Miss Me? - Listen Bitch! The Precipice of Bloom

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

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Watch with a free trial now at Britbox.com. Hey listeners, I'm Saeed Jones. And I'm Zach Stafford. We are the host of a podcast called Vibe Check. On our show, we covered the moment shaping the world around us, from breaking news to politics, to major cultural conversations, and more. We'll make you laugh, help you make sense of the moment, and definitely give you something to think about.

It's like you and your besties text chain, but come to life. You can catch new episodes of Vibe Check every Wednesday and Friday. Follow the show on the SiriusXM app or wherever you listen. The following episode contains very strong language, adult themes and drug references. Hello everybody, welcome to this week's episode of Listen Bitch. I am very excited because it's my favorite. I'd say right now it's my favorite subject currently existing on the planet. Wow.

And that is plants. Plants. But Keats, what can I say? before I get in, because I will only meet plants with pure enthusiasm, joy, focus, dedication. I do need to mention a slight overspill from the last week's listen, bitch, because I think it's important to read it out. Frenemies. It's Frenemies, Anonymous.

So this came in after the recording, guys, for the listeners. This often happens. It's annoying, but it is what it is. Sorry for my voice note, I tried my best to keep calm, but I'm very underslept. I just wanted to thank you and your team for your podcast. Love all the difficult topics you cover. but it's also been a great distraction from my struggles, and you always make me laugh,

lots of love to you from a very heartbroken Iranian. Oh my goodness. Yeah. So I thought I just read that. We obviously don't have the time to go into the depth of what frenemy might mean to an Iranian right now. But that's, that's fucking, that just... I know you like hearing about how far miss me can stretch,

and that's pretty far. Absolutely. Absolutely. Let's do it all over again. The theme is, of course, plants. Let's have our first question. about planty plant. Hi, Jordan and Makita.

My name's Lou. I'm from Nersborough in Yorkshire. I've been a florist for 28 years and I've owned my own little flower business for 19 of those. So flowers are pretty much my whole life. My question for you is, is there a scent from a flower or plant

that completely transports you? And do you think it's actually the smell itself or is it just about the memory hiding inside it? For me, it's free years. As soon as I smell one, I'm 13 years old again, starting my very first Saturday job in a little flower shop. I'd never seen or smell at one before, and it kind of blew my mind.

Nearly three decades later, it still does the same thing. Love the podcast. Bye. Great. Thank you. You've just given us our next listen bitch smells. Yeah. I'd go as far as to say it's probably the most powerful sense for me in terms of nostalgia. You're sewing this today, aren't you? No, no, no, but genuinely, like, not even specifically to plants. Like, that's what I say we could do another listen to bitch of it.

There are perfumes, for example, where, like, I'm incapable of not being thrown back to a relationship if I've smelled. Someone's got the same smell as a previous. Yeah, Jean-Paul Gagier, 18, cannot deal with that smell. That vibe. Teenage love. Can I just say, Phoebe, that I work with, not Phoebe Oliver, Phoebe Lacey, she sent me something about plants. Why do plants smell when it rains? It is caused by the water from.

the rain along with certain compounds like ozone, geosmin and plant oils and in soil. When it rains, these compounds are released into the air to add to the earthy smell of petrachore. Uh-huh. Okay. I don't know it. I think the most complex thing for me is that one of my favorite smells of all time is freshly cut grass. However, I'm pretty sure that that is the smell that's emitted from a blade of grass

when it's in pain. Oh no. I love the smell of freshly cut grass. Yeah. So I feel like quite guilty about the fact that I love it. the smell so much. Okay. How do you know that the grass is in pain? What resources have told you that? I think I looked up like why does grass smell so nice and I think it's to do with a scent emitted in, hold on, let me. They just cut all the grass in the park by my house and it smelled great.

But maybe I was just smelling the pain. The present smell of freshly cut grass is actually a chemical distress signal released by the plant when damaged, known as green leaf volatiles. And so when mowed, grass releases organic compounds to heal itself, worn nearby plants of danger, and attract beneficial insects. So it's like attempting to heal. Like we, it says here that humans often find it pleasant and nostalgic,

connecting it to spring or summer, which is true for me, especially when I'm about to play football and stuff like that. But I've always just had to sit with that reality like it. You know, that is the truth. No, I hate knowing that. Thanks a lot. Yeah, sorry.

My favorite smell is a blade of grass in agony. It's not the one. Yes. That's Jordan's up. answer. Jasmine, I don't really have a nostalgic tie to that, but there's something about the sweet honey dew of Jasmine that just

it smells like the gentle beauty of the universe. Wow. And it really, and it is. Love that. I'm telling you, I have never experienced the spring like this spring. It's because of where I live.

But last spring was a terrible time. And I was in shock and I didn't see spring. I was just like under the covers that my mom's, I'd lost my flat. I didn't know what was going on and I didn't open the curtains. But this year I'm like,

this is spring. And I'm like literally noticing every bud on every tree. So when it comes to the smell, that's still to come. But this early bit of spring is when you're just seeing these buds come alive. And I guess it's also the anticipation

of the fact that they will smell beautiful. There's something about spring that's just all about anticipation. It's like hope, faith, anything can happen. It's a fucking good time to be alive right now. Not like in the world, but to feel like there are ways to remember that it's a good time to be alive. We're coming few and far between. So Spring's really doing it for me at the moment.

Yeah. It's healing. Yeah. Also, does potpourri count? That's like dead flowers, right? No. No? That's dead flowers.

Yeah. It's still a smell, though, no? Oh, right. Yeah, it's still a smell, but... Reminds me of my grand. Yeah. A lot of nans have poverty. But it doesn't remind me of the start of spring.

No, sorry. But yeah. It's nice and a smell. nostalgic. Do all flowers smell like nanny? They do, don't know. They just all smell like your nan. Fair.

When I smell roses, when I smell most flowers, I think, of nanny. Because we did a lot gardening together, and we still do. Nice. Let's have another question so we can really get into Jordan's mind with this one. Hi there. My name is Lucy from Cambridge. And I have a question I'm going to ask in that, what plants do you think toxic people would have?

Is that it? Is that the whole question? She says it's so like she means it as well. Like, what plants would toxic people have? What plant would my ex-boyfriend have? Are you asking in the way of like how to stave off another toxic person? Like, oh, they've got orchids. I'm not going near this shit. Oh, okay.

Mine's controversial, my answer. Red roses. Red roses can be used in a very particular. context, if there is context. Yeah, moving mad and saying sorry. You're actually embracing the reality that is almost typical. That's where they can be beautiful because

they're like associated with the history of romance. But then like someone who is legitimately attempting to be like, hey, I bought you some red roses. Like, shut up, man. Come on. Do you know what I mean? It's basic. Yeah. So a certain

someone who is, I believe, has or had a mild obsession with my ex-girlfriend. And as part of that, he would send her handbags every month or so, right? And I, at the time, would be like, nah, you know, whatever, you know, sell them. This is what it is, you know. And they were friends. Friends. And, and then on Valentine's Day, one year, he sent like 50 red roses to the house. Did he know that she had a boyfriend? Oh, yeah. What a dickhead. Yeah. I was like, look, you might want to, you might want to double check. that you guys understand the vibe here.

Now that 50 red roses are here, we might need to just double check. 50 red roses. And she was like, yeah, yeah, I'll text him. And then he was, the whole thing was like, oh, no, no, no, no. I just thought, I just send it. I thought it'd be nice. And then icing on the cake is that I went to a party

about three weeks later and he introduced himself to me. Nice to me. He went, and I was like, I know who the fuck you one. You know who the fuck I am. Ain't it? I agree with you. The answer is red roses. Totally. I'll never accept them.

All right, let's have another question for this week's listen, the theme is of course, plants. Hi, I'm Akita and Jordan. My name's Amy. I'm from South Devon. I was really excited when I heard that your subject this week was going to be on plants because I love to garden. It brings me so much joy,

particularly this time of year when all my perennials that died back over the winter start to sprite back through with new growth, particularly those ones that didn't do so well last year because they were like newly planted into my garden or I'd dug them up from one area and put them into a different section of my garden. I think it's just a big lesson for life that if you've been through a big change or a big upheaval or a big move, that it's okay to consolidate and adjust to your new environment or your new reality. You can then in the next period have a period of growth or big show. And I was just wondering whether or not plants had ever taught you guys any lessons.

You kidding me. They saved my life like every year. Every year. It's an annual life save from plants and flowers. Sorry, flowers are plants. You mean isn't them blossoming? Mm-hmm. Fuck yeah.

Reminder. Also tilling the soil is very important to me. You know what that means? making sure that it's new. Have you ever done any gardening? Yeah, when I was a kid, yeah. Jordan, you haven't done it as a grown-up? No, my auntie had a space in the allotments.

I said, I love it up there. You would love gardening. Yeah, I think so. It's physical, connecting, and it's dreamy, and it's rewarding. No, I really agree with you. And you guys have a great garden. You need to get out there. I've spent a lot of time in gardens.

I just haven't done that much gardening. Some of my warmest memories are with my grand in Finchley she had like this shared flat place like I say like that because it wasn't like an estate It was like a big building that was cut into little flats And it had a shared garden with an apple tree Oh my God I'd literally pick the apples and she had made apple stew

It was like the best thing ever Yeah you've told me about the apples stew before But can I just say I'm really holding myself back from doing a massive devoted speech But if the question is like what have plants taught you I can't explain enough how obsessed I am. Like I said a few years ago,

I think it was a receipts podcast actually. I said that I think plants are like gods, gods are plants. And it sounded maybe a little bit woo. No. But the older I get, like the more I really truly believe that actually all of the plants around us

are not only conscious, but like engaging with us. And to be honest, sometimes it's so obvious that I think we create these barriers to just deny that. reality like the fact that we're on a planet and the earth will spring up a tree that then blossoms into an object that you put into your mouth right and your body functions like that is

absolutely insane to me it creates a fruit that you eat and you go hmm i feel happy now or you fall over you get a bruise and you go what can i rub on this bruise oh another plant that actually heals my skin. Do you know, I love that? Like, when I was a kid, when I had to go live in Suffolk a lot with my grandma, and she, stinging nettles were like just fucking ever as to get totally killed by them. And one day, my grandpa Ray was like, we need to get a dock leaf. Which grows next to them.

Which grows next to them. And I couldn't believe that something next to it had been made by the world to heal. It was a first, it was an original memory or early memory of the circularity of living. and that feels mind-blowing when you're a kid. It's like, what? It is mind-blowing that, yeah, you're provided with the issue and the antidote, the poison and the cure. But I am still, that's what I mean by this spring.

I'm still, after 41 years on this planet, bathed. I'm like, how does this happen? It will make fruit. It will bear fruit later. Like, I've even only just got my head around, like, cherry blossom versus magnolia, because that's, like, really where we're,

we're at right now with spring but then next week like those things will start to shed like that blossom will go and this other stuff will start to happen like yeah I'm acting like I've never seen a season this year yes that's great it's great to have that wonderment of life that's probably the best thing about life that's like why we should be and I think it's no surprise that you're finding joy from looking at plants that's what I mean about being teachers there's science to support the idea that even looking at a tree for an extended period of time calms your nervous system nature is an unbelievably important part of our well-being and also there's mad stuff like the Amazon, right? We have only we being Western civilization, by the way, the West

and our post-day car enlightenment, rational way of thinking and the belief that we have our own pharmaceutical industry, which by the way is still based off of plants, just so you know that. And then the other things, just before, I could get one about this for ages, I've just read about this. The other thing that I find baffling, which excites me. And again, people can comment if I'm wrong here, but I've looked it up, I'm pretty sure I'm right, is that when we talk about psychedelic plants. It's pretty interesting that a lot of people can find themselves quite high up in the world of let's say capitalism and yet when they find themselves through the financial freedom, they look for freedom elsewhere and it's usually freedom that's provided by cultures

that are previously described as primitive or savage, which is ridiculous. But in these cultures, if you go to the Amazon and you ask an indigenous culture why they know how to make the brew of ayahuasca, which by the way is unbelievably wild, it's the mix of like two or three plants that have dotted around the whole rainforests, like literally miles apart from each other and look almost indistinguishable. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

And then brought together to make a very specific compound that work with a chemical that's created inside the human gut. If you ask an indigenous person how they know to make this brew, they tell them that the plants told them. But the nearest we can come up with as a rational Western response is, oh, trial and error over 5,000 years. But if you ask them, they go, we were told. They showed us.

That's why I'm so fascinated by plants and why it's so mad that whenever somebody seems to come with an idea that challenges like Western rationalism, it's just dismissed as being ridiculous or hippie or woo-woo because you can't measure it. Yes. Anyway, rent over. What was the fucking question?

What are ways that plants have taught you? That's what I'm saying. That's why... Oh, shit. That's somewhat... Jordan just gave you an answer. I really enjoyed that. Let's open up the garden gate and have a break.

Hey listeners, I'm Sayy Jones. And I'm Zach Stafford. We are the host of a podcast called Vibe Check. On our show, we covered the moment shaping the world around us, from breaking news to politics, to major cultural conversations and more. We'll make you laugh, help you make sense of the moment, and definitely give you something to think about. It's like you and your bestie's text chain, but come to life. You can catch new episodes of Vibe Check every Wednesday and Friday. Follow the show on the series XM app or wherever you.

listen. What a lovely break that was. A lovely break it was. Let's go deep back into the world of plants. Hey yeah. My name's Grace. I am a born mank union living in the amazing Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. I had to share this like article that I read a few years ago. You may have read it. But basically, it was called a bullia plant initiative. And basically they got a bunch of students to have two lots of identical plants in the same environment, same light, same feeding process, everything like that. However, one room, it was like positivity. So they'd tell them how much like they love the plants, that they look great. The other room, they basically bullied a plant, just threw loads of hate at these plants.

And it was mental that after 30 days, the positive room, the plants grew, blossomed, look great. and the negative room, it was like stunted growth didn't do so well. It kind of validated why I've been talking to my plants for so long. So my question to you guys is, do you, have you, or will you start talking to your plants and telling them how amazing they are and how much you love them? Do you, have you, will you, all of the above? Yeah, I do, I have and I will continue to do so.

sing to my flowers. Is that okay? Yes, that's great. Jordan, I sing to my flowers. This is actually insane because... What does you just find? So basically, what is you speaking about? There was a book called The Secret Life of Plants

that came out again that I'd read. Yeah. It was disputed because this guy is an extension of what this woman has just said, whereas basically he claims that plants were able not only to respond to human word, but actually like engage, like speak, talk back.

right but through again through the methodical approach it was kind of unprovable however i thought okay let me just check in on where we're at currently with this idea that she's put forward about speaking positively and negatively and it's actually fascinating what's just come up gone yes talking positively to plants can support their growth primarily due to sound vibrations not the words themselves which is kind of the same thing so that's an attempt to kind of disseminate what she's saying speaking lovingly has a different vibration to speaking negatively and that affects the growth of plants.

Welcome to life. And the growth of ourselves. And I don't know, people. Yes, exactly. Do you know what I'm saying? And if it works for plants. I had this fascinating experiment where I called my kid a piece of shit

for five years and for some reason they just grew to be really mean but then this other kid. I mean, it's strange isn't it? Because vibrations are just so weirdly almost, it's almost because they're not tangible

because we can't feel them, we can't believe in them, but we can feel them and they are tangible. Do you know what I mean? Like you feel when you're vibrating on a different frequency.

Do you know what's even more mad? With this measurement, there's also further studies to suggest that female voices have a better impact. Probably. I'll tell you what, that's a can of worms out,

isn't it? That's Pandora's Box, that one. I don't really agree with that. I feel like every human being has their own important song to sing. Come on. Yeah. But vibrations thing is real, man. There's also studies that come out about birdsong. Yeah. But also, by the way, the names of a flower is great. It's like style and stigma and stamen. It's like kind of cool. No, but also, isn't it funny though? It's not like Latin is like commonly used anywhere ever in like modern parlance. And then suddenly you start on about plants and we're like completely

not literate because I don't know which one's which but we're totally open to people speaking about plants in Latin. What's Latin? That's why I just said? Don't you watch Gardeners World? Oh, they refer to the plants by their Latin names? Of course. Always. I don't know. I didn't know that.

They'll say like, yeah, this is a nice rose or whatever but they'll mainly be like, no, it's an Artemisia or it's a like astratansia. Really? Latin is at the forefront. of like the language of gardening. And I really love that because there's no other time that we're like just speaking a bit of Latin

to describe anything. No, we're always... I know we are always speaking Latin, but like... Did we do etymology? Was that going to be a future, listen, bitch? Etymology's fascinating. Yeah. I read a book about sex, the history of sex,

and to refer to female genitalia, that isn't etymologically rooted in male genitalia is the C word. Oh, really? Because the actual etymology of vagina, for example, is supposed to be like sword sheath. Wow. Turning our biology into...

Yeah. Of the male biology. Wow. What's this book? The history of sex, I think it's what it's called. I'm going to send you some gardening clubs and a little spade and you're going to send me the history of sex. Yeah, do it.

Okay. Let's have another question. Why don't you ask for it? Yeah, another question, please. Hi, Macita and Jordan. My name's Gemma. I live in Shropshire near Shrewsbury in a little village. My question for you today is, do you have a favourite plant as in a specific one rather than a species?

Because I do. Nearer I live, my village, I actually don't even know what type of tree it is. As it goes into autumn, just the way the colour changes on it is absolutely insane. So it starts off around the edges. It will start turning yellow and then go red and then that spreads kind of really, methodically through the tree. I talk about this tree when it is in that kind of phase of its year to anybody that will listen and they must, I feel like sometimes they just think I'm, I've lost the plot a little bit, but I just love it and seeing how it changes day to day as I walk past it.

So yeah, do you have a specific plant or tree that you love and why is that? Thank you, darling. I know Shrewsbury. I've been to Shrewsbury. I can't remember why, but I remember it being lovely. You know what? You just made me realize why I'm enjoying spring so much is because I'm in a new house. I do move a lot. But like where I was living before, I'd seen spring there three times. And you do start to have a personal relationship with the trees around you. Like there was this whole bank of trees opposite my flat. I knew their cycle and I was part of it with them. So I suppose I feel like I'm meeting new friends. It's dope. That's not. Honestly, you're speaking my language right now. I feel like I'm meeting my new crew.

Yeah. Like we're starting to talk to each other, but I have been talking to them because I've got a fucking dog since January out there in the cold. Oh, she sent a picture. Hi, I'm Gem and I have a favorite. This is her favorite tree.

Oh, my God. What is that tree? I wish I could look at a tree and know which one it was. I did have a great app and you like, you know, look at a plant or a flower or a tree and tells you what it is. But I started to not like it. I can't remember why I think maybe the price went up.

Or maybe I was like, I should be reading a book to find this out. But for some reason, it didn't give me the joy I thought it would. That tree is buff. It's got tips. It's been to the hairdresser, bro. It's lovely. I know what my favourite tree is. What is your favourite tree?

So the other day I was going to see a friend in North London because I don't go to North much anymore. And I used to go to Hampstead Heath all the time because it's beautiful. Because I was conceived there, yeah. Oh yeah, I actually spoke to you when I was there, right? Yeah. When I was a kid kid, kid, when I was in London, so like pre 10, my mum used to take me to Hamstead Heath

she used to take me to something called the Winnie the Pooh tree which is like the hollow tree with like a window in it and I have the memory of being excited going to the tree but I don't have like real vivid memories of like being around

I remember I feel like me and my mum buried like a millennium capsule in Hamster Thief by the way like I've felt like a time I feel like there's a time capsule genuinely like buried underground Oh my God but then I saw the tree as an adult

I'm like, wow. And I remembered it and it suddenly came flooding back to me the idea of like looking through the window of this tree and now it's directed towards it. I can't remember being directed towards it. It's like a piece of Hampstead Heath

like, oh, do you want to go and see the hollow tree? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I know which tree you're talking about. No, but I can't remember. But when I was a kid, I didn't, you know, my wonderment was purely off of what my mum was saying. I didn't realize it was like a thing to go visit. Yeah, and so I saw it again and was like, oh man, dope. I've always loved trees.

I'm a tree hugger. Yeah, I'm a tree hugger. only two years in. It's fucking great. Yeah, I think maybe Cosmos, it's a really beautiful flower. It's one of the first things I planted. I just always thought that I needed either my last and final flatmate, Marie, I thought I couldn't have plants unless she planted them.

I just had to live with her plants, which is fine, right? You can live with someone else's plants, but you don't know what it's like when you decide what. You want and what flowers you want around you. And that's what my balcony is saying right now. That's cool. After like three years of realizing that I can plant my own shit. I planted wildflowers and nasturtium last week and they're looking great.

I'm really bad at maintaining houseplants because I'm just never home. Well, I'm home, but I mean, I'm always moving. You're meant to be out in the garden. I don't think you're a house plant kind of guy. And these aren't houseplants. I'm talking about my balcony. In reference to my many dead houseplants, I'd agree with you. I think it's...

Other than a cacti. Let's go, lads. One spoonful of water every five months. Yeah, but don't you think it's interesting about the unorganized diary stuff that we were talking about last episode I think that what we're looking for in your unorganized thing

is just different ways for you to feel rooted and believe me, there is no better way to feel rooted than planting roots. No, but right now I'm not on a root vibe. I'm an unnomad vibe. I really am. I know you are.

I know you are. Next question? Okay, this is a final question. Oh, is there not a plant pun we can do for the final plant question? something about leaf should we branch out and be and be and should we branch out and leave you all with a final question

Hey it's grace My question to you guys Would be if you had to describe your life right now as a flower What would it be and why? No, it's so cliche but love the podcast Oh, I thought you were going to say it's not cliche That's a great question It's cliche to say you love the podcast.

Yes, but definitely keep saying it. It's lovely to hear. Great question. So I've talked about it before. Phoebe, my cousin, encourages me and many of the people in our lives to plant moon seeds, which is to plant on the new moon. So I do a lot of metaphorical planting. So you have to think about what you want to embody for that journey of the moon each month.

I'm actually a radish right now. But that's not a plant. That's a vegetable. So that's my moon garden. And so we'll leave that over there. Sometimes I do see myself in the trees that I'm looking at every day. So at the moment, I don't feel like magnolia or cherry blossom that's everywhere. But I saw some trees in the park today that just have these green and pink buds that are on their way to being in bloom.

And that's how I'm seeing myself at the moment. Whatever that tree is, that's how I'm feeling. I'm feeling like I'm on the precipice of bloom. Yeah. there's a lot going on in my life right now and a lot of big decisions being made I love that I don't feel in bloom yet

thank you Jordan I feel like the strong arms of a tree getting ready to bloom fuck yeah fuck yeah God that was so fun the final thing I've got to say is this is actually true

and this is going to blow your mind this is one more plant of that before we go okay do you know that there is a mushroom where is that you eat this mushroom and see loads and loads of tiny people That's my worst nightmare

Can you just be a bit more specific? Is that all you see little people? Or do you see the people that you know as little? No, no, no, no. Just loads of tiny little people. That's terrifying, Jordan. The Lenma Mawa Asiatica, a reddish bollet mushroom found in China

is known to cause lilliputian hallucinations. The sensation of seeing tiny fairy-like people when consumed raw, these mushrooms contain as yet unidentified psychoactive compounds. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't you think that the person who wrote Galliver's travels may have taken this drug? Studies where individuals report seeing dozens of tiny miniature humans, sometimes on their dishes while eating. Jordan, you're actually really starting to freak me out. You're really starting to scare me. I'm not good with this stuff.

I'm not a control freak, because it's not a good combination. It's just interesting because it's like a current thing that's being investigated. Magic Mushrooms are a Class A illegal drug. That's why I want to do the history of drugs. I think it's so interesting. Like, what hasn't been investigating? What the hell else does that thing do? Plants forever. Plants are the greatest teachers.

What's next week's listen, bitch? The theme for next week's listen bitch is slightly weird, but we think it could take us to great places. The theme is, doors. Doors, doorways. Doors and doorways. All types of doors.

We're open to all. All understandings of doors. We are. We are open to all understanding of doors. Literal, metaphysical. Absolutely. Emotional. Yeah.

All doors. True say, actually. All doors. Even the band, if you fancy it, but we probably won't answer that one. Sure. We could do some Jim Morrison shit. Okay, we'll see you next week for doors.

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