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Radiolab

Guts

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Science

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2012

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This hour, we dive into the messy mystery in the middle of us. What's going on down there? And what can the rumblings deep in our bellies tell us about ourselves?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Wait, you're listening.

0:03.1

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0:04.4

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0:05.6

Okay.

0:07.0

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0:08.4

You're listening to Radio Lab.

0:11.4

Radio Lab.

0:11.9

From W. N. Y. S.

0:14.3

See?

0:15.1

Yeah.

0:16.6

And NPR.

0:19.0

Hello.

0:20.4

We're going to start this show today. Hey, Mary. With Mary Roach. Hey. Tim here. Hi, Tim. Hey, let me see if I can. Mary is one of our favorite authors, mostly because she kind of writes about stuff that's yucky, gross. I'm the kind of person if I'm, I find myself in an operating room for whatever I'm reporting on them, the kind of person where they, they'll be like, Ms. Roach, you need to step back. Your head is actually inside the body cavity.

0:45.2

And for her latest book?

0:46.6

Called Gulp.

0:47.6

She got really, really into and inside cows.

0:51.7

Yeah, the fistulated cows that the agricultural schools have.

0:55.1

And what's a fistulated cow?

0:56.8

A fistula is an irregular anatomical passageway.

1:00.6

And a fistulated cow has a hole.

1:03.7

An opening right in its side so that you can actually stick your hand into its side and reach all the way down to the stomach.

1:11.0

This is a living cow, right?

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