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Episode 1
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This episode is about entering college and walking you through experiences as an Anthropology major. All in all, this is an About Me pilot episode.
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Introduction to 'Being Witty'
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Hello, and welcome to my podcast. This is being witty, episode one. My name is Whitney Lewis. Thank you for tuning in. For those listening, you're probably just my friends right now, but that's okay. We have to build an audience and that takes time. So a little bit about me, just kind of introduction.
College Life: Expectations vs. Reality
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I go to the University of Texas at Austin. I'm an anthropology major. Love, laugh, love, dead people. I'm on an archaeology track and I have a forensic certificate or I'm pursuing a forensic certificate right now. It's not done yet. I'm in a sorority here at UT and this is just going to be a podcast about maybe some things in Greek life.
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different things in life, little tidbits about relationships, kind of talking about everything but mainly about college and how sometimes things just suck but people don't tell you that's gonna suck so you find out on your own and I hate that. I hate it when
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you ask someone about something and they're like, oh my gosh, yeah, that's so fun. And then you get to college and do it or whatever. And then you're like, damn, this is a load of shit. Like, why did they say that? And that kind of goes into a lot of things. I wouldn't say so much like studying, but like some courses are definitely like that. I've definitely asked people for course recommendations and they said, oh, this professor is so nice, but all the grades for the class are only three exams.
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and 10% participation. Like, how does that work? What? Who does that? Who in their right mind does that?
The Pun in 'Being Witty'
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Anyways, the name idea from being witty, I have a couple nicknames. Not names by myself, but other people. I go by wit, or witty. Whittle. Whittles. I get Whitty-Poo sometimes from Bessie Bay Kyla.
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She'll be on podcasts. Y'all will get to hear her lovely voice. Back to this episode. So, being witty came from one play on words. Love a good pun. One thing you need to know about me is I will make puns all the living damn day. If I can make one, I will. Jokes? Yes. Dad jokes? Absolutely yes. With an exclamation point. That's my shit. That's my jam.
Anthropology Adventures
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Why make a podcast right now? Because I'm in my junior year and life has been sucky. Not all of it, but some of it. And why not make a podcast? I've wanted to do this for a really long time and I finally just bit the bullet and bought a microphone on Amazon and said, I'm doing this.
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And here we are. I'm sitting on my sorority house's porch doing this episode. Anyways, just kind of getting into it now. So being an anthropology major is really, really fun and exciting because one, only 200 people here at the university with my major.
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Number two, with that, it's a small knit group of people. So I went and studied abroad with the UT program, the archaeology one, in Belize. So I was in Belize doing excavations for a month.
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which was an amazing experience and I definitely wanna do it again. If I don't get another internship that I would like for next summer, definitely gonna go back. And you know, being there in the jungle, this isn't some like lodge where we wake up and we can get like room service for in this hotel and then we just drive somewhere and dig up some shit. No, I lived
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in a wooden bunk bed with mosquito nets and no air conditioning, no electricity except from like 3 to 8 p.m. and the food was amazing, I will say that though, but we were in the jungle and it was a two-hour car ride to this site.
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And then two hours back, if there's one thing that I've learned is that I really don't like bugs. That's just been reinforced. I've never, I can be an outside person. Camping, you can get me in on that. But this was like brown recluse spiders out the fucking wazoo. And you cannot tell me that that is not scary. Sleeping next to brown recluse spiders carcass.
00:04:43
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no absolutely not so there's a little bit of that you know may have gotten chased by a jaguar possibly we don't really know what it was smelling peccaries yes those are scary it was a lot so you get to do like i think if i was in another major i wouldn't get to experience something like that it's very niche and that's what i appreciate about it and also all of us anther majors are are
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No one take offense to this if you're an intro major, but we're weird.
Navigating Future Career Paths
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We are weird as fuck, but you know what? That is the best thing about us because we work just so well together. We're all there for the same or different reasons, but same as in we are passionate about this degree because we always get asked, oh, what do you want to do with that after you graduate?
00:05:36
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Bitch, what if I don't know? What if I don't know what I want to do with my degree after I graduate? What if I just know that in the moment now, this is what I want to do? I don't have to tell you about my whole life story, why I picked this degree, what I want to do with it, what museum I want to work in. I don't need to tell you that. So why do you ask? You're not going up to business majors and asking, oh, what do you want to do with your degree?
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I don't know, go into business. They're going to say that you'll be like, oh yeah, that'd be so cool. Are you going to ask a law student exactly which firm they want to go into? No. They don't know that. Different opportunities arise at different times. No one is supposed to know exactly what they want to do in the future because shit happens.
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I was going to do a bunch of medical stuff. I was going to be in a clinical medical assistant program my senior year of high school. And you know what? Shit happened. COVID happened. And here I am an anthropology major, still doing not really medicine stuff, but a lot of anatomy, a lot of biology that goes into play.
Academic Challenges in Anthropology
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I'm in an amazing class right now called, are you ready for this? Evolutionary anatomy at the head and neck.
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Yes, you may think, damn, long title. But if you're not intimidated by temporal bone, parietal, occipital, frontal, the main things on your skull that you can point out in there separated by different sutures.
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No, it's not just that. This is the underside, the inside of it. We're doing teeth. We're learning teeth. Do you know that if you look at someone's mouth, I could tell you all the different points on a molar, what all those are named, and the indents.
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and the sides of the tooth and how they go in together and how they shear and cut food. It's called mastication. When you have, when your jaw goes down on each other, that's occlusion. And mastication is when you're basically chewing up the food. I can tell you how all that works. And am I going to need this? Well, for my degree, probably.
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That's crazy. It's so much because you don't think about that. I was thinking, oh, head and neck. That's easy, right? Like cervical column of the vertebrae that's kind of more up a bit towards the neck and then you know what? The head isn't too complicated. I took anatomy and physiology in high school. Nope, wrong. I had to memorize eight.
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I'm gonna say this wrong, phonology, phylogeny, trees like family trees, like taxonomy family trees. Eight different ones for the exam. The first one. Six pages of free response. You can't tell me that's hard as fuck. And you know what? Someone told me that class was gonna be fun.
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So that's the shit I mean. That's what I'm talking about here. Like, when do people actually become realistic about what they're telling you? Like, when does it get to the point of, hey, I'm just, it's not even, people can say, I'm gonna rip off the Band-Aid and tell you I'm not sugarcoating it. I'm doing this. I'm just gonna tell you how it is. But like, are they really? How do you know if they are? You don't. You don't know.
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because there's just so many worldly examples of that. And it's crazy.
Speculation on Alien Discoveries
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Anyways, counting off of anthropology, I don't know if everyone knows about this, but there was an alien, supposedly, an alien found, and it was put on the news by the Mexican government. It was found in Peru, and it was found by the Nazca lines. Okay, tidbit about the Nazca lines. If you don't know what they are in Peru, it's in Nazca, Nazca lines were made
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Oh my gosh, I couldn't even tell you when. Just, you need to know it was a long fucking ass time ago when a real view was not a thing. But the Incas, these people,
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made these not structures but images in the sand or like in the ground and you can if you're just standing there on the ground looking at it you don't see anything maybe just some dirt kicked around but if you are up in a plane and you go up above it and you look down you can see a giant spider there's a monkey there's so many different other images and they're huge
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But it's almost like a pyramid situation in Egypt. How did they know that this was all going to connect to each other? And that's where a lot of hypotheses for aliens come into, because how else would they know that? How would they know that with the knowledge that they have?
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Obviously they may have had a written system, a mathematical system, different things like this, but how did they know to make it all look concise? And it's very symmetrical. If you look it up, you'll see little swirly swirls, you'll see straight lines. How the fuck did they do that? Well, this alien...
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That's where it was found. It looks to be about not even three feet tall, but a lot of people think that it's just a political stunt put on by the Mexican government. I don't know if it's cover-up or something. I don't know what they were thinking. I don't know any more about it than that.
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It definitely looks interesting, to say the least. One of my professors thinks that it's not real, which I kind of lean towards, but you never know. So if you didn't hear about that, now you have. And it's really interesting. I feel like in the last couple months, so many different alien shit has come out. Like there was the one in Vegas in the summer, and it was this huge, like, being.
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taller than a human like maybe 11 feet tall and it had I remember seeing like a video of it like in a news article and its eyes were glowing because it was off somewhere in camera in someone's backyard you know it was in black and white because it was night and it it was scary and it had like
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not talons for hands but the hands were weird i don't know it freaked me out anyways there's been a lot of stuff like this year about it which is so crazy to me because i don't think
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anyone's talking about it like maybe just for a second or maybe it's just because like I'm in a sector where I do listen to things like that and I do like find out about them maybe I'm just like in a different like my life is like in a different for example different for you page than everyone else's that's a sucky analogy but whatever you get it anyways
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It's so interesting. I don't think any of that has happened in Austin, though. Not that I know of. Like, keep Austin weird. Like, there's weird shit that happens here. But I don't know about any AV and stuff. Maybe I should look that up. I know there's, um, we have, like, I don't know, like, history things, like, ghosts.
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abandoned asylums, things like that, but I haven't heard anything about aliens. Maybe I'll look into that. Maybe there'll be, like, a segment about aliens. Actually, no, that's an audience I don't want to attract. Just kidding. I take it back. I don't wear tinfoil on my head, guys. I promise.
Exploring Austin and Greek Life
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But on the topic of Austin, there's so many things to do, but I feel like I sit in my room and I'm like, I don't know what to do. Like I've been on South Congress. I've been to Lady Bird. There's like Travis, like Austin, different coffee shops. I also have a coffee Instagram. Starting up is called Bean Busy 14. See, another pun, another motherfucking pun. And you know what? It's good. It's a good one anyways.
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So many things to do, I just don't think of them. So I'm signed up for this app called Nudge, NudgeATX. And if you're not signed up for it, you need to because it tells you things to do around Austin. Have I done any of them yet? No. But do I love the ideas and want to do one of them? Yeah.
00:13:59
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And it's like finding a waterfall. This is a Christmas train. I don't know. Random shit. But it's cool. It's cool. I like it. I like it. It's cool. They just text you little things and it's like, what are you doing this weekend? Staying in or going to somewhere? And then you like can choose different options and they give you like different activities. It's cool. And like they like some coupons for stuff. Anyways, go check out Mudge. Very, very cool.
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I think some of it would be like cute date nights, but I don't know what my dream date night looks like. I've been on great ones with my beautiful, gorgeous, handsome boyfriend. We have so much fun all the time, but we haven't done any of the much things yet. But I don't know what my dream date would be. I know I'm a sucker for museums, obviously.
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If you haven't heard me say museum already, like five times, probably. And that's so cute. And you know what? One of my friends, Gabrielle, has been on as many dates to the Natural Science Museum in Houston, or not many, but a couple. And it was so cute, like cutest little, like precious baby cutie, like pinch cheeks date. And like,
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I don't think I've ever been to the museum on a date before, but that sounds like so much fun. Fun for me. I don't know if Robert would have fun with that. Maybe, maybe if I, maybe if they had like a Star Wars museum, he would be interested in that. But I don't, I don't know if I could drag him to a science museum and he would pay attention. But I would still make him go. I don't know. I don't, I don't know what a dream date would be. There's that, if you haven't heard of Pease Parks before, they have
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this huge structure in the middle of the park that's like a giant hammock and they have lights that hang down and they're uh solar powered so at night
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They glow up and it's beautiful and you sit in this giant hammock and there's normally other people there and you just like look up and it's like you see the stars but all the lights, it's really cool. It's cool. But I don't know, like what are some dates that like people have been on in Austin message with them? Maybe we'll talk about it. Maybe I'll go around Austin and I'll film there. You never know.
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Maybe on a game day or something, I'll go somewhere to pregame date before. I don't know. Something random. I love to do, like, random spur-of-the-moment things. I'm a very not spontaneous person, but if something catches my eye, then, like, I'll do it.
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you know, if it's not like too dangerous. Like whenever I'm drunk, I steal a lot of plants or not steal. So I don't always take them home. They don't always make it home. But I borrow the plant. I relocate it.
00:17:05
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And I have way too many pictures of me holding plants. It's a lot. And you know, it really started freshman year when I was at a delt mixer and I stole, this one I did steal because I tried to regrow it, an orchid from their bathroom. And I held it outside of the car window on the way back to my dorm and all the petals fell off. And if you have an orchid, like you can't let that happen. And then it just never bloomed again. And I put the ice cubes in it because you know you're not supposed to water them.
00:17:35
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Uh, it did not work out well. I am not a plant lady. I give high fives to everyone who is a plant lady, because damn, I used to grow a garden. And I'm pretty sure I'm not a plant lady from her. Like, I think it carried down. I think it's a gene. So if I can't keep little plants alive, I don't know how she's gonna grow shit. I don't know how she's gonna do it. Maybe she'll have someone help her. She'll take a class.
00:18:02
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maybe when she retires in like 10 years, because both my brother and I are out of the house. My brother's at Texas State University, go Bobcats. He is a business major and he just pledged a fraternity there, so he's going through a pledge of now.
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I don't know if he's loving, you know, all the pledge tasks, but he's doing great. He's killing it. Loves all the guys and I'm really happy for him. And I kind of made him become involved in Greek life because at Texas State, I don't know a lot of the orgs there, but I was like, you need to be a part of something.
00:18:39
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And that's kind of how I was thinking, too, coming into UT, I want to be a part of something that's bigger than myself, but not just a part of the university. Like, because then I just go to class. What am I contributing? Just money? My tuition? Yeah. So this is a way to have a leadership position, be able to help people put a smile on someone's face. And I really do enjoy it. And I do love it. And I love these people.
00:19:05
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and I am passionate about all of it. So I think it also depends on the organization you're in though. UT has a lot like spirit orgs. Those looks so much fun. That looks awesome. Like if I were not to join Greek life, I would definitely join a spirit organization.
00:19:25
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because they also partner with sports. So like the Texas Wranglers are with the basketball team. So all the basketball games and we cheer them on. And I think there's another one too, a woman's one that goes with that. And there's like co-ed ones and there's like pre-med fraternities and business fraternities and like a bunch of networking that happens and stuff like that.
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And you know what, in case you're wondering, there is not an anthropology one at the moment, but it is getting started on campus. Woo, we're making the Constitution now. Yep, yep, Anthro Society's coming back. University of Texas, Anthropology Society, come join. All it takes is $10, I think, to join. And we're gonna have fun meetings. It'll be cool. We're gonna start up an Instagram, maybe make a couple TikToks.
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We'll have food at maybe some events, you never know. If you see us ever table on Speedway, come up to us. Or just talk to us. We'll talk about whatever.
Nostalgia and Future Podcast Plans
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Did y'all ever, I don't, this is a random thought, did y'all ever play Plants vs. Zombies? Because not that I've seen that game played in a while, but I loved it. I would play it on, my brother and I would play it on the Xbox.
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And it would be so much fun. And I don't, I think it was like an adrenaline rush. Like I was just like scared of the zombies getting like my sunflower or something. But I think I want to play that game again. Like I feel like the older games are coming back. Like Webkin's, Club Penguin, Minecraft, things like that are still at least, or like type-esque things like that are starting to come back. And I don't know why, but like Plants vs. Zombies was like my thing. And I kind of want to play it again.
00:21:14
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So maybe I'll make a lead maybe we can do that we can do it all together guys so
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First episode, this is crazy to me because like I've said, I've wanted to do this for a while. So it's weird, not weird, but like exciting, but weird that it's actually happening. I'm really happy to be here. I'm happy to share my life with you guys. So we're gonna have special guests come on. Different segments are gonna be started. I have some stuff prepared. So I hope y'all,
00:21:48
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Tune in to some more episodes. Sorry if the first one was very chaotic, but that's how my life is, because I keep it real, I promise. Okay, much love, pretties. Bye-bye!