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Yeah, but secrets kept, secrets were not revealed.
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Yeah, someone has to plant those triant seeds.
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And who better than the dryad's air and voice?
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Exactly.
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Well, who better is what I like to say?
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And if you know who's better, if you've got someone who might make a good acorn barrier,
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you know, squirrels do a great job of that as well.
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Or if you want to be, you know, a pool boy yourself for one of these dryads,
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let us know. We can hook you up.
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But you can get in touch with us individually,
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Denon, where can people find you?
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Well, Instagram is a great place,
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And on YouTube, I get to keep my name in the normal order.
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