Mushrooms, mycelium, & everything strange beneath them.
Every week, Maya — a mycologist — and Theo — a curious newcomer — pick one corner of the fungal world and go way too deep. From the Wood Wide Web to killer mushrooms to medicine-or-myth.
Season 1 — Episodes
The trailer and the pilot are out now. New episodes weekly once the season launches.
Trailer
Cordyceps, the Wood Wide Web, killer mushrooms — the whole show in 92 seconds.
What Is a Mushroom, Really?
It’s not a plant. It’s barely the organism. Meet the mycelium. (18 min)
The Wood Wide Web
Forests gossip underground. The science of mycorrhizal networks.
Know Your Edibles
Dinner, or a one-way trip? Foraging with a safety-first mindset.
The Killers
Amanitas and the art of not dying.
Grow Your Own
Mushrooms on your kitchen counter.
Medicine or Myth?
Are medicinal mushrooms medicine — or very expensive placebo?
Where Fungi Live
From pavement cracks to old-growth forest.
Fungi Futures
Mycelium materials, remediation, and what comes next.
About the show
Spore Lore is an eclectic mycology podcast — rigorous about the science, playful about everything else.
Fungi invented rot. They’re closer to animals than to plants. One of them might be the biggest living thing on the planet — and they still don’t get nearly the attention they deserve.
So we’re fixing that. Each week we take one corner of the fungal kingdom and go deep: the ecology, the chemistry, the folklore, and the honest state of the evidence.
Your guide to the kingdom. Knows her boletes from her amanitas and isn’t afraid to say “we don’t know yet.”
Asks the questions you’re thinking. Professional amateur, enthusiastic spore.
Follow along
Find us everywhere as @sporelorepod.