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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from how Stuff

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Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind.

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Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Julie. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you've seen a movie baby, right? You saw that as

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Speaker 1: a child. I did, yeahard by that right, Yeah, just

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Speaker 1: like everyone else. Um. Looking at Bandy, one can't help

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Speaker 1: but think this does not look like a real deer.

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Speaker 1: Its eyes are way too big. Like I would hate

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Speaker 1: to see the animal like a realistic bandy, you know,

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Speaker 1: because its eyes would just be enormous and like, if

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Speaker 1: it took actual shape, it would be monstrous and very

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Speaker 1: it would be kind of bizarre. It would look like

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Speaker 1: a like an alien, like like a little gray alien

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Speaker 1: with the giant eyes, except the in dear form, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but illustrated quite cute, right, yeah, in illustrated form, it's

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Speaker 1: it's very adorable. Yeah. And some might even argue that

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Speaker 1: Bambi was the beginnings of what we know as kawaii,

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Speaker 1: which is sort of embracing of all things cute. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and in the age of like L O L cats

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Speaker 1: and you know, cute puppies sneezing or panda sneezing and

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Speaker 1: everything else that we're seeing on the internet. It's undeniable

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Speaker 1: that people have a connection to this cuteness that these

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Speaker 1: animals um and it kind of brings into question our

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Speaker 1: relationship with animals and the way that we treat them

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Speaker 1: and we think about them. Right, Like with Bamby, they

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Speaker 1: actually started off with real deer, right, they brought in

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Speaker 1: real deer. Yeah. Yeah, so so just so everybody knows

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Speaker 1: that the reason why we have this babyfied Bamby, this

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Speaker 1: this big eyed, doeyide fawn, is because Disney was such

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Speaker 1: a stickler for detail that that at first he said, okay,

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Speaker 1: you know what, we need to really make sure that

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Speaker 1: Bambi is rendered as a realistically as possible. So he

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Speaker 1: had a pair of fawns shipped in from Maine and

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Speaker 1: then he made his artists wat an autonomoust dissect the

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Speaker 1: carcass of a newborn deer that resulted from that pair,

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Speaker 1: and the sketches they produced were were really perfect, right,

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Speaker 1: they were very realistic. But Disney realized right off the

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Speaker 1: bat that this was a mistake. This wasn't gonna sell,

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Speaker 1: This was not didn't test well with audiences, right right,

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Speaker 1: This reality wasn't really gonna hook audiences the way that

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Speaker 1: he wanted them to be emotionally hooked from the storyline.

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Speaker 1: So he had his artists go back to the drawing

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Speaker 1: board and they made them more cuddly. Um. And this

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Speaker 1: is this is actually from how Herzog's really great book

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Speaker 1: called Some We Love, Some We Hate, and Some We Eat,

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Speaker 1: which looks at our tenuous relationship with animals and um

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Speaker 1: he says that Bambi was essentially morphed into a surrogate

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Speaker 1: human baby. Wow. Yeah, it's a I mean, and then

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Speaker 1: it just had It does make you really think about this,

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Speaker 1: this complex relationship that we have with animals, especially like

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Speaker 1: in this case where guys are sitting I'm thinking about

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Speaker 1: how these cute animals are gonna appeal to two children

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Speaker 1: even as they're dissecting their carcasses and planning out Bambi.

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Speaker 1: You know, you generally don't think of the various um,

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Speaker 1: well not Vivia sections, but dissections involved with with your

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Speaker 1: with your beloved Disney films. I'm hoping this was the

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Speaker 1: only one they really did that for who knows. You know,

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Speaker 1: you have to know, you start to think about all

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Speaker 1: the past films that they did and wonder that's where

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Speaker 1: but I mean from hell Herzog's perspective in his book,

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Speaker 1: this is exactly the problem that we have here is that, uh,

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Speaker 1: it look more like a baby. On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: of course that this this drawls right into the idea

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Speaker 1: but still the snout is less less pronounced than dogs

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Speaker 1: paternal instinct that's kicking in when we look at it. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Nova's Dogs Decoded. Psychologists Morton Klingelbach put adults into meg scanners,

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Speaker 1: calling the parental instinct, like you can't not respond to

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Speaker 1: in their brains when they hear the names of animals.

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Speaker 1: So so it sort of points to this concept of

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Speaker 1: far beyond visual processing. Baby seal instantly, like it's sort

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Speaker 1: baby seal means in our language into humans of scorpions, Uh, repulsion,

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Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. Yeah. Yeah. So, um kitten kitten on a

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Speaker 1: I mean it does kind of, you know, make us

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Speaker 1: all beams right right? Yeah, Like how much of it

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Speaker 1: something deeper? Is there something ingrained in us to be

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Speaker 1: wary of snakes? Right? Yeah? Well, and some scientists would

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Speaker 1: say that it's something we learned, and other scientists say

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Speaker 1: that we're hardwired to fear snakes. Snakes are a great example.

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Speaker 1: Lynn Isabelle of the University of California Davis posits that

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Speaker 1: a bunch of kids and you ask them to look

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Speaker 1: at pictures, they're far more likely to pick out the

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Speaker 1: So if this organism grows up in snake country, then uh,

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Speaker 1: like the plague. So they have specifically adapted. But that

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Speaker 1: that doesn't explain why people in North America are so

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Speaker 1: framework because once we build it in there, then you

426
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 1: feel like you've answered your questions. Right. Yeah, it's kind

427
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,200
Speaker 1: of an ethical operating system. Some things will work really

428
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 1: well with it, but then occasionally you'll have a loophole

429
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: that is h exploited by some viral logic. I guess

430
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 1: if you will, like, for instance, my own framing system

431
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,920
Speaker 1: self analyzing here about my own consumption of meat, because

432
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Speaker 1: I even though I eat less meat than than I

433
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,760
Speaker 1: used to take. Take cephalopods, all right. The cuttlefish is

434
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Speaker 1: an animal that I think is an amazing creature. I

435
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 1: think they're very adorable. I've never eaten one, and I

436
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 1: can safely say I will I will probably never eat

437
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: a cuttlefish because they're just they're just too high on

438
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 1: the on the cute fascinating creature list, and I have

439
00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,400
Speaker 1: no experience tasting them and no interest in tasting them.

440
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,439
Speaker 1: All right, didn't take the OCTOPI the octopy is a

441
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 1: creature that I have eaten before, uh, generally and sushi.

442
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 1: And then I learned more about the species, and I

443
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 1: found out that some octopier are as smart as a cat,

444
00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:53,040
Speaker 1: and so I like the cat, I'm not gonna eat

445
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:54,840
Speaker 1: the cat. And then but then the thought of this

446
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 1: octopi being the octopus being as smart as the cat,

447
00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:00,880
Speaker 1: I've I've suddenly just really adverse to eating guy. So

448
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: so my esteem for the creature itself and it's intelligence

449
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: is higher. But also I was never really that impressed

450
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 1: with the taste of octopi, so um did a low returning,

451
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: low returning investment there. Now the squid, however, I haven't

452
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,359
Speaker 1: read that much indicating that the squid is is as

453
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 1: smart as a cat and the taste of the squid

454
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: is that much better. So it's perfectly fine with me

455
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 1: to eat squid like I have no ethical and kind

456
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 1: that makes look a sense really, rather than you're transposing

457
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,200
Speaker 1: a cat face onto an octopus, which is adorable. I

458
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,360
Speaker 1: think my wife had a dream like that once where

459
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 1: where she had an octopi with a cat with a

460
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 1: cat's head and it was all fuzzy. Did she really

461
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool? Yeah, And her brother was trying to

462
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,439
Speaker 1: take it from her something. Of course, he was, he

463
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 1: wanted it. It was that cool. So a lot of

464
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: this is pointing to this problem of having a theory

465
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Speaker 1: of mind. And this is what haw her Zog says

466
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: in the book, This theory of mind. Yeah, this is

467
00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 1: the This is the whole human thing where you can't

468
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 1: look at another person, another animal, etcetera without sort of

469
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 1: putting yourself in in that creature's shoes to try and

470
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: think as it thinks on on a very human level.

471
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Speaker 1: This is important because it allows us to empathize with people,

472
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Speaker 1: to try and understand where they're coming from and better

473
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: communicate with them, to better work with them. You know,

474
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 1: it's the whole reason they have that test and blade

475
00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,479
Speaker 1: runner for the for the replicants to to see if

476
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 1: they were a replicant or not, because the tels were

477
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 1: in their ability to empathize with somebody else. But with animals,

478
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: of course, it's very It's also very useful in hunting

479
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 1: them and figuring out what they're doing, because you can't

480
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: ask the cat, hey, what are you up to? You

481
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 1: have to you have to use the theory of mind

482
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: to try and figure out what it's doing, or the

483
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: chicken that you're trying to chase around the yard, or

484
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: the deer that you're hunting in here in the forest.

485
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: This is the crux of the problem though, because in

486
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: order for you to inhabit the mind of another, whether

487
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,439
Speaker 1: it be you know, a saber tooth tiger or your

488
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: next door neighbor, you have to get in think like them,

489
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,959
Speaker 1: try to predict the future, and empathize like you cannot

490
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:04,240
Speaker 1: take the empathy away from the prediction model, right, because

491
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 1: it's sort of hardwired in there. So this is what

492
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,199
Speaker 1: I think leads to feelings of conflicts. So if you

493
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 1: connect with your potential food source and you ascribe some

494
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:14,919
Speaker 1: of your own attributes to them, because you're going to

495
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,400
Speaker 1: write and it project yourself onto them, You're gonna unconsciously

496
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 1: be defining this creature in the shadow of yourself. It's

497
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 1: like a hitman that gets to know the duty he's

498
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,159
Speaker 1: supposed to whack, right, That's right, you could objectifying that

499
00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:30,360
Speaker 1: person um and you are. And so in this case though,

500
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 1: if you're you're hunting this, you're about to eat this creature.

501
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 1: And how Herzog would even say that that all of

502
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,160
Speaker 1: a sudden you you might be feeling something like cannibalism,

503
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: which I think is really interesting, and he even talks

504
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 1: to about how uh this Columbia University. University historian Richard

505
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: Bullyett says that the more distant we've become from the

506
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 1: creatures that produce food and fiber and hides, the closer

507
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: our relationships with pets have become, and the more meat

508
00:26:57,119 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 1: we eat, the more we feel guilty about it, because

509
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 1: we've come to know animals as less as them and

510
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: more as us. Yeah. But of course, if you're depending

511
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: on on some forms of meat and some markets, for me,

512
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: you're you're you're so far removed from the source that

513
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 1: you don't even you know, you have kids that that

514
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: that don't know that a hamburger is a cow, you know,

515
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: for for the longest, because you know, how would you know?

516
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: Well this is then that's the interesting point you make,

517
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: because this is when I for myself personally, and this

518
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: is by the way, I am a vegetarian and this

519
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 1: is a personal choice, and I'm not, you know, foisting

520
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:33,400
Speaker 1: this onto anyone, but I am going to say that

521
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: that for me, that the weird point the disconnect came

522
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 1: when I realized that once again I was opening this

523
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: package of chicken boneless chicken, and I was sliding it

524
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 1: out into the frying pan and and trying my best

525
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: not to touch it. And I would never touch meat,

526
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: and so I started really like, that's ridiculous that I'm

527
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: about to eat this thing. I cannot touch it. I

528
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: cannot get myself to to touch the flesh of it. Yeah,

529
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: because like the act of cooking is like a transformation.

530
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 1: It transfers it from flesh to food, and eating food

531
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: is no problem. And yeah, and so many of us

532
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: don't really, especially if you if you're not really a

533
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: cook at all, if you, like say, you just depend

534
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,639
Speaker 1: on fast food as you're or or some sort of

535
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: like microwavable type of prepackaged process thing, you're not really

536
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 1: touching flesh that much. You're always dealing with food. You've

537
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:27,399
Speaker 1: got the process part of it, right. So anyway, says again,

538
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: you know, here's pointing to this problem at least for me,

539
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: which was okay, if I if I can't, if I

540
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,240
Speaker 1: can't get my head around doing this one act and

541
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: yet I can do this other act, then then somehow

542
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: for me personally, there's a disconnect that I need to

543
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: square myself with um. And I thought it was really

544
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: interesting that hell, Herzog talks about how we do this

545
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: on some level sometimes either we know, make a conscious

546
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: decision stop eating meat, or you know, we try to

547
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: be better about eating responsibly, right, like you know, like

548
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: cutting it down to not think, um, you know, a

549
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: chicken biscuit for a snack, or or of course another

550
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: one is it's I I've heard it put that you

551
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: should only have your meat serving should be about the

552
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: size of a wallet, and and if you're eating more

553
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: than that, then you're being meat arosco. Or if Michael

554
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 1: Pollan says, I think something along the lines that during

555
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: the day he's a vegetarian, at night he's a carnivore

556
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: along those lines, and that's because he's he's a wearewolf, right,

557
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 1: you can't help it. That's an inherited genetic condition like

558
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: mild mannard and that button up shirt. But no, U

559
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: beneath that exterior is a werewolf. But then they also

560
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: say that there's something called semantic moral distancing. That's another tactic. Yeah,

561
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: this is where you're getting into this, like the also

562
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: the CycL linguistics, the use of language, and of course

563
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: in the use of meaning, because the way I'm sort

564
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: of looking at it here is you could you have

565
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: like a simple arrangement like the hitman and the duty's

566
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: gonna whack the person. And then the animal kingdom where

567
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 1: I am human, everything else is other and I can

568
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 1: eat anything that's other. Other is objectifying things. Right, But

569
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: then when I use that theory of mind, everything that

570
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: is other potentially becomes to varying degrees me yes, or

571
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: or at least my species. Distance yourself then from me

572
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: than me and you and the other god we're going

573
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: to need so the system, you know, just immediately like

574
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: there's just a quantum leap and its complexity, just its

575
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: semantic complexity, and and so suddenly our world view isn't

576
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: one of us and other of me and then potential food.

577
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: But this this multilayered view in which some things are foods,

578
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: some things are not, some things are are pets, some

579
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: things are flesh, some things are food. It's um. And

580
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: in cyclinguistics they would say, you know, is it that

581
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:55,720
Speaker 1: we are determining uh? Are we determining our reality through language?

582
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: Or are we defining reality through language? Right? Like it

583
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: like it's like the the flesh food thing. Um, if

584
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: you go to go to the fast food restaurant. You're

585
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: not going to order, Hey give me some dead cow?

586
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: Can you? Can you give me some heated dead cow

587
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: on some bread, because that would be great. Now you

588
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 1: just ask for a hamburger, and I mean that's and

589
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 1: and to a to a lesser extent, what is the hamburger?

590
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: It's beef, it's not it's yeah, it's like like all

591
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 1: these different levels of semantics, different different language differences between

592
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: the food and the flesh, between the thing we're consuming

593
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 1: in the animal. Yeah. And see you see that that

594
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: moral distancing right through language. And you see that you're

595
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: that we're painting our existence through language, right, we're painting

596
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: this particular reality for us. I'm going to eat a

597
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: hamburger through language, as opposed to I'm about to eat

598
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: some cow meat as you say, are a cow dead

599
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: cow meat? Um? And you see this all through. It's

600
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: not just with animals. You see this at the corporate

601
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: level too, right. Um. You here downsizing or elimination instead

602
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 1: of you know, I just sacked you or something that

603
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 1: feels a little bit more true, and or you say

604
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: we wish you you're the best in your future endeavors

605
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: as opposed to don't let the door hit you in

606
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: the butt on the way out right, right, um. And

607
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: these are these little niceties, these a little moral distancing.

608
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: And again in the food world, you can see this

609
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: all over the place. I mean, bacon is a great example, right,

610
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 1: why don't we just call it again? Except the Germans though,

611
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: And that's the really fascinating thing, because in Germany, if

612
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: you're ordering some, if you're talking about pork, you just

613
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: say swine flesh, which is which is pig flesh or

614
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: rain flesh for cow flesh. They're they're a lot more direct.

615
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: They're so hard nosed as Germans. You kind of I

616
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: gotta admire that, you know, because there's there's no uh,

617
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: there's no lifting of the veil there, the veil has

618
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: been lifted. Um. And I thought this was interesting too,

619
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: And hail Herzog's books. He talks about how powerful it is,

620
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: this uh, this language of cycle linguistics, that if you

621
00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: look at something like the Patagonian toothfish, that doesn't sound

622
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: to appetizing, right, Yeah, I'm just imagining a fish like

623
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: get embedded with teeth exactly, Sean, just looking eyes, spiny teeth,

624
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: just not something you necessarily want to eat. Um. And

625
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: it really that's what that sounds like, right, patagony and

626
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: toothfish sounds very prehistoric. But behold the Chilean sea bass. Oh,

627
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: now it sounds tasty. Doesn't that sound like a foodie's

628
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: biggest dream there? Well, that's like the dolphin, right, not

629
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: not the dolphin, the mammal, but the dolphin fish to

630
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: better market. I believe that's the one that they now

631
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: call my am I right, yeah, that's right, because that

632
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: sounds delightful, whereas dolphin it sounds particularly problematic because for

633
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: some reason it has the same name as this mammal

634
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: that is uh is you know, crazy smart? Yeah? I

635
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: mean you don't want to eat flipper? Right, um. And

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Speaker 1: a seal hunt right as a harvest, a coal, a

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Speaker 1: management plan. And you've got Peta on the other side

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Speaker 1: saying no, it's a massacre, it's a slaughter, it's centrocity.

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Speaker 1: So it's very interesting to see how how approaching um

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Speaker 1: this reality for each for no matter where you are

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Speaker 1: on the side of the issue. Yeah, there's language, you

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Speaker 1: can you can summon the appropriate language to to color

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Speaker 1: it however you want. Yeah, so I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: do think it's interesting too that Peter started using Save

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Speaker 1: the Sea Kittens to try to get people a little

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Speaker 1: bit more aware of fish as as um you know,

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Speaker 1: I guess as as peschetarians might look at them, um like, hey,

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Speaker 1: don't we eat the fish the little kittens. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't know about sea kitten. Yeah, but I did think

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Speaker 1: it was interesting the creative use of language there. So

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Speaker 1: there you go. Some some thoughts on this. Um, it's

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Speaker 1: it's tricky business, this this subject. Yeah, it's um and

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Speaker 1: and and I definitely want to reiterate, you know, not

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Speaker 1: not being judging about anybody's decisions on what they eat

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Speaker 1: and why they eat it. But I guess I can,

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Speaker 1: I do tend to to air toward, uh digging the

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Speaker 1: idea that that we should be at least a little

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Speaker 1: open about about why we eat the things we eat

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Speaker 1: and uh and even even if we're not open all

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Speaker 1: the time about it, that it will at least have

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Speaker 1: those moments of clarity where we we realize that that, well,

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Speaker 1: this this thing that I'm eating, it's delicious as heck,

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Speaker 1: but it also used to be a thing running around

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Speaker 1: on four legs. And that's not necessarily good, not necessarily bad,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's an important reality. Um, you've only

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Speaker 1: in dealing with the logistics of our current food situation. Well,

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Speaker 1: and I think to write now because you say the

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Speaker 1: current food food situation. This is not a conversation we'd

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Speaker 1: be having a hundred years ago, because probably you or

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Speaker 1: I would be out in the backyard ringing a chicken's

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Speaker 1: neck and you wouldn't you would understand what it took

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Speaker 1: to get that to the plate, and our podcast would

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Speaker 1: be Uh, what format would it be on? I guess

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Speaker 1: we've been like an old record or what was the tube? Uh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. You see a hundred years ago, well, gosh,

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Speaker 1: I don't even think the talkies were in. Maybe it

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Speaker 1: would be a newspaper columns it would have yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, make up your reality there. Well cool.

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Speaker 1: If any of you have any thoughts, definitely let us know.

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Speaker 1: We would love to hear everyone's thoughts about our food situations,

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Speaker 1: you know, and we want to hear from you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're a hardcore vegan or a nugent esque. If

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Speaker 1: you are Ted Nugent, we want to hear from you. Yeah. Maybe,

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Speaker 1: and uh in all the places you fall in between.

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Speaker 1: Let us know. There are there animals that, uh that

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Speaker 1: you're that everyone else seems fine with eating that you

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Speaker 1: rule out. Are there animals that no one wants to eat,

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Speaker 1: but do you think would be a great thing to

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Speaker 1: cook up? Let us know. Yeah, and also Zuckerman, if

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Speaker 1: you're out there, we want to hear from you, because

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Speaker 1: apparently he's doing this whole thing from from food. He's

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Speaker 1: only going to eat animals that he kills personally. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: which is I don't know, that's just kind of creepy.

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Speaker 1: It's just and in a little old kind of macho

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Speaker 1: for me. I mean, someone who has a lot of

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Speaker 1: time on their hands and a lot of money in

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Speaker 1: their pockets. Yeah, just applies to animals that now a veggie.

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Speaker 1: He's not Upen's not he's not slaughtering egg plants. Yeah alright,

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