How Disgust Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Disgust is an odd thing. It makes sense that we would feel a sense of revulsion at the thought of putting rotten meat in our mouths – that’s pure evolution. But why would we feel the same emotion at the thought of weird sex or from hearing a racist rant?

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from How Stuff Works.com.
0:41.4	You and welcome to The Podcast.
0:43.4	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there.
0:47.4	There's Jerry and this is Disgust on Stuff You Should Know about Disgust.
0:56.3	You got to say it like that.
0:57.5	I'm excited about this one Chuck.
0:59.0	Do you know why?
1:00.7	I have no idea.
1:01.7	I think you do.
1:02.7	If you stopped and really thought about it, that's fine.
1:04.7	That's fine.
1:05.7	But if you stopped and thought about it, you would say, yes, I know exactly why Josh
1:09.7	and it is as follows.
1:11.7	Pulling quotes because this is one of those things that science hasn't fully explained,
1:18.0	which means there's a lot of interesting theories, which means we just get to like talk smack
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