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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

From the Vault: The Science of Holy Butter

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

There's more to butter than meets the eye. Each yellow pat of fatty goodness is nothing short of processed solar energy, and its long history entails many a magical and sacred rite. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Christian consider the curious nature of butter. (Originally published Jan 10, 2017)

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1:39.0

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blah your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb, and I'm Joe McCormick and it's Saturday, time to go into the vault. This time we're pulling an episode from January 10th, 2017. This is an episode that you did with Christian.

1:58.0

Yeah, this was a pretty fun one that I figured would be a good one to pull back out because it's the science of Holy Butter. It's the parts I remember the most, or we're just talking about what butter is, and how it's kind of amazing, the saga that it goes through, because it's essentially sunlight.

2:15.0

It is sunlight transformed through a few different processes into a lump of substance that you have in your refrigerator.

2:25.0

Well, I guess that's true of pretty much all our food, but yes, but there's but butter looks like some right. It looks like sunlight. It seems to shine. And also we get into some of the the sacred ideas wrapped up in butter. And in all this, a lot of this is springboarding off of an excellent butter book that will reference in the episode.

2:46.0

All right, we'll butter up. Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com.

2:56.0

This is the secret name of butter.

3:06.0

We will sustain it in this sacrifice by bowing low. These waves of butter flow like gazelles before the hunter. Streams of butter caress the burning wood. Agni, the fire loves them and is satisfied.

3:36.0

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. And my name is Christian Sager, bow at the feet of butter. Yeah, I thought we needed a nice regal opening there. And that is a quote from the Rig Veda. This is from around 1500 BCE.

3:52.0

So we are going to really dive into butter. The episode I wanted to do like an episode title called Holy Butter Batman. It seems like that might fit the best, but we are going to talk about religious uses of butter.

4:08.0

We're also going to talk about the basic food science of preparing butter and then butter war, which is a very real thing. In fact, so real that it's generated a satirical children's book all about butter.

4:26.0

Yes, I imagine a number of you are familiar with this. It is a doctor's sources. The butter battle book published in 1984 and it's a it is a satire that tackled the very serious topic of cold war.

4:39.0

The nuclear arms race and mutually assured destruction is the only children's book that I've run across that ends with the contemplation of mutually assured nuclear destruction.

4:52.0

Yeah, I was not familiar with this specific Dr. Sus book until today and I watched the Ralph Bakshi animated version on YouTube this morning in preparation for this. And it blew my mind. I wonder how it would have changed me as a person if I had seen this when I was like four or five years old.

5:11.0

Yeah, I don't think I saw it when I was a kid and this is this animated version by the way narrated by Charles Gurning of anyone out to his not familiar with it. You should be able to find it on YouTube. Yeah, it was everywhere.

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