Boo!

It’s our first ever joint hosted episode, just in time for Halloween! This episode, Cher and Teia both wrote games for the debut of this truly co-hosted installation of TGKC. Leaning hard into the philosophy this season, Cher talks philosophical zombies, otherwise known as p-zombies (yes, really) and subjunctive possibility; Teia takes a turn with another academically spooky Connect the Dots.

Cher’s word of the day: qualia, /ˈkwɑːliə, ˈkweɪ-/Noun: the subjective or qualitative properties of experiences. Definition from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Teia’s quote of the day: “Gemma thinks she has seen a ghost.” – Marcus Bentley, on Celebrity Big Brother.

Teia's sources for this episode:

Chan, Hong Yin. “The Hungry Ghost Festival in Singapore: Getai (Songs on Stage) in the Lunar Seventh Month.” Religions (Basel, Switzerland ) 11, no. 7 (2020): 356–.

Clifford Geertz, Negara: The Theater State in Nineteenth-Century Bali (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)

Frazer, Elizabeth, 'Politics and Theatre: Hamlet', Shakespeare and the Political Way (Oxford, 2020; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 Oct. 2020), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848615.003.0009, accessed 24 Oct. 2023.

Cher's sources for this episode:

Kirk, Robert, "Zombies", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2023 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/camus.

Starr, W., "Counterfactuals", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/counterfactuals/.

Tye, Michael, "Qualia", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/qualia/.

We hope you enjoyed this episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This special is joint hosted by the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy) and by Teia C. (Oxford History).

Head over to https://www.patreon.com/TheGiftedKidComplex if you would like to help support our team with a little tip. Thank you so much for your contributions and support to help us do what we love: to keep this show going.

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CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.

CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.

PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.

AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.

ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.

Ahoy, ye landlubbers!

This episode, Teia and Cher test out terrible pirate accents that would send them straight to Davy Jones’ locker, do some pirate mythbusting, and sail the seven seas in an exploration of pirate linguistics. Of course, we also pay our must needed homage to the iconic Zheng Yi Sao, and delve into the depths of East Asian thalassocratic piracy.

Teia’s word of the day: Scuttlebutt, /ˈskʌtəlbʌt/

Noun: a cask of drinking water; slang for gossip. Definition by Wikipedia

Sources for this episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Yi_Sao

MacKay, Joseph. “Pirate Nations: Maritime Pirates as Escape Societies in Late Imperial China.” Social Science History 37, no. 4 (2013): 551–73. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24573942.

https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/pirate-terms

https://piratevoyages.com/pirate-lingo/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VRFR81x8ME

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/120919-talk-like-a-pirate-day-news-history?loggedin=true&rnd=1689867823214

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/why-do-pirates-say-ar

We hope you enjoyed this episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by Teia C. (Oxford History BA) and presented with the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy BA), who hosts every other episode.

Head over to https://www.patreon.com/TheGiftedKidComplex if you would like to help support our team with a little tip. Thank you so much for your contributions and support to help us do what we love: to keep this show going.

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CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.

CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.

PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.

AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.

ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.

It’s the season finale of the first season of TGKC!

If you think about it, milk is a terrifying concept. Really ruminate upon it. We’ve normalised it so much in our dairy aisles, but it's a mammalian bodily secretion. Milk and its derivatives are in our food everywhere, and it’s a staple in most cultures (haha dairy joke). Why have humans decided to take the milk from other animals? Why have we continued to consume it past infancy when most adults don’t possess the ability to digest it? One more question, what if we take the milking stage between animal to human and just remove it entirely?

This week, we have our very first guest: Jenny S! She’s an assistant writer/researcher to TGKC, Cher’s childhood friend, and avid lover of milk. She drinks it neat on the streets of Oxford.

Cher’s advice of the day: “Be wary of milk or you could get the shits.”

Sources for this episode:

Lactose intolerance:

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-diseases/lactose-intolerance/definition-facts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_cream

Human-animal breastfeeding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human–animal_breastfeeding

Carl von Linné and Lindberg, F. (1752). Nutrix noverca.

Schiebinger, Londa L. (1993). Nature's Body: Gender In The Making Of Modern Science. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813535319.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/model-breastfeeding-a-puppy-calendar-has-dog-lovers-feeling-hot-under-collar-28578873.html

We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of The Gifted Kid Complex! This episode is hosted by the creator of the show, Cher C. (UCL Philosophy) and presented with Jenny S. (Oxford Philosophy and French) and Teia C. (Oxford History), who hosts every other episode.

Head over to https://www.patreon.com/TheGiftedKidComplex if you would like to help support our team with a little tip. Thank you so much for your contributions and support to help us do what we love: to keep this show going.

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CREATOR/DIRECTOR, PRODUCER: Cher C.

CO-HOSTS, PRIMARY WRITER/RESEARCHERS: Cher C. and Teia C.

PRIMARY EDITOR: Cher C., SECONDARY EDITOR: Teia C.

AUDIO ENGINEER: Teia C.

ASSISTANT WRITER/RESEARCHERS, TRANSCRIBERS: Alex E., Delaney L., Isaiah H., Jenny S., Lucas H.