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🗓️ 24 October 2021
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0:00.0 | I didn't know my true self until this very conversation. |
0:06.2 | I'm Angela Duckworth. |
0:07.6 | I'm Stephen Dubner. |
0:08.6 | And you're listening to no stupid questions. |
0:12.2 | Today on the show, we have cow milk and goat milk. |
0:15.8 | Why not take milk? |
0:17.2 | They're smart, skittish, suspicious, and paranoid. |
0:20.6 | It sounds like a good description of a University Chicago economist. |
0:25.5 | Also, what's a food that seems gross to most people, but you find delicious? |
0:31.0 | I think a lot of the foods I like are discussing to many people. |
0:35.5 | Stephen, we have an email that is about a really interesting question. |
0:44.2 | I'm going to read it to you. |
0:45.4 | Please. |
0:46.4 | Hi, guys. |
0:47.6 | This might in parallel your no stupid questions theory, but why don't humans drink pig milk |
0:53.8 | or consume pig milk products? |
0:56.6 | Is that too stupid a question? |
0:58.8 | The email goes on. |
1:00.2 | Camels, cows, goats, yak, mousse, sheep, buffalo, reindeer, wherever a sizeable mammal has been |
1:05.4 | domesticated for food, it seems that some group of humans has incorporated its dairy into |
1:10.2 | their diet. |
1:11.2 | Why not pigs? |
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