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The Gist

He Ate Human Flesh for Science

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Bill Schutt says no one from his childhood is surprised to find out he's been studying cannibalism—after all, he was into vampire bats as a kid. For his new book, he's investigated the (natural) history of people eating one another and why it's only been taboo in some countries, like China, for a short time.  In the Spiel, how we talk about domestic terrorism. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:08.4

Wednesday, June 14, 2017, from slate, it's the just time, Mike Pesca, David Lianhart,

0:14.4

New York Times columnist, who I really like, has this advice on two of the big stories of the day.

0:19.4

And by stories of the day, I mean stories the last few weeks, nothing to do with this horrible

0:23.1

shooting in Washington DC. So one of these stories has been dominating the news.

0:27.0

The other is taking advantage of the fact that the first story is dominating the news,

0:30.8

just in general, taking advantage of the fact that the spotlight has been elsewhere.

0:34.4

So on the one hand, we have the Trump Russia connection, interesting, fascinating,

0:40.8

compelling, what a cast of characters. A scurrilous assault on my honor. I do believe I am bum-fuzzled

0:49.8

by your Palava, Miss Harris. The other one is the Senate Health Caribell. Here's what we know.

0:57.0

About the Senate Health Caribell. Nothing. We know nothing because as a staff are admitted,

1:02.0

they're not stupid enough to tell the public what health carabell they'll be getting.

1:05.9

There's no markup, no hearings, no outside input, which a lot of the good government types will tell you

1:12.6

that's bad. But I gotta say, it's pretty much how Beyonce dropped her lemonade album, right? And we

1:18.0

don't like that. So about the Russia investigation, we don't know a lot of the truth. We don't know what

1:25.6

the president knew about Russian interference. We don't know what he knew about Mike Flynn

1:30.5

knowing about Russian interference. So that's why we're having the hearings so that we can know.

1:35.2

About the health caribell, no one except its few shady authors are getting a hearing at all.

1:41.6

But Leonardo in his story, which is headline, the media is missing the story,

1:45.6

quote, Chris Murphy, Democratic Senator of Connecticut saying, focus 10% of your attention and

1:51.6

outrage on the session's testimony, 90% on the secret health caribell that's speeding to a vote.

1:58.8

Okay, but obvious question, how? What does that mean? How do I do that with my focus? How do I

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