So Cute You Can't Even! - The Science Of Cute Aggression

Wow in the World

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Education, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Do you have a face so cute that people want to pinch your cheeks? Does the sight of a baby piglet snuggling up to a newborn baby make you want to kick down a door and run away screaming? Have you ever uttered the words, "You're so cute I could EAT YOU UP!?" Well then you may suffer from a scientific phenomenon known as "Cute Aggression." And in this episode, Mindy and Guy Raz take you through a recent scientific study that explores what causes it, and why? It's the latest Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, and Wow in the World of an overwhelming overload of CUTENESS! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:36.7	Oh, it's 4 o'clock! Time for me to sit back, relax, throw up my feet and watch the
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0:50.0	And we are back! Today on the Bruny Soto Show, we're talking with victims of Cubists,
0:58.5	people and animals who are too cute for their own safety. First up, we'd like to welcome
1:04.1	a seven-year-old Graham who says he's so cute, he can hardly walk down the street without
1:09.5	a grandma threatening to eat him! Please give it up for Graham!
1:20.4	Now Graham, can you tell us what it's like to go through life in fear of your own cuteness?
1:27.1	Well, started out when I was a baby. My mom wouldn't write friends over and then they'd
1:34.0	say, oh he's so cute, I'd go to pinchy cheeks! And then they actually did. When I was seven
1:41.5	months old, I had to learn how to run to get away from them. Stop it! All right, okay, settle
1:49.1	down on him. Now Graham, is it true that just last week you were so cute that a grandma tried to eat you?
1:58.6	Yes, it's true. Maybe it's my rosy cheeks, maybe it's my freckles, maybe it's my teeny nose,
2:06.9	I don't know what it is. But whenever Graham's paws and grambas come over, they just say,
2:12.0	oh, I just want to eat you up. Graham, did that really happen?
2:20.8	Yeah, just one grandma started to kid-singing me screaming, you look like a porcelain doll.
2:26.4	Oh no, Graham, have you ever actually been eaten by a grandma?
2:32.7	No, I keep my teddy bear with me for protection.
2:38.7	And the cute, ominous, just broke ladies and gentlemen.
2:42.9	Graham, I'm sorry to tell you that you are cute enough to eat.
2:47.8	Coming up next, we'll hear from a baby hedgehog who is so cute that it makes people want to
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