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Stuff Mom Never Told You

Cuddle Puddle

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.24.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Cuddling permeates many of our closest relationships, whether platonic or romantic - but why? Cristen and Caroline investigate the nature and nurture of cuddling, why some people are now paying for a good snuggle and who wins the spooning battle of the se

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0:00.0

Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade.

0:07.0

He's a bank robber, a barajah shunnelz, a kidnapper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero.

0:14.0

His name is Vasili Spaliokostas and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robinhood who steals from the rich and gives to the port.

0:23.0

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0:54.0

What's up y'all? I'm Brian Ford, Artisan Baker and host of the new podcast FlakyBiscuit. I'm going to help y'all learn how to cook and bake new things as we get to know our guests through their favorite nostalgic meal.

1:14.0

So every time you have a guest you cook their favorite food.

1:17.0

Already, no? That's right. That's all we do.

1:19.0

Like you just get mad.

1:20.0

Maybe I'll be open somebody say I like free spots.

1:25.0

Listen to FlakyBiscuit every Tuesday on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:35.0

Welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You from houseoforks.com.

1:39.0

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Kristen and I'm Caroline.

1:48.0

And Caroline, today's topic is one of those that I did not expect to find as much research and in-depth investigations on something as simplistic, at least seemingly simplistic, as cuddling.

2:07.0

I know. Well, I was not surprised. I totally expected that there would be plenty of first-person accounts or anecdotal stories or even think pieces and analysis about who cuddles and why.

2:21.0

I didn't expect similarly. I did not expect the actual amount of academic research that's out there.

2:29.0

But once I started reading about cuddling and thought about all of the different variations of cuddling, which I got to say side note, cuddling is like one of those moist words for me.

2:43.0

Really? Yeah, cuddling. Cuddling. Why? But why is that because you're cuddling a verse?

2:50.0

I'm a verse to referring to the act of cuddling is cuddling.

2:54.0

Does it signify? As my therapist would say, Kristen, I'm sensing that there's a lot of emotion around this.

2:59.0

No, I think I just prefer spooning. I think I just don't like the sound of cuddling.

3:05.0

You know, it's similar to how a square is a rhombus, but a rhombus is not a square. You know, spooning can be cuddling, but cuddling doesn't necessarily equate to spooning.

3:16.0

And spooning doesn't sound quite as much like the word cuddling.

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