In this special ep, ValVal and LeeLee are together! Talking into one mic! They discuss many topics, including: the pitfalls of naming your daughter Belladonna, health food stores, #BlazerLife, Lee’s fascination with pimple popping and earwax, and whether one dress can be as big news as the swan and meat dresses were. Also, Lee went to a hobbit party. Val’s plant story stars a cashier at a witchy store who was like a riddler: he told Val one true fact about the Brassica oleracea species (which includes a surprising amount of veggies you know) and something very false. With bonus trivia about supertasters, bitter receptors, and competitive cousins AVI and PAV.
SHOW NOTES:
This article explains how Hurricane Milton “formed under the perfect conditions for rapid intensification.”
The sound of rhubarb popping as it grows: https://soundcloud.com/rhubarb-rhubarb-rhubarb/a-mass-of-popping-rhubarb
Sounds of a murmuration of starlings: https://www.richardmudhar.com/blog/2019/11/the-sound-of-starlings-massing/
Apparently, you can see the aurora borealis on latitudes between 60 and 75 degrees, which includes Iceland, northern parts of Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia, Canada and Alaska as well as southern Greenland. But you still have to look things up and plan ahead, because it’s visibility changes.
Do women have a better sense of smell? According to this article, studies show that on average, they do.
More on bitter receptors and supertasters
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Theme song: Snabba Ladda, Snappy beat, Cheerful feeling! by kjartan_abel – https://freesound.org/s/632406/ -- License: Attribution 4.0.
Haiku segment intro: Strange wind chimes duo! — Debussy Bells, bamboo by Philip_Goddard -- https://freesound.org/s/686153/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0.
Haiku background: bell-bowl G-ish.wav by Squidocto -- https://freesound.org/s/255762/ -- License: Creative Commons 0.
Plant story intro: Golvuna by kjartan_abel -- https://freesound.org/s/610679/ -- License: Attribution 4.0.
The Yoke of Capitalism segment intro: Playful Haunt (30s) by UNIVERSFIELD -- https://freesound.org/s/755864/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
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