Your Brain on Profanity

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Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Benjamin K. Bergen, author of the upcoming What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves, discusses the science of cursing. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/podcastsplus. Twitter: @lexiconvalleyFacebook: facebook.com/LexiconValleyEmail: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Tim Heidecker, you know me Tim and Eric Bridesmaids and Fantastic Four.
0:05.0	I'd like to personally invite you to listen to Office Hours Live with me and my co-hosts DJ Doug Pound.
0:10.8	Hello.
0:11.3	And Vic Berger.
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0:18.0	We love having fun, excuse me.
0:19.6	That song's...
0:20.3	Vic said something.
0:21.1	It's a song.
0:21.6	Music.
0:22.1	I like having fun.
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0:59.6	The following podcast contains explicit language.
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