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Hello, my name is Kurt Anderson, and every time that I eat cheese, I wonder who was the first person to discover cheese?

Because to make cheese, you have to basically let milk go bad.

And then who decided like, you know what, I'm gonna eat this little lump of something

and then decided that was good and I going to try and make more of it.

Hi.

Hey, Kurt. It's Flora.

Hi. How are you?

I'm good. What prompted you to go down this mental rabbit hole?

Well, when I got married and I got a real job, my wife and I

started a cheese of the month club with two members, myself and my wife. And boy, where my eyes opened,

there are so many cheeses. Yeah, there's a whole stinky world out there. Yes, craft singles. That's what I thought cheese was. And yeah, I just kind of thought that cheese just happened. And I didn't think anything past that. Like, I didn't think how stupid that was. That's kind of how I feel every week on this show. Exactly. So we've been doing a

different cheese every month and that got me into the question of like, who was the first person

to eat cheese or make cheese or discover cheese? Do you have a theory? Oh, absolutely. Here's my hypothesis.

I think it happened high up on a hillside in Switzerland.

High on a hill was a lonely goat,

and a cow dropped some milk into a field

in maybe its own hoof print.

And then I think it mixed with all the stuff

in the dirt and the grass and it baked in the sun.

And then I think a farmer walked by and said,

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