Giant Cheese Race, “Morning You,” Consciousness-Altering Eye Contact
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Learn about a race against a wheel of cheese; your personality throughout the day; and effects of extensive eye contact.
The stories in this episode originally aired July 6, 2018 https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/you-re-a-different-person-in-the-morning-eye-conta
Every Year, People in this English Town Risk Life and Limb to Chase a Wheel of Cheese by Annie Hartman
- Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling 2021 on Coopers Hill in Gloucester. (2021). SoGlos. https://www.soglos.com/sport-outdoor/27837/Gloucestershire-Cheese-Rolling
- Phillips, J. (2020, May 25). Secret sunrise Cheese Rolling ceremony keeps tradition alive. GloucestershireLive. https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/secret-sunrise-cheese-rolling-ceremony-4162049
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you'll learn about a bizarre tradition that involves racing |
| 0:10.4 | against a giant wheel of cheese, how you're a totally different person in the morning |
| 0:14.6 | than you are late at night, and how you can alter your consciousness using nothing more than |
| 0:19.3 | eye contact. |
| 0:20.9 | We originally ran these stories on July 6th, 2018, and they're so good we remastered them just for you. |
| 0:27.0 | Plus, stick around for a brand new recap segment at the end of today's episode to hear our fresh takes on all of today's |
| 0:33.3 | stories and other hilarity that only we are capable of. But right now let's satisfy |
| 0:38.8 | some curiosity. So before we relive these stories in all their glory, I need to give a little context to this first one. |
| 0:47.0 | We've talked about a lot of strange traditions and weird history on Curiosity Daily, and this is no exception. |
| 0:53.0 | Every year, there's an event where people chase a giant wheel of cheese |
| 0:57.2 | down a hill that's so steep people walk away |
| 1:00.1 | with several injuries and broken bones. |
| 1:03.0 | The event we're about to talk about was cancelled in 2020 and in 2021 due to COVID. |
| 1:08.0 | But a one-man variation of it did take place in May 2020. |
| 1:12.0 | We'll talk about that at the end of today's episode, but we thought |
| 1:14.9 | this context would help you enjoy this story a little better. Have fun. |
| 1:18.7 | Actually, do you like Cheese? I love Cheese. Really? |
| 1:21.6 | Mm-hmm. Good talk. Cool. I have no follow-up to that. But today we're |
| 1:28.3 | going to start with a story that we just have to talk about. The Cooper's held |
| 1:32.1 | she's rolling contest was first recorded about 200 years ago in southwest |
| 1:37.0 | England. That first recorded race was in 1826 but the actual event might be |
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