Alie Ward (host)

It's an instant classic.

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Okay, so let's get into this episode and wait around for their absolutely bonkers life story and toward the end,

they make a revelation about them that shocked me.

It left me gagged.

So hang tight, breathe in deep.

The foul, the fragrant, the peppermint, the tobacco, why motel rooms smell the way they do, the forgotten organ that could control your love life, spices at the root of xenophobia, perfume ads that cruised a movement, obscenity trials, explosions,

following your first love and getting the last laugh with scholar, author, and literary olfactologist, Dr. Allie Lukes.

And Dr. Ali Lukes, correct?

And you have a bound thesis of it, as one does, right?

I do not have a PhD, but...