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:
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