Welcome to the Folium Sock Contest. The prizes are $50 digital gift certificates to The Athletic Community, home of the famous PDX carpet sock (as worn by Cherie Hazzard!)

To enter:

• Solve the puzzle and text us your answer and email address
• To text, go to our homepage, select any episode and click the link that says 'Folium Fan Mail' (link should also work from most podcast apps)
• Entries must be sent by 9PM Pacific, Friday, January 9th
• Seven winners will be randomly selected from the correct entries
• Winners will be contacted by email
• Results will be published on Sunday the 11th

Here is the puzzle, by Cherie Hazzard

• Revisit each page where I'm in my Prime
• At the end of each note, you'll now find a #letter
• Put them together (it's not going to rhyme!)
• Then send us the answer, the quicker the better

Quel added a bonus puzzle for informatics enthusiasts. If you solve it, add QUEL to your message and you'll be contacted for the answer. Get it right and you might be offered a job as her new assistant!

One more thing...
The Folium CEO graciously agreed to answer questions about The Folium. Submit your inquiries via Fan Mail by the 9th, and we will respond to as many as we can on the 11th.

Thank you and good luck!

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The Folium Never Forgets 🐘

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DJ Daisy spins the Folium's favorite 78s

• Shirley Temple • Hey, What Did The Blue Jay Say?
• Ada Falcon • La Ultima Copa*
• Young Crooners • Akasabali**
• Semi Sheheen • Dabka Dance
• Dol Dauber's Orchestra • Of Youth
• Samantha Church • I Knew You Back In Before Times***
• Christopher Hogwood • Pastorale

*Cher made two New Year's Resolutions: #1 Stop drinking so much, #2 Start drinking less. You can do it big bird!

**Zoe showed me some sick capoeira moves - she did a handstand and almost took out a chandelier!

***Mom drops the f-bomb!💣🙉

This isn't my real voice, of course, but I designed it (ElevenLabs is rad!) You know better than to believe everything you hear from the Folium, right?

By the way...

...would you like some raspberries?? 😈

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Thank you for listening!

• Thanks Isabella, Samantha, and Stephen 🏆🏆🏆
• Thanks to the Pacific Northwest for inspiration 🍄🍄
• Thanks to Goldwave, Audacity, Buzzsprout, and Wikipedia 🌐
• Thanks to Maz Ghani for the Folium Leaf 🍃 and Daisy's daisies
• Synthetic voices by ElevenLabs 🤖

No AI was used to write this show, but we borrowed liberally from the Books of the Week. Thank you Pat, Cass, Rachel, Rosi, Mary, Eric, Edgar, Rob, Naomi, Octavia, Nick, Ray, and L.A. Meyer 🏴‍☠️

Oh yes, the sock give-away! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Tune-in January 2nd for Rules & Regulations 🫡

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This ends the Folium Diary 🍃

(Sorry for posting so late! Raff kept texting with questions about our trip)
[I wouldn't have so many questions if you told me the plan in the first place]
(I was rather busy launching the app I spent the last ten years working on)
[Yes but I'm the pilot and we can't take off without knowing where we're going]
(True, but it's my plane and you could cut me some slack)
Would you vexatious virago’s please stop?! We are trying to enjoy the last page of the diary.
(Sorry! I've been under a lot of pressure. Raff – see you at Hillsboro in a few hours. Don't forget to turn on the hot tub!)

Tune-in tomorrow for the Epilogue

#Y

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Cherie, thank you for letting me make my first (and probably last) podcast episode!

Seven Sevens:

1. Feast of the Seven Fishes
2. Life in Seven Songs podcast
3. Seven Pillars of the Circular Economy
4. Seven Samurai film
5. Seven Perceptual States
6. New Seven Wonders of the World
7. Dance of the Seven Veils

(Cherie also said 'Folium' is actually spelled with seven letters, like Ffynnon, but the second 'f' is invisible. Was she kidding? With Cherie, you never really know )

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Interview

Protocol has been completely scuttled. This episode was supposed to be Dispatch 7, and the interview with Professor B was supposed be yesterday, and...whatever. As Ferris says, life moves pretty fast – if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. 

I didn't want to miss getting together with Jane and Daisy – we could be sisters!! Raff was on her best behavior and put on a real charm offensive – she took Jane out for a ride on her motorcycle while Daisy and I plotted our next adventure, which you'll hear about shortly. Raff and Jane came back with takeout from Buckshot Betty's, including 'Hot Mama' Betty herself, who followed them in her beat-up pickup truck that looks like it came over on the Oregon Trail. We had a great time, and many stories were swapped – some of them even true. 

I hope you (yes you, with your earbuds on...in?...trying to figure out what the heck mushrooms have to do with anything) will forgive me for misleading you these last few months. The Folium is a journey, not a destination, and the last ten years are only the prologue - tomorrow is the real page one.

Ok, these notes are turning in to an essay/confession, and you're probably wondering when I'm going to just shut up and let you listen to the show. Very soon! After the interview I let Professor B tell one of his jokes, which will be posted later tonight. Let's just say he's an even better teacher than he is comedian.

Oh for heavens sake, one more thing: if you would like to learn more about Bucky's World Game, and the Folium sincerely hopes that you do, please visit the Buckminster Fuller Institute. Thank you Bucky (and Marshall!)

Your huckleberry friend, Cherie 🫐

#T

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Zoom Call

Jane's wearing the Wildfang/Peanuts shirt Daisy gave her. Lucy is yelling at Charlie Brown, "After I got to be President, it would be only one short step to QUEEN!!" Daisy says she's Lucy, and we better stay out of her way 😜 Such a lovely child 🙄

#I

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Dispatch 6*

*Every time I open the file it's longer than before - now it's over 42,700 pages! So I copied some interesting 'Foliumisms' from the first few pages and read them over this. I may have gone overboard with vocal fx, but, yolo ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

#M

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Dispatch 5

"trust your gut"

#L

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