Morel Mushroom Forecast 2024
Its spring and its time to get out in the woods and get some ticks!
[Transcript]
We got a special guest today and a free
radio Studio, yeah he'd like to remain anonymous
he's got some good moral mushroom hunting tips for you!
[Music]
well me and my cousin we like to
put up some some signs to keep the
tourists out like Road closed or bridge out
no trespassing
it works pretty good
but to be honest if you really want to
find some morel mushrooms you might even
want to look for one of those signs and
go right on around it there's probably a
whole mess of them
because all the tourists have been kept out
[Laughter]
could you tell us a bedtime story
about
mushroom hunting it's old folklore from
the forest hmm
nothing you don't got nothing
there's never a good time you're always
grouchy I'm not grouchy I just uh
sometimes it's like hard for me to you
know
but then when you're like when you're
like man do this do this do this I can't
it's really hard for me
preparations for Morel hunts
I don't know morel hunting
pigs anything going on with Jenny I
don't know what about are there any
Springtime specials I used to be a lot
okay a lot of what mushrooms a lot more
that's what happened to them
um
no no no
(Rock Music)
hey there I just wanted to take a moment
of your time to let you know that this
coming Saturday we'll be having a mower
wash fundraiser that's right come on
down this upcoming Saturday morning at 8
A.M to the Pizza Hut on Main to be first
in line to have your lawnmower Washed by
a true lawn mowing Enthusiast from the
local synchronized lawn mowing Team all
proceeds will be going towards you
guessed it the sixth annual lawn Fest
happening later this summer we'll even
have a genuine mower stroller on display
so you can take a look at that grab a
bite to eat and get your mower washed to
spake and span just in time for this
lawn mowing season all while supporting
a great cause again that's this upcoming
3:08
Saturday morning at 8 A.M at the Pizza
Hut on Main don't be late hope to see
you there
thank you
[Foreign Music]
what are the steps you need to take to
train your dog to snip out some
mushrooms
what's the first step
on the mushroom one of your dog
accidentally eats a psychedelic mushroom
[Music]
for sure Beauty
it would be uh pretty freaked out and
what if you accidentally eat a
psychedelic mushroom there's a mutually
chill environment for everybody it would
be advantageous is it jeans jacket
weather
hot chocolate
I got salty snacks any type of Chex Mix
pretzels
I suppose I suppose they would all work
okay and then what kind of soundtrack
are you listening to what about these
okay what's the second step
trees
no on the plants
no specific artists or yeah no
nature sounds like the your hair
exercise regimen
it's a hillbilly okay what's the second
step
okay okay what's the second first step I
think you need to
show them the mushrooms let them sniff
it okay what's the second step
that
if they can smell those
for you
it could be rewarding for them to do so
what's the reward for them probably a
treat mushrooms or dog treats plus dog
treats
well the big government says you're not
supposed to eat or pick the mushrooms if
there's been a flood
something to do with the nuclear power
plant and
all that cattle run off and pesticide
and fertilizer run off but
not gonna let them tell me what to do
and never hurt me much
now there's a couple good spots I'd like
to share with you Indian cave
uh
I hope you just want to go tell
everybody but since since we're good
friends
a check down there
and a check down there in the one way
just
[Music]
uh just south of uh the Old Saint
Deron's Schoolhouse
by the water plant there I've had some
good luck
[Music]
now last year it was way too dry I just
had no luck whatsoever but you know
between the old between the old town of
Saint Jerome between the half-breed
cemetery there in the Missouri River on
the south facing slope
next to those old cottonwood trees and
had some good luck not last year last
year were two trap but the year before
that I had some good luck there now my
grandpa always told me
after your second mow in the spring
about May 1st
on a on a waning gimbus moon
banana Saturday afternoon
it's a good time to
go look for mushrooms now
I like to get a couple practice runs in
every year so
you know as soon as the as soon as the
May apples are up
you know it's a good time to start
looking there usually
next to the big Cottonwood or you know
elm tree
good luck there
(foreign music)
I might have to eat a peanut butter
sandwich I'm still a little hungry I'm
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feeling like hungry hungry like we've
8:34
already eaten three breakfasts this
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morning this is how does the rest of
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this territory this is pre-lunch this is
8:42
pretty much warm up so you only how many
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breakfasts can you have and breakfast
8:46
one breakfast too and then it's
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automatically free lunch or no you can
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have three breakfasts okay there's like
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a pre and post breakfast and an actual
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breakfast just like with lunch pre and
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post lunch but there's an accident
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wouldn't those be called snacks
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breakfast second breakfast and a snack
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would you tell me about the health
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benefits of mushrooms
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well it makes it hard to leave your
9:10
house
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sometimes
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what are the best kind of mushrooms for
9:16
improving your life
9:20
all right
9:22
oh I don't know maybe the morel
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mushrooms because you have to form a
9:26
find them it's like a reward it's a game
9:29
so it's approaching morel season do you
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have any tips or tricks for us
9:33
on the hunt how to find a good spot how
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to find the shrooms how to be one with
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nature
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you just gotta get out there and look
9:44
okay
9:45
what would Captain beefheart say about
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mushroom hunting
9:51
you probably say
9:53
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9:56
his feet can't find the ground so uh
10:01
um yeah I don't know he would be uh
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10:29
yeah me and my cousin well we like to
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set out decoy morels too throws off them
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city folks don't want any of them taking
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me and my cousin's morels
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foreign
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sometimes we like to put out decoys in
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the good spots too try to attract them
10:53
little fellas with the prospect of a
10:55
mate
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10:57
[Applause]
11:00
well the legend has it that the day
11:05
after the first Warm rain
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after the second mode of the season
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it's when you really want to get out in
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those woods to go looking for morels
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that reminds me did you hear about the
11:24
mower wash coming up this upcoming
11:27
Saturday morning at the Pizza Hut on
11:29
Main to help fundraise for launch the
11:33
sixth annual lawn Fest
11:38
[Music]
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foreign
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[Music]
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[Applause]
11:58
foreign
Jesus f-ing Christ,
ya keep this up,
ya gonna wake the dead,
maybe the zombies will love ya for it,
maybe they will try to bite ya and
Make ya into one of them,
the Curch of Dudo ain’t no joke,
it don’t need no psycho mushrooms
to make its points,
but bring them on anyway,
for them who need jet stream assist.
‘
Gawd, I do truly wish I wuz younger,
feel up to driving from Alabama to Rulo
to hang out round your Wonder Bread truck,
sipping water with fresh lemon slices,
as my ailing body no longer tolerates
the fruit of the vines, hops, corn, barley, etc.
And dear old Mary Jane,
she leave me with a migraine next day.
But I somehow outsmarted fate,
or something did,
cause I can go sit in the public
park across the street from
this old apartment building,
where I end up living
everytime I quit running away from home,
and I sit on a park bench,
pull my baseball camp down
over my shut eyes,
tell the trees, shrubs and park creatures
I’m back-
as if they need to be told,
and I am open to whatever they,
or whatever,
wants to do or show me,
and after a while,
I’m off on another trip,
feeling definitely not of this world energy,
seeing this and or that abstract
through my closed eyes
just hanging out,
sitting on that bench,
aware of people and their dogs walking by,
in my own world,
or a world briefly loaned to me,
which leaves me feeling rejuvenated
for a little while.
Ya know,
I wonder if might have the juice
to drive to Rulo,
I hope to get a sign,
I think maybe I ain’t gonna feel entirely right
if I don’t see that Wonder bread truck
before the Lord takes me,
but I probably won’t eat mushrroms,
‘cause they come out of me just like
they went in,
my proessing plant don’t
seem to recognize them,
and I never took the psyco kind,
nor any psycho kind of plants
or psycho chemicals,
it’s been au naturale for me.
I use to hunt morell mushrooms with my mother and aunt when I was a preschooler.
That spot in the woods was a family secret. They didn't trust me to pick mushrooms, although they were easy to spot. I kept my eyes peeled for Jack-in-the-pulpit flowers.