100?! Unfinished Convos re: Vanilla & Thirst-vertising & Pets

This week, our 100th episode‽

To celebrate, Jess (with Erica Hummel and Ben Vander), Aaron (with Valentine Aseyo) and Joey (with Jillian Camire) continue unfinished conversations we've had on the show. They talk about the canonical form of vanilla, The Chocolate Privilege, so many euphemisms, thirst representation, what dogs get out of the relationship, and living free from judgment. They also talk about the people that have made these 100 episodes possible, with special shouts to our incredible sound engineer, Alex Contell, and our inimitable designer, Nora Mestrich, and last but never least you, our dear listeners, for seeing us through this wild and crazy milestone. They don't talk about waffles.

references

• The Fall 2020 "Nonsense Collection" is here. Merch for the first time ever. Shipping worldwide.

• The original Vanilla episode from August 2019, Part II: "Aging Professionally and Vanilla Bias"

  • Jess cannot more highly recommend Spice Trekkers for your spice and vanilla bean needs

  • Former BBC writer Tim Ecott's "Vanilla" is a (not-just-Jess-exaggerating) GRIPPING read, if you're interested.

  • The battery powered by vanillin

  • Vanilla fraud: like Steele v Wegman's or the vanilla adulteration problem

  • Florida, the next vanilla agriculture hotspot?

  • Dear Smitten ice cream, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN NYC?

  • Check out Ben's Sunday newsletter (we're on episode 100 but he's on newsletter 270. W O W.)

• The original Thirst-vertising episode from August 2010, Part I: "Thirst-vertising and Superheroes Today"

  • Valentine's company, Matador Meggings: leggings for men!

• The original Pets episode from November 2018, Part II: "Board Games and Pets"

  • Werner Herzog's "Happy People"