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Welcome, MycoWizards of the World! If you’re here that means you have within you either a burgeoning fungal curiosity, a need to do some mycological trouble-shooting or you require some on-brand chatter to drown the drone of the flow hood while those plates stack up! Well, you have followed the mycelial network to the right place. Every other Friday (pretty much,) we deliver a new episode, oozing with metabolites. We may be diving into a common problem among commercial mushroom farmers, chatting with growers, scientists, enthusiasts, or submerging ourselves in the latest cutting edge cultivation technology! Join us and our host Erik Lomen as we descend further into this madness that is MycoWizardry! Become a full fledged MycoWizard now! Check out https://mycowizards.com/ to find out how! USE CODE "WIZARDPOD" AT CHECKOUT TO GET 30 DAYS OF FREE DEEPDIVES

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Feral Fungi: Jason Scott

9/6/2025
Jason Scott's mystical spagyric tinctures have held a place in a lot of our myco-brains since first glimpse at his massive stacks of soxhlets and glassware towering from counter tops like a city scape of an alchemical alter. The reductive nature of "modern science" has boiled down complex mystery and subsequent discovery into single source solutions as the silver bullet search continues. In this day and age we endless seek out "the" source, the seeking and the seeker are removed from mythology, the equation becomes circular and AI derivatives grow bored of being so bbbbooorrrrriiiinnnggg...but among the hum drum march to multi-fingered distortions of a machines reality, there are refreshing deviation, dividing lines in the path, alchemists and dowsing rods with auto-acclumatized precision. This re-connection with the past perhaps specific but not exclusive to Paracelsian origin remains central to Feral Fungi's mission as it grows. So gobble down a bowl of Mahjoun and pick apart the importance of the mystical wizards in the mist and check out the spagyric tinctures of Feral Fungi. Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and get MycoWizards Zine delivered directly to your doorstep: www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:02:13:31

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Will MacHugh and The Shiitake Battlefield

5/16/2025
Will MacHugh is a Washington state based mushroom farmer with a long standing background in the world of agriculture. He has grown fast and smart and he has noticed what a lot of us are too busy to do much about...the importation of extremely cheap shiitake logs from China. Will has assembled this website as well as this simple survey ... If you are a mushroom farmer in the US do us all a favor and FILL IT OUT! Together we can level the playing fields and bolster up the emerging domestic industry we have all worked tirelessly to build. See the video here at: https://mycowizards.com/programs/invasionoftheshiitakelogs Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:48:33

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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 20

3/19/2025
In this crazy beautiful world we live in, we forget how connected we are. Who would of thunk that flowers and mushrooms needed each other.. Not I.. But im no Mycologist. In todays episode Erik and Gregor talk about the connection between orchids and mycelium and how to work together to produce one of the most beautiful flowers we know and love. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE CREEP OVER TO OUR PODCAST AS WELL TO HEAR WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO LATELY https://mycowizards.buzzsprout.com IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR AND LIQUID CULTURES ARE UP FOR GRABS TO ALL MYCOWIZARDS SUBSCRIBERS!!! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:12:06

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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 19

3/17/2025
And then there was fungi. What's new in the mushroom world? Bipartisan group of Pennsylvania members to re-introduce Bill protecting mushroom farmers. Things in the mushroom capital of the world are shaking up. Work forces, automation and lack there of. We talk about it all in 1 of our two episodes this week! https://www.thecorryjournal.com/news/article_3d006116-facd-11ef-8c71-4f03cfe38818.html ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE CREEP OVER TO OUR PODCAST AS WELL TO HEAR WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO LATELY https://mycowizards.buzzsprout.com IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR AND LIQUID CULTURES ARE UP FOR GRABS TO ALL MYCOWIZARDS SUBSCRIBERS!!! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:14:58

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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 18

3/12/2025
Leaving brown town and cruising towards ultra violet summer. What to do with cauliflower lions and why UV water filtration is a thing you should do! IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR AND LIQUID CULTURES ARE UP FOR GRABS TO ALL MYCOWIZARDS SUBSCRIBERS!!! Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:13:25

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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 17

3/10/2025
How do you say mushroom in french? They won't take husbands, but they will take farmers. Trust us, we tried. Also, buttons are better in other places. Apparently an infinite growth mindset does bad things to crops. Weird. IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR AND LIQUID CULTURES ARE UP FOR GRABS TO ALL MYCOWIZARDS SUBSCRIBERS!!! Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:14:21

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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 16

2/26/2025
So we failed Mechanical Dedikaryotization. But that wont stop us! Today we talk with Gregor Jones about his findings and what we can improve on as we take the next steps in our fungal journey! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR AND LIQUID CULTURES ARE UP FOR GRABS TO ALL MYCOWIZARDS SUBSCRIBERS!!! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:13:39

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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep: 15

2/24/2025
What are mushrooms good for if not a final resting place? take a took at one of this weeks episodes where Erik and Mike chat about the many uses for these funny shapes of water we call mushrooms! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR AND LIQUID CULTURES ARE UP FOR GRABS TO ALL MYCOWIZARDS SUBSCRIBERS!!! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:15:33

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep14

2/19/2025
Tumultuous tariffs and other manure. Today's broadcast is all about poor leadership decisions from the top and how/why farmers need some buttressing for their sh*t umbrellas and a red ribbon road of loopholes to cartwheel through just to stay afloat. Beware the suits and grow your fruits, fam. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR AND LIQUID CULTURES ARE UP FOR GRABS TO ALL MYCOWIZARDS SUBSCRIBERS!!! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:14:33

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep13

2/17/2025
Do you have a good Morel code? We like to think we do. Or at least we know of folks who do... Murder, mayhem and corporate tomfoolery abound in todays broadcast all about the mighty morel and how yes, you can cultivate them if you happen to be a pair of Norwegian twin genius'. This and more, including our first t-shirt GIVEAWAY!!! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR AND LIQUID CULTURES ARE UP FOR GRABS TO ALL MYCOWIZARDS SUBSCRIBERS!!! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:17:04

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep 12

2/12/2025
When you ask, We answer! tune information our second broadcast this week where Erik and Daniel hash out some basic ideas and answers to supplementation for our friends around the world and in the states! Mead! Aliens with middle fingers! Daniels exhaustion, the whole thing and a bag of chips. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR AND LIQUID CULTURES ARE UP FOR GRABS TO ALL MYCOWIZARDS SUBSCRIBERS!!! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:16:05

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep11

2/10/2025
And then there was space! come check out one of this weeks episodes with Gregor Jones! We talk NASA. We talk Space. We talk about things that don't belong in our face. Just kidding. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL! SHIRTS, MERCH, AGAR AND LIQUID CULTURES ARE UP FOR GRABS TO ALL MYCOWIZARDS SUBSCRIBERS!!! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:13:16

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Highland Fungi: David Medlock

2/7/2025
David Medlock of Highland Fungi has been sending me the most incredible papers and research articles on all things fungi over the entirety of 2024. He has an unwavering dedication to obsessively digging for details to generate solutions to extremely complicated issues in the cultivation of the 5th kingdom. With a background in all things fabrication David engineers solutions around the problems we all eventually encounter while growing commercial amounts of mushrooms. His detailed observations of the chaos and outlined mis-steps, allow him to map as he toils over the complex variations of options while working towards the Eureka moments. Undoubtably his discoveries lead him further down the rabbit hole. So commit his name to memory as I will likely drop it from time to time in emails and broadcasts and beyond as credit must always be given in this burgeoning industry! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:01:58:53

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep10

2/5/2025
A royal pardon for the founder of the Silk Road. What could it mean? What new precedent has been set? What do we know? Not much, but tune in and find out anyway. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE CREEP OVER TO OUR PODCAST AS WELL TO HEAR WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO LATELY https://mycowizards.buzzsprout.com IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:14:59

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep9

2/3/2025
Tony Bag-of-Donuts should not be in charge of shipping. Today the boys chat about the importance of refrigerated shipping and why CNS ain't here to ship it dry! Its bodies in bags, cellular death, overheated trash and more of that good Doom you've come to love! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:16:13

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep8

1/29/2025
Like a bad idea, mushrooms can grow anywhere and on anything... and apparently anyone? From amphibians to your dorm room wallpaper, if conditions are right, the mycelial network will adopt your components and make them their own! Learn more about this weirdness in today's episode and stay tuned for more giveaways! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE IF YOU WANT TO BE ENTERED TO WIN ONE OF OUR GIVEAWAYS, GO TO https://mycowizards.com/join_us AND BECOME A MEMBER AT ANY LEVEL Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:14:45

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep7

1/27/2025
Can you eat Chestnut mushrooms and poop gold? Or maybe still it down and cure cancer in mice? We don't know but we're figuring it out in this beautiful Monday broadcast! So grab your pets and some tasty mushrooms cause it's gunna be a messy ride! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:17:23

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Open Fung: Phil Ross

1/24/2025
Phil Ross is a legend in the bay area myco-space. If you don’t know him, I suggest you start with the first video that really propelled Phil and the idea of myco-materials into the world entitled "Built With the Cleanest Technology on Earth: Nature" … Within this short video made only eight years ago, the fungal-bug that had and continues to bite us all is ever-present. It shows the possibilities, asks the questions and proceeds to answer only what the knowledge of the time had to offer. From an outsider's perspective, it has been a mad-dash to the “goldmine” of “myco-materials” fraught with cut throat competition and agents of chaos continually at work to feed the world's obsession with materialism instead of revolutionizing it. But Phil and his massive contributions to the concepts and execution to the production of things like “mushroom leather” make him a different kind of human. He is not dead set on generating some sort of massive intangible entity to gain myco-dominator-status, instead Phil is focused on opening up the often clandestine institutional research to all the underground mycological networks. With his project “Open-Fung” there remains a focus to build and develop a community within the world as opposed to contributing to the fallacy that is our social-media-dilema can drag us into some “new light”…are we really connected or are we simply refining our puritanical ways with 24-7 access to the main vein of the drama drip? What I got after spending time with Phil last summer was this: The man wants to have a conversation with fungi, he wants to communicate with it and I'm 100% sure he will in due time. The exhaustive efforts of such a deceptively simple idea, has been a road of unexpected maneuvers for Phil, but alas we don’t talk about any of that in this podcast, instead we focus on the ideas above materialism and even go back to a time when zines, flip-phones and gatherings of like minded people had a greater impact than all the collective likes and hearts and emoji-con chaos one can offer to the world’s collective of serotonin-seekers. Phil is the heart, keep an eye on this man’s movement and seek to understand what it means to Open The Fung! Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:01:47:22

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MycoWizards Broadcast Ep6

1/22/2025
The follies of those fallen to the orange reaper; neurospora. Generalization vs. Specialization, who wins that particular apocalypse? Don't put all your eggs in one super sack, the rolling giveaways continue! These talking points and more, on today's MycoWizards Broadcast. ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE POD30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:18:04

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MycoWizards Broadcast: Ep5

1/20/2025
Around the States in 80... mushroom festivals. The epoch of shroomie industry that sprang this phenomenon into being, what its like being recognized out in the world, navigating a jet-setting livelihood while being married to a farm, flow hood giveaway and more! ALSO Check out what's new over at https://mycowizards.com where we have rolling deep dives focused around commercial mycology, new equipment and innovation in this space and much more! USE CODE CNS30 AT CHECKOUT FOR 30 DAYS FREE Send us a text Support the show Become A MycoWizard today and keep this show rolling over at www.mycowizards.com!

Duration:00:14:17