The Mushroom Show
Bi-Weekly Podcast featuring mushrooms, mycology and health. Hosted by Tony Shields, founder of FreshCap Mushrooms.
Episodes
63 episodes
This Widely Eaten Mushrooms Is... Deadly?
How is it possible that one of the most popular gourmet mushrooms in the world could also be considered... deadly poisonous? In this episode of The Mushroom Show, we're we'll be diving deep into this mysterious property of the famous morel mush...
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Season 2
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Episode 39
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16:20
"The Most Important Nutrient You've Never Heard Of" Found In Mushrooms
Functional mushrooms are getting more and more popular everyday. But it's not the mushrooms themselves that have people are flocking to these powerful fungi... it's the compounds inside!Although beta-glucans and triterpenes are often consid...
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Season 2
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Episode 38
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48:43
Finders' Keepers: The Global Mushroom Event You Don't Want To Miss!
Finding mushrooms is great- but you can't keep your finds forever. Unless of course you take part in the FREE global "mushroom hunting" event where instead of looking for mushrooms, you're looking for mushroom themed art! It's called "Game Of S...
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Season 2
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Episode 37
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42:07
From Niche To Mainstream: Here's Why Functional Mushrooms Are Showing Up Everywhere
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Season 2
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Episode 36
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42:25
The Ultimate Guide To Morel Mushrooms (+ Exploring Mushroom Festivals!!)
Morel mushrooms are one of the most popular and well known mushrooms in the world, yet somehow still not totally understood.In this episode of The Mushroom Show, we delve into the wild world of Morel mushrooms, often hailed as the king of s...
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Season 2
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Episode 35
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37:34
Why Are Hundreds Of Restaurants BANNING Mushrooms From Their Menu?!?
Mushrooms are taking over the world! Not literally of course, but with their rising popularity in cooking, functional nutrition, technology and culture, you may think that they can do no wrong these days. Which is why it seemscrazy to see a...
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Season 2
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Episode 34
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18:24
Fungi and The Fear Response - NEW Study Shows Mushrooms May Reduce The Brain's Response To Angry Faces
Could a mushroom that that thrives on nuclear waste help us become a multi-planetary species? In this episode of The Mushroom Show, we are digging into one of the "great moments in mushroom history" and its future implications for space travel....
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Season 2
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Episode 33
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19:26
A Mushroom Mystery That Is Baffling Scientists
Mushrooms do some wild things. But recently, an unknown species was found fruiting on a LIVING frog- stunning scientists and bringing into question everything we know about how mushrooms grow. In this episode of The Mushroom Show, we try unveil...
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Season 2
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Episode 32
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18:10
The World's Most Popular Mushroom Is... Illegal To Pick?
Lion's Mane is one of the world's most popular mushrooms, but did you know in some places it is actually illegal to pick? In this episode of The Mushroom Show, we are digging into an act that prohibits picking Lion's Mane and trying to understa...
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Season 2
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Episode 31
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17:54
The Mushroom Technology That's Attracting MILLIONS Of Investment Dollars (The Mushroom Show Episode 30)
It's not very often that hugely disruptive technologies actually achieve mainstream adoption. Although many mushroom based technologies are proving hard to scale, there is one that seems poised for mainstream adoption:mushroom-based meat an...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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21:20
This Is What A REAL Functional Mushroom Farm Looks Like (TMS EP 29)
Ever wonder how functional mushrooms are grown? Welcome to the world of mushroom farming, where innovation and ingenuity come together to produce massive amounts of life-changing functional mushrooms at scale. In this episode of The Mushroom Sh...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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21:45
Will New Genetic Discoveries Lead To "Designer Shrooms"? (The Mushroom Show Episode 28)
Can humans create super-mushrooms? In this episode of The Mushroom Show, we are digging into the story of scientists in Australia who are unlocking the secrets of mushroom genetics in order to see what improvements can be made for future cultiv...
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Season 2
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Episode 28
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15:05
"Sporify" Wrapped 2023! What an INCREDIBLE Year For Mushrooms (The Mushroom Show EP 27)
From scientists learning that mushrooms can grow brain cells to a certain mushroom being at the center of amurder mystery- 2023 was one of the wildest years in mushrooms that we have ever seenSo in this episode, asthe year is wrapping u...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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17:36
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Mushrooms? Most Googled Questions (The Mushroom Show EP 26)
Can mushrooms take over the world? Or are mushrooms going to save the world? These are just some of the most burning questions about mushrooms being Googled everyday! In this episode of The Mushroom Show, we try to answer some of the top questi...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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23:42
When They Will Be Legal And What That Could Look Like (The Mushroom Show EP 25)
Wen legalization?? The landscape around mushrooms is changing fast, but it still is anyone's guess as to where will end up in 3-5 years. In this episode, we explore some possible paths, taking into consideration the proliferation o...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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17:02
How Many Species Of Mushrooms ACTUALLY Exist?? (The Mushroom Show Episode 24)
In this episode of The Mushroom Show, we're trying to answer the age old question- how many species of mushrooms are there? It's a lot more difficult to answer than you might think, and has some pretty profound implications. We review a new rep...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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20:06
Growing 35,000 LBS Per Week And Showing What's Possible With Mushrooms (The Mushroom Show Ep 23)
Mushrooms are booming, but it hasn't always been that way. Just a few short decades ago, most people had probably never even heard about many of the "exotic" mushrooms which are becoming so popular today. But that didn't stop the Garrone family...
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Season 2
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Episode 23
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24:46
A New Frontier For Psilocybin Therapy? Standardized but NOT Synthetic (TMS Episode 22)
If you wanted to do clinical trials for psilocybin, you generally have two options: synthetic psilocybin (which has it's downsides) or whole dried mushrooms (also, has downsides). But what if there was a third option that took the best attribut...
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Season 2
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Episode 22
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26:52
"The Deadliest AI Scam I've Ever Heard Of" When Robots Write Mushroom Foraging Books (TME Episode 21)
"Artificial Intelligence" mushroom foraging apps are one thing, but more recently it appears the robots are now writing mushroom foraging guidebooks. Aspiring mushroom foragers may now have to deal with guide books that have fake author profile...
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Season 2
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Episode 21
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35:13
The World's Biggest Mushroom Party? Telluride Mushroom Festival 2023 (The Mushroom Show Episode 20)
Every year, hoards of people climb up into the mountains, dress up in crazy costumes, and celebrate their undying love for the kingdom fungi. It's called The "Telluride Mushroom Festival" is a phenomenon that's a little hard to explain, unless ...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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27:38
The Insane Value Of Mushrooms: Why Our World Wouldn't Function Without Fungi (TMS EP 19)
According to a new report, fungi contribute over $54 Trillion USD to the global economy. Sound crazy? It kind of is, but there is no doubt that without fungi, our modern lives just wouldn't be the same.In this episode of Th...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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24:41
A Totally Weird "Magic Mushroom" That No One Seems To Know Anything About... Is It Real?
We all know about Psilocybin Mushrooms, and perhaps even the "other" magic mushroom, Amanita muscaria- but what if there was a third one? According to the stories, it "Makes You See The Little People" and sounds truly bizarre- ...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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24:43
Did Australia Just Legalize Psilocybin Therapy? (The Mushroom Show Episode 17)
Big headlines this week in the world of mushrooms, as a major country is starting to allow for psychiatrists to prescribe psilocybin for specific conditions. Is this a really big deal? Or just more of the same? In this episode of The Mushroom S...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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19:12
The Mushroom Summit and PsychScience 2023: What You Need To Know (The Mushroom Show Episode 16)
These two events could literally change the face of mushrooms! I just got back from The Mushroom Summit and PsychScience 2023, two huge events in Denver CO, that brought together scores of mushroom lovers from all over the world to learn, colla...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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19:10
22 Mushrooms Grown Around The World For Food and Medicine (The Mushroom Show Episode 15) v
You might not notice on a daily basis, but we humans are growing a TON of mushrooms. Of course the common button mushroom and oyster mushrooms take up a large portion of this total, but there are lots of other really interesting mushrooms that ...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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31:46