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Tai Asks Why

What is love?

Tai Asks Why

CBC

Kids & Family

4.21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Love is weird. How can this thing take over your body and bend it to its will? Tai looks to science, philosophy and his mom for answers. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/tai-asks-why-transcripts-listen-1.6747759

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0:00.0

This is a CBC podcast.

0:05.0

For a lot of people, love is a awesome, wonderful thing.

0:10.0

People write poetry and hip-hop songs about it.

0:14.3

But for me, though, I've been finding love kind of complicated.

0:19.3

The other day, my mom said something to me,

0:21.3

that was really interesting.

0:25.0

On the day you were born, Ty, and I'd never held a baby, right?

0:31.0

You know, I've told you that before.

0:32.0

I'd never held a baby. I'd never

0:33.8

love babies. I was never interested in babies. And you came out in me and you were in

0:39.8

my arms and I fell in love with you so much and what happened in that moment I remember very clearly thinking that I would like lay down my life and die for you.

0:50.0

But why? Why would my mom die for me? Why sacrifice yourself for your offspring? When like worst

0:58.9

case scenario your offspring gets killed you could just make more right?

1:03.2

It's just weird.

1:05.0

Love is this powerful force that takes over our body and bends it to its will?

1:13.0

That's actually really, really scary.

1:17.0

How does that work?

1:19.0

Ty asks why.

1:24.0

why.

1:25.0

I'm Ty and this is my podcast.

1:32.0

Ty asks why. There are so many good questions out there

1:36.5

they just really want to get answered. Which one's cooler? Zero or infinity. How do we fix

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