Snakes

Original air date: March 25, 2025

According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2025 is The Year of the Snake, so this episode explores slithery serpents

Playlist

• Crawlin’ King Snake - John Lee Hooker

• Rattlesnake - the Replacements

• Rattlesnake - Rancid

• Snakes Crawl - Bush Tetras

• Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole & the Commotions

• Like a Snake - She

• Calming the Snake - Sonic Youth

• Get on the Snake - Soundgarden

• Snakedriver - The Jesus & Mary Chain

• Snakes - Pixies

• The Snake - Frank Black & the Catholics

• The Snake Charmer - Frederique Garnier

• Black Snake Swing - Victoria Spivey

• Viper’s Dream - Django Reinhardt, Quintette du Hot Club de France

• Slither - Velvet Revolver

• Union of the Snake - Duran Duran

• Long Snake Moan - PJ Harvey

• Rattlesnake - St Vincent

• Serpents - Sharon Von Etten

• Reptile - The Church

• Serpent’s Kiss - The Mission

• Anaconda - Sisters of Mercy

• Trust In Me - Siouxsie & the Banshees

• Serpentskirt - Cocteau Twins

References

• V (1983 miniseries)

• Watch V

• Indianapolis Children’s Museum

• Best headline ever (snake handlers)

My Stories

The importance of symbols

• Rod of Asclepius

• The Caduceus and the Staff of Aesculapius

• The Golden Wand of Medicine: A History of the Caduceus Symbol in Medicine by Walter J. Friedlander

• The Symbol of Modern Medicine: Why One Snake Is  More Than Two Authors: Robert A. Wilcox, BMBS, BSc(Hons), PhD, and Emma M. Whitham, MBBS, BSc(Hons), PhD

• Scientific Monthly, 1932, Stuart L. Tyson

• Caduceus

Quotes/Readings

• The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

• Lair of the White Worm - Bram Stoker

• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

Poems

• Snake - D.H. Lawrence

• Medusa - Sylvia Plath

• Cleopatra to the Asp - Ted Hughes

• Woman Swallowed by a Python in Her Cornfield by January Gill O'Neil

• The Snake by Emily Dickinson