We finally earned an explicit rating! Aparna enjoys snarkiness and Haley lives for the moment when you have a reason to swear in front of your parents. Magical F*** Frog is Aparna’s new stage name. For the main discussion, we outline the writing plans for our dissertations. Aparna likes falling in rabbit holes. Haley describes her poetry using hand motions, which is great for a podcast. Everything we encounter is relevant to our dissertations, and we’re spooked by it. Aparna discovers why we don’t like fallen hair and Haley discovers that books translated to English vary between the UK and US. Haley continues to be in her whale era. Aparna addresses our single listener and gets a catchphrase.

Haley spotlights a tiny, indie show called Heartstopper on Netflix.

Aparna spotlights @sanitarypanels on Instagram.

Mentions:

“The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury” by Neil Gaiman

“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury

“The Book of Mormon” Soundtrack

“Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” by Olga Tokarczuk

Thank you to Pádraig Ó Tuama whose poem “The Facts of Life” inspired the title of this podcast.

Cover image by Sanjana Kapur.