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The RITES OF PASSAGE episode

Kate Spade
The American fashion designer was found dead in her Manhattan apartment on June 5, 2018. Ms. Spade was known for her bold, colorful and classy aesthetic. She was 55.

Jen G NYT Wardrobe Article https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/11/fashion/12TED.html


Why was their passing different for so many of us?

https://www.northjersey.com/story/entertainment/2018/06/09/mourning-anthony-bourdain-kate-spade-like-family-but-they-werent/685562002/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2018/06/11/after-anthony-bourdain-and-kate-spade-suicides-social-media-lights-up-with-survivors-stories-of-how-they-made-it-through/


Sidenote: Crazy expensive purse story
https://www.golfdigest.com/story/the-crazy-legal-battle-over-a-dollar30000-wine-stained-handbag



Consumable: Sumo Citrus

Hooo boy consumables really did it to us this week!

Beekeeping (telling the bees)
Nuts
Macadamia nuts
Rancid nuts
Just desserts https://www.chicoer.com/2008/10/15/gridley-residents-arrested-for-allegedly-trying-to-steal-walnuts/
Recipe: Cranberry orange walnut bread
Side note: nut jobs podcast
Frozen custard - https://andersonscustard.com/
Food holidays (JenG’s bot @natlfooddays and JenC’s pod)
Rabbit Rabbit
Old episode call back: ROTTEN POTATOES STRIKE AGAIN
Jen G also found a rotten potato (but this is a small undramatic side note)

This week, we give you a peek behind the scenes of how we make the pod!

Pina Colada aJENda

Tasting
Caramels from JenC (via Holly Figueroa O'Reilly from Twitter/Dem strategist who quit politics to start a small scale candy/jammery/bakery https://shop.castiron.me/marcenetmercantile
Pineapple coconut ice cream bars from Jonny Pops https://www.jonnypops.com/pineapple-coconut
Stories
Ashley Madison Dataset - JenG
Finding out things you didn’t want to know
OMG I finally got the whole reference to Pina Coladas and finding out stuff you don’t want to know–The Pina Colada Song! Also how fucked up is that that you both are so unhappy in the relationship that you step out only to find each other and that’s a LOVE STORY!?
JenG now has a garden equipped to produce pina coladas, which is pretty cool
Coconut and Pineapple Facts from Jen C
150 people per year die from being hit by falling coconuts
The US board of pineapple deaths have been notified that from recorded medical history 997 people have been killed in someway by pineapples
What unusual and creepy looking southern plant is related to Pineapples?
https://www.thefactsite.com/coconut-facts/
https://www.thatsitfruit.com/blogs/default-blog/9-interesting-facts-about-pineapples
Debate: pineapple on pizza?
Just Deserts
Sex offender found naked in historic Texas home drinking piña colada mix, authorities say
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2016/08/03/sex-offender-found-naked-in-historic-texas-home-drinking-pina-colada-mix-authorities-say/
Jen G’s great pina colada recipe - so so so good
Call Backs: Did Jen G ever get the ritter sport with the corn flakes?

FROM: @merrillpond
@AJENDA_Podcast I stopped by The Social in Brooklyn to try the hot dog ice cream mentioned on the http://podcast.It tasted like butter pecan (guessing this was the buttered roll component) so good. Then I hit a caramelized hot dog part. At first ok, but weird aftertaste.




Listener Mailbag
We finally have a sign off:
Be JENtle with one another
But HARD on the systems of oppression

Boston Stories
Jen C: Flines Basement wedding dress/Working+Commuting in boston story
Red Sox Message Board story (sons of sam horn)
Jen G: bad boyfriend story + lobster dinner (same trip)

Huge shark https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2018/02/21/you-can-buy-a-huge-shark-statue-from-a-former-rhode-island-nightclub/

Great Molasses flood of 1919
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

Gingerbread recipe
Boston Cream pie
-Ok but it’s a cake?
Mona lisa attack was maybe cream pie actually?
https://unitedbitco.com/suspect-arrested-after-mona-lisa-spread-with-cream-pie-art-and-culture-news/

Just Desserts
https://www.ktts.com/2021/10/18/man-with-chocolate-pie-arrested-after-chase/
Chocolate cream pie

Listener Mailbag

Call backs:
How’s the apron experiment going?
Little Joys/Annoys