Speaker 1: Oh hey, it's still your neighbor who's always out vacuuming
Speaker 1: his car and you're like, is he really clean or
Speaker 1: is he so dirty he needs to be vacuuming it
Speaker 1: that much? Ellie Ward back with part two of the
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Speaker 1: to part one, go do that first. So much context
Speaker 1: and backstory's wizard puns, so go there first. This is
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Speaker 1: to tend to come and go, but not Ologies. It's
Speaker 1: kept my attention for over a year plus. I now
Speaker 1: have fun facts disview at friend and family gatherings. Ali
Speaker 1: asks my questions and makes quality dat jokes. In conclusion,
Speaker 1: I want Ali Ward to be my dad. Good news,
Speaker 1: Funky Fat Friday, I am your dad. If you've been
Speaker 1: listening for a while and you wondered, why does this
Speaker 1: lady call herself my dad? It's dad jokes and just
Speaker 1: because of darn love you are kiddos. Also, I do
Speaker 1: wear socks with sandals sometimes, I did just yesterday, And
Speaker 1: I don't care how that makes you feel. Well, I do,
Speaker 1: but I hope that you secretly are okay with it.
Speaker 1: All right, So buckle up Part two of Potterrology, in
Speaker 1: which we ask all of your questions and we talk
Speaker 1: about poisons and anecdotes and anecdotes and noble gases and
Speaker 1: jerky wizards, dark arts, stun guns, risky business, fireworks, stomach butterflies,
Speaker 1: and more, with University of Nebraska Lincoln chemistry professor and
Speaker 1: electro chemist and potterrologist, doctor Rebecca Live. Can I ask
Speaker 1: you some questions from listeners? Yes? Is that okay? One
Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen questions. We're not going to go through
Speaker 1: all of them. Oh my gosh. Sarah Nashaw wants to
Speaker 1: know are you a real wizard? Be honest.
Speaker 2: That I'm not prepared.
Speaker 1: Are you a wizard? You can say no comment, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Rebecca pointed to a nearby t stained CPA
Speaker 1: colored letter in a shadow box frame. It looked like something, say,
Speaker 1: like an owl might drop down your chimney.
Speaker 2: Okay, I can tell you one thing. If you look
Speaker 2: at that letter right there, I presumably received I received
Speaker 2: that when I was eleven, but then I was not
Speaker 2: eleven when when JK. Rowling had those books out, So
Speaker 2: I don't think I received it.
Speaker 1: You're not a muggle. You are not a muggle. You're
Speaker 1: a wizard. I think my.
Speaker 2: Brand of magic people have asked at before, my brand
Speaker 2: of magic is really weird. I don't think there is
Speaker 2: that kind of Harry Potter. See. I think my brand
Speaker 2: of magic.
Speaker 1: I look at it because I like learning.
Speaker 2: I like to absorb other people's knowledge, so what they learn,
Speaker 2: So I guess my magic is absorbing other people's magic.
Speaker 2: People are developing all their great things. And you know
Speaker 2: what I call magic every day and from whether it
Speaker 2: is listening to or ologies or watching YouTube or just
Speaker 2: you know, reading encyclopedia. I still like that. So any
Speaker 2: of those I'm absorbing other people's magic, magic that has
Speaker 2: been developed years and years back in the days. And
Speaker 2: that's how I look at it. My magic is to
Speaker 2: absorb others magic.
Speaker 1: Sydney Brown wants to know what's your favorite spell.
Speaker 2: Favorite spell expects, So patrona expect. I think that is
Speaker 2: probably not just mine. I think it's probably the top
Speaker 2: one well because it's repulsed de mentors de mentors based
Speaker 2: on what JK.
Speaker 1: Rowlings.
Speaker 2: You know, how she came up with that was related
Speaker 2: to when she herself suffered from depression. It's basically something
Speaker 2: that is, you know, making you feel sad and unhappy
Speaker 2: and just despair, and you have this expectable patronum that
Speaker 2: will be an animal. Mine's actually, according to potom More,
Speaker 2: a beagle, little dog. So that's my that's my patronus.
Speaker 2: So I think the Patrona's charm is what I think
Speaker 2: is a really great spell because sometimes we're humans, we
Speaker 2: do get sad and despair, sometimes sad or sometimes disappointed
Speaker 2: or you know, having that to protect us is a
Speaker 2: great thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so quick as I is the comfort of
Speaker 1: a Patrona's animal magic, is it witchcraft? No, fam, It's
Speaker 1: just a big frothy stew of biology and chemistry. So
Speaker 1: according to psychosocial and psychophysiological Effects of Human animal interactions,
Speaker 1: the possible role of oxytocin. This is a meta analysis
Speaker 1: of a bunch of studies looking at h a I
Speaker 1: Human animal interaction aka snorgels aka so HAI has been
Speaker 1: investigated for its effects on hormonal indicators of stress. These
Speaker 1: are things like cortisol and on neurotransmitters like epinephrine and
Speaker 1: one Australian study found that dog and cat owners had
Speaker 1: fewer sleeping problems and went to the doctor less frequently
Speaker 1: than non pet owners, and in a Chinese survey, researchers
Speaker 1: reported that dog owners had higher self reported fitness and health,
Speaker 1: they exercised more frequently, they slept better, they saw their
Speaker 1: doctors less frequently, and took fewer days off from work
Speaker 1: than comparable non dog owners. There was another study in
Speaker 1: the same menta analysis that involved showing participants a live
Speaker 1: tarantulaspite her saying they'd have to hold it later on now.
Speaker 1: In the interim, they had the subjects either pet a
Speaker 1: live rabbit, a live turtle, a toy rabbit, a toy turtle,
Speaker 1: or they just had them chill out without a toy
Speaker 1: or a life animal, and petting a live animal was
Speaker 1: the only option that reduced fear and anxiety, and the
Speaker 1: tarantula is like, Hi, Hi, I am a live animal. Kid.
Speaker 1: You don't want to pet me because look at my
Speaker 1: harry bud. Look at it isn't around, isn't acute. What's
Speaker 1: the matter now. The study also said that just loafing
Speaker 1: with a critter, especially doggos, can trigger oxytocin release in
Speaker 1: both humans and dogs, which decreases stress hormones and lowers
Speaker 1: blood pressure. So thanks, pops, me rubbing your belly helps
Speaker 1: you soothe my soul. Also side note, every once in
Speaker 1: a while I will get a really lovely sweet listener
Speaker 1: who says that, like squid or toads are their spirit animals.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure y'all are very compassionate and kind. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to let you know that saying spirit animal
Speaker 1: is something reserved for native and indigenous populations. So if
Speaker 1: you would not wear a headdress tocochella because you know
Speaker 1: it's really not your place, you might want to nix
Speaker 1: spirit animal. Just burn that right out of your brain. Alternatives, Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: of course there are many. I'm glad you asked. You
Speaker 1: can say alter ego familiar, or you can say patronis,
Speaker 1: so your patronis might be a toad or a squid,
Speaker 1: and some gracious furry folks have said that PERSONA is
Speaker 1: also fine with them. Okay, so moving into a different
Speaker 1: shape entirely. Some listeners asked about the transfiguration realm. These
Speaker 1: listeners were Samantha Pinpinto, Claire Meyer, Hannah Riley, Daniello Buchanan,
Speaker 1: and first time question asker Ashra Colactar says, on a
Speaker 1: scale of one from one hundred, just how cruel is
Speaker 1: transfiguration when it comes to animals? What happens when they
Speaker 1: mess up a switch and now your beetle is half
Speaker 1: button and half beetle? Any idea? That's a tough one.
Speaker 2: I think in terms of that is because the transfiguration.
Speaker 2: The fact is that I do believe that it's cruel
Speaker 2: in a way. I would say it's like about seventy percent,
Speaker 2: you know, like seventy But the fact is that I
Speaker 2: do believe it might not be mentioned here. I think
Speaker 2: they probably could reverse it. I think there's some fans,
Speaker 2: maybe not everyone can do that. Just don't count on
Speaker 2: Nevill long Bottom to do that at that time when
Speaker 2: he was Okay, now he's much improved. But I'm sure
Speaker 2: maybe professor McGonagall can do that. I think it could
Speaker 2: be reversed.
Speaker 1: Lauren Reed and Michelle Grandine both want to know have
Speaker 1: you seen improvements in scores since introducing Harry Potter into
Speaker 1: your teaching and also what is your Hogwarts house?
Speaker 2: I'm Ravenclaw. Okay, yes, I will answer that you, Celia,
Speaker 2: I have a mattress my nail.
Speaker 1: Rebecca did have a fresh tapered manicure in a lovely
Speaker 1: periwinkle hue. And ever the scientist, she said, it's tough
Speaker 1: to isolate the data to track down how much better
Speaker 1: students did in chemistry after taking her Muggle Magic course
Speaker 1: because they're typically enrolled in other chemistry classes from other professors.
Speaker 1: But all in all, she hopes it helps students become
Speaker 1: passionate about chemistry. Myself, I'm going to go on a
Speaker 1: limb and say it's got to help. Now. A few
Speaker 1: folks posed linguistic queries, including Jack Benjamin Harrison, Wayne Brantley,
Speaker 1: Rebecca Zanbrecker, and Okay, so, Destiny Rector wants to know,
Speaker 1: I know a lot of spells and their names are
Speaker 1: based in Latin. Are there any based in other languages
Speaker 1: that are maybe a little bit less common? Have you
Speaker 1: ever found that.
Speaker 2: No, I have not done too too much on that.
Speaker 2: Most of them a Latin based, but I think that
Speaker 2: might be others as well. I cannot say, but that's
Speaker 2: why I'm hoping imploring that another professor will continue this
Speaker 2: A Muggle's Guide to Harry Potter's.
Speaker 1: Linguistic That's amazing.
Speaker 2: Because honestly, right now I look at it, it doesn't
Speaker 2: have to be in Nebraska. It would just be you know,
Speaker 2: it could be globally these days, right because people did
Speaker 2: ask me if I could have this class, you know,
Speaker 2: broadcast live online. It's it could be done. Of course,
Speaker 2: there's some you know, because it's paid and then the
Speaker 2: credits and stuff like that. It cannot just be for
Speaker 2: you know, no, it's just for fine, But I don't
Speaker 2: mind if it could be all right, yes, okay.
Speaker 1: Side note any Georgetown folks out there, because scan your
Speaker 1: course catalog for a class called Nights of Old and
Speaker 1: Harry Potter, which explores the medievalism of JK. Rowling's Harry
Speaker 1: Potter novels by diving into quote medieval antecedents from the
Speaker 1: twelfth and fifteenth century in French, English and Latin literature,
Speaker 1: as well as selected volumes of JK Rowling's Harry Potter novels.
Speaker 1: So Spooky Muggles, your people, they're out there. They are
Speaker 1: teaching classes. Alphie Oi. If Casey asked what Harry Potter
Speaker 1: subject is a most like chemistry in your opinion, mainly
Speaker 1: between potions and transfiguration.
Speaker 2: Potients potions, Definitely potients, because potients and some of them,
Speaker 2: I'm we didn't even get to that, actually some of them.
Speaker 2: I basically what I did in the class is that,
Speaker 2: of course there's potents and then science. I actually look
Speaker 2: at a few recipes, such as the Draft of Peace
Speaker 2: and also the Witch Sharpening potion. I actually look at
Speaker 2: the ingredients what jk Rowling listed, and I look at
Speaker 2: the chemistry of them and try to prove that whether
Speaker 2: jk Rowling is right or wrong to put you know,
Speaker 2: valerian root in you know, the draw a piece or
Speaker 2: putting ginger in the witch sharpening potions. So I think
Speaker 2: there's some correlations. I think she knows her stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so potions.
Speaker 1: Ps. If you've ever taken Valerian root to calm anxiety
Speaker 1: or to help you drift off into a deep, deep
Speaker 1: sleep with wacky dreams, there is an acid in it.
Speaker 1: That's similar to the neurotransmitter gamma aminomuteuric acid nickname gabbas
Speaker 1: called a gabba for short, which handles calming the nerves.
Speaker 1: And the jury's still out in the scientific community on
Speaker 1: its efficacy, but some trials show that it works better
Speaker 1: than placebo at helping you chill out and calm down. Now,
Speaker 1: another fun fact, Valerian root smells terrible, so bad, so awful,
Speaker 1: So if you try it, just push through that fermenting
Speaker 1: dung rancid sock flavor and then it's all good if
Speaker 1: you're not left traumatized. I mean, a cursed is the stench,
Speaker 1: but just me it's effect trust me. I am in
Speaker 1: no way a doctor, though, so ask one first. Emily
Speaker 1: Read wants to know what's the most obscure and or
Speaker 1: seemingly useless spell.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think a killing spell. Sorry, the killing curse.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say it. Okay, the killing curse
Speaker 2: because I don't think we need such things.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good answer. And jam Curs wants to
Speaker 1: know what potions might actually be medically useful for us muggles.
Speaker 2: M Well, I think the witch sharpening potions containing ginger
Speaker 2: as one of the ingredients is not bad. People have
Speaker 2: studied a lot of ginger has been used in India
Speaker 2: and China for many many years, mostly for indigestion or
Speaker 2: some digestive system issues, and I correlated to witch sharpening.
Speaker 2: It's that well, that may not make you sharper, but
Speaker 2: yet if you don't have a cake, you feel a
Speaker 2: lot better. Okay, right, you can think right, I mean
Speaker 2: both of us right now having digestions problem. I don't
Speaker 2: think we'll be sitting so comfortably talking right now, all right,
Speaker 2: so we might want to be at other places. So
Speaker 2: I think it might just have some correlations in that.
Speaker 2: I think ginger overall people have studied it for a
Speaker 2: lot of different you know, to see if they could
Speaker 2: find chemicals and components in that that could be able
Speaker 2: to help with other diseases and other maladies beyond digestive
Speaker 2: system issues.
Speaker 1: So yes, ginger scientists are looking at it for its
Speaker 1: pain management and anti inflammatory properties. And of course there's
Speaker 1: a reason they serve it on airplanes. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like a magic potion. It makes you less nauseous. How
Speaker 1: does it do this? Well, I looked into it. It
Speaker 1: breaks up gas and it moves things through your system,
Speaker 1: So thanks, Ginger, you're a real fartbuster. Also, I think
Speaker 1: people drink it on airplanes because if you have to
Speaker 1: walk through first class and see people drinking champagne when
Speaker 1: you get to your seat, you want something gold and
Speaker 1: bubbly but also free. I have yet to pursue this
Speaker 1: theory academically, but I have a lot of faith in it. Okay,
Speaker 1: speaking of a classroom, this next question was seconded by
Speaker 1: l McCall. A couple of people asked Emma Janegelian wants
Speaker 1: to know why is it Leviosa and not Leviosa, Like
Speaker 1: what if someone has an accent, like if they're German
Speaker 1: wizards instead of English wizards, it's Levo.
Speaker 2: Well, I think in that scenario, clearly both Ron and
Speaker 2: Hermione are to my best knowledge, I think the British.
Speaker 2: I don't know why Ron said it that way. Ron
Speaker 2: just have a different way of you know, maybe a
Speaker 2: different part of UK got different accents as well. Probuately
Speaker 2: maybe that right, That is a very I have never
Speaker 2: heard of this question. This is lovely and I would
Speaker 2: just recommend her to say try her best to say
Speaker 2: the right way. Okay, spells, you don't want to get
Speaker 2: it wrong. Even though we're levitating this thing or not
Speaker 2: is not a big deal, but it could be. If
Speaker 2: it's a wrong curse, you might just get into more
Speaker 2: trouble than what wrong. God might just poke a person's
Speaker 2: eye out or something and beyond.
Speaker 1: So okay, And you have kind of a beautiful almost
Speaker 1: like a British lilt to your voice too.
Speaker 2: I'm originally from Hong Kong, so I learned British English.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I was wondering because it's like you've
Speaker 1: been in la and so yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, because it's just yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, you have such a beautiful voice. Seriously, how golden
Speaker 1: and sparkly and wonderful is her voice?
Speaker 2: So much?
Speaker 1: Now, Margaret Hammer Sersley had this next question, which spoiler
Speaker 1: gets us back to something from episode one that rhymes
Speaker 1: with schman visible sphinks. What is the best lab demo
Speaker 1: to get people interested in chemistry and science because it
Speaker 1: looks like magic?
Speaker 2: Yes, a parisium right now, let's see do it again.
Speaker 1: Invisible Elie Ward is awesome.
Speaker 2: Okay, that remains a factual thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is the best day ever. That is invisible link.
Speaker 2: You got to say yes, absolutely basically this art.
Speaker 1: Chris Burer wants to know what would be considered the
Speaker 1: dark arts of chemistry, and Michelle Grandine says, second that question,
Speaker 1: dark arts and chemistry.
Speaker 2: Dark arts, dark arts. Well, there are some dangerous chemicals too,
Speaker 2: I have to say, but in general in the chemistry lab,
Speaker 2: no matter what we work with, we always consider them
Speaker 2: being dangerous and also we will take extra precautions and care.
Speaker 2: So one thing about me being a professor, training my
Speaker 2: graduate student or teaching the class later on, I always
Speaker 2: remind them safety is the most important because if you're
Speaker 2: not safe, you're doing dark arts. You know why, because
Speaker 2: you could generate an explosion and kill your neighbor right there,
Speaker 2: whether you wanted it or not. That could occur, Or
Speaker 2: that you're going to break the whole glass case of
Speaker 2: chemicals that would cost five thousand or ten thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: So that's not.
Speaker 1: Good solid advice. Safety first. Unsafe behavior is dark arts,
Speaker 1: so texting while driving dark arts, those weird kids who
Speaker 1: do parkour on top of skyscrapers, Dark arts, room temperature, mayonnaise,
Speaker 1: dark arts. Safety first. Katie Shabas wants to know what
Speaker 1: type of elixer will help us live longer and healthier.
Speaker 2: Well, elixir of life that you can be Nicholas Flamel
Speaker 2: to six hundred something. If we have the Sorcerer's Stone,
Speaker 2: that would be pretty good. But while we don't have
Speaker 2: that yet, I say, drink some green tea. Okay, still
Speaker 2: pretty good, antioxygen content, some EGCG in. That's all good.
Speaker 2: Actually analyzed it myself.
Speaker 1: You are a wizard. But if you're like, hey, Pops,
Speaker 1: what's EGCG, I'm about to spill that piping hot green tea.
Speaker 1: So it's epicallo catachkin galatee, which is a polyphenal compound
Speaker 1: that some studies show has potential to reduce inflammation and
Speaker 1: possibly prevent cancer. Needs a bunch more research also, Rebecca,
Speaker 1: at this point whispered something alluding to a process involving
Speaker 1: tea and gold. But I had to cut it because
Speaker 1: that chemistry might be proprietary. Don't worry, Rebecca, I didn't
Speaker 1: fully grasp it and would not begin to know how
Speaker 1: to steal it now. Next question was also asked by
Speaker 1: first time question asker Don Ewald, Carrie Weber, Sydney Brown, crystal, mendoza, Anacomerkelbock,
Speaker 1: and Jessica Beard wants to know if you could perform
Speaker 1: only one spell, what would it be?
Speaker 2: One spell?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Sorry, I is it's a hard question. Yeah, if it's
Speaker 2: just only one spell, it's definitely not the killing curse.
Speaker 2: You know, anything like that though, should not even exist.
Speaker 2: And I suppose I still try to go with expectel patronum.
Speaker 2: You know, I would say, you know, on a very
Speaker 2: sad day, or maybe if I think that there are
Speaker 2: de mentors around or other people around that I don't want,
Speaker 2: I will try to protect myself. If not expected patronum,
Speaker 2: I would go with I suppose protago because protago you
Speaker 2: protect basically you protect from any who knows what would happen, right,
Speaker 2: It could be earthquake, could be you know, something following.
Speaker 2: So I could use one thing to protect to ones.
Speaker 2: I think I would do that, you know, but I don't.
Speaker 2: Hopefully I never need to use that. Hopefully you won't
Speaker 2: exactly right.
Speaker 1: This next question was also asked by Rasali Contreres, Sonya
Speaker 1: karp A Slaine, and KEM grad student Jessica Beard, and
Speaker 1: she also asked Jessica Beard as so, what moment in
Speaker 1: your research felt most like magic?
Speaker 2: Actually, most of the first Eureka moments. But that's one
Speaker 2: thing gets back to what I think about research is said,
Speaker 2: no matter how you know, you like your field, you
Speaker 2: really like what you're doing. Is that you know, think
Speaker 2: about that the moment that you're doing the experiment, adding
Speaker 2: this and that and see that color change. For example
Speaker 2: that I do different kind of research, but for example,
Speaker 2: that is the case. You know, for that one single
Speaker 2: second in the whole world, you might be the only
Speaker 2: person who knew about that fact. And I think that's
Speaker 2: the Eureka moment. And you can recreate it again again
Speaker 2: as you do experiments and you go in the lab,
Speaker 2: you like, no matter how am minute, and people think, oh, well,
Speaker 2: your discovery is not as significant, but you know at
Speaker 2: that moment is you're the first, the only person at
Speaker 2: that moment to be able to see that. And that's
Speaker 2: one thing I really to know the truth of that
Speaker 2: reaction or this system or whatnot. It's amazing. I think
Speaker 2: that to me, it's not just one, it could be
Speaker 2: many of that moment, but you really just that little
Speaker 2: Eureka moment that you're like wow, and then you think
Speaker 2: about it, that specific moment in the lab that you
Speaker 2: found that that's way before you making these beautiful figures
Speaker 2: published in a journal and getting news articles written about it.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe waybe way before that. Just at that
Speaker 2: instantaneously like wow, I'm the only one who knew about this.
Speaker 2: At that moment, it's kind of really neat. I wish
Speaker 2: I could go back in the lab to do more work.
Speaker 2: These days, I cannot because I run the lab and
Speaker 2: I teach and do other things. But those are the
Speaker 2: moments I think what scientists will always cherish. Now I
Speaker 2: cherish it vicariously, just like last night sending email to
Speaker 2: Channing's like, Channing, how did the experiment go? Did it work?
Speaker 1: I'm just going Channing is the ologite who told me
Speaker 1: about Rebecca. So Channing, thanks for hooking it up. I
Speaker 1: are you one high five from your chant.
Speaker 2: That's really if you think about it, that moment's pretty unique.
Speaker 2: No matter other people think, oh, it's just my notes.
Speaker 2: It's not like you need you found a cancer, you
Speaker 2: know solution right now, But at that moment, you're the
Speaker 2: only one in that world who knew this fact, this truth.
Speaker 2: After all, science is about truth finding, right, Yeah, So.
Speaker 1: What a special, surreal moment.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, it's I don't want to exaggerated or people
Speaker 2: think it's overrated or whatnot. But I think at that
Speaker 2: moment when you plan so much into that experiment hoping
Speaker 2: to see that because experiments are all not just oh,
Speaker 2: let's put some stuff together and I'm sure some reactions
Speaker 2: going to occur and whatnot. The same goals for spells.
Speaker 2: I'm sure put effort into generating these spells, and we
Speaker 2: we really you know, carefully plan it and have lots
Speaker 2: of hypothesis in your own mind what will happen? And
Speaker 2: then when you see one happen, oh wow, that is
Speaker 2: the truth, okay, out of the all the other options.
Speaker 2: So that's the answer. Because a lot of times you
Speaker 2: go into an experiment you would think it could work
Speaker 2: this way, it could also this this, and what will
Speaker 2: happen is amazing just the process of it.
Speaker 1: Side note, I wondered what the etymology of Eureka was,
Speaker 1: and Eureka I've found it is from the Greek eric
Speaker 1: skine to find so in case you need a new
Speaker 1: way to say, I can't herriskine my keys, what is
Speaker 1: wrong with my brain? Where are they? Why? Why? Why
Speaker 1: I'm late? Eureka, They're in the fridge seratary wants to know.
Speaker 1: Are the sparks that come out of a wizard's wand
Speaker 1: noble gases They wouldn't spark if they were noble, right.
Speaker 2: Or no, you are right exactly they are not. I
Speaker 2: mean I think they're most likely maybe hydrogen No. No,
Speaker 2: noble gases you know, like argon and neon. No. But
Speaker 2: could that be argone neon? Well, you think about neon
Speaker 2: signs and all the others under some conditions, it could be. Right,
Speaker 2: you think about krypton, neon, xenon and xenon lambs and
Speaker 2: things like that. Under some conditions it could be. So therefore,
Speaker 2: I think she's onto something, but you should think about it.
Speaker 2: But it could also just be fireworks, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: one s box off different colors, because fireworks are all
Speaker 2: depending on what chemicals is in there. Like if you
Speaker 2: have lots of sodium, you're going to get a yellow
Speaker 2: firework for sure. So all the fireworks of different colors
Speaker 2: all depends on different elements.
Speaker 1: Yep, sealibratory sky explosions all about chemistry. So the next
Speaker 1: time you're at a stadium or at someone's very expensive
Speaker 1: yacht wedding or hoping that your neighbors. Don't burn your
Speaker 1: city down on the fourth of July. Just think. Hey,
Speaker 1: that red one is the metal salt strontium carbonate. Look
Speaker 1: blue copper chloride? Oh yellow? Hey, what's up sodium nitrate?
Speaker 1: I see you and I see you. Also, thanks to
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Speaker 1: who make that possible. Okay, back to your Patreon questions.
Speaker 1: This next one comes from Ashra Kolhatkar. What allows some
Speaker 1: spells to continue to have an effect after the spellcaster dies,
Speaker 1: like Madame Moody's protective spells over a grim old place
Speaker 1: after his death? Will others stop working immediately after the
Speaker 1: spellcaster dies? So why do you think some spells continue
Speaker 1: to have an effect versus others not? What do you think?
Speaker 2: That's very interesting questions? But I think it depends on
Speaker 2: the strength of that spell too. I think there are
Speaker 2: some spells that will have that ability and will not.
Speaker 2: I think, I know, I'm not really giving an answer here,
Speaker 2: or maybe not an answer that's what you would like
Speaker 2: to hear, or not a great answer. But I think
Speaker 2: that there are categories of spells as well, and there
Speaker 2: are definitely some spells that have to have time frame.
Speaker 2: Some of the spells will not even will will stand
Speaker 2: on its own as well. I don't think it even
Speaker 2: needs to be honest, I do not think that spells
Speaker 2: such as you know stupified will will last forever.
Speaker 1: Okay, side note, Cliff note, The stupefy spell from the
Speaker 1: Harry Potter books stuns an opponent, and Rebecca works it
Speaker 1: into the Magic for Muggles course by teaching the science
Speaker 1: of stun guns. Okay, So, stun guns require contact with
Speaker 1: a foe, but taser guns shoot out coyly wired darts
Speaker 1: kind of like a chameleon tongue, and the electro shock
Speaker 1: they administer can be up to fifty thousand volts, which
Speaker 1: in a stun gun that can cause enough pain to
Speaker 1: just temporarily incapacitate someone. A taser, though, that can hijack
Speaker 1: the electricity system that neurons use to communicate and then
Speaker 1: make muscle spasm and leave an opponent floored. Not dead,
Speaker 1: but floored. On floor.
Speaker 2: You see, even the spellcaster is still alive. I don't
Speaker 2: think you stupidfire you stun a person, the person will
Speaker 2: come back to life. You don't need to use renovate
Speaker 2: to uh, you know, revive the person. I think the
Speaker 2: person could come back as a function of time. So
Speaker 2: you see, there are spells that actually got limits of
Speaker 2: a number of hours that the effect could be. So
Speaker 2: therefore there are, of course the ones that are have
Speaker 2: much longer lifetime, and there are some that will end
Speaker 2: with the you know, with the spellcaster being you know gone.
Speaker 2: So I think even amound the spells itself, depending on
Speaker 2: what type of spells, they are not forever. If you
Speaker 2: think about if it's forever like Tergio scourgeify to you
Speaker 2: just use it once and it's already clean and got
Speaker 2: dirty again, do I have to reuse it? Or I
Speaker 2: already just did that spell two minutes ago, and someone
Speaker 2: just through some soil on this whatever. So it just
Speaker 2: depends on the specific spell and how how the wizard
Speaker 2: who developed that spell wants it it to be. I
Speaker 2: think so that makes sense.
Speaker 1: It's intention. Sartary and Kirana Brookstrum both asked about finding
Speaker 1: antidotes to poisons, and apparently it's not as easy as
Speaker 1: just waving a stick. It's something because that's a complex question.
Speaker 2: It's a very complex question. No. Actually, the fact is
Speaker 2: that with chemistry in biology antidote, it's really about understanding
Speaker 2: you ingested that chemical, whether it is cyanide or some
Speaker 2: scoppowamine or mental goal amine which is from mendrake. These
Speaker 2: are these, you know, alkaloids, compounds that are poisonous. You
Speaker 2: need to know what that what poison you ingested or
Speaker 2: you were forced to be in jest, so what you
Speaker 2: what you what you took, and understanding how that poison
Speaker 2: will interact with your body. So you find an anatole
Speaker 2: against that. And there are multiple poisons, There are multiple
Speaker 2: poisonous compounds that could have the same effects. So maybe
Speaker 2: one antidote can go against them, as long as you
Speaker 2: need to know the biological pathway of that law of
Speaker 2: what that compound, that specific molecule is affecting which part
Speaker 2: of your body and which you know down to very
Speaker 2: very specific and so therefore sometimes there are classes of
Speaker 2: antidotes that could go against a few different types of poisons.
Speaker 1: OOO, So some antidotes work as an anticoagulant if the
Speaker 1: poison or the venom is bunching up blood cells. Now,
Speaker 1: anti venom can be injected antibodies that have been collected
Speaker 1: from animals who have been exposed to the venom, and
Speaker 1: an EpiPen is a shot of epidephrine which can counteract
Speaker 1: anahalactic shock. Also fun fact, poisons are eaten and venom
Speaker 1: is injected. I feel like this was in a previous episode,
Speaker 1: but just in case you forgot so, there are no
Speaker 1: poisonous spiders unless you eat them, and even then your
Speaker 1: stomach will likely break down the poisons. Now in case
Speaker 1: anyone ever points to your spider friend and accuses it
Speaker 1: of being poisonous. Rebecca Hall wants to know what's the
Speaker 1: weirdest Harry Potter potion's ingredient that you're like, whoa, this
Speaker 1: could not be all real thing, but it is a
Speaker 1: real thing, any crazy potion ingredients? And he like, what
Speaker 1: is this?
Speaker 2: I need to find a unicorn's horn or something first, right,
Speaker 2: because the unicorns component. There are definitely potions with unicorn components,
Speaker 2: and I think I have to I think that's a
Speaker 2: little bit hard to find. I want to find one first, really,
Speaker 2: and I want a real one, not those, not the
Speaker 2: ones that people presume they're unicorns. They're actually narvelves. They're
Speaker 2: taking that horn from the novels, really, and one should
Speaker 2: not be doing that either. It is because of the
Speaker 2: fact that just like people should not be taking ivory
Speaker 2: from elephins, I don't think people should be just taking
Speaker 2: that from the novels either. So if they could find
Speaker 2: a real unicorn, I would be interested in that.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll find a fossil one across the rainbow somewhere.
Speaker 1: Ps Narwhals are called the unicorns of the sea, and
Speaker 1: their tusks are just one big, long tooth that's grown
Speaker 1: through their lip, and they use it to communicate with
Speaker 1: each other about the water they've been in, just what's
Speaker 1: going on in their life, who got divorced. And the
Speaker 1: name Narwal derives from Old Norse for corpse because of
Speaker 1: their blotchy grayskin looked like a floating dead sailor. So
Speaker 1: always just embrace those mutations, you magical unicorns. Also, all
Speaker 1: those in favor of a future Narwal episode say corpse tusk,
Speaker 1: all right, duly noted, we'll do.
Speaker 2: There are the other things, such as a mortensia. I
Speaker 2: know people like that one because as the you know,
Speaker 2: that's a love potion, but you need to get some
Speaker 2: ashwind er ax. I don't think I can find that,
Speaker 2: so it's a little serpent. It's a magical surpent. I
Speaker 2: don't I cannot find that. But you see within the
Speaker 2: love potions full common ingredients rose thorns, peppermint, and powdered moonstone.
Speaker 2: Actually have some moonstone in my draw I showed my
Speaker 2: students moonstone as well, So those are okay, but there
Speaker 2: are some yeah, I just I think they'll find the
Speaker 2: unicorn for me. I might just ask them to do
Speaker 2: something for me, okay, some magic.
Speaker 1: This next question was asked by gen Anathos and ungq
Speaker 1: one and it's very romantic. Another listener want to know
Speaker 1: is there anything close to life? Is there anything in
Speaker 1: life that's really close to love potion other than just
Speaker 1: like Margarita's or something a love potions.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think if you look at it, it's more
Speaker 2: talk about in the animal world. In that case, it
Speaker 2: is because you can think about like pheromones, right, pheromones
Speaker 2: really attracting. You know, you think about a lot of
Speaker 2: you know the queen bee, will you know secrets? You
Speaker 2: know different you know, different type of compounds. Pheromones are
Speaker 2: just compounds, right molecules. And you can also think about
Speaker 2: even the moths. If you think about silkworm moths, basically
Speaker 2: a mom mixed maurie. They are a little they cannot fly anymore,
Speaker 2: you think about they can off fly, They just move around.
Speaker 2: How can they find to reproduce right via pheromones? The
Speaker 2: sense of it, they could just sense that the right
Speaker 2: person's right there, okay, the right moth is over there.
Speaker 2: Basically you can use that. Pheromones are important. I think
Speaker 2: if one could concentrate that and make some extract maybe
Speaker 2: could could.
Speaker 1: Be used time.
Speaker 2: It works every time. Other than that, I really no.
Speaker 2: Actually there's a joke to you. You know, forget forget a
Speaker 2: mortensia using love potion. Why don't you just make beautifying
Speaker 2: potions because they're for the others too, well, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean that's also not a bad thing. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, make everyone a little harder exactly, that's never
Speaker 2: go amiss. A little bit, you know, a little bit beautification.
Speaker 2: It's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you have not one this well and.
Speaker 1: No fashion background coming into's get a little bit of style.
Speaker 2: Got to do that you know it just it's part
Speaker 2: of life.
Speaker 1: So for more on the science of grooming, you can
Speaker 1: see the Cosmetology episode, and for more on the psychology
Speaker 1: of beautification see the two part colology episode, which debunks
Speaker 1: the need to pluck every hair from your body and
Speaker 1: or hate yourself into looking perfect for others. Now, speaking
Speaker 1: of myth busting, any flim flam that you would want
Speaker 1: to debunk about chemistry, any myths about chemistry that you
Speaker 1: want people to get over.
Speaker 2: I think to think that chemistry first, you think that
Speaker 2: chemistry is really hard, or maybe I cannot do it. No,
Speaker 2: I think if you like it enough a lot to
Speaker 2: do is the passion you need to like it. You
Speaker 2: like it enough, you'll be able to do it. I
Speaker 2: think that's one thing. Another thing is that chemistry is
Speaker 2: only useful in this and that. But actually everything that
Speaker 2: you use from food science I cover so much involves chemistry.
Speaker 2: You can do a lot of things with a chemistry degree.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of you know, career options and there.
Speaker 2: And we talk about perfume, right, people would not necessarily
Speaker 2: associated with chemistry. But actually doctor Chong and myself my
Speaker 2: friend last semester we actually taught a skincare chemistry class.
Speaker 2: It's also a Yeah, there's also one credit on this course.
Speaker 2: We talked about, you know, antioxidants, talk about sunscreen. We
Speaker 2: talk about a lot of things they do. A lot
Speaker 2: of chemis are involved in formulation and making sure the
Speaker 2: product is good and feel smooth. It's about the advocacy
Speaker 2: the fact that it should work and work well, but
Speaker 2: it's also about should feel nice on your skin. So
Speaker 2: there's actually a lot of science involved in just making
Speaker 2: one cosmetic product. So I think that one could think
Speaker 2: about chemistry in many different ways. And I'm just I'm
Speaker 2: just using this example perfumes and cosmetic chemistry. If you're
Speaker 2: interested in food science and food chemistry, right, we all
Speaker 2: like most people, Okay, I like food and I talk
Speaker 2: about it a lot because I do. So I'm just
Speaker 2: speaking from from my own perspective that there's just lots
Speaker 2: to study.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: If you are botanists, you want to you like to
Speaker 2: be like Navel Bottom to be you know, herbologists, right,
Speaker 2: I mean you study We just talk about you trees,
Speaker 2: talk about taxl we talk about holly trees, we talk
Speaker 2: about people could do that type to study you want
Speaker 2: If you're a naturalists. You like to find out about nature,
Speaker 2: understand nature. You can study trees and look at what
Speaker 2: kind of compounds and chemicals you can get from trees,
Speaker 2: and that will these compounds be able to help human
Speaker 2: to improve human life. I think at the end, doing chemistry,
Speaker 2: doing science, I think, in my humble opinion, is to
Speaker 2: really improve human life. And I think there are many
Speaker 2: ways of doing it. You know, making perfume mixed, people
Speaker 2: smell nicer is good. You know, beautification is good. But
Speaker 2: you know, of course it's also very important, very good
Speaker 2: to do biomedical research and understanding the effects of these
Speaker 2: compounds on cancer cells and different type of cancer cells.
Speaker 2: These are just a few examples of what one could
Speaker 2: do if one has an undergraduate degree in chemistry. Of course,
Speaker 2: if you want to go into specialization, to go into
Speaker 2: graduate school, you can choose different topics as long as again,
Speaker 2: it's about passion, right If you look at ultimately why
Speaker 2: Jqrowlan can create a world like this because she's passionate
Speaker 2: about it. Without passion, she cannot. I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: very few people would be able to do that. You
Speaker 2: have to sustain a career at that level, you know,
Speaker 2: So that's all you have to like it. You have
Speaker 2: to wake up and want to do it.
Speaker 1: And I think, ah ah, how inspiring is that having
Speaker 1: stomach flutters for your job? Ps Even that is chemical.
Speaker 1: I just googled it and apparently having peptic lepidoptera butterflies
Speaker 1: in the stomach is because when we're excited, we think
Speaker 1: we're going to have to fight someone, so our blood
Speaker 1: gets rerouted to our muscles, even if we're just happy.
Speaker 1: And the butterflies are because of a lack of blood
Speaker 1: flow to your food sack. So mention that on your
Speaker 1: next first date if you need an icebreaker, and instantly
Speaker 1: weed out decent people who are not into those disgusting
Speaker 1: fun facts. And the last questions I already ask everyone,
Speaker 1: what is the suckiest thing about your job? What is
Speaker 1: the hardest thing about your job? Or about chemistry? What
Speaker 1: is something that you're like even though I love you chemistry?
Speaker 1: Is this gets your goat?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say in terms of chemistry. I would say
Speaker 2: the toughest job about being a professor in our one
Speaker 2: school or like a PhD level school. It's the ultimately
Speaker 2: is the amount of work you have to work a lot.
Speaker 2: The fact is it's really tough to be good at everything.
Speaker 2: The trilogy of academia is research, than teaching, than education,
Speaker 2: and outreach, and each of them will require a lot
Speaker 2: of time if you want to do good at it right,
Speaker 2: If you want to do a great job right. Research
Speaker 2: involves doing I do biosensor research, and I have graduate students,
Speaker 2: I have to train, I have to obtain funding. You
Speaker 2: have to do a lot of writing and all the others.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of work. And then teaching, you know,
Speaker 2: it's also very important because I look at it teaching
Speaker 2: and mentoring. Ultimately, what I really like about this job
Speaker 2: the most. I know you asked me what I dislike,
Speaker 2: but I would like to you know, by when getting free,
Speaker 2: I'll give you what I like the most. Is that's
Speaker 2: the next question exactly? Oh sorry, preview, I should stop. Okay,
Speaker 2: So what I thought? You asked me what I like first?
Speaker 2: U should It's like you want the bad news versus no.
Speaker 1: I always end on it. I always make you say
Speaker 1: the worst thing and then I end on a high note.
Speaker 2: Okay, So the hard part is really about, you know,
Speaker 2: the amount of time that in order to be very
Speaker 2: good at research, very good at teaching, and very good.
Speaker 2: And you know, education outreach you have to put a
Speaker 2: lot of time in there, and I'm doing I'm trying
Speaker 2: my best. You know, I do research and and I
Speaker 2: teach and I also currently am the Nebraska me Education
Speaker 2: Outreach Director and Jocelyn is the assistant director. That's why
Speaker 2: we're partners in crime, Hi, Jocelyn, And so to do that,
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed it. But of course, you know, every
Speaker 2: part of the work in order to do a great job,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of time involved and you have to
Speaker 2: prioritize things. So I think that part is it's hard work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so a lot of hours.
Speaker 2: A lot of hours exactly, I think hard work. I
Speaker 2: think that's I would say most people in academia would
Speaker 2: agree it's a lot of it's hard work. But if
Speaker 2: you like it, that gets your next party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what do you love the most about what
Speaker 1: you're doing? I can't even I don't even know how
Speaker 1: you're going to answer this, because what you do is
Speaker 1: so awesome, so cool.
Speaker 2: I like too too many things. I think I'm probably
Speaker 2: people like to say would think that about me. I like,
Speaker 2: but ultimately, yes, I do like a lot of things.
Speaker 2: But ultimately I think I like the most. It is
Speaker 2: really about teaching and mentoring students. Those two are actually
Speaker 2: together in some sense, right, you know, you think about
Speaker 2: my research group with my graduate students, my undergraduate students
Speaker 2: or visiting professors in my research group doing research, and
Speaker 2: how I you know, teach them, mentor them provide them
Speaker 2: with opportunities to do different things so as for them
Speaker 2: to advance in their career in the future. So I
Speaker 2: really enjoyed that part of it. But also my classes,
Speaker 2: like great, you know class that I'm going in half
Speaker 2: an hour, and because you can also it's also very
Speaker 2: satisfying to see that before the students starting your class
Speaker 2: versus after you know how much they learned. Just seeing
Speaker 2: them learning, I think that is a very rewarding part.
Speaker 2: And you can see that from even though within one
Speaker 2: semester of teaching them, or like with Channing, it's already
Speaker 2: go to five years I've been with her, right Channing
Speaker 2: this year you just talked about and so you can
Speaker 2: see that it's actually both are equally important and very
Speaker 2: to me. It's very satisfying. And also even for the
Speaker 2: students you know that I teach in the class only
Speaker 2: you know, maybe with them for one semester or whether
Speaker 2: it's a class I'm currently teaching or the Harry Potter class.
Speaker 2: You know, if later on I could see their future
Speaker 2: and some of them I still keep in contact, and
Speaker 2: then I could see them doing great things in life,
Speaker 2: it's amazing. You know. It's just you know, not trying
Speaker 2: to say that I had, you know, that much impact
Speaker 2: on them. Maybe even if it's just a small little part,
Speaker 2: it's still I think it's still a very good thing.
Speaker 2: So and that's what I continue I would like to
Speaker 2: continue to do that. To be a good teacher, to
Speaker 2: be a good mentor, I think, and I think it's
Speaker 2: an important thing because I think being a good teacher,
Speaker 2: a good mentor and be able to communicate well. And
Speaker 2: I think it's not only for this profession, right, it
Speaker 2: is probably very important for nearly most many different professions.
Speaker 1: Right, whether you're an author, absolutely absolutely teacher, I think so.
Speaker 2: I think so even if I'm not a professor, I
Speaker 2: work in the industry or another place, you still have
Speaker 2: to teach people, right, You still want your mentor people
Speaker 2: because at some point you go hire, you're going to
Speaker 2: have new people that's hired into your company. You know,
Speaker 2: how do you guide them? How do you help them
Speaker 2: so that they will continue to do great things?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: So I think that's it's a skill set that it
Speaker 2: would be nice if we all have that, right.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay? I had to ask one more question, and
Speaker 1: if you could tell JK Rowling anything, what would you
Speaker 1: tell her if you could send her a message?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 1: This I thought about, but.
Speaker 2: Ah, there's so many things. I suppose I would just
Speaker 2: say that J. Qrowling, you're awesome in this, yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: in invisible exactly. I think that I will physically show
Speaker 2: her that she will have her own J. K. Rowling's diary,
Speaker 2: not just Tom Riddle's diary. It will not be stabbed by,
Speaker 2: you know, by the basilist tooth. It will be fine.
Speaker 2: It's not a hot crux with a basilisk.
Speaker 1: Fine.
Speaker 2: So I would say thank you. Actually, I really would say.
Speaker 2: I think thank you because because because of what she
Speaker 2: has done basically so inspiring for me to be able
Speaker 2: to develop this class. And usually when I gave my talk,
Speaker 2: I always end with thanking her to give me all
Speaker 2: these inspirations. So to me, I think two words, just
Speaker 2: thank you. I think it's great. I mean, of course
Speaker 2: I would like to meet her and hope that there
Speaker 2: are other things, but if it's just a very short meeting,
Speaker 2: I would just like to thank her for what she
Speaker 2: what you you know, what she has done and continue
Speaker 2: to do, inspiring me and so many other people. Well
Speaker 2: for her to have done, you know, I'm sure she's
Speaker 2: also gone through hardship and all the others. But to
Speaker 2: be able to persevere, I think that's very as very powerful,
Speaker 2: and I think a lot of us could always learn
Speaker 2: from that.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for doing this. I think you
Speaker 1: just made a bunch of people who didn't realize they
Speaker 1: were chemists and a chemist you may have just it's
Speaker 1: birthed some new chemistry efficionados.
Speaker 2: Why not exactly? You can do all sorts lots of
Speaker 2: things with it, and just being an experimentalist going into
Speaker 2: a lab thinking about, oh, this is what I think
Speaker 2: it would happen. Let's see if I do this together,
Speaker 2: will I'd be able really to get this reaction. It's
Speaker 2: an amazing feeling when you get it. When you get
Speaker 2: it right and it worked the way that you expected,
Speaker 2: it's very good. But remember you learn a lot when
Speaker 2: you did not get it right either. I told my students,
Speaker 2: there are just no bad results. If your experiments were
Speaker 2: not well planned, then that's bad. You go into the
Speaker 2: lab without knowing what you're supposed to do. But if
Speaker 2: you have planned it and the results were not as
Speaker 2: what you expected, then you want to learn from it
Speaker 2: to see, well, what could what could this be? Did
Speaker 2: I do something wrong? Or is that really how this
Speaker 2: reaction go If it is really how this reaction goes,
Speaker 2: well I may never get to the next step. So
Speaker 2: how am I going to circumvent that? What am I
Speaker 2: going to do to solve this problem? People say that, okay,
Speaker 2: chemists they mix solutions literally as solutions, like that coffee
Speaker 2: is a solution. No, we mix solutions. We find solutions
Speaker 2: that solutions that may not be able to be you know,
Speaker 2: placed inside the cup. So I really do see that.
Speaker 2: I think that if people have that type of mindset,
Speaker 2: you know, curiosity, it's always driven by curiosity, curiosity, creativity,
Speaker 2: hard work, perseverance. If you have all those are throwing
Speaker 2: a good number. Five time management, because we all have
Speaker 2: finite amount of twenty four. If you have a time turner,
Speaker 2: you might have twenty five, but other than that you
Speaker 2: get that amount of time. How are you going to
Speaker 2: yieldiize it. I think with this combinations, I would I
Speaker 2: think lots of people will become fantastic scientists, not just
Speaker 2: chemists just Wie range Well, I mean, chemistry is great,
Speaker 2: but no, no, But if they're interested in pursuing other
Speaker 2: fields of science, I think it's also amazing, right with
Speaker 2: the ultimate goal of trying to improve human life and
Speaker 2: improve this world.
Speaker 1: So curiosity, creativity, hard work, perseverance, and if you can
Speaker 1: throw in number five, time management. So keep asking smart people, goofy,
Speaker 1: stupid and poignant questions, because that is how they learned
Speaker 1: everything they know. And we're all going to die anyway,
Speaker 1: you might as well ask questions. Now. For more on
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Speaker 1: stick around to the end of the episode, you know
Speaker 1: I tell you a secret, and this week's is that
Speaker 1: I recently bought a bunch of wash glass and started
Speaker 1: using a fresh one in the shower each day. And
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. What a luxury. What
Speaker 1: an ext foliant. It feels like a spa day every day.
Speaker 1: What a gross thought all of the dead powdery skin
Speaker 1: I've been carting around for just years? Wow? So wash glass,
Speaker 1: where have you been all my life? Thank you for
Speaker 1: coming into my linen closet and my shower with me.
Speaker 1: You are appreciated. Okay. We will be back next week
Speaker 1: with Phonology, which is a study of the seasonal change.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk a lot about fall leaves. Ooh,
Speaker 1: birds migrate egg. That is a precious episode and I
Speaker 1: cannot wait for you to hear it. And then the
Speaker 1: week after that starts Spookdober. I'll be in Austin this
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