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🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Deirdre is a jellyfish, and she’s just trying to go with the flow.
Featuring Maeve Higgins. Maeve’s new album “A Very Special Woman” is available on bandcamp.
A big thanks to Dr.Angel Yanagihara. She is a research professor at the University of Hawaii and inventor of Sting No More, a line of products for rapid relief of jellyfish stings. You can find more about her and her work here.
Choral music in this episode from Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche and William Byrd, in the public domain. Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions.
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0:00.0 | I want to tell you about Search Engine, a new podcast I think you might enjoy. |
0:05.8 | In each episode, reporter PJ Vote tries to answer every question he has about the world. |
0:11.3 | No question too big, no question too small. |
0:14.8 | Questions like, why do drug dealers put fentanyl in everything, even though it's killing |
0:19.9 | their customers? |
0:21.4 | Or should I not be drinking airplane coffee? |
0:24.0 | I actually didn't know that there was a reason not to drink airplane coffee, and now I'm |
0:28.7 | worried. |
0:29.7 | That's the reason to listen to Search Engine. |
0:32.6 | If you find this world bewildering, but also sometimes enjoy being bewildered by it, |
0:37.2 | I think you'll like the show. |
0:39.3 | Search Engine with PJ Vote, an Odyssey podcast, is available now on the Odyssey app or |
0:45.0 | wherever you get your podcasts. |
0:49.9 | My name is Jerry Dra, and you can see me okay, okay, good. |
0:54.8 | I'm a jellyfish, so that's why I always check with people. |
0:59.7 | They often are not able to see me, particularly in the water where I live. |
1:03.9 | Because you are transparent. |
1:05.5 | The same color as water. |
1:06.9 | Yes, yeah, exactly. |
1:08.9 | It's interesting, actually, James McBride, his memoir is called The Color of Water, I instantly |
1:15.6 | thought that he's got to be a jellyfish, but he's not, he's a crime writer. |
1:19.8 | That's right. |
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