Trailer: Season Two
Deeply Human
iHeartPodcasts/BBC/APM
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Monogamy, sleep deprivation, high fashion, and avant-garde Japanese dance—that’s right Deeply Human is coming back with a bang. In season 2, Dessa, speaks to psychologists, animal behaviorists, mathematicians, historians, and one legendary DJ to ask the evergreen question: why do you do what you do? Why does music animate our bodies? Why are we so keen to form social hierarchies? Why do humans use intoxicants? We’re talking about everyone’s favorite topic—you.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah? |
| 0:01.9 | Check one. |
| 0:03.1 | Check two. |
| 0:03.8 | Hey, oh, check, check. |
| 0:05.3 | Yo, James, can I get more of me and my headphones? |
| 0:07.7 | Dessa, your voice is literally the only thing in the headphones. |
| 0:10.8 | You know, it's a podcast. |
| 0:12.2 | Let's just get on my... |
| 0:13.1 | Okay. |
| 0:14.6 | Deeply Human is back for a second season. |
| 0:17.1 | And I, Dessa, am examining the hidden motors of human behavior, how we're wired, |
| 0:22.4 | how we're socialized, and how we're driven by instinct, fear, love, and money. Why, for example, |
| 0:28.9 | do humans form social hierarchies? Why do we talk the way we do? And how are our accents |
| 0:33.8 | changing? A single nasalized vowel sound potentially could be the difference between life and death. |
| 0:40.3 | Or why do humans use intoxicants? |
| 0:42.3 | It's easier to order a little bag of meth or any other drug in Tehran than to order pizza. |
| 0:52.3 | And pizza is pretty easy to order. |
| 0:59.8 | Why do we have such strong moral reactions to beautification? From full face makeup to lip fillers, |
| 1:05.8 | from Brazilian butt lifts. That's kind of all everyone wants, you know, is some cakes back there. |
| 1:12.2 | To the even more exotic. A vampire facial is when you have a facial which injects into your face, |
| 1:19.6 | platelets that are extracted from your own blood. We've assembled brilliant minds from around the world, philosophers, anthropologists, neuroscientists, historians, and one legendary Brooklyn DJ, |
| 1:27.1 | and I've asked them some very insightful questions. |
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