Sami
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The Sami people are the people who live up in the Arctic Circle, really, in the northern parts of Norway and Sweden and Finland. They paid their taxes in live reindeer for a long time.
from No Such Thing As A Reindeer Stockbroker, 2024-01-25 at 00:33:44 · read transcript
Other times Sami came up
Yeah. And then they get high off magic mushrooms, but without getting the poisonous effect and vomiting, which is what happens if you eat them directly, if you eat too much. Then this anthropologist came along and debunked this whole thing and said the Sami people did not drink reindeer urine. Then he went and interviewed a Sami person. He wrote a whole book about how they don't.
31: No Such Thing As A Snake In My Pie, 2014-10-18 · listen
The interesting thing about that is, you know, there are gene variants that cause this, and maybe we can turn those genes on and off in humans one day to stop humans from getting jet-lagged. That feels like a drastic intervention. We would also grow homes. Reindeer. Reindeer are cool, aren't they? Most of my facts are about the Sami people who are obsessed with reindeer. Well, I say obsessed. Obsessed with. Usually reliant on them for their survival. Guys, get over there.
515: No Such Thing As A Reindeer Stockbroker, 2024-01-25 · listen
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