Oh Mother with Elissa Altman

How To Human with Sam Lamott

Sam Lamott

Health & Fitness

5 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Elissa Altman is an award-winning author of literary memoir, essay, and food narrative, who writes from the place where sustenance, the power of the human spirit, and the promise of renewal converge. For more of Elissa: Website: https://www.elissaaltman.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elissa_altman/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elissa.altman Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElissaAltman To become a patron and help this program continue producing This show, and get access to patron-only events, go to www.patreon.com/hellohuman and pledge any amount. For more of us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellohumans.co/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellohumans.co/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HelloHumans_co

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0:00.0	None of us came from nowhere. No human has ever been created in a vacuum. Even in the mystical
0:06.4	creation stories from around the world, you never hear, at first there was nothing. And then
0:11.7	there was Bob. No. Humans are always made or grown or animated by something. And the something
0:20.4	in our life, the great commonality is for better or worse, we were brought
0:24.9	into existence by our biological parents.
0:27.9	This whole thing, your thing, your life, your living, right now, started off in one of the
0:32.9	craziest cosmic crapshoots ever.
0:35.9	40 to 150 million purpose-bred egg-hunting sperm
0:40.3	gets set off all at once in a Kentucky Derby death race.
0:44.3	Make a long and difficult journey to the cervix,
0:47.3	hit the flopian tube fork in the road, and somehow rock-paper-cissors decide,
0:51.3	you go this way, I go that way, then get to the egg, which might
0:55.2	as well be the death star.
0:57.0	Only the strong will survive.
0:59.0	Force fields up.
1:01.0	One sperm makes it through, fertilizes the egg, which is like the sperm moving into his
1:04.7	new girlfriend's house and they can't decide whose furniture to keep so they just mix and match
1:08.9	and make some new DNA.
1:10.5	And then nine months later,
1:12.5	welcome to life, bitch. Your dad's a deadbeat and your mom's a meth head. Good luck.
1:19.2	This is the craziest part to me. Your biological parents could be dumb as rocks and still,
1:25.2	encoded in them is a profound innate knowledge to create life.
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