Sydney Glassman

Yes.

Yeah.

So they are able to break down pyrogenic organic matter, to break down all this high amount of nitrogen and to make it into forms that are easier for other things to eat.

And also they can rehabilitate the soil and they work on making the environment more hospitable for other fungi and plants to come in later.

I got to ask one forward thinking question.

Could we use funguses like that to clean up our messes, not just forest fires, like industrial waste and stuff like that?

I think there's a lot of potential for that.

Cool.

Well, Sydney Glassman is a mycology professor at the University of California, Riverside.

Sydney, tell me how you really feel about fungus.

You don't like it at all, I imagine.

I love fungi and I always, well, my PhD advisor always used to say mycology without apology.

Well, your enthusiasm for the topic is infectious and I really appreciate you coming to the show.

All right.

Thanks for having me.

Welcome to Survivor 50.

I like to say fungi, but either way works.

All right.

Thanks for having me.

Okay.