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?
We join author Mary Roach and reach inside a live cow's stomach. Talk with writer Frederick Kaufman about our first peek into the wonderful world of human digestion that came about thanks to a hunting accident. And explore with show regular, science writer, and fellow water drinker, Carl Zimmer, about the trillions of microscopic creatures that keep us regulated, physically, but also, maybe, emotionally and spiritually.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm a lot to fnassar. |
| 0:02.1 | This hour, we dive deep into the vault back to 2012 |
| 0:06.3 | to explore the grotesque tube slide |
| 0:10.4 | that lives inside all of us. |
| 0:12.7 | I mean, it seems straightforward, right? |
| 0:14.7 | It should be like every day, several times a day, |
| 0:18.3 | put food in your mouth, some time later, |
| 0:20.4 | comes out the other side. |
| 0:22.9 | But what really happens in between? |
| 0:26.1 | Now, I so vividly remember listening to this episode |
| 0:29.7 | when it came out, when I still love about it, |
| 0:32.8 | is just this idea that one errant gunshot wound |
| 0:38.8 | opened up this portal for us to peer inside ourselves |
| 0:44.2 | and to see what's actually going on in there in real time |
| 0:49.7 | and that what we saw upended so much of what we thought |
| 0:54.7 | we knew about the kind of messy mystery in the middle of us. |
| 1:00.4 | I have a feeling, call it a gut feeling, |
| 1:02.9 | that you're gonna enjoy it. |
| 1:04.2 | So without further ado, I give you guts, |
| 1:07.4 | best enjoyed after a meal. |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. |
| 1:11.9 | Okay. |
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