The Surprising Scientific Truth About Living As An Outsider
The Cracked Podcast
Literally Media
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Alex Schmidt is joined by journalist Olga Khazan, author of ‘Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World’. They’ll take a deep dive into personal stories and scientific studies about life as a weirdo. Discover the cultural, social, mental, and physical ramifications of living outside society’s norms. Also stick around for the surprising upsides of that kind of life. Because here’s one way being alive is more interesting than people think it is: being “weird” can be a person’s greatest strength.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there folks, welcome to another episode of the Cracked Podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | The podcast all about why Being Alive is more interesting than people think it is. |
| 0:18.4 | My name is Alex Schmitt, I'm also known as Schmittie the Clam, I'm also known as Schmittie |
| 0:21.7 | the Tramp, and I am also going to introduce you to my cat for the very first time. |
| 0:28.8 | Here he comes. |
| 0:29.8 | Yeah, his name is Watson, that was the purring right there. |
| 0:37.7 | I think that's a Cracked Podcast first having a cat on the show. |
| 0:41.3 | Really should have come a lot sooner, frankly, really. |
| 0:44.7 | Too many humans, more cats, I think that's the way to go. |
| 0:47.8 | So he says hi, Watson does, and I say hi to, of course, the audio might sound a little |
| 0:53.0 | different this week and it will sound a little different future weeks. |
| 0:55.9 | It's not only am I in a new place, but all our guests will be too. |
| 1:00.1 | If you follow my social media, you saw a programming note about what's going on, but if you don't |
| 1:04.4 | follow those, here it is verbally. |
| 1:06.6 | For a number of reasons, we got a little bit ahead on podcast tapings at the start of the |
| 1:11.1 | month of March. |
| 1:12.3 | So we had a few extra, quote unquote, regular episodes taped in professional studios before |
| 1:18.8 | the city gave a stay at home order to everybody. |
| 1:21.2 | If you heard last week's show with Adam Todd Brown and Jeff May, or if you heard the previous |
| 1:25.1 | week's show with Billy Wayne Davis and Candace Martelero, we were hearing episodes from |
| 1:30.4 | what I have seen people call the before times this week's episode and episodes for the |
| 1:35.7 | foreseeable future will get taped the way all podcasts are now taped. |
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