Ep. 50 | What Your Hunter-Gatherer Genes Really Want | Guest: Sebastian Junger
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Sebastian Junger is the author of "Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging." He joins Heaton to talk about how the world we've made is ill-fitting and alienating to the hunter-gatherer genes we've inherited, and what you can do to feel less lonely in the twenty-first century.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and today Sebastian |
| 0:16.1 | Younger is going to be joining me. We're going to talk about his book, Tribe on Homecoming and |
| 0:20.3 | belonging and I am very excited. This is one of the great perks of my job. It's possible |
| 0:25.9 | that if I obtained Sebastian Younger's phone number and just randomly called him and said |
| 0:30.4 | can I chat with you for 45 minutes about your book? |
| 0:32.8 | Very possible he would have picked up but for most authors probably not the case and |
| 0:36.2 | instead I get to have this I think fascinating conversation with him for the benefit of |
| 0:40.4 | you guys and I'll say afterwards there's going to be some special |
| 0:43.6 | listener feedback today because a number of you have written into me about my |
| 0:47.6 | continued use of the term Iowa and so I spent a surprising amount of time |
| 0:52.0 | yesterday responding and I'll do that at the end of the show. |
| 0:55.0 | But before we get to either of those things, we do need to give a shout out to today's sponsor. |
| 1:00.0 | Some things are with Andrew Heaton is brought to you by glow-of-the-dark cheese, by |
| 1:05.4 | Formage de Pierre. |
| 1:07.8 | The picnic couldn't be going better. |
| 1:10.2 | Your husband looks healthy and happy. Grandpa's not saying anything uncomfortable or awkward, |
| 1:15.0 | and your children are surprisingly well-behaved. |
| 1:18.0 | Last time, they kept killing ants with a magnifying glass, |
| 1:21.0 | but on this trip, they haven't tried to smash any at all. |
| 1:24.8 | Everyone's sitting around a big comfy quilt sharing what happened over their weekend and |
| 1:28.9 | commenting on the occasional cloud. |
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