“US toddler to release debut album recorded in the womb” was the Guardian headline for this LP, and the story does not get less weird. At the behest of her psych-rocker parents, the now-kiddo Luca Yupanqui was recorded in utero using biosonic MIDI technology to translate her movements into sound. Her creators (er, mom and dad) say the recordings capture an “expression of life in its cosmic state — pre-mind, pre-speculation, pre-influence, and pre-human”—”from a different realm,” even, “a sublayer of our existence.” Yeah so anyway, born Luca evidently hung out in the studio while her parents mixed the album and they say “she would open her eyes wide and stare at her parents, seemingly recognizing her own sounds from the womb, knowing that they were revisiting those rituals that made them come together as one.” Was that an eerie recognition of a former self? Maybe. But listen to this and tell me it doesn’t shock your eyes open.

At the risk of discouraging any infant audio creators: Everyone’s got a podcast, but only Joe Rogan and Ira Glass are making real money off theirs. According to Axios, the top 1% of podcasts get 99% of downloads (and the revenue from said downloads), which means, humans of internet media, we’re due for a sit-in— or at least some innovation. You could argue that podcasting has this problem because there’s basically no good way to discover new shows, which, on the internet, is somewhat of a rarity. Instagram, Facebook, etc all use your behavior to lead you down rabbit holes and discover new things so they can spend more time monetizing your attention on their platforms. But because no one platform hosts all the pods, no one has put together a cohesive system to get you hooked. That’s for better and for worse, of course— you’d never want one tech overlord housing all the podcasts (though Spotify is very much working on it). But why does some Zuck figure have to make money for journalists to even have the option? (We know the answer, it just sucks.)

Not one to be deterred by percentages (helps to be in the other 1% already), Our Lady Of Influence is starting her own show on iHeartMedia. A weekly interview program called “This Is Paris” (who said you needed a good name) is set to drop later this month, punctuated mid-week by a series of “Podposts,” one-to-three-minute updates that are the vocal equivalent of a tweet. Hilton and her iHeart crew are hoping this concept scales into a full social media platform where people chime in often with short snippets like this, and the concept actually holds some appeal over the twitters etc. With audio, for example, you have to do some work to get it to come out the way you want, which means you’re less likely to fire off nonsense— plus, your voice-as-medium holds you somewhat more accountable to your ideas. So, maybe the Podpost will take off! That, or we’ll just have a bunch of shitty voice memos from Paris Hilton.

Meet Liz Greenhill, a writer, acupuncturist, and friend of the newsletter who’s making a pod-based series of creative meditations for restless minds. Liz says she noticed that patients got better results from their sessions when she integrated somatic storytelling into their treatment, so she started producing this series to share as a public art offering. When you tune in, you’ll hear guided visualizations based on Surrealist art and Chinese Medicine, designed to help you feel a sense of safety and belonging in your body. V rad, v relaxing, the yin to your yang (literally, look it up). Listen here whenever you need.