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The Gist

Elvis Costello's High-Fidelity Life

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Elvis Costello is one of the most accomplished songwriters of his generation. In his memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, he details his songwriting process, his encounters with everyone from Paul McCartney to Joe Strummer, and his place in a rapidly changing music industry. Costello is up for a Grammy this week for the audiobook version of Unfaithful.  For the Spiel, a fairly pointless history lesson from Ted Cruz.  Today's sponsors: Dunkin' Donuts. Upgrade your day with DD Perks. Earn a free Dunkin' Donuts beverage when you enroll by using promo code DDPODCAST, and speed past the line in store with on-the-go ordering. Download the Dunkin' app and enroll today. And Green Mountain Coffee. Green Mountain Coffee is passionate about making a smoother-tasting cup. And now, as a special listener promotion, get $4 off when you buy two boxes of most Green Mountain Coffee K-Cup pods at keurig.com with the code TRYGMC. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.0

Sturze Day February 9th, 2017 from Slate Its Digest I'm Mike Pesca, a snowed in today,

0:13.7

and recording from home, trying to get a read on the weather.

0:17.4

I consider the old idea that Eskimos have over 50 words for snow.

0:23.0

This is so not true.

0:25.1

Not only do Eskimos not have over 50 words for snow, they don't even

0:29.9

have the word Eskimo in a wits.

0:32.7

Sorry, Inuits, I had to use the word Eskimo to make a larger point.

0:36.7

But you know, who does have 150 words for snow?

0:40.9

Our shamans, our healers, our meteorologists.

0:45.5

In the space of one update from the WCBS Weather Deck, I heard about a certain nefarious,

0:51.4

frozen water vapor substrain.

0:53.9

In the end, 10 to 15 inches of snow, it is that heavy wet snow sometimes referred to

0:58.2

as heart attack snow because it's so hard to shovel out there.

1:01.2

So make sure you keep that in mind.

1:02.9

If you got a shovel or if you need to, you're already shoveled, don't overdo it yourself

1:07.1

and maybe bring some neighborhood kids in to help you out.

1:09.6

That's a lot of snow and again, it's the heavy wet snow because there's a high water

1:12.1

content.

1:13.1

You got your heavy wet snow, but the thing that jumped out at me like a heart attack

1:16.8

was the heart attack snow.

1:19.3

And the advice, use neighborhood kids, use them as fodder for this WMD of snow, throw them

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