Hi-Phi Nation: Cannibals

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🗓️ 12 February 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In our final episode on monsters, we investigate why people who eat people are the funkiest people in the afterlife. We talk to a man who has actually eaten parts of other people, many times, about why he thinks consuming human flesh should be normalized. We then consider the age-old question of how God is supposed to resurrect a cannibal and all of his victims when most of the flesh of the victims would also be a part of the cannibal. Some of the best minds in Western philosophy and Christian theology thought about this question, including Leibniz, Aquinas, and Augustine. Co-hosted by Christina van Dyke, featuring artist and cannibal Rick Gibson and philosopher Dean Zimmerman. Sign up for Slate Plus at slate.com/hiphiplus for ad free feeds to all Slate podcasts and unlimited reading of articles at slate.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0	I'm not using it.
0:33.0	From...
0:36.0	It just so happened that a new guy, he had his tonsils removed.
0:41.0	He wanted them.
0:42.0	So the surgery said, yeah, sure.
0:43.0	And he put them in a little jar or preservative and gave them to them.
0:47.0	And he knew me and he knew I was using some of this stuff in sculptures.
0:51.0	And he said, here, you want my tonsils? And I said, yeah, sure.
0:54.0	So he gave me his tonsils thinking probably that I was going to freeze-drive them and turn them into a sculpture.
0:59.0	For reasons still unknown to me that I forgot to this day, I decided to eat them instead.
1:11.0	Christina Van Dyke, co-host of our Monster Series.
1:14.0	Sometimes you never know how someone is going to be affected by reading a piece of philosophy.
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