Can I Eat That?

Live from the Poundstone Institute

NPR

Comedy

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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We talk to a scientist who has determined once and for all if the Five Second Rule really works, and we discuss the latest findings on sexy scientists. Plus: the great David Sedaris joins us to take our personality test.

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0:00.0	Gregory Warner here to tell you about NPR's new international podcast called Rough Translation.
0:06.0	Each week we're going to take you to a different country to hear a story that reflects back
0:10.0	on something that we are talking about here in the United States.
0:13.0	Maybe get a prospective shift.
0:15.0	Travel with us.
0:16.0	Rough translation is on NPR1 or wherever you get your podcast.
0:20.0	We have a 2012 survey here that found 35% of adults in Britain admitted they sleep
0:29.9	with a teddy bear or other comfort object. Wow, this is in Britain.
0:35.9	In Britain.
0:36.9	So they didn't just admit it.
0:38.2	They said, I do.
0:40.3	All right, you got me. What's wrong with that?
0:44.0	Sleeping with a teddy.
0:45.0	Who doesn't?
0:46.0	I love my teddy.
0:49.0	No, so 35 or other comfort objects.
0:52.0	Yes.
0:53.0	Yeah, like a scone.
0:55.0	A pint.
0:56.0	Yeah, a pint, that's more likely, yeah.
1:02.0	Yeah, that's their comfort object. Yeah, of's more likely. Yeah, that's their comfort arbed it.
1:03.2	Yeah, I have this British Guards hat.
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