#clocking vfds in audio is more difficult than you might think

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"But how a sunflower can possibly sense the very fine differences in the distance between it and other sunflowers in the soil, and triangulate that awareness with the nutrient patch, is beyond Cahill."

-from The Light Eaters by Zoe Shlanger, ch. 9.

[vfdinthewild]

“In some circles, all of this really caught on, and Fletcher wound up with some very famous devotees.”

-via “Horace Fletcher, the Great Masticator” episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast, 30:00

[vfdinthewild]

“Welcome to your very first day in the tent.” -Sandi’s welcome speech on the Great British Bake Off, 10x01, 4:30.

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“This involved 600 people to operate the telephone and telegraph exchange, a volunteer fire department, and a volunteer security team to guard the fire boxes so the fire department wasn’t driven to exhaustion by false alarms.” 

-from the podcast episode The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 on Stuff You Missed in History Class, 16:55

[vfdinthewild]

“She’s not a character with a story, she’s simply the audience’s lip-smacking reaction; not a human being, but a symbol, a vector for desire.”

-regarding Rita Hayworth in “The Strawberry Blonde,” from Red: A History of the Redhead by Jacky Collis Harvey, ch. 7

[vfdinthewild]

“But other than that, my very favorite day of the decade was January 15, 2013...”

-via “The Best Days of my Decade” by John Green @fishingboatproceeds on Vlogbrothers, 0:19. 

[vfdinthewild]

“You screwed up with your very first decision.”

-from How to Get Away With Murder, season 5, episode 6. 

[vfdinthewild]

“He told them, on the very first day, read the script. If you are not convinced, please let me know immediately and leave the project.”

-from the podcast episode “Godzilla: The Start of His Story” by Stuff You Missed in History class, 13:45. 

[vfdinthewild]

“It does vary from DA to DA, if varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.”

-from “Introducing Jensen and Holes: The Murder Squad - Episode 1″ on My Favorite Murder, 12:05

[vfdinthewild]

“These were my very first dishes.”

-My grandmother, regarding her wedding china.

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“Our expansion sister franchise, the Buffalo Sabres, our fates have been, you know, united together ever since that very very first draft.”

-from “The Elias Petterseason” from This Week In Anguish, 53:54

[vfdinthewild]

“So a good example of that, so the very first Dicynodont specimen that was ever named Dicynodont lacerticeps  was named in 1845 by Sir Richard Owen, who was a British palaeontologist, who like one of his claims to fame is that he invented the word ‘dinosaur.’

-from the “Gabi & Ken Discover New Species” episode of the Explore A Story podcast, 14:55. 

[vfdinthewild]

“I also think that I, as a white woman, who did not vote for Donald Trump, for the record, got immediately defensive, which is just what white people and white guilt does to you sometimes.” 

-from the “Oprah 2020?” episode of the Stuff Mom Never Told You podcast, 45:05. 

[vfdinthewild]

“I didn’t have shoes for my very fancy dress.” 

-Karen Kilgariff at the My Favorite Murder live show, Toronto, on September 30 2017. 

[vfdinthewild]

“Welcome to the very first Dear Prudence live show.”

-from “The Live “Cruise Ship Romance” Edition” episode of the Dear Prudence podcast, 1:30

[vfdinthewild]

“We have a very full day planned.”

-a friend on our sightseeing schedule for the day