Tulips

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy podcasters Miles Gray (‘The Daily Zeitgeist’ podcast) and Anna Hossnieh (‘Ethnically Ambiguous’ podcast) for a look at why tulips are secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:

• The Daily Zeitgeist
• Miles and Jack Got Mad Boosties: An NBA Podcast
• 420 Day Fiance
• Ethnically Ambiguous
• Will You Accept This Rose
• DeckHeadsPod on Twitch

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• Tulip by Celia Fisher
• Dutch tulip farmers are hoping for a post-pandemic boom (National Geographic)
• There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever (Smithsonian Magazine)
• The 4,000 mile flower delivery (BBC Future)
• SF Chronicle piece that Miles references, about belief that it’s illegal to pick a California poppy
• Why Aren’t There More Blue Flowers? (Treehugger.com)
• Blue tulips don’t exist — and it should stay that way (The Toronto Star) — this is that story about a flower show in Philadelphia.
• A Moose Destroyed a Flowerbed Planted to Celebrate Canada’s Sesquicentennial (Atlas Obscura)
• Beautiful Stranger: The Tulip Comes to Stay (JStor Daily)
• A travel site write-up of the April 2022 tulip festival in Istanbul.
• Music video for “Istanbul (not Constantinople)” by They Might Be Giants
• Curious Contagions: Trends that proved catching. (Lapham’s Quarterly)
• Hot Commodities: Pricey fads, then and now. (Lapham’s Quarterly)
• What Do Bitcoin and Tulips Have In Common? (JStor Daily)
• Tulipomania!: On Holland’s legendary tulip bubble, which burst today in 1637. (The Paris Review)
• Bitcoin hype worse than ‘tulip mania’, says Dutch central banker (The Guardian)
• The funny tweet Alex references: “i been hacked all my tulips worthless. dutch east india company please help me”

Tulipa ferganica:

Tulipa sogdiana:

Tulipa gesneriana, aka “the garden tulip”:

Illustration of the “Semper Augustus” tulip: