Oh hey, it's that little beetle grub in your compost that you missed took for a dead human finger.

Alley Ward just squirming toward one of the most exciting episodes of allergies in the three year

history of the show. I mean we have rockstar allergists on every week, but celebs, I mean we have a

verifiable famous person on this week. And like what's next? Vibology with Paula Abdul?

I canology with Missy Elliott. I mean the sky's the limit. But before I set down with our collective

personal hero, some thanks to patrons at patreon.com slash allergies for submitting the questions

for this episode for every episode. And for supporting the show each and every day, if you want

to join that, it's a dollar a month, literally $12 a year gets you access to submit questions

for over 50 episodes. So it's cheaper than a parking meter folks. That's patreon.com slash

allergies. Also, thank you to everyone rating the show and subscribing and spreading the word.

It matters so much as do reviews. And I read all of your reviews because I love you back such as

this freshie from Carly who says, pretty sure allergies cured my cancer. But for real though,

almost a year of chemo surgeries and quarantine, hearing a Tasmanian devil screech or learning how

not to lose a boat has been the highlight of my journey. You too can experience this enlightenment.

No cancer necessary says Carly. Carly, thank you and please continue to be healthy. And while we're

here, big hugs to a long time listener, Christa Avampato, who just went through surgery last week.

Okay, onward. Now, the title of this one is pedagogy and pedagogy. Pedagogy? What is it?

I'm never sure. Pedagogy. Pedagogy. Okay, the title of this one is pedagogy. And pedagogy means

the method in practice of teaching. So theoretically, this allergy is the study of teaching. So learning

to teach, to learn, to communicate. Perhaps science, so to be a science communicator in psychom,

to calm some sigh. And there was maybe no one better on planet Earth to ask. Then the world icon

of science TV, he graduated with a bachelor's in mechanical engineering and worked at Boeing and

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