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Alie Ward (host)

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Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

And the paper mentions that under oppression, any group associated with poverty is associated with contamination.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

We have a whole episode about coffee.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

And yes, we delve into coffee breath in it.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

And it turns out

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

it's not so much the coffee itself, but it's the things that you are splashing into the coffee, like creamers and milks and sugars.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

And by you, I mean me.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

And by splashing, I mean pouring liberally.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

And those are what make your mouth a mid-morning stink bog.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

But that whole episode is stellar.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

We're going to link it in the show notes for you.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

Now, what about lunch, though?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

Okay, so remember her controversial viral tweet.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

One of the top replies read, when I was in elementary school, the kids used to make fun of us brown kids by saying, you all smell like curry.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

And many of us hated it when our parents would send us Indian food for lunch because of that.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

So what this academic is studying, the tweet said about Ali, is a real thing and should not be ridiculed by the uneducated masses of Twitter.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

And that tweet was left by Dr. Khalil Andani, who is a Harvard professor of religion.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

Also, for those of South Asian descent, you may be in possession of the ABCC11 gene or

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

which means that you have fewer active apocrine sweat glands in your pits and in your groin, which means that stink-making bacteria are not thriving in there, which means you have won the BO lottery.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

Now, for the rest of us, and I'll talk to my people, the stinky whites, I consulted many message boards, and apparently our sit-down air, especially Americans',

Ologies with Alie Ward
Literary Olfactology (THE POLITICS OF SMELL) with Ally Louks

are widely agreed to smell like wet dogs or old milk or cold hot dogs or dirty pennies.