The Rough Corner: Moon Theory and the 12 Days of Christmas ft. Rebecca Boyle
We Can Be Weirdos
Global
4.9 ⢠736 Ratings
đď¸ 19 December 2023
âąď¸ 53 minutes
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Summary
The moon is amazing! And underrated. Many of us know that the Moon pulls on our oceans, driving the tides, but did you know that it is the very reason we are here? Or that it was essential to the development of science and religion? Acclaimed journalist and author Rebecca Boyle takes Dan on a dazzling tour of our moon, and explains the ancient lunar origins of the 12 days of Christmas.
Rebecca's book - Our Moon: How earth's celestial companion transformed the planet, guided evolution, and made us who we are - is available in the UK from January 18th.
You can get in touch with Dan Schreiber on Twitter and Instagram (@Schreiberland). In his bio, you'll find the link to our Discord channel - a global community of likeminded weirdos!
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| 0:00.0 | I've always been ambitious and in teaching I've found plenty of opportunities to progress. |
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| 0:16.5 | It benefits not just us, but every student we teach. |
| 0:19.8 | How many of the professions can say that? |
| 0:22.3 | Every lesson shapes a life. |
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| 0:28.4 | Search get into teaching. |
| 0:32.1 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:46.5 | Yeah. Global Player Original podcast. Hey everyone. Welcome to The Rough Corner. This is the bonus episode that sits in between the main episodes of We Can Be |
| 0:55.1 | Weirdos, where I get to talk about all the weird things that have happened in my week |
| 0:59.3 | and use this little time to also bring in some correspondence from you, the listener, |
| 1:03.9 | and also maybe chat to some interesting people around the world, and that's exactly what |
| 1:09.0 | we're actually going to be doing today. In the lead |
| 1:11.2 | up to Christmas, Al had an idea that he wanted to get a bit more understanding of some |
| 1:16.5 | Christmassy things. He looked into the 12 days of Christmas and discovered that there's this |
| 1:20.6 | amazing author out there, whose name is Rebecca Boyle, and she's just written a whole book about |
| 1:27.2 | the moon. And in that book, she puts forward |
| 1:30.9 | an explanation to why, in fact, it is called The Twelve Days of Christmas. So we'll get to that |
| 1:35.0 | in a second. I had a great chat with her. Before we do that, I just want to quickly make a very |
| 1:40.8 | exciting announcement just today, just moments before recording this episode. I received a |
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