504. Introducing “Off Leash”

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🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this new podcast from the Freakonomics Radio Network, dog-cognition expert and bestselling author Alexandra Horowitz (Inside of a Dog) takes us inside the scruffy, curious, joyful world of dogs. This is the first episode of Off Leash; you can find more episodes in your podcast app now.

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0:00.0	Alex Andrew Harwitz.
0:03.7	Hi, Steven. It's nice to talk to you.
0:05.7	It's nice to talk to you, too. Did you take your interesting vitamins this morning?
0:09.0	Yes, I'm ready.
0:12.5	Alex Andrew Harwitz is a writer and a cognitive scientist at Barnard College in New York,
0:19.4	where she runs a dog cognition lab.
0:22.0	She's also the host of a new podcast. It's called Off Leash,
0:26.3	and it's part of the Freakinomics Radio Network.
0:30.6	All right, I need you to fill in a couple blanks for me.
0:34.2	Dogs are to Alexandra Harwitz as blank or to blank.
0:40.1	What they are to me is like areas to mammals.
0:45.2	They're part of my existence.
0:47.6	Wow.
0:48.2	And intrinsic to it and necessary for it.
0:50.8	Without which you would die?
0:52.3	I don't mean to be dramatic about it, but they're part of me.
0:55.8	Period.
0:56.8	No, it can't be just a coincidence that dog is God spelled back.
1:02.2	I think you've got it mixed up. God is dog spelled backwards.
1:07.9	Obviously.
1:08.9	That makes that makes them up.
1:09.9	Yeah, I know you get it.
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