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"Prunes",
"Katie Goldin",
"Alex Schmidt",
"plums",
"food history",
"Katie Goldin on Bluesky",
"@ProBirdRights on Bluesky",
"'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)",
"When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)",
"native-land.ca",
"U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture",
"The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)",
"\"Finding Lenapehoking\" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)",
"Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)",
"Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)",
"The Chemistry of Plums & Prunes: Constipation & Chewing Gum (\"Compound Interest\" by Andy Brunning)",
"U.K. politician issues prune-eating challenge (CBC News)",
"Guardian Diary: \"Europe's getting a bad press at the moment. But, regardless, our people are in Brussels, working hard for you. Such as Sir Graham Watson, MEP for the south-west of England, who was this week forced to challenge the idiocy of the European Food Safety Authority.\"",
"Why Do Prunes Make You Poop? (Mental Floss)",
"Constipation Relief: Can Prune Juice Make You Poop? (Cleveland Clinic)",
"4 Surprising Reasons You Should Eat More Prunes (AARP)",
"Prunes can help bowel movement after all, says EFSA in about face (NutraIngredients.com)",
"YouTube upload of the Ray Bradbury commercial for Sunsweet Prunes",
"Stan Freberg, Madcap Adman and Satirist, Dies at 88 (The New York Times)",
"Cooking: Recipe From The White House: Prune Pudding (The New York Times)",
"B.W. Kilburn: The Prune Knight, California Building, Columbian Exposition (National Galleries of Scotland)",
"Books Of The Times: NO PLACE OF GRACE. Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture 1880-1920. By Jackson Lears. (The New York Times)",
"Unbuckling the history of the prune belt of Sonoma County (The Press Democrat)",
"Preserve Smart: Drying Plums/Prunes (Colorado State University)",
"Food Of The Week: Plum (Iowa State University Extension)",
"Home and Garden Education Center: Plums (University Of Connecticut)",
"Recalling Plums from the Wild (Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University)",
"Green’s Dictionary of Slang entry for prune, noun",
"Online Etymology Dictionary entry for prune, noun and prune, verb",
"prune, noun",
"prune, verb",
"When the Dried Plum Lobby Tried to Make Pruneburgers Happen (Gastro Obscura)",
"Where's the beef? Kids give prune burgers the taste test (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)",
"The Secret to Juicy Burgers (California Prune Board)",
"Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Beans"
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"textContent": "Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why prunes are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.\n\n**LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:**\n\n * Katie Goldin on Bluesky\n * @ProBirdRights on Bluesky\n * 'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)\n * When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)\n\n**RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:**\n\n * native-land.ca\n * U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture\n * The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)\n * \"Finding Lenapehoking\" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)\n * Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)\n * Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)\n\n**RESEARCH SOURCES:**\n\n * The Chemistry of Plums & Prunes: Constipation & Chewing Gum (\"Compound Interest\" by Andy Brunning)\n * U.K. politician issues prune-eating challenge (CBC News)\n * Guardian Diary: \"Europe's getting a bad press at the moment. But, regardless, our people are in Brussels, working hard for you. Such as Sir Graham Watson, MEP for the south-west of England, who was this week forced to challenge the idiocy of the European Food Safety Authority.\"\n * Why Do Prunes Make You Poop? (Mental Floss)\n * Constipation Relief: Can Prune Juice Make You Poop? (Cleveland Clinic)\n * 4 Surprising Reasons You Should Eat More Prunes (AARP)\n * Prunes can help bowel movement after all, says EFSA in about face (NutraIngredients.com)\n * YouTube upload of the Ray Bradbury commercial for Sunsweet Prunes\n * Stan Freberg, Madcap Adman and Satirist, Dies at 88 (The New York Times)\n * Cooking: Recipe From The White House: Prune Pudding (The New York Times)\n * B.W. Kilburn: The Prune Knight, California Building, Columbian Exposition (National Galleries of Scotland)\n * Books Of The Times: NO PLACE OF GRACE. Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture 1880-1920. By Jackson Lears. (The New York Times)\n * Unbuckling the history of the prune belt of Sonoma County (The Press Democrat)\n * Preserve Smart: Drying Plums/Prunes (Colorado State University)\n * Food Of The Week: Plum (Iowa State University Extension)\n * Home and Garden Education Center: Plums (University Of Connecticut)\n * Recalling Plums from the Wild (Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University)\n * Green’s Dictionary of Slang entry for prune, noun\n * Online Etymology Dictionary entry for prune, noun and prune, verb\n * Oxford English Dictionary entries for prune, noun and prune, verb\n * When the Dried Plum Lobby Tried to Make Pruneburgers Happen (Gastro Obscura)\n * Where's the beef? Kids give prune burgers the taste test (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)\n * The Secret to Juicy Burgers (California Prune Board)\n * Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Beans\n\n",
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