Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production by Heart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.

My name is Robert Lamb, and I'm Joe McCormick, and we're back with part two of our talk

about the pointing gesture in humans, maybe in animals, mostly in humans.

Robert, I have a question.

And since we recorded part one, have you noticed yourself noticing the way you point at things

and the way your family points at things?

Well, maybe a little bit.

Actually, for one thing, I guess around the house, there's not a lot.

I mean, what am I going to point at, right?

I mean, it's all a very established environment.

We've gone on a few walks here and there and done some stuff outside, but I don't know,

I haven't done much specific pointing.

Maybe a little bit at birds and squirrels and all, but yeah, I found that I want to say

that these episodes really changed the way I engage in pointing, but I don't think it

has.

It's really made me, the area where his influence me more is noticing how much we depend on

the idea of pointing in our language and in just our understanding of the world.

And in our technology, which I'll get to at the end of this episode, but you wanted to

talk some more about animals, right?

You didn't get enough animal pointing in the last episode.

Oh, yeah, yeah, we closed out the last episode.

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