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Live from the Poundstone Institute

What the BLEEP are you doing?

Live from the Poundstone Institute

NPR

Comedy

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to a researcher who has determined the key to happiness is talking to strangers on the subway. (We do not talk to him on the subway.) Also, we learn how curse words might make you stronger. All that plus filmmaker John Waters joins us to take our personality test.

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0:30.0

Oh hey Paula, this may interest you.

0:32.1

I was looking through the files of the Institute this week, and I found a study that demonstrates just how little it takes to arouse a male turkey.

0:40.0

Oh, almost nothing.

0:43.0

You seem to know something about this.

0:47.0

I've spent a little time with turkeys.

0:50.0

Really?

0:51.0

Yeah, no, I spent some time petting a couple of turkeys at a farm sanctuary.

0:56.0

They're an amazing petting experience. I wasn't trying to arouse them. I was just...

1:01.0

Well, you probably did you you it turns out you probably just

1:09.2

aroused two-thirds of the mail turkeys listening to this podcast right now.

1:12.4

My guess is I've in advance of the male turkeys listening to this podcast right now.

1:13.0

My guess is I've inadvertently aroused males in almost every species Adam.

1:20.0

Yeah, so here's, here it is. In the 1960s at Penn State University, an experiment took place where they took a male turkey and started showing it another turkey.

1:28.0

And of course, the male turkey got aroused instantly.

1:30.0

So then they just started removing pieces of the turkey, components of the turkey as they referred to it, until it was just a turkey head on a stick.

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