Limitations of Language
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What do Zoe and Hannah talk about in the opening banter and introductions?
What is it in this one's love's life? Makes it all worthwhile. It's the small thing the big thing the humor profundity that I notice go root around it. Mess around it, figure it out, it's poking around.
Hello Hello.
Welcome to Poking Around the Podcast. Where we joke around about poems and we poem around about jokes.
I'm Zoe.
And I'm Hannah.
And we are coming to you today, basically not having seen each other for two full weeks. And I personally am running on about two hours of collective sleep. Across that entire time.
Zoe's in town for one day and she's spending it recording poking around the pond doing this.
Yes.
Yeah. I landed. Okay, so right now it's three PM on a Monday, okay? I landed back in New York at nine. I got home at eleven. I basically sat down, came here.
We both just chugged two porn star martinis.
Don't ask us what that is, we don't know.
Basically the place across the street does a happy hour where they serve porn star martinis. And we were both really hungry, slash thirsty, slash tired, slash in bad moods.
Yeah. So this this episode is sponsored by that experience.
Yeah, by porn starmartini dot com.
Um, which has a shot of Prosecco in it. Yes. And something else, like tangerine. It has tangerine in it. I got three tattoos since I've got a lot of. I know.
I'm like, I haven't even seen Zoe with her do tattoos.
I got a little sparrow tattoo on my wrist, which is a really crazy and brave place to get a tattoo. That's great. This is my tattoo where I was like I have tattoos now. You know There's no hiding it. There's this tattoo, it's like on the top side of my arm on my wrist, like almost on my hand. Yeah. Um and I just was feeling really brave about it, I suppose. That's great. Life is short. Life is short. And I also was like, I already have tattoos. So like why am I pretending?
And who cares? Tattoo schnatos like everyone has them.
Tattoo schnattoo. Also, like I never want a real job again in my life. Like what am I worried about?
Right. Even real jobs, it's like I'm a poet.
And even real jobs these days I know like get over your tattoos. It's no big deal. Yeah. Um yeah, and then I got a little seven two seven, which are my numbers that I like. And then I got a bunch of little stars on the arm. Because I also like stars. Stars are great. Yeah.
They're in the night sky. And they are from which we came.
Stars are so like magical. And don't get to remember started about stars.
Don't get me started. To lay down on your back in a field while you're camping and look at the stars. Let's go camping. Forget. Oh, yeah, definitely. Okay.
We've never gone can well we went camping together that one time you had monov
I had mononucleosis unbeknownst to me and Zoe and I camped for one night and I was like I'm so hot.
I'm so hot. I'm sweating so much. I can't I slept great. I was like, I'm really tired, but I can't sleep and I don't feel well and I'm hot. I'm so
And I probably didn't get it because I already had it. So I'm like immune or something.
That is how it goes with mononucleosis.
Yeah. I'm like, I I already have all those cells in my body and they like to flare up and cause big problems for me.
Those commercials as a kid when they do you do you remember like commercials warn you against mononucleosis? The kissing disease. I was like I will never kiss. Like, but you have to kiss.
No, of course. And of course, I got my mononucleosis from Perrin because we shared a drink at Disneyland. Perrin York. Perrin York gave me mononucleosis.
I like watched those commercials as a kid and I was like, Why is no one talking about them? The dangers of kissing. I was like, okay, that's enough for me. I will never kiss.
But kissing is the great joy of life.
I didn't know that when I was like well, I was like, you know, eleven, dreaming about kissing.
Why do the hosts spend a whole segment on porn‑star martinis and their weird happy‑hour experience?
Then I saw this and I was like Kissing can cause death.
I will say mono almost killed me. It did. But I didn't even kiss Perrin. I just drank her drink.
I don't know where I got it from. I was twenty seven though. Yeah. But we'll go camping.
I'll say that I'm thirty now, dreaming about kissing. Kissing's amazing.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What do Zoe and Hannah talk about in the opening banter and introductions?
0:00–4:55
2
Why do the hosts spend a whole segment on porn‑star martinis and their weird happy‑hour experience?
4:55–9:48
3
How do Zoe and Hannah discuss their recent tattoos and what they mean to them?
9:48–17:40
4
What is the hosts’ debate about love languages and which one they can’t live without?
17:40–26:38
5
How does the poem “The Quiet World” illustrate the limits and possibilities of language?
26:38–37:37
6
What insights do the hosts share about French expressions of love versus English?
37:37–46:05
7
How do the hosts critique AI‑generated advertising emails and the Infogrow pitch?
46:05–53:15
8
What final thoughts do Zoe and Hannah leave about language, love, and creativity?
53:15–55:46