Voicemailbag VIII

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🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Precious listeners of Current Affairs, we hear you loud and clear! This week, the panel answers your queries on everything from literature, to dreams, to questionable environmentalist projects. The panel this week was associate editor Vanessa A. Bee, legal editor Oren Nimni, finance editor Sparky Abraham, contributing editor Eli Massey, amusements and managing editor Lyta Gold, and editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson. Your host this week was Aisling McCrea. 'Crepuscule with Nellie' - Thelonious Monk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvXOcLi47TY This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome, good morning, good evening, good afternoon, good night, good dawn, good dusk, good crepuscular times.
0:10.1	I love crepuscular.
0:11.9	Crepuscular is a good word to know. I was really pleased once because I like, I knew the word crepuscular in like a really difficult quiz and I felt very smug even though I lost
0:22.4	overall which is what is crepuscular?
0:25.3	Crepuscular means pertaining to dawn and dusk.
0:29.0	Yes.
0:29.1	So there are certain animals that are not nocturnal and they're not diurnal, they're crepuscular.
0:35.9	And it's hard to remember unless you think of,
0:38.1	because it doesn't sound like what it is,
0:39.1	so you have to think of,
0:40.6	you have to think of animals
0:41.7	corpuscularly walking through the,
0:44.5	yes.
0:45.4	We're going to actually have people listen to this.
0:51.5	All right,
0:52.2	Dan,
0:52.5	keep all of this in.
0:53.6	This is part of the introduction.
0:56.2	I think there's also a Thelonious Monctoon called Crepuscular.
1:00.0	No, it's crepuscule.
1:01.5	Well, that would surely be the noun form.
1:03.4	So like a thing of dawn and dusk?
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