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I just read you can also find ergothioneine in black beans, kidney beans, and oat bran, as well as oyster mushrooms which are easy to find dried in Whole Foods and may be less expensive.

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And here’s your joke….

We all know Albert Einstein was a genius. but his brother Frank was a monster.

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I have heard about the health benefits of mushrooms for years. Now I read porcini are the best. This is really worth hearing. I just wrote it on today's shopping list.

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I love mushrooms, especially the "fun" ones, WINK, WINK. But regular, non-fun-having ones are good too. Here's a bad joke: What kind of room has no walls or ceiling? A mushroom, of course.

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I like funguy on my pizza pie

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Or my dad Lavern, RIP, would have said, "There's a fungus among us." It's not a joke but a kind of humorous way to note the presence of mushrooms.

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A porcini mushroom walks into a bar. The bartender yells, "Get outta here! I don't care if you're a fungi, we don't serve food."

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So great Bill and others posting. Now I have a plethora of jokes!

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What did the mushroom’s sing when they won the closed-cup?

We are the champignons!

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Pretty funny joke! Especially for a quiet kid. Too bad I don't like mushrooms. Can the Penn State mushroom folks find a way to get the 'shroom bennies into my box wine? Seems like a good college endeavor if there ever was one. Thanks Bill!

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I like mushrooms but it seems they’re usually served with something else. Is the other stuff the stuff that’s bad for you? 🥲

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Like the joke but the very long article on mushrooms could have been a 7 other things - “mushrooms stop aging” and link to study. This is a miss as an item worth the lead article. I scrolled they most of it. Need more meat in opening - pun o tended (especially now that it follows a pretty lengthy ad).

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We can't hit home runs every time at bat, I guess!

That said, the part about "thinking strategically" about the future is directly related. I'm working on how to improve the heck out of the content, the focus, etc. A bit of a challenge since I still have to produce the daily newsletter every day in the interim. But I think we will get there. Thanks!

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Thanks for listening. I have been around since close to your inception, and paid up, and have dropped several similar dailies, so not fatal!

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Two peanuts are walking down the street. One was assaulted.

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Some people don't think I'm a fungi, but I grow on you...

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There is a documentary out on Netflix right now called Fantastic fungi, very interesting. Would recommend if fungi interests anyone.

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We’ve been eating more shrooms lately since reading about their health benes a couple months ago. Still enjoyed your newsletter as usual as was nice learning about the porcinis.

As for the I-95 mess, someone somewhere made the comment “what if those vehicles had all been electric”.

I always appreciate your continuing efforts toward making this newsletter enjoyable. Doing something like this can get to be a grind.

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