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Alright, I don't know if y'all have ever been to a live podcast show, but it's not as fun as watching at home. But you've already committed to it, so here we are. We started, we have an ad, we have to read. We're lucky these people, these ads, they do, I mean, because they just, I can't say half of this stuff. And so the ads are, I mean, it's a miracle that they're still there. Like that they're like, I don't, you know.

I'm not surprised they're just gonna give me a shirt to wear. Just wear the shirt, that's enough. Don't even, I think we're losing people. - Have any of them said anything about it? - A couple. Some are like, he's not even announcing. The reading, the way, I was talking about it in the first show, the way they write stuff, I mean they have to, so I have trouble with a lot of words. I've talked about it, when I did my pilot,

When I was doing acting, they would have to spell, like when I would say, we'll be right back. Like I say we'll wrong. So they would spell it W-I-L-L in the script because then I would say we'll be right back. I'll say it the way they want me to say it. And I mean, you feel pretty dumb because it's not like they privately do it. Everybody sees it. Everybody looks at the script like this is spelled wrong and they're like, don't. They just go, don't.

It's not spelled right, Nate. And I'm like, all right. And so they make it. Yeah. So it's not good. So is this good? These are the co-hosts of Aaron Land. This is Aaron Land right here. It's Caleb. Yeah. That's Caleb. Yeah. There it is. Let's go, folks. Welcome. Welcome.

It's a live Nateland podcast. Thank you for everybody at home listening. Thank you guys for coming out. It's unbelievable that you guys come out to this. I'm blown away by it, to be honest. Is your vehicle stopping like it should? Does it squeal or grind when you brake? Don't miss out on summer brake deals at O'Reilly Auto Parts. O-O-O-Reilly Auto Parts.

Welcome to Nate Land, everybody. It is funny when you read ads, we have to type it out, I mean every word. Like it says slash. Slash.

It's not just a slash. It says slash. Because they don't, and it says period, and they spell out period. And they go, now stop. And that's what it says. Now stop. Don't read anymore. And that's in black, angry letters. Stop. Quit reading. Don't read this part. And then happy is like, we can start now again.

This is fun. The live podcast, I've loved doing it. We just done one other one. It went good, I believe. And here's this one. And we started at this one. So I have nothing. I don't know how to get going. We always start with the comments from you guys. Comments are from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple.

Nate Land at natebargutsy.com. I looked at some of the Reddit stuff. That's got its own world. Yeah, it's far out there, isn't it? I don't understand Reddit as much, but it's... You probably, you're the age... Is it younger than you that's Reddit? Probably a little older than me, actually. Oh. Yeah. Reddit's for... It's your age, but a different type of guy. Do you know what I mean? It's my... It's for me? I feel like it's a lot of guys your age, but just...

Very little overlap in your life experiences, I feel like. It's like opening the mail, like for Brian. Yeah, that's mine. Brian's age is like, it's a letter that he gets. You can mail comments to Brian as well, and he'll read them. I would love it if you did that. That would be so much easier. Yeah, just every day, just get a little letter opener, just sit down, blow it, and pull the letter out.

I race my mother-in-law to the mailbox every day. She likes it too. Yeah, and I love to get mail. She does too, so we race each other. Getting mail is a pretty fun, it is fun to walk. When you forget at night, and then you're like, I didn't go get the mail. It's like a little something else to do. You're married, you're just trying to get out of the house. Uh...

You're looking for anything. You're like, you know what? I saw a neighbor's trash can out. I'll go roll them up. You just walk around pulling people's trash cans up. You're just trying to get out. You just want out of the house. Tyler Trepp. Love the podcast. Listen to every episode. I was wondering, once Nate starts his tour, will the podcast still continue? I hope it does. Love everything from Nate, Aaron, and Barbados.

I like Barbados. Yeah, I mean, I think we're still going to, it's going good. Honestly, probably would hope it didn't go as good, and then I could easily back away. No, I really enjoy it, and once the tour starts, we will do it. I'll see how crazy it gets, but we record on Mondays, and we were kind of planning for that to happen, so we will still continue it. FC Schultz, I'm new to Nate Land, so I vote, let's go, folks!

Because it feels like I'm on the ground floor of an inside joke. Just change it up every 50 episodes or so. That's what I agree. It's an inside joke. That's why I like the Let's Go folks. Because it makes it, it's just us. We're the only ones that get it. No one else gets it. Hello folks is, I mean, go to any Cracker Barrel in America. That's all it is.

That's how you get introduced and you're going to feel like an idiot when you go, ah, you podcast listen? And they're like, what? That's how I feel anytime I get recognized. I'm like, oh, what's up? You want to get a picture? And they're like, I don't know who you are. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So maybe I do want y'all to say it so y'all can feel the same thing that I feel. Hunter Lambert. Yeah, Lambert. Hello, folks. Happened naturally, which is why it became a staple. Let's go, folks, is being far too forced.

You can't make it happen just because the irony is fun and exclusive to the folks. Sort of like how you can't give yourself a nickname. It has to happen organically from others. I get the point, but Hunter is an idiot. And the hello folks was organic. Let's go folks is organic. You created both of those. Yeah. Yeah. So who, I feel like I'm just appeasing. Is appeasing the word?

appeasing everybody, letting them think that they can help decide. Yeah, that's, yes, that's exactly the word. I do want everybody to agree that I'm right. So that's, that might take some time. It's going the other way right now. And I'm, huh? It's going the other direction right now. People are going against it. Yeah. The hello folks. Who, so clap if you like hello folks. All right. Now clap if you like let's go folks.

That's not. Let's go, folks. People are more energetic. I guarantee you if Nate leaves the room, it'd be very different. But that's the point. I'm never leaving the room. The podcast would be very different. The podcast would be very different. A lot fewer people. Yeah. We just would appreciate some folks to listen to this podcast. If I...

Let's Go's got the more energy. We could go. You know what? I was thinking, what if you did both? You said do both, which is, but I thought about that again. I mean, rip me for it. Yeah, well, I think it's dumb, but then I came around to it as I thought about it. I thought about it a lot, a little more than I should have. We're still deciding. I still, I hope it just runs forever and we just never make a decision. It's got more people commenting than anything we've ever had. Yeah. People are coming around and they're getting it.

I mean, I over-explained it, but... I think they're just accepting the fact that it's not going away. So they're like, I guess... Just get on board. We're doing this now. You know, we had people yell, let's go, folks, as they drove away. And that's fun. That's people going. I know. But that makes it... We're not going anywhere.

I know, but it makes it stand out more. I'm saying when someone – that's funny. It's funny every time because we're making fun of the let's go folks. The regular people that use it – I mean, dude, they use it. You see it. Where was I watching – I mean, I saw a guy catch a foul ball with his hand. And you can't hear him, but you just see him go –

And you're like, this is a problem. These people are just yelling it. They don't know they're yelling it. Was it an impressive catch? I mean, this sounds like it might be an appropriate situation. You don't ever yell let's go where he's saying it too much. And I know I'm trying to say we should say it more, but because we're better than them and we are making fun of them. And that's the funny part. I haven't seen a poll that I like yet, so I'll let you know when we get to one that I approve.

Alexandra Moradians. Sounds like a Star Wars. Moradians. How would you say it? Moradians? Moradians? Moradians. Moradians. Doesn't that sound like a group that fights? What's that Star Wars show? Mandalorian? Yeah. Seems like a part of that.

Like they're not as good as the Mandalorians, the Moradians, but they're kind of, they're like decent. They're attacking, yeah. Like they're first to show up and they're always like, we've already lost like half our people, but they always lose half the people. But it's easier to get into than Mandalorians. I don't know. Nate's crazy reach to justify Let's Go Folks really gives us insight on why Laura needs to be strict with the finances. That's true.

She, I mean, she's, yeah, she is strict. It's no fun. Laura did, we, at your table, I think we, everybody got a little gift bag. And that was, that was Laura's doing. So she put them all together. Yeah. You know, it was a lot of them. It's like 500 of them. I wasn't going to do that. I was like, just give them, just hand them out on the, just throw them at everybody. When you walk in. Uh,

Ed Orazim. Orazim. Maybe a good compromise would be to keep hello folks as the intro and use let's go folks as the outro. Far be it for me to agree with birthday over Nate on anything. But I think he may be on to something with the idea of keeping both. Despite Nate's instance. Huh? Insistence. Insistence. That's how you get nowhere in life. But that is how you get nowhere in life when you don't.

Yeah, alright. Rosswood Jr. The mutant conversation is the hardest I've laughed in about 15 years. My dogs were barking at me because they thought something was wrong. I really hope they put breakfast in the next movie. I'd love that. They might, yeah. Have you worked at all on pronouncing the word? No. No.

I thought about acting. I thought you were going to say acting. I did too. I thought you said make a reel or something. Have you worked on trying to get in this movie at all since the last time we talked about it? Joe Freed won. I love the explanation of why the lung is smaller to make more room for the heart is respect. This is exactly the science we should be teaching in schools. I love that.

I read that sentence and I don't think I got it. Why the lung is smaller to make more room for the heart. Do you remember that part of the podcast last week? No. Brian was explaining that one of your lungs is smaller because it has to account for where the heart is. Yeah. And you said it's just showing some respect. Oh, yeah. Out of respect. So this guy gets it. Yeah. So I'm a big fan of Joe Friedman.

Mary, Mary Conovich. Y'all are making up names. I feel like these are getting increasingly difficult. I think it was a movie about her. What was that movie? Being Mary, Mary Conovich. Yeah. I was thinking the Aaron one. What's the Aaron? Aaron Brockovich. Aaron Brockovich. Oh, I thought you were talking about John Malkovich. Yeah. That's the one I was thinking of. Yeah. Both of them. Aaron looks like a chubby Brad Pitt. Hey, I'll take it.

Seriously, if he stays on track with the weight thing, he'll be better looking than Pitt because he's so much younger. Wow. That's very nice. Yeah, because Pitt will eventually die. And so whenever that happens, you will then take the reins. But I think you have to wait until five days after his death. Yeah, I was about to say. It still wouldn't be immediately. I don't think it's not yet. It's not immediate death. It's...

It's time to move on. It's when his family and friends have moved. They go, all right, we can move on. Brian's mom. Is it just me or does breakfast carry the show? Is that your mom? I don't think so, but somebody changed their handle to that. To Brian's mom. Is it me or does breakfast carry the show? But I agree with whoever that is. Yeah? It makes sense. Teague Deal, right? T-E-A-G-U-E. Teague. Teague.

And last name Deal. It appears that way. For a regular last name, that seems like a pretty flashy first name. Like that's like the aunt named him Teague. It's like, what about Teague? And you're like, our last name's Deal. My name's Bob Deal. And you want me to have a daughter named Teague Deal? And they go, yeah, why not? You know, that's fun. Yeah.

The first episode of this podcast came out the week before my wife and I had our first child. It's a guy.

We watched it while anxiously, while waiting anxiously for her to go into labor, and it eased so much of our tension. My daughter missed one episode, but we've watched every episode since altogether. Thanks for making our first year of parenting even greater, and congratulations on one year. Thank you very much. Yeah, this is the one-year anniversary. You said that early at the beginning. Made it one year. Did you think it would last one year, Nate? Because I feel like early on, early on it felt very week to week.

Yeah. Paycheck by paycheck, baby. We go. Yeah, I think one year, I thought. Yeah. I don't know how much longer after that. But one year, we did it. Yeah. You know? I do enjoy it. And the fact that everybody comes out, and it's very fun.

I do enjoy it. I mean, it's very easy on me. We're seeing what it's all going to, it's like everything COVID related. Like you make so many plans and then when COVID goes away, you're like, Oh dude, I have, we have another kid and a dog. Like, it's like, there's people that have that. Like, they're like, we have another child because of COVID. We thought let's do, let's have another one. And then that kid is named Teague and has to walk around and you're like, Oh, I forgot he's here. You just always forget. Yeah.

It's like Home Alone when he leaves the kid. That's going to be like a lot of people because they had babies during COVID and they're like, oh God, yeah, we brought another person into this earth. Jordan McFarlane. Hello, folks. Should be the intro to the podcast and let's go, folks. Should be the outro. That way we can cut it out, cut it off before Nate says it.

It says cut it off. That's a Southern. I was going to say, yeah. It's a Southern. Yeah. It has to be Southern. Yeah. Cut it off. All right. Thanks, guys. Adam Webb. This is like your family. Adam Webb.

No, that's two Bs. Webb with two Bs. I'm a one B guy. I know, but I feel like y'all would be... We'd have something to talk about. Yeah. People always think you have one B, and they'd be like, yeah, we have to correct them. It'd be a quick conversation, but y'all would have a good time. Nate just finished a wonderful seven-member family vacation in Hilton Head, South Carolina. No, Nate, I just finished. No.

Like Adam just finished it. There's a comma in there. There's a comma. Why are you supposed to... Nate! Are you sitting... Just finished a wonderful seven... Is that how you're supposed to read the sentence? You gotta give it a break? Nate. Just finished a wonderful seven-member family vacation in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Period. Stop. As you...

Imagine all the reading, all those letters back then. They said stop. The telegrams. Telegrams. Yeah. Could they not just, were they so dumb that they couldn't figure out another sentence was going? As you can imagine, let's go folks work perfectly for me in many situations. Stop. I can get my point across and laugh on the inside while doing it. Thank you. Someone that gets it. I don't know if y'all even got that sentence. I broke that up so much. Russell Dietrich.

It doesn't make much sense to start a podcast by inviting people to leave with you. So let's go, folks. Let's go. Welcome to Nate Land. Let's get out of here. That's a good way to describe the podcast.

But let's go, Abiyo. Let's go on this journey of this podcast. Well, that's part of the silliness of it that you're pointing out is that it doesn't even mean – they use it in a way that it doesn't mean what it means. Yeah. All right? All right? I don't know, man. Let's go.

Let's go. Steve Kelly. If anything, every time someone's on a let's go, we get a good laugh ourselves. I mean, you have to notice it more. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And that's the point. We want to point these people out. Steve Kelly in World War II. This is an old listener. He might read the podcast. He doesn't even listen.

He still does the newspaper version. In World War II, soldiers would use code words to identify each other as a friendly in low visibility conditions. For example, someone may yell out flash and the correct response would be thunder. We should do the same with hello folks and let's go folks. The next time someone says hello folks, look at them and say let's go folks. Then you know it's time to high five and talk about Seinfeld. I don't hate that idea.

That's a pretty great one. Because then that way you don't say the same thing back to me. You go, hello, folks. Let's go, folks. That's a pretty good... All right, Steve. Might be on the subject. What's the out if they were just using hello, folks normally? Well, they don't say it. And then you go, let's go, folks. And I'm like, what are you talking about? And he just kind of backed away. What do you mean? If you say hello, folks, and they don't respond...

You say let's go folks back to him. And they just, they were saying hello. I was just saying hi. Yeah, yeah. That's hilarious. And that's, I mean, that makes me very happy to mean you get thrown in just the worst situation. Like that's wonderful. And that's the reason we should do it. I'm on board with that. Michael Reynolds. Let's poll folks.

The double take Aaron and Nate gave when Buttafuoco can't pronounce mutant, you say mootin', was fantastic. Love the show. It's so great to be able to listen with kids in the car, and the only worry is that the info may not be right. Yeah.

We're not corrupting them, we're just misleading them. That's the worst we're doing. Yeah, he just made them dumber. Ethan Runnels. I work at a paint store in western New York, and I was listening to your podcast while I was stocking shelves in the warehouse. Some customers came in, and when I went out to help them, I automatically started speaking with a slight southern accent. I didn't want to suddenly change it, so I just kept using it.

Before they left, other people came in, and long story short, I ended up having to speak like that for almost two straight hours. I guess the podcast has a bigger influence on me than I realized. That's great. Some people, I would always hear servers would do that. If you wait tables, you'd go in a British accent. Be like, good day, mate. I don't know. How far could you keep that going? I couldn't do it. I wouldn't.

I don't even, what is a British, what? Yeah. Could you do a British accent? He just did it.

I'd be a little aggressive. Hello, folks. I knew a guy. Hello, folks. Hello, folks. And they're like, oh, God, where are you from? You're like, I don't even know where to tell you I'm from. So I know there's a bar here in Nashville. There's a regular there who is, I always knew him as a guy with an Irish accent. I thought he was from Ireland. And everybody found out years later that he is from Tennessee. Tennessee.

And he just started using an Irish accent at this bar and everybody, he dated a girl for years as an Irishman. Wow. Yeah. And one day everybody just found out. They're like, no, that guy's not from Ireland. He's from here. He was faking it? He was faking it to everybody in his life. No, he just weirdly grew up here and had that accent. I know.

Ted Alexander has a great joke about he loves the World Cup because he learns every four years where his neighbors are really from. He just paints them all Mexican and then he finds out he's actually from Argentina. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that is funny. You guys should hear Ted tell it. When Brian says it, you're like, I don't think we should be saying this, man. Ted does it in a little bit better way. He does.

Curtis Van Curen. We all need an update on that guy that seemed to have his pick of the ladies after commenting about his breakup. I believe his name was Harrison. Is he married to another folk? Is he womanizing? That's two different options. I feel like I'm not the only person wondering.

Harrison's a folk, so now he needs to write in and tell us who he picked. I don't have the answers. Can you remind us of the story of what happened with this guy? He wrote in, he had just gone through a breakup. Yeah, how the podcast helped him through it, blah, blah, blah. Yada, yada, yada.

And then the next week, I think two different women wrote in and said they'd love to meet Harrison and get to know him. See what happened. Here's a belt on the podcast. Don Julio. J-O-L-I-O? Yeah, I think you're right. Julio. I think you got it right the first time. I listened to 48 episodes of this podcast until I just couldn't anymore. How could I...

This is not a good sentence to mess up. How could our school systems have felt us this badly? And yet we know they did. Nate is a comedic genius, but in terms of education, an absolute moron. No question. Obviously, this comment will not be quoted on the show, but Aaron, I understand your pain. You kind of put it on me there at the end. Aaron, why do you hate me so much?

He knows you went to private school. That's why he's saying it. It's a parochial school if we're being technical. Oh, good. Here we go. I didn't go. You and Don Jolio. I didn't go to the scent of a woman school. It was like a Catholic school. Notre Dame? It's a little more than that. No, I was talking about before that. Oh. Don, there you go.

We showed him. Because we read it. Happy one-year anniversary, Don. I don't know. Is it the school system's fault? Could be. But, I mean, some are just not going to make it through. Right. I didn't make it through. No child left behind. Yeah. I got left behind. I figured out my own path to read in public.

I'm not even a good poster for that. If you have trouble reading in public, look at this guy. But it's still not good. You're like, I know, but you could do better than that. He has the confidence of a scholar. So here's some comments from some people here in the audience. Matt Gabel. Gable? Gable! Matt Gable.

I've brought three people with me tonight who have never listened to a single episode. I've tried to explain what's about to happen but can't. What should they expect tonight? It's a little late to be trying to figure that out. This is it. I mean, yeah, I don't know what they're going to expect.

I think they've already figured it out. Yeah. It's a big mistake. Yeah. Right now, they're just going, excuse me. They're trying to get out. They're just walking away. Excuse, pardon me. This is not what I thought it was going to be. Stephanie Hempelman. Is that right? Hempelman? All right. You made me laugh. Thank you.

I got going too quick. Slow it down. It's like when the track, when the 100-meter dash, when they take off too quick and they have to walk back. You always watch those guys. They go, and they just loud noises at them. And then they got to walk back and keep stretching. And that feels like always when the white guy was like, he's probably going to win that one. And then they do it again and he's dead last. He's like, I had the first one and y'all messed me up.

You made me laugh listening to calendars while I was in labor with our first baby. My husband and I are here at the show tonight as our first date since becoming parents. Make it a good one. I don't want to waste a babysitter. Congratulations. Did the laughing, like... Move it along? Induce. Induce. I know what induce is. He's the parent. He knows. No, no, no.

It slowed the process down, to be honest. She's like, ah, calendars. The baby was late. Carol Shoemaker, we are visiting from Virginia and are new to the Nate Land Podcast. We are golf fans in our 60s and want to know how many consecutive birdies Nate has had in one round of golf. Also, has he had an albatross? I've never had an albatross. I have one hole-in-one, but it's on a par-3 course, and so I don't count it.

Because it was like, it's all, because I have a weird, it's all par threes. It was 122 yards. And it just feels like, it's not in a regular round. So that's why I, because I always think if you have a hole in one, you've got to explain it. Then it doesn't count. It's like, you've got to be like, I've had one. They're like, where is it? And you're like, it's in between these condos. Like, it's a real dicey area. Yeah.

And my consecutive birdies, I had them not too long. I closed the round with three birdies in a row, 16, 17, 18. I was pretty excited. I'm the only one that cared, me and Carol. So Albatross means hole-in-one? No, that's not. Above an eagle? That's an eagle. No, Albatross is next. It's par five. You get there and you hit it in two. I think it's harder than hole-in-one because you're three yards. You'd be 280 yards. It doesn't matter. But a three would. It seems insane.

but I don't, you know. But thank you for coming from Virginia. I would say that for the golf. Carol, if you're new to the podcast, I'm going to start a golf podcast at some point. It's going to air in Deerland. An offshoot. Michael Birdwell.

Z. Right there. Wow. He's just a big Michael Birdwell fan. I wish everybody was on board. Yeah, you're here for it. You came to see Michael Birdwell's comment? You're like, yeah. Finally. Where is he?

When you were developing the Nate Land podcast, what alternatives did you not pick? For example, was there any other podcast names or comedians that were for consideration? Was it always a three-person format? Did you intend for the comments to be such a big part of the show, or did that just happen naturally? Good question, Michael. I have multiple comics I tried before them, too. And they're the only ones that worked out. No, I mean, I did talk about it. I didn't know what I would do with a podcast.

it kind of figures out. The comments were pretty on, I wanted to read comments early, I believe. And so it was one of those when you did read them, I thought, I bet this could become a big part of the show just because you're doing it. But I always wanted it because I feel like every time someone reads it, especially because we're talking about whatever we're talking about and we don't know anything. And then people listen and they always think that's not right. And then you can't, you're saying, because I have it happen. You're like, no, it's not true. And then you can't ever say that to anybody. So you wanted some outlet to,

So then the audience could be like, y'all are stupid, as I've been told. And so you could get that out. So I didn't know it'd be, it's become very cool. And like, I think it's great. But I didn't, you know, but I didn't know. I figured it'd be good, but I didn't know how good. I didn't know we'd be doing them this long.

Can I ask Aaron what question you get asked the most about the podcast? How do you guys pick topics? I get asked that a lot because they seem to come out of nowhere. We still don't know. Yeah. We look for a formula, and there's not. I would like there to be some – I mean, again, the way I always just say it, it's just trying to – something we can talk about so we can make jokes. So the topics don't really matter. They just got to be like what can we –

make the funniest yeah and what can have the most information that can be like you know that's why like presidents was good like some of them i think this one's been good what's yours i get asked how can i be a guest on the podcast and i say you've got to be a longtime friend of nate's or used to work with his sister yeah it's gonna be one of those two yeah you got two ways in maggie eason

My husband and I just celebrated our 10-year wedding anniversary a week ago. Congratulations. And he gifted me with tickets for us to come to this show. Whoa. Why did that happen?

I don't know if we're going to have an 11-year. I've listened to every episode at least once and laughed endlessly. Don't stop doing what you're doing. You're all awesome. Here's to your one year, our 10 years, and many more years as this crazy world will allow us all. Thank you very much. Congratulations, y'all, too. 10 years. 10 years. That's about right when you start going like, all right, if we're going to make it, you got to get off me for a little bit, you know?

Ten years is the marriage point. You know, up to ten, you're like, I can't believe we're married. And then ten, you're like, all right, you got to back away for a little bit, all right? You're just at a few months. One month. Yeah. Wow. Can you imagine? You're one year. A year and a half. A year and a half? Yeah. Ten. Hi, man. What are you? 2006. 15. Ours is October. But we've been together since 2001. 20. 20. 20.

No, she's here. If you got, I think you all got stuff at your table. That's all Laura. My wife put all that stuff. It's all her. Chelsea Hanson. Hey!

I know you said before that people make a whole weekend or vacation around going to your shows. My husband and I are driving up literally for one night only from Virginia for the night of the podcast and then turning around and going home. No pressure, but I'm expecting you all to deliver. Let's go. Wow. That's big delivery. How much is that? Y'all drive back tonight or you stay and spend the night? Early in the morning. Get back. How long is the drive? How long is that?

Oh, man. You guys, how long have y'all been married? Nine months. That's when you do stuff like that. You get 10 years, you start flying. You're like, hey, I can't be in a car that long. Are you crazy? Before we get into topic two, we have some taglines. We've talked to you guys about

The best way to describe the show to your friends, as Matt, you brought people, and you go like, I don't know how to explain it. And so a couple ways that we've asked people, and here's a few of them. Leanna, Lena, Lena, Lena Peters. It sounds like L-E-N-N-A. Like this should have been a Leanne, and then they changed it up at the last minute. Yeah.

What if Lena was like, I should have been Leanne, and then they missed, the guy wrote it wrong. And now her whole life is Lena. The more ridiculous the topic, the more accurate the information. Yeah. Is that true? I mean, I think we nailed Bigfoot. Yeah, we solved Bigfoot. Jordan Brown, a podcast that covers everything where the audience learns nothing and the host can't read anything. laughter

That's pretty good. That is pretty good. Yeah. I mean, if you don't get it from that, then you're like... Caleb clapped for that one. He loved it. He was like, right on. Bry Hernandez. It's like waiting in line for a movie and making friends with people waiting too. That's pretty good. Yeah. But there's no movie when you're done with the line. There's no movie. Yeah.

That's the let's go, folks. That's what I like. It's because we're all in it together. It's a special, and we're making fun of everybody. Lindell Chambers, boldly going where no mistake has gone before. That's pretty good. Doug Stonier, Stonier. It's spelled S-T-O-N-I-E-R, Stonier. Yeah. Or what would you say? Stonier? We did it right the first time.

Stonier? Stonier? Stonier. Like he's stonier than somebody else. Stoniest. You about done? Three guys from the South without a single foul mouth who make great jokes for a bunch of simple folks. That's sweet. That is a sweet one.

Imagine just saying that to one of your friends. What's the podcast like? It's three guys from the South without a single foul mouth who make great jokes for a bunch of simple folks. And they're going to go, what are you talking about? Are you crazy, dude? That's what you're going to say. That took a long time to memorize that.

Paul Sheldon, an old guy, a smart guy, and Nate. That's pretty good. Colin Green, a middle school project, submits their rough draft every week. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. All right, we're on the right page. Like, that's every week's that. All right, we're getting somewhere.

Gregory Dunn, an educational podcast about something and nothing at the same time. That's profound in a way. It's philosophy. I know. CJ Montoya, three men and a lot of maybe. Pretty good. So what is that? Big Montoya fan over here. Yeah, he loved that one. That's a reference to, what is it? Three men and a baby. Three men and a baby. It's a movie. I'd heard of it, but what is it like?

It's exactly what it is. I mean... If you're not getting it from the title, I don't think you're going to get it. What do the three men and a baby do? Do they just kind of hang out? Can you imagine three men with a baby? It's not like it goes great. Yeah. Oh, it's their baby. Just imagine you wrote a movie and you called it Three Men and a Baby. What would you have them do? It'd probably be a lot of stuff goes wrong. Yeah.

That's the great, I don't know if I've told it, but my favorite thing, Greg Giraldo, very funny comedian. When Craig Robinson was hosting Last Comic Standing, he goes, Craig Robinson, he goes, I got a new movie coming out. It's called Hot Tub Time Machine. And Greg goes, oh, what's it about? It's one of my favorites.

That's exactly what it is. It's a hot tub with the times. There's no... When you ask to describe it, three men and a baby. Right, those are the characters, but I'm talking plot-wise what happens. Well, the baby kills one of them. Yeah.

And that's where it took the turn. I'll have to check that out. Yeah, it's a pretty good movie. Because you go, there's no way that could happen. And then you go, oh, that's the only thing that could happen. I think we showed a scene from it in our Urban Legends episode because the three-minute baby ghost. Oh, with the ghost? Well, that wasn't a baby. That was a kid. That was an older kid. That wasn't the baby. That was the ghost. That was the ghost. Elliot DeLuca. G-rated chat at a GED level.

That's not bad. And a GED. You go to get your GED and you're like, I'm here for the GED. How about you not worry about it? Save this for last. Lito Cortez, a podcast where the facts are given and questioned at the same time. That's true. That's good. And lastly, Daniel LaPlante. It's like, are you smarter than a fifth grader but without the children? Laughter

All pretty good. All right, today... You want to talk about the one year... Oh, yeah. So, one year anniversary and... Oh, yeah, and also this Thursday, the Best Of episode comes out. Yes, we have... Yeah. It's so funny to do a Best Of and everybody's like, I don't even... We're very high on our horse.

It's very short. Yeah. It's four minutes. We took, but I looked at it. It's great. Just we had a best of coming out Thursday, the day after the podcast, which I believe Thursday is the exact one year, July 8th, which is my daughter's birthday. And then so that we did like a best of. So then if you want to introduce someone to be like, hey, if you want to catch up, I don't know why. They have nothing going on in their life.

And you want to catch up on this. They have a 58-hour drive. Yeah. Then we can do it. So this is... There's some YouTube stats. The most viewed episode. We've done, what, 52 now? Can anybody guess what you think it would be? Would anybody know? My dad? That's a good guess. It's a good guess. It's the wife.

Yes, oh, it could be stand-up. Is it The Wife? It's The Wife. The Wife. Nate's wife, Laura. 84,000 views. Oh. That's, uh, you know, that one is like, you talk about her so much. Stand-up comedy's gotta be up there too, though. Yeah, it's one of the most viewed ones. Yeah, because all the jokes about her. So then people are like, well, what is this lady's problem? I think they want to figure out what my problem was. The least viewed, The Christmas Episode.

Which makes sense. I mean, you're not going to watch that in July. Right. Yeah. We did it in July? No, but I'm just saying. Oh, you're not going to watch it. Yeah. Right now it's July. Most of these topics are so great, they're universal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You could watch Philosophy year-round. We're the only podcast that would give the least view. Nothing else would do that. No one else goes like ESPN. They're like, you know our most watched game? And they tell you, they go, you know the least watched? No one does that. You don't promote how bad something's doing. You know what, you guys, which one you shouldn't check out? The Christmas episode. Yeah.

Well, I bet it'll pick up some steam again later this year. That's right. It dives off once it comes back around. Check back with us in 10 years and we'll be like, guys, it's still consistently, for 10 years, it's been the least episode. We're going to only do Christmas episodes from here on out. That's where we learned about the microscopic gift card, Christmas card. That was fun. Yeah.

The most liked episode, the first one. Yeah. 1800. People were checking it out. The most disliked. Second. Oh, probably. The stock market one. That's a good guess. The wife, actually. Really? It comes with the territory. You get to the top, people will bring you down. Yeah.

It's like when something gets so many views, then more people see it outside of... That's the hard part. When people see this outside of you guys and us, people are furious. So there's a great clip where we were talking about... I think it was an Aliens episode, and Brian says... Some people think that aliens must have built the pyramids because we'd have trouble rebuilding them now. And Nate goes, a triangle? And I took...

I put that clip on TikTok and it got picked up by like Egyptian TikTok. And these people are so mad about it. They're like, these Americans. But it like got outside of us. And these people have no idea who we are, what we're talking about. They're furious about it. So many comments in Arabic. I don't know what they're saying. They don't seem happy. But it's not good. Yeah.

When you look at it, it never looks pleasant when you read it. You never read it and go, that guy's probably pretty cool. It looks like, all right, man. And he's like, I'm just saying I'm a big fan of the show. You're like, oh, I'm sorry. I read that so wrong. So if I go to Egypt, I could have protests. You might, dude. I don't know. The most comments from any episode, stand-up comedy episode, 373 comments. That's just for YouTube.

Because I think we asked people to submit, because that was a two-parter. Yeah. And we said, submit your stand-up questions for next week. The second most, and I'll assume the first most, was last week's on the human body because of the hello folks, let's go folks. Oh, yeah. People are fired up. Oh, that's it? Oh, yeah. There's not a lot of YouTube stuff I can do. It's a year in review right there. Yeah, right there. And for this topic...

I don't know. I think it's going to be good. It seems like these are the funnest topics is what we believe. And so this week we're going to talk about psychology. I just always feel like that's the one that has the most. Yeah. You know, most stuff. I don't know.

I don't know, but we're seeing. The less we know, usually the... The better. Yeah. Right, right. And this is going to be right on. I started with Googling, what is psychology? It's a good Google. Google is just like, oh boy. Like the definition of psychology? Yeah, I just thought I'll start there. Yeah, I don't. That seems...

So it's the study of the human... He says, if you don't know, you don't know. That's what it says. If you don't even... If you're starting here, I wouldn't start. Or maybe ask how old you are. How old are you? And you're like, I'm 50. And they're like, he's like, don't even... I wouldn't even do it. I had to lie about my age. Huh? I had to lie about my age. Usually you have to make yourself older. I had to make myself younger for it to tell me. For it to tell you? Yeah. 18. 18.

It's the study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior. And then this article said that comedians are the closest thing to psychologists because psychologists test how people react to certain things in the world if they do experiments. And comedians do that every night when they tell new jokes. They get immediate feedback on whether or not audiences like jokes, don't like jokes, and why they do.

Do you ever think of yourself as a psychologist? I do now. So, hello folks and let's go folks. A psychologist person would love it. What do they call themselves? Psychologists. Is that like a job that you can just have? Like you're like, I'm a psychologist. You could be an adjunct psychologist. An adjunct? Probably.

That's who you go talk to, right? Psychologists, yeah. You go talk to psychologists. Well, there's a difference between psychology and psychiatry, right? Yep. What's that difference? One of them can give you medicine, can give you pills, right? And the other one wastes your time. At the end, so did I get medicine? Now he's like, I don't do that stuff. And you're like, then why don't you say that on the sign, dude? The whole reason I'm here is for the medicine. Yeah.

It's said that some ways comedians are better because they understand people better than psychologists and are often more right than psychologists. All right. That's pretty fun. We're the best at it. Yeah, and you've talked about how you've noticed, like an experiment would be, you've told jokes about your wife and some people thought they've come off as too mean. Yeah, at the very beginning. Because you could tell that they take it

they take it that way. Like, so when I first started comedy and I would do all these jokes about my wife, they would be like, well, why are you married? And you're like, well, that's not how you're supposed to be taking the joke. So, but I would just tell him, I know, right? Ask myself that every morning, man. And he goes, what's that? And I go, oh, I'm sorry. Um,

No, but you're realizing that you're like, all right, I'm delivering this joke not in the way it should be delivered. And people are taking it the wrong way. Because like I said, you talk about marriage. I talk about the bad stuff of marriage or like the stuff that we get in fights about. I don't talk about like how great it is or how she came up with all these ideas for these little things. And she went and did all these. Like, yeah, but that's no fun. Yeah.

That's not, if I just was up here, I was like, my wife's awesome. You're like, you know, you ever see someone talk about their wife being awesome to you? And you're like, I don't trust, I don't believe in that marriage. Like you'd just be hanging out with them. He's like, dude, my wife is just so great. And you're like, what are you, loser? Like, what are you, you just kind of assume we all got great husbands and wives. I don't want to hear about it. Like, tell me the bad stuff. Right.

It's no fun when someone does that. And then you have to sit there and go, that's great, man. I'm so glad y'all are happy. And you're like, I don't care.

But yeah, so I had to figure out how to, because you got to have love in it. That's where, we always talk about The Office, but that's where Michael Scott's character is so good, because there was love in that. Yeah. You could tell that he loved these people, and that was my favorite episode, the painting episode, where he goes to Pam's painting. Business school. The business school. The whole episode's great when he goes to Pam's painting, and he sits there, and he's the only one that shows up.

And that's the sweetest thing I've ever seen on television. Just to be like, it's a guy that's just doofus that everybody doesn't like, but he goes there and is blown away by her painting, which is the sweetest thing ever. That's psychology. Season one. Yeah. In season one, they made him, he wasn't quite so sweet. Well, because you don't know him probably too then. You don't know the character. Right. So then people take it, it was mean.

And it was also the way he looked, because he was like... They gave him hair. They gave him hair. He was balding in season one, and they're like, we've got to make this guy likable. Yeah. So they gave him hair. Yeah. And he lost a bunch of weight. Yeah, so sorry. That's what we're going to do for season two of Nayland. You're going to see... I'll just come out with a big wig. Bald Eagle over here is going to show up and be like, boom. And just...

Well, do you get that, Brian? Do you get people go, aww? Do you get that from the crowd during jokes that you don't intend to? Happens to me all the time. When I first started, I got it a lot. Because you're trying. They can tell you're trying. Like, aww. He's up there giving it his all. I don't get it, but he is. We're watching. What are you watching? The guy trying his hardest is what I'm watching. That's what I'm watching.

Yeah, and we can make so many hypotheses, like an experiment, on why it didn't work. The crowd was tired. They just got off work. It's July 4th weekend. But that's if you don't get the dynamic. This is why comics love, they always talk about comics making fun of each other. And that was a big thing. When I was in New York, there was a comics table at the Comedy Cellar, if you know comedy.

It was like kind of famous because everybody would go there and just rip on each other. And the reason it works because everybody knows it's not real. Everybody knows we're just making fun of each other. Everybody loves everybody and like everybody's happy and you can just trash. Like there's, I mean, there's times in standup where you, there's moments where you could be like, Hey, could you just say you like me? Like the beginning you would be like, I don't think this person likes you. And you're like, if they weren't making fun of you,

that's how you know they wouldn't like you. They would just ignore you and just be like, whatever. But if they start trashing you, that means that's like a sign that they like you. And comics don't want all the nonsense of being the sweet whatever and being like, you did good. It's better to be like, you were terrible. And I would rather hear that from another comic just to make fun of you than to go like, man, you were so great. And you're like, all right, dude. It's being weird now. And we don't like weird.

Speaking of, go ahead. He loves me.

When TV shows first started in the 50s, TV executives were doing tests on sitcoms, and they didn't have live studio audiences, and they would just do it without a laugh track, and people were testing that these shows aren't funny. Then they figured out a laugh track, same show, just put a laugh track on it, and people started finding the shows funny because they learned laughter is a communal thing that makes people more...

When you hear laughter, it makes you want to laugh more. Same show. So that's like a psychological experiment they did. Oh, right. Have you ever seen when they go into the sitcoms and they remove the laugh track? And it just turns into the creepiest show of all time. Because everyone's just pausing after they say something. It's just silent. Yeah, I like a laugh track. We need to bring that back. Did I talk about the professional laughers for...

So the pilot that I shot that went nowhere, it's only survived because I've talked about it on the podcast and I have some pictures and stuff.

But so for us, when we shot it, for us to get used to the rhythm of the jokes, because you would write all these jokes. And I mean, as a comic, you know, like, all right, that's funny. And you know that people will laugh. But it's not like you're always like dying laughing in a writer's room. You just write something. You go, that's very funny. And that's literally how you respond to most jokes. You go, that's really good. And then you don't laugh. I mean, it's very stone cold faced. That's one of the best jokes I've ever heard in my life.

And that's in your reaction. And then you're like, all right, can you laugh? And you're like, I'll never laugh at it. But that's maybe the funniest thing I've ever heard. So for us to get you when we were rehearsing, we couldn't bring a live audience in. So they hired guys that are professional laughers. And so you bring in like eight guys or women, guys and women, and they sit spread out. I'm not trying to say one's better. Women are terrible at this. No, there you go. There you go.

Women are one of the least fun group of people. And so, no, it was women are great laughers. And they, so they spread them out and they could laugh on command.

And so they, and they laugh loud and they laugh at everything. So they would laugh at where the jokes were. And so then you knew, like, you could kind of get used to, like, you could have a pause of silence because the person would, because those eight people would laugh. It was pretty unbelievable. Like, that's those people's job is just to be like, oh, I need a laugher. And they're like, yeah, that's what I do. And they could go sit and they laugh at it.

I should talk about that on the iJobs episode. Yeah. Well, do you start to not trust laughs after that? That would get in my head, I feel like. I mean, you're right in a show. I don't think... No, it's not like...

I mean, they can fake laugh, but, I mean, you know, they're laughing where the jokes are at. I mean, you're not – you're really using it for, like, timing. Timing, yeah. Just so you can – because otherwise you're going to speed through everything, like my special when I couldn't hear them laugh and I did 60 minutes of material in 43 minutes because all the energy is taken out. And so you just start flying, and you're, like, trying to – you know, once it gets silent, you're like, I've got to go again. And so this just helps you kind of pace that out.

They did a psychological study on comedy clubs and what makes the best comedy club. Low ceilings because the laughter stays over. Everybody looks up immediately. All right. Don't have that here. No, these would be considered low. It's low. If you're in the balcony, it's super low. The taller you are, the lower it is. I mean, that's psychology right there.

And uncomfortable seats. They found if people were in comfortable seats, they relax too much and don't laugh as much. Well, they jam you in. Yeah. So if you ever go to Comic-Con, as you can see now, everybody gets very close. This is the best setting for you and for us. You will have more fun close. That's like when you do a show. If there was 50 people here and we had you spread out, it would be a nightmare. But if we got eight, didn't we say this? Did I say that? We've talked about it before. I don't know. You have eight people together. Yeah.

It's better. That's why you try to get everybody to, oh, this is BOGO, the BOGO show. It'd be right before the show starts. All right, obviously, because everybody's alone. It's buy one, get one free tickets for Brian's show. But it's all people that can't find a person to bring with them, so they have to come alone. And then before we get started, Brian has to go, can everybody scoot up and let's all sit together? Move up, move up. But in general, the more uncomfortable you are,

The better it is. Letterman, it was always like 55 degrees in there or something like that. I'm making that temperature up. It was very cold. Very cold. And people would be freezing because that's better. That's what makes you laugh. So some famous psychological experiments, they did a study on conformity and how people will just go along with the pack. Watch this, dude, in lines. Yeah. Watch lines.

I've noticed this more. Go to like Starbucks. My joke about Starbucks was built off this. Just watch people just go get near people. Is that what this is about? Well, they were observing lines. Yeah, but it's about people just getting near people? No.

But it's the same principle, maybe. They would look at a chart and say, which one of these lines is the same length as that line? And if you asked these people alone, the majority of the time they would get it right. But if you put them in a group, they would place actors who would purposely...

give the wrong answer. Yeah. And then those other people who, who have had it wrong before, they would, they would also say it was the wrong answer just because they thought, well, if that guy says it's that, he must be right. Yeah. People would just go along with the pack even though it's not their best interest. I would too. It would depend on what they look like. Like, if they look smart, I'd just agree with them. You know? Yeah. So, basically you'd follow, like, you can watch people

just like watch a line and you can see, you can just see people just get in, people get into lines that don't, won't know what the line is for. And you can, you can usually just notice it. You can notice it with, uh, I mean, traffic can be that way where like people just get it. You're like, people are just stopped and no one knows why they're stopped. And there's, you can just watch people. You can cut like cutting people off in traffic is easier than it's ever been in history of driving. Yeah.

because people are on their phones. And so once they're on their phone, then they're like, well, I'm going to get on my phone. And then it's just a train reaction if everybody's on their phone. And you just drive in front of those people, and they're still sitting on the highway right now. They don't know what's going on.

If you go to Starbucks, just look at the line and just watch. People just scoot up. I will sometimes, you can stop and then let people go and then just keep moving up and just watch the person behind you. They just do whatever you do. They're not even looking at the grant. If you just go, just look at the Starbucks sign.

And we could probably fix it. I don't know what I'm really saying here. But y'all are going along with this, you know. Yeah, that's a good example. We're all just like, huh. And I would argue on that poll that you did about hello folks, let's go folks. Whoever the second answer is, I feel like audiences always cheer more.

I feel like they get going, and then for whatever reason, it's always the last one that they cheer the most for. Well, that's, you know, when I watch, when I would watch Dan Patrick fan, and like everybody would, when he would say his pull, he'd be like, all right, they want to get a pull out to the audience. But then he explains his reason, and you're like, well, it's going to be that. I mean, no, because we're listening to you to begin with. And so, like, I'm going to just say whatever you say. Like, it's almost like you'd have to be like, I want everybody's true reaction without, like,

Being influenced. Yeah. Oh, they're telling us. Something, all right. So how we value beauty. They did a test and they put one of the world's best violinists who people had paid hundreds of dollars just to see him perform. And they put him on a Washington, D.C. subway station as a homeless person. He was playing a three and a half million dollar violin and no one would stop to listen. Everyone went past him.

and no one would pay attention to him. So the experiment raised questions about how we value beauty, because we act like we know what we like, but really it just has to be the right setting in the right circumstances. Yeah, because no one's going to be down in the subway playing the violin. No one famous? But if it's just as good, why wouldn't we just enjoy it? Because you would not assume that it... Because no one's down in the subway just...

loitering around. You don't go down there and hang out and be like, maybe we'll hear some good music today at the New York subway. We're getting thrown in the tracks. And you're like, I'm taking in the sights to be like, oh yeah. They don't have time. If you walk by a guy peeing on a wall and then you see a violin, you're not going to be like, oh, but he was beautiful actually. If it wasn't for the people using the restroom around me, I would have stayed and enjoyed it more.

And then they go, see, this is an experiment. That's a horrible place to try it. Because you're trained to not want to hang out. It's not a ride. You go down there, and then you're like, we've got to get out of here. But you go see it. You don't go just enjoy it. I don't think it's a fair place to... I agree with that. Every research lab needs a Nate in their office. Yeah.

And they just run every idea by him and you tell them right away why that's stupid. Well, that's stupid. Well, you're stupid. Do you think you could tell the difference between...

Just an amateur violinist and the best violinist in the world right now? No. No, I have a theory with that with dancing is that I don't think anybody knows what's good or bad. And the greatest dancer and the worst dancer is like, if you just told me that guy was, if you showed me the worst dancer and told me he's great, I would be like, okay. Like it would be, you know, it's like robot. Like if someone does like the robot, you're like, all right, I get that.

I get the robot, but the rest of it, you're like, you're just moving around a lot. It's embarrassing. I agree. You take music out of dancing, it's one of the most embarrassing things you could ever witness. Just silent dancing. Just silent dancing. You're like, this is uncomfortable and we shouldn't be around it. And you ask to leave.

They should do an experiment with that. Just have someone dance. The Jabberwockies, isn't that what they're called? Send them down. That's like the first time when you saw when people started wearing headphones and they started just talking and you're like, who is this person? And it was not normal. Do y'all remember? First, Bluetooth was kind of becoming a thing. And then people would just start talking. You're like, I don't know. This guy's crazy.

I remember going to San Francisco and they have a pretty crazy homeless thing going on over there. And I feel like I'm trying not to say anything bad and I just say the worst. Like, you're going to make it real worse.

But you're walking around, you're like, I don't know who, what's happening. There was a guy walking and he had headphones in, he had a suit on. And I'm like, all right, so I follow him because he was like, I'm just trying to be with someone that's normal. I mean, that guy wasn't on the phone at all. Like he just kept making the same lap. And I was like, oh, that guy's crazy. Like I, he had a suit on and those headphones are just, he found them on the ground. He doesn't have a phone. He's just talking to his head.

And I followed that guy for quite a while. Because I was just trying to find some normal person. I thought he was a great violinist. The false consensus effect is when we overestimate how much everyone else agrees with us because we only surround ourselves with people. This happens really a ton now with social media and TV news. We think everyone agrees with us because we surround ourselves with only people who agree with us. Yeah.

Yeah. We all agree. I wouldn't agree to disagree. That's why you got to have people that don't, that are not on board with you. Right? That's why you should have friends that are not. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Is that the answer? That's what they did? They did all that just to go, yeah, you should hang out with people that don't think like you. They just said this has gotten much worse over the last few years because we all just... They give no solutions. They're just like, yeah, it's getting bad out there. I mean, that's the dumbest. That guy went to college for that. And that's one of his things. He goes, you know, go outside. It's hot. It's going to be hot. If the sun's out, it's going to be probably hotter than if it's not. And you're like...

Yeah, man, is that what you went to school for, dude? Like, that's that. He goes, everybody just hangs out with people that agree with them, okay? He's like, yeah, it's getting worse now. You're like, okay. And I'm paying, and you're like, I got to pay. And you don't give me medicine, dude? Like, you don't, you hear all that? Do I get at least medicine at the end of this? And he goes, no, I don't do that. I go, what? What are we doing here? Like...

In a series of experiments, researchers found that those who thought about a backup plan did worse than those who had not thought about a plan B. With those who realized they have options, their motivation to succeed the first time dropped. So researchers said you're more successful if you don't have a backup plan. That's like the let's go and hello folks debate. There's no backup plan. We're going to die with one of these things. But I think you would, I mean, you moved to New York, right?

with that mindset, right? I didn't go to college

To make sure I don't have a plan B. Yeah. There was no options, but for this to either work out or just live, I mean, I would have done nothing. I don't know what I would have done. Wouldn't you say that's true, though, for guys who didn't make it maybe? Yeah, that they didn't try it. They don't give it their all. Absolutely. I think a lot of people, if you think you want to, that's like when so many people think they want to do comedy and they think, oh, I think I could do it. We just had this conversation about this with a guy about golf.

Of course. But this guy's a really good golfer. And I was talking to him and a guy, John Augustine, who we had, who's trying to make it as a pro. And so saying, like, this other guy is a really, really good golfer. He can shoot four under. He's great. But he's not a pro. And so it was the idea of, like, well, he just didn't try.

And so that's why he's not a pro, which I think is taking a shot at the guy that did try. Because trying is part of it. It's just because you have the talent to be this great golfer. You could have the skills. If you don't have the mental aspect of it to make it, then you didn't make it. And that counts. So if you just give the person the out to go like, but it's because they didn't really try. Well, then they didn't make it. That's just making that person feel, you know, if you're trying to be nice and polite. Right.

That's all that is, is being like, I'm just trying to be polite. You didn't make it because you didn't want to try. Well, that's part of it. Right. The talent is everybody. Everybody can have the crazy talent, but if you don't have the willing to throw everything away and be like, this might not work out, then you didn't take the chance. And so you don't get to say, which is mean, but you don't get to say, you don't get to go, I could have done it if I would have just tried. Well, you didn't try, so here we are.

And you didn't make it. I remember you called me one time. You said at church, you watched a video where this guy talked about how he was in a band and he was enjoying his career, but he wanted to give it up. Do you remember this? To just focus on his family and the Lord. And you told me, I mean, it sounded such a great story. You said, I guarantee you that guy wasn't good enough. Yeah.

I guarantee he just couldn't make it. That's why. I bet his music was garbage. Well, music is the most because everybody thinks they can be in a band. Yeah. And I bet he wasn't. And like, so...

Look, that's not nice. I understand the idea. I get the idea of it not being nice, but I think the person gets to hide behind, well, I want to focus. I can take stuff very slighted. Like when I had someone tell me they were doing one thing and they...

in show business, and they didn't want to travel on the road so much, so they got out of it. And they go, I just didn't want to be a dad that's always gone. And I take it as like, well, you're throwing that on me, man. You didn't make it.

You didn't make it. So don't give an excuse and make me feel like I'm a loser dad that I travel. You would travel if you could make it, but you didn't make it. So then you get to protect yourself by going, I don't want to be like you and possibly be gone all the time, which is a very mean, I think I take, that's a very mean thing to say to me instead of just that guy going like, I didn't have what it took. So I had to, you know, I didn't get to make it. So I went and tried this other thing and that's fine, but no one's going to admit I'm a loser. Yeah.

It's hard. I make sure they know before they walk away from me. I go, so you're a loser. And then it gets uncomfortable. The Stanford prison experiment was a famous psychological experiment. Stanford has a prison? Well, they did for this experiment. They had a prison? Well, they created one. Oh.

They created one to see how quickly we embrace roles. Imagine you get to that jail and you're like, so it's at Stanford? Is Tiger here? Yeah. You get to meet, yeah, it's at Stanford Prison. So they assigned half the students to be, there's a research group, to be guards and the other half to be prisoners. So for two weeks, they had to do these roles like legit. And after six days, they had to cancel this experiment because things were getting so out of hand.

People embraced their role so quickly that the guards were torturing the prisoners. And the prisoners were accepting it. They'd both just taken on their role as what they were. And it just shows how quickly power can go to your head or lack of power can. They had to stop the whole thing, shut it down. Yeah, once the torture started, maybe stop it. After six days. After six days.

They're taking it too serious. I'd say that, yeah. How would they figure out, but that's not real life experience. This is the problem. It's all these college educated folk. You can't, y'all go, no, no, we're going to do it in a safe scenario. Like there's guys that are really in prison and then you have the audacity to go, I did that one time. Like that's.

I did it. I went to prison. Well, you can't go to a real prison and then be like, all right, for six days, you guys are all going to be the guards. And then the guards, you know, there's no other way to simulate this. Yeah, I think we have a pretty good idea what's going on there. So what are they trying to figure out? Yeah, the prisoners are a little more upset than the guards. And the guards take advantage of their power. You're like, okay, that's a prison.

We see that happen in real time. And then Stanford goes, well, we're going to do it. We should reenact it. And you go, you loser. People pay for that. Can you imagine if you send your kid and it costs 100 grand a day to go to Stanford?

To get tortured. And you go, why are your both eyes black? Oh, I was a prisoner and we were doing an experiment that prison's not good. That's crazy, dude. What is happening? This is why I didn't go to college, you know? Go to community college. This is just life. There goes the

The teachers have too much power. They're hitting you when you walk in. The age groups are wildly different. 17-year-old to like an 80-year-old in the same class. You weren't ready?

It's supposed to show how if you look at their history at some of the people who did mean things to others and say, I would never do that. They were saying, if you ever got in that power position, you don't know what you would do. Right. It might go to your head. Right. I think there's guards that are probably pretty nice. I would hope so. I hope so. Yeah. Uh,

That's what we get out of it. I hope so. I don't want to live in a world where if I go to prison, there's not going to be one nice guard. Negative bias. Our brain has trained itself to quickly look for bad things more than good. So if your co-worker compliments you for your presentation, you'll remember something mean they said to you much more. To feel balanced, we need at least five good comments to one bad comment.

to balance out. That's like the comedy thing when I say it, like you'd rather be told. Well, I don't know if I told it. It was with Bill Burr. I was in New York, and me, Bill Burr, I think everybody knows him, the comic Joe DeRosa I started with. I remember we were sitting at the bar, and Burr was getting pretty known then where everybody was kind of recognizing him. And someone came to him and said,

The bartender goes, oh, my brother's like a huge fan of you. And he's like, oh, I appreciate it. And that was all he said. He didn't really react to it. And I remember she goes, all right, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I didn't mean to bother you or something. And he wasn't taking it bad. He was like, I just don't know how to handle. Like you're saying something very nice and you're like, oh, I appreciate it. He's like, I don't know what you want me to do. He's like, I would have rather you just tell me your brother hates me. We would have more of a conversation with that.

But it's a weird balance because you obviously don't want to walk around and just have people being like, I hate you and you got to go talk to them. What's going on over here? But on the flip side. Found Brian's mom out there. Thanks, mom.

As comics we often tend to notice the one person in the audience not laughing as opposed to everyone else. Yeah, that's a weird but it's uh, I remember a comedy TV I don't know if it makes every is he may ever seen comedy TV my appearance. It's that's crazy. That's so funny my mom Yeah, you're big to do TV. There's a couple TV things I've done where I'm like, I don't know if a human being has seen this I've seen it multiple times and you're on television and

And nobody, it does not help at all. You go have a fun night, and then no one sees it. So comedy.tv was Byron Allen. They did this. Comics Unleashed was also another thing. It comes on on ABC at like 2 in the morning. Byron Allen, by the way, is a billionaire. This dude's figured everything out. He's a comic. He's been around forever. Great, super nice guy.

I think he owns the Weather Channel now. And he learned to buy ads at 2 in the morning or 1 in the morning on ABC or something a long time ago. And he started doing this. And then ended up, I mean, he's now worth, I think, a billion dollars. And so he would do this Comics Unleashed where he would have comics. He would interview us and we would all do our jokes. And they did stand-up too. And it was called Comedy.TV. And so when we filmed it, it was in Los Angeles. This is, you know, you see my old videos. It's one of those old ones. My head shaved, glasses, you know. And...

So I remember doing it and during the show, they did nine shows in a row.

And so with the same audience. And so the audience would be paid to come. None of us were. Nobody was known. So the audience, they pay them all to come. And so they have to watch nine comedy shows. I mean, it's six hours or something that they're sitting there. But we're one of the last shows. So by the time we're there, I mean, people are not laughing. They're not laughing. They're laughing at the wrong parts. They're not listening. They're just truly like, what do you want me to do? Like, ha, ha, ha.

And I remember just looking at this one guy, and his face was of disgust. And he had really big hair, and he just sat there and just didn't have any reaction, but just stared at you. And I remember just looking at him the whole time. And it was almost like it was just me and him in a room. And there's a thousand people in there, and you're just looking at this guy who's furious. Yes.

And then everybody else is just laughing. If you find it, you go look up at that comedy. They laugh at wrong parts. It's just... It was like, just get through the set and then just be done. Like, their reaction's not real. But you got a standing ovation, right? They gave everybody a standing ovation. Like, they...

You stood up. When you walked out, they stood up. When you left, they stood up. I mean, that was just – they told these people to go stand up, and they stood up. It would be like this where they're just telling you what to do. It was like the Stanford prison experience. Cognitive dissonance is when – I can't really explain that, but –

They did a test and they made subjects do a very boring task and they said, we'll pay you to tell other people it's really interesting and get them to come do it. And we'll give you, they told some people we'll give you a dollar. They told some people we'll give you $20 to convince people that this is really fun, come and do it.

So then they quiz, even though they're lying, they quiz the people afterwards why you did it. The people who got $20 said, because you gave me $20, so it was worth it. People who got a dollar, he convinced themselves that this was fun because a dollar is not worth lying, but in their head, they had to convince themselves. Because they're embarrassed. Yeah, I guess. Yeah.

And they're trying to convince themselves, like, I don't know, that was kind of fun. So, yeah, why not? So it just shows the difference in our demeanor as far as money is involved.

I don't know. What are they doing? What was the boring task? Did I say? The fact that you just got a guy asked you for money off the street to go do something. You'd be like, I did it because I wanted to see what this how this was going to play out. It just keeps going. Like he just gave me a dollar. Like, I don't know. I got a dollar. Yeah. What's the point? I mean, what's what do they get out of it? What are they? Then they go. And that's why something like what's I don't understand the.

I don't know, they looked at how people will convince themselves of something that's not true just to justify in their head, to their brain, that it was a good reason for lying. Yeah. Which, I guess I've done that. I've lied about something and convinced myself it was in the best interest for everyone involved. I know. Starting this podcast. Right before I walk through that door, every day I go, this is a good idea. I sit alone. Yeah.

They did a study on people who followed authority and they told everyone that you're going to ask these people a set of questions. If they get it wrong, you have to give them a shock. And if they keep going, you increase the electric shock. Now the people who were shocking were actors. This wasn't real. But the whole thing was to see how far people would go if someone in authority told you to do this. And people went to the point where

They'd shock enough to kill a person. And they just did it. They're not being shocked. They're not being shocked, but the people don't know that. They're following authority. This was done after World War II, after the Holocaust, to show how the Nazis... Probably pick a better time to do it. Maybe let that breathe a little bit before you start...

Before just already like just jamming them in there. You're like, hey, let's try it once to get out. Do you mind coming over here? We're going to do a little experiment. You're like, can I have some time? It wasn't on them. Huh? It wasn't on the people in the Holocaust. I don't know. I just, even right after. I mean, I'm just saying. They didn't walk out. Oh. Yeah. Yeah.

Just getting thrown right into it. Even the idea to do it right after, you know. Yeah, it was when some of these people were being tried for war crimes and they were trying to do experiments to see if they were just following authority and therefore maybe are innocent. What about these people that do all that make people try these things?

Like the psychologist. These people, why don't they do something on them? They're the ones that are ruined. Like, who are they to go like, I watch people. They have no emotion towards people. And they're just wasting people's times. They're hurting people.

They watch it and then they write and go, huh, isn't that interesting? Like it's all, it's all stuff that's like, yeah, I think we could have figured that. I think if you just talk to a person about it, they would, y'all could have come to the conclusion without wasting a whole day of a person. Yeah. The takeaway for me is if you sign up to participate in a psychological study, like

What's happening is not actually what's happening. They're messing with you in some way. Yeah, it's like a magic turn out. Yeah Yeah, that's like the twist. It's the same twist at the end there. Actually we were watching you do something else, you know, it's just dishonest Oh, they did some Really really bad things especially to children. Oh, I know who can't wait to read it The bearer of bad news I've been waiting for this

I don't even know which one to go with first. They're all so good. Let's do the one with orphans. They took 22 orphans. Some had stuttering problems. Some didn't. Some were fine. But they split them up. And one group gave them positive, encouraging feedback. And they improved in their life. The other group...

Whether they studied or not, they told them, they disparaged them, they said they had speech issues, they really put them down. And those people, the rest of their life, Aaron. Who signs up to do this? They don't have a choice.

They're orphaned kids. No, they're orphaned kids. No, not the orphans. Who signs up? Can I berate the ones that can't read? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think I'd be real good at that. Well, no one's apparently watching these psychologists. They can do whatever they want. No. It was a six-month study, and the children grew up. Six months? It takes a while to really set it in.

In 2007, a half a dozen of the former students got a payout from the state of Iowa for what they'd endured because of lifelong psychological and emotional scars. This was a state-funded experiment? It was the University of Iowa. University of Iowa. Yeah.

A real, that's a main college. You know, you hope it's something you never heard of. What is Iowa? It's in Iowa. What's their, I know, what's their? Hawkeyes? Hawkeyes. Yeah. The Hawkeyes were doing this to children. Yeah. 1939. In 1939. Yeah. That's crazy. And they, yeah. And they were wanting to see how they would go out in life.

It just showed how verbal, yeah, people verbally berated children. Just ruined half the kids' lives. Yeah. What was the stuttering thing? Was that just you being mean? Them stuttering, what was the point of that? I think they had to have a few kids that really stuttered so the other kids didn't catch on that something's up. So they put a few good kids and a few bad kids together and told them they were all bad. So they were trying to, I don't understand. What's the point of them stuttering?

I think they were just some ringers they threw in there.

But one reason, the ones who got positive feedback, they improved on their stuttering. Oh, so this is all stuttering people. And so they're trying to see. Now, there were some stutterers in both groups. There were some stuttering kids and some kids who spoke perfectly fine. And in the group that got positive feedback, the kids who spoke fine continued to speak fine. And the stutterers improved because they got encouragement. Yeah. And the other group, everybody went bad. Everybody started stuttering. Yeah.

Yeah. So one kid was like, I didn't ever even stutter. And now I stutter. Yeah. I know, but so the whole experiment is just for the stutterers? I think it's just to show how long-term effects on kids. But the regular kids, I mean, that are just like, so y'all did, what is this? They're like, what is this study for you? Like, it's about stuttering. Like, yeah, why was I in it then? I didn't stutter. And then he goes, oh, I know, but we wanted to bring some of y'all in. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I think if you had all stutterers and you say you're terrible and they continue to stutter, like, well, what does that prove? Yeah. That they had to throw some rears at you. So you're trying to make some of the kids stutter. Yeah. That's crazy. And what do we get out of this? Shows the long-term effects of people's verbal, what they say to you, I guess. I feel like if they just... It comes out, so they go, so yeah, if you yell at a kid...

For a long time, it doesn't go well. It's that sentence. They ruin these kids' lives just for a guy who goes, so we learned it's not a good thing to yell at these kids for a long time. And they go, yeah, anything else? Does anybody get superpowers or anything? Is there anything worth? I mean, how stupid were they in 1939 that they didn't figure out, hey, if you yell at kids for a long time, it's not good. Right.

I'll do one more. These people should be in prison. The Stanford prison. Are they in Stanford prison? Well, it's 1939, so they're probably dead, but they're not looked on very well now.

So we'll do one more. This was recently. In 1997, a psychologist did a study on how quickly someone could fall in love. And he came up with a set of 36 questions that if you ask each other across the table and then stare at each other's eyes for four straight minutes, you will fall in love. So Brian and Nate are going to do that now. Yeah. This could be our new Krispy Kreme challenge. I mean...

And it worked. Yeah. They did it and these two people fell in love with each other and got married and then people have done it years later and it's worked. It's also helped marriages that were falling apart. What are the questions? Are they weird? I'm scared to ask them. Don't look at me. Okay. This is like the first online dating. I guess. Like, how'd y'all meet? Oh, ask these 36 questions.

Staring at each other. Just stare at each other for four minutes. I mean, they're just intimate questions. And we realized we're both the only two stupid ones to ever do something like this. And that's when we realized we were meant for each other. How do you feel about your relationship with your mother? When did you last cry in front of another person? Oh, God.

Are these for her? They go back and forth asking each other. It's supposed to last 90 minutes, and then you stare at each other's eyes for four minutes. The guys kept looking down some. Yeah. But it works, apparently. It works. Let me see some of these other questions. That's all 36. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest? Oh, that's fun. He's like, Jesus. Everybody just says the...

And if you don't say Jesus, you're the worst. Why would you not? Aaron would say Shaq. Yeah. I would like that. Yours would be very reasonable. It's you. Would you say the other person? I did a focus group for a toy company when I was like seven. And I remember they were disappointed with all my answers. Yeah. Because they had all these other kids in there. And they're like, what's the most important thing in the world to you? And I was like, God. And they're like, oh.

oh, God, this kid's giving us nothing. Here we go. Here we go. And you're like, no, I know. That's like when someone, when you said, what's like the best moments of your life? And you're always like, well, when my daughter was born, they're like, I know, dude. All right. Of course. And your marriage and your family, I get it. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now get to something we want to talk about. That's what this would be. I mean, I would think someone is, you'd need to say Jesus as a dinner guest. I don't know who else.

There'll be a language barrier, though. Huh? Yeah. You've got to think about the conversations. Well, I think you have God in your ear, and he tells you what he's saying. Translate it. You go, what did you say? And God goes, he asked just to pass the bread, to be honest. It's a very normal, and he goes. Hey, can you break that? He goes, are you guys going to share this, or is this more of a family-style place? Jesus is just asking very basic questions.

Like just, you know, you think it's going to be this big conversation, but some of it is like, you know, like how long should I be here? Is that water? We'll see. Once before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you're going to say? And then it says why? Why?

Yeah, I mean, I think you should know that you're going to have to explain that. Like if someone, do you ever rehearse what you're going to say? You go, yeah, absolutely. All right, that's good enough. Instead of why, it should be, what's wrong with you? That would be a thing. So what's wrong with you? You rehearse what you're going to say? Sometimes. That Planet Fitness call, I thought about that ahead of time. Yeah. Yeah.

For sure. Because you want to get to it quickly. You don't want to... I rehearse... Due to the drive-thru line, I take pride in how efficient my order is.

I order for the whole table. The whole, not the table, the car. There's a table in my car. That's how often I'm going. You got a van. There actually might be a table in the van. But I, yeah, I've seen vans with tables in it. But I like to get it where they, I go, I order it, order it, and that's it. And they go, okay, your total's this. No follow-ups, no other questions. That's the best. Thank you, guys. And you're good. I rehearse that. I, uh...

I never like it when they kind of keep cutting you off and they go, "All right, is that it?" You go, "Yo, man, I got a big car. So I need you to buckle up. I'll let you know when we're done." Like, you can feel like they're trying to be like, "All right, is that it?" You'll be like, "We have a number one, no onions, is that it?" "No, no. Number five, is that it? It's not gonna be it for a while." Every time you keep asking that.

We're keeping going. Hang on. Let's try to get... What would constitute a perfect day for you? I mean, what a nightmare. Dinner. I hope this is like hypnosis where you don't realize you're getting hypnotized. Aaron just keeps listening and before you know it, he's on to you. When did you last sing to yourself or to someone else? That's insane.

People fall in love if you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want? You want your body to be 30, so you're at 90. Yeah. If anyone's done this...

Has anybody, yeah, because you would be, you should be on the news if you somehow retained the minor body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life. Yeah, we'd definitely like you to come on stage. Because that's a, you've got a Benjamin Buttons thing. You're saying, has anybody done this thing? Yeah, because couples do it. Has anybody done this? Probably not going to admit to it now, but. Would you leave your wife if she asked you to do this? That should be the number one question.

Before we get started, if we ask a serious question, do you think you're going to leave this relationship? You're like, I absolutely am. You're like, all right. We only needed one question. Staring into each other's eyes for four minutes. I don't know what's worse. The staring or the questions? The staring or the questions. And after, you know, yeah. Make three true we statements each. Make...

Make three true, quote, we statements each. For instance, we are both in this room feeling. Oh. So you got to say that. This is getting near the end, so now they're wanting you to feel like you're already a couple. Oh, like so we are both, we have both wasted most of our day doing that.

And now you go. And she's like, we have both loved this. And then I would say, we are not probably going to ever see each other after this. We are not on the same page. We are already not on the same page. And we should leave now. I don't think there's any reason for us to do any more of these questions. And then she goes, but we might fall in love if we ride this out. We are probably never going to fall in love.

And I knew this from before we started the questions. I can't believe we've made it this far. So Dr. Gil Greengross wrote an article for Psychology Today about the intelligence of comedians. And so the average IQ score is 100. 70 and below is mini-league challenge. 130 and above is top 2%. You can get Mensa. So you want to be 100? Well, 100 is average. You want to be higher than that.

What's wrong with being average? That's the average. I mean, no one's... You know, you're doing pretty good. I mean, I needed to know that bottom. What's the bottom? You just don't want to be... I would be nervous to take one of those tests. You'd be hanging around 70? Yeah. They would... I would...

I would be pretty nervous. You're going to come out. Like, I'm pretty like, when we all walk out of the room, they're going to pull me to another door. Hey, could we, you right there, could you come out this other door? And I'm like, what's over this door? And they're like, just blocks and stuff. They go, I don't, we're going to walk you out because I don't, we looked at your score and we don't know if you're going to know how to get out of this building. They sampled 55 male comedians and they ranged from 115 to 160 with the average of 138.

The average IQ of a comedian is 138? Male comedians. Male comedians. Then they did... They couldn't find enough female comedians? They found 14 female comedians, and they range from 112 to 144 with an average of 126. So they're also way above average. Yeah. When did they do this? I think it was a long time ago. How would they find 55 comedians a long time ago? This is all these people that say they're comedians, and they're not? I'm not saying it was like in the 1800s, but I think it was...

Not last year. I think it was... I think I would know at least one of these comedians that go, no, I did this test. I remember... Right now, if you told me you asked 55 comedians, I would know one of them. Probably would. I think it was probably like in the 80s or something. Okay. You sound mad that you weren't called about this. I don't have a list of them. When do you go get your IQ? You just do it whenever? Why do people even do it?

Like just... You can go take one now. Like you're in a smart world and then they're like, you got to do an IQ before you come in this world and learn about all this smart nonsense. To join Mensa, right? Huh? Don't you have to... You join it? To join Mensa, you have to... You apply to join Mensa and then you have to approve of your IQ. Why are you in Mensa? Just to be... Just to say you're a genius. Oh. I mean, that'd be fun to say. Yeah. It's a...

Obnoxious? I mean, that person's got to say it just the whole time. You know, I'm in Mensa. He just tries to get it in every conversation. Where are you going? My Mensa class. What are you? Oh, the store. I thought, I'm in Mensa. Is it Mensa? Is that how you say it? Yeah. M-E-N-S-A.

Yeah. They did a psychological test on timing of jokes and when jokes are the funniest and when they're too soon. Yeah. They did it in a tweet version. So this was at Texas A&M University. And they had 1,064 participants online for this. So a tweet. So this was, the tweet was from Hurricane Sandy. They created a Hurricane Sandy tweet, account. And the tweet was, just blew the roof off of this Olive Garden. Free breadsticks for everyone.

So that's the tweet. That's the joke. This was a university made this account? I think so. Or at least this is the tweet, the account and the tweet they used for this study. 1,064 participants. Before Hurricane Sandy hit, people were loving it. They thought it was very funny. Then after it hit and did much more tragedy than they expected, it went down. It was least funny 15 days after Hurricane Sandy hit landfall. But then it started slowly building again. Laughter

And it was at its highest point of humor 36 days after landfall. Imagine they put all their efforts towards helping with hurricane stuff instead of just... Can you imagine during it? What are you working on during this hurricane? When is it right to do a joke or not? Like, why? Like, can't you just fill it out? All these answers are just stuff that you could guess. I know. Psychologists, their biggest trick is making you...

how do any of these people make money? Yeah. They got to come up with this study. So then it went back down again after 99 days. So the study showed that. It kept it going for 99 days. He goes, is that joke still funny? I go, what joke? Oh, yeah. Are they just reposting the same joke every day to see how it does?

That's a good question. Yeah. According to this. Yeah. But the study is supposed to show timing of humor. If you say something too soon, it's not going to be funny. I was in, I left New York on Hurricane Sandy. I don't know if I've talked about it. I think you used to have a joke about it, right? About your daughter being born? I had a joke about it. I had a Hurricane Sandy joke. The day I moved from California to California was the day Hurricane Sandy hit.

And we were supposed to be leaving the next day, but it was like, hey, this is coming. It's getting really bad. And so I had to drive our car across the country. So my wife's dad came up and stayed with her. Harper was, I think, four months old or five months old. So I leave because I had to. But it's funny, in a hurricane, they tell you don't,

protect babies and old people and I left my wife with both of those things and I and I just drove away and they got stuck and they had to go stay at a hotel Grand Central by Grand Central and uh everything lost power except up to their street and then they had to stay in that hotel for two days till they got home because we thought they could get out they went to the airport and they couldn't get out and so yeah so what what do you think Laura would find that tweet funny

I mean, I said that joke to her pretty on the drive out. Oh, your joke? I said my joke. I was trying it early. Probably the most famous, I guess, psychological experiment was Pavlov's dog. You guys heard of this? Yeah, I don't know what it means. The guy's name's Pavlov? Pavlov, yeah. Huh? Pavlov. Pavlov. Yep. Pavlov.

Pavlov. Can I imagine just calling a guy that? Every time he comes over, who's coming over? Pavlov. You're like, what? Pavvy. Every time someone says, who's coming over? Pavlov. You're like, no, I said who, not what. And he's like, no, his name is Pavlov. You're like, oh. Pavlov's not. Can we call him Pav or something? And he goes, nah, he makes you call him the whole thing. The whole thing.

Is it a guy or is it a man or woman? You're like, I don't even, I can never tell. It's Pavlov. It's just, it's Pavlov is Pavlov. Brings his dog with him. Brings his dog. So he learned how an outside stimulus can lead to an involuntary response. So he noticed that his dog started salivating for food, even when he just heard it. Everyone says it's a dinner bell. Actually, it wasn't a bell. It was other stimulus, but...

He used to ring this. A lot of people talk and argue about this regularly. This is a very famous. You probably hear all the time on the street. Everybody's going that dinner bell. And that's so wrong. It's people don't know. I think the majority of these people know, but he would ring it. How many conversations do you have about Pavlov's dog? I mean, I took one psychology class and. Oh yeah. In the class. High school or college. Yeah. Yeah.

Just the one class. And they talked about that. They opened with the backlogged dog. Oh, this is a big one. This is a big one. That's the opener for sure. That and Sigmund Freud. That was the two big ones. But he would ring something and it would make the dog salivate for food because at first he would always feed him. Then he just started doing it and the dog just started salivating even though he didn't see the food. So it shows that you can create an outside stimulus from something. Yeah.

I would think the... Go ahead, Aaron. I was going to say, I feel that every time... You know, before every show here at Zany's, they play...

Soul Man, the Blues Brothers song. It's before every show and they've been doing that for, I think, years and years and years. The whole time, yeah. The whole time. So if I hear that song somewhere else, I'll get nervous like I'm about to go on stage because I just... I'm Pavlov's dog. Yeah, I heard it. We played it kind of at our wedding. We had it play and I put it on the playlist and I...

heard it in the distance and I got nervous. Like you had to go up. Because you just think, yeah, you start to, like you're about to go on stage. Yeah. No, there's no weird saliva. He can fill two swimming pools with saliva. I don't go on stage and spit all, oh, I do a little bit, but I don't know. No spit involved.

But I've heard a lot of comedians say that, that they hear Soul Man on the radio, they tense up because they're used to going on stage. Yeah. That's crazy, guys. But the difference is we're always usually opening the show, so we've got to go out right away. By the time you go on stage, it's been an hour and a half since that song played. Well, it is very funny, too. We used to do that in New York, too.

So if you hosted a show, you'd have to bring up like seven comics on a show. And you could just tell someone like, oh, you got to go up now. Like if someone showed up late or they thought they were late, we'd be like, dude, they're calling your name. And we would tell them and they would just run in the room. And so these, like, it's like if someone just at the Zany's door just came barreling in like, and then he's like, am I? And you're like, no, dude, you're like two more from now. And you just see that person go, what? Okay.

You could do it. They walk out of this door. You could open that door, but you've got to go now. And they open this door, and then they're just out, and everybody sees them. And then you lock it behind them. And then they have to walk out through the crowd, which is very funny. You and Burt Kreischer did that to me at that door years ago. I opened for Burt, and then that door was locked. It was like one of my first shows here. And I was like, oh, man, I messed up. I started to walk around the corner there. It's very funny to do. Pavlov's dog.

Yeah. What kind of dog was it? I don't know. Why wouldn't they ask that? Well, I mean, I'm sure somebody knows, but I don't. We'll find out next week. I just think that'd be kind of important. You're teaching schools. People are paying to go learn about this thing. Yeah. It'd be like, was it a schnauzer? And you're like, that's what I would ask that. Like a domino pitcher, like figures. All right. We'll find out next week in the comments.

- Thank you, sir. - Delayed gratification study, I think that just happened.

They did a study to see if delayed gratification can be a predictor of future life success. So they would put children between the ages of three and five in a room with a treat, either a marshmallow or a cookie, and they would tell them, "If you wait 15 minutes and don't eat this cookie, then we'll give you two treats." And then they see who could do it and who can't. And the ones who could do it and wait usually went on to have higher SAT scores and went on to more success.

So they just tracked them forever. That's a long study. Yeah. Yeah. That's the real problem. And then these people watched your kids for life. So do they study the parents too? And that's something else we learned. These parents that just let us have their children for the day.

And then we gave them candy. We told them not to take candy from strangers. That's the main thing you tell a kid. And we shoved them in this room. Who does these tests? Let me see who this one was. A psychologist named Walter Mischel. I don't know where he's from. Mischelin? Does he just give up these ideas and he goes, all right, yeah, I think we could do that. And he goes, what are you going to need from us?

bunch of children from three to five years old you're like how are we going to bring that out to the town because there's got to be a square town square and say we need your children I bet the kids that ate the marshmallow I bet they were happier they got it I don't care about happiness do they the ACT scores all this I bet that kid's happy

The one that took it quick. Yeah. All of them were fat. That's the end of the story. That's the end of it? Yeah. They call him up 20 years later. How's things going? You're like, dude, he died years ago. He got him addicted to this candy and he never stopped. And so he started working for that candy company and ate till his death. Is that the answer you wanted? Yeah.

The bystander effect. We've talked about this in a previous episode when...

when one person sees a tragedy or something going on, they're more likely to step in than if there's a bunch of people in public, because then everyone waits for someone else to step up. And there's been a lot of like crimes that have happened where bystanders, everyone stands around because they think someone else will step in. And in this case where they put a participants in a room to take a test and then they put smoke into the room. And if you're alone taking a test,

75% got up and went out and told somebody there's smoke coming in the room, which is still pretty crazy. He's not 100. But then they would put a group of people in the room and they'd have some actors and they all know that it's nothing to worry about and nobody would get up and then those people

people who don't know about it would just stay in the room because they think, well, nobody else is freaking out, so I guess it's okay. Yeah. I get that. You don't want to be the one guy that freaks out. That's your biggest fear is to go, hey, man, there's smoke in there. You're like, loser. You can't. Like, that's all you're scared of is just that. You're scared of a little smoke. Can you believe this guy over here with the smoke? Yeah.

The Smokejumper? That's a movie in entourage. I was going to say a fictional movie that never got made. That never got made. Yeah. The Dunning-Kruger Effect. Yeah. Oh, you know this? Yeah. Okay. I have it. Did you take psychology in Notre Dame? No, never did. You just talked about this at the dinner table? Well, this one comes up a bit. You're going to know it. You've heard it. I bet I don't know where I'm talking about these. You haven't heard of the Dunning-Kruger Effect? No.

I mean, he hadn't heard of Pavlov's dog. I don't think he's going to have heard of it. I thought Pavlov's dog was like a painting. It was like the Mona Lisa. He looked at it. Dogs playing poker. Yeah, yeah. I think my parents took a picture. They weren't supposed to, but they did anyway. Yeah, I've seen it. Dunning-Kruger effect is when people believe they're smarter and more capable than they really are.

That should be the theme of this podcast. That's our tagline. Essentially, low ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. But I think I recognize mine. No, no, no. Are y'all talking about me? Is this about me? No, no, it's not.

It's not. I always think of it as in order to know whether you're good or bad at something, you have to be good at it. Well, it also says people are genuine experts. That's just a statement. In order to know if you're good or bad at something, you've got to know that you're good at it. No, you have to be good at it. Because the same thing that lets you know how good or bad something is is the thing that lets you be good at it.

I feel like college is just made so y'all don't do anything in life. You don't help out at all. You just talk about...

Like, that's why everybody that goes to college, like, if there was a fire, y'all just talk about how the fire existed and watch just families burn. And then you got to get a blue-collar guy to go do the work. Like, y'all just go, but is the fire real if I don't think it's real? And if I'm not the fire? And then y'all, like, it's just constant, like, ba-ba-ba. I got them going. Yeah, I got them.

Good uneducated folk in here. You know what I mean? We travel thick. What is this? Is there more to it? Well, I mean, you put such a good button on it, I was going to move on. Oh. You got an applause break. I thought I don't know what to do. It also talks about people who are genuine experts in one area tend to believe they're also experts in other areas. So this is about like not a good person. It just means our own blindness to stuff.

I know, so it's not like a good person, but you get a name for it, and now he gets to walk around like, now I got the domino. It's not a disease. I don't know if it's... I got the Dunning-Kruger. I have Dunning-Kruger. Yeah. Stage three. It's real bad. I mean, it sounds like not a fun person to be around. That's like, no, I know everything. You're like, Dunning-Kruger, here we go again.

When I worked at TV News, people, we interviewed people on the street. People always ask, why do you always interview the dumbest people? Right. That's because they're the ones that are willing to talk. Right. Smart people are just going to keep moving. I don't care to talk about whatever. But other people say, yeah, I'll talk. I'll get all day. That's why phishing emails, like the scam emails that you get, are deliberately over-the-top dumb sounding.

So that the people that respond have a higher percentage of actually tricking them. Yeah. You know? Now, in fairness, half the things we've discussed, you've ended by saying, I could do that. Yeah.

Like I could do all the stuff that's saying. Well, like the wallops or one of them said you could be a lawyer and philosopher. Yeah, I think I could fake it. But I would know I'm faking. Yeah. This person doesn't. They think they're real. Yeah. So this is not a disease. No. This is a God. This is somewhere. It's a description of the phenomenon. That's a phenomenon. Yeah.

It's an effect, apparently. I mean, this is like we should worship this thing. Like, can you believe we met a guy that has this? He's just a nightmare. He drains every second of you. But man, was it, it's an honor. It's a guy that walks in and just knows how to do everything. You're like, who knows how to fix this sink? He's like, I do. And he doesn't know how to do it. And you're like, it's just an honor to be in your, just around you. The fact that we need somebody to know CPR. Oh!

And then he comes over and does that too. That's how they should find the guy. They just make all this stuff happen. He doesn't realize that like this is all happening. We talked to, uh, me and big J once talked to this guy. There's a comic and, uh,

We learned that no matter what you said, he would tell you he's done the exact same thing. So if you said, I just bombed tonight, he goes, I bombed harder. Or if you go, I just killed tonight, he's like, I killed too, man. The show was great. So we learned that he would do that. And so me and Jay just kept saying stuff to him.

And we kept, like, I remember, I'll never forget, we were just at this bar, and we'd just keep, and we're like, just keep going because he's just going to, so we'd just keep adding stuff. We're like, you know, I've driven a car once, 105 miles an hour, and he's like, I did, mine was like 120. And so he just would top us. Yeah.

And so we just kept doing this. At one point, me and Jay both take our pants off and are sitting in our boxers, and he never addresses that. And I don't know what that has to do with the situation. It was just the idea that we both took our pants off, and he never goes, hey, why are y'all doing this? He just kept talking. And then we tell him, and then I start telling a story about how I killed a guy once.

Because I was like, you know, I don't want to talk. And he goes, he goes, he goes, oh, he goes, all right, finish your story. And I got a story like he he had a story about killing a guy. I'm making up a story about killing a guy. And he's like, oh, no, go ahead. Do yours and I'll do mine. Like there was nothing that was ever stopping this guy from this guy. And we didn't have pants on.

I'm telling, why would I give this secret up? This is the time to come clean and tell you the time I killed a guy and I took my pants, let me take my pants off first before I dive into it. We have a buddy of ours, a comedian who's a, I think a psychiatrist and there was a

crazy guy at an open mic one time and he came up and talked to us for a while and then he finally left and the psychiatrist goes, you guys want to guess the diagnosis? It's crazy. He's just thinking I know everything that's wrong with this guy. I should have had him on. The Pygmalion effect. You know this one? No. This is a study where researchers told teachers that certain students had higher potential based on IQ tests.

They made it up like yeah, they just told the teachers that and these students are more bright These are less and then it ended up becoming true because teachers gave them more Intention if it basically is self-fulfilling prophecy. Yes, psychology just ruined a lot of kids Like that's that's the

the day psychology was invented it just was made to just ruin people's lives so smart people can just have something to talk about to each other with I don't even know what you're getting out of that except that guy gets to have a fun dinner party conversation as those poor families have to deal with the dumb kids that had a future and they ruined it for them you don't think it's worth it to go you know we have a

treat if you give kids you know preferential treatment then you can point to the results and see how much better they'll do you don't think there's any value yeah then you got the other but what about the no one thinks about the child that's just walking into a door because he was a part of the experiment that just he gets because he doesn't know there's a lot of stuff like this where it's

They're like that where they go, so we put them in a room. We didn't tell them, obviously. Like, you're making them out to be this guy. You would think you would just study it, like, in the wild, much less you bring people in and, like, go, we're going to ruin some of these kids' lives. But we will be able to talk about something. It's about to get much, much worse. Of course. The 1974 car crash experiment. Yeah. I mean...

Yeah. And these people, they don't go to jail for this. Like, I don't even know what it is. They're just roaming around. They get rewarded. Now, this actually wasn't making people be in car crashes, but they made people watch a car accident, and then they worded it differently to see if you can mislead people into believing stuff that didn't really happen based on the way you word it.

So they would ask some people how fast was the car driving at the time of impact? And then they asked the other ones how fast was the car going when it smashed into the other car? And the people that you said smashed into, they thought the wreck was much worse than it really was and said there was much more glass than there really was. So they say like interrogators can use this in a bad way. The media can misconstrue stuff by the way you word stuff. So it was just a study on that. Oh.

Okay. That's better than the title. You made it sound like they were causing car accidents all over the... Boom! Just ramming into other cars. Just being like, 1974 was a year, man. It was just going down the highway, just ramming people. I remember that year. All right. The doll violence experiment. What is it? Doll violence? Yeah. This is exactly what it sounds like. This is...

At Stanford, which we already covered the first one at Stanford, 72 nursery-age children were given a doll, and then half of them, they watched adults violently beating the doll for about 10 minutes, and the other ones showed adult cuddling, and it showed that the kids watching the adult beat the doll became more violent and aggressive and did it to the doll themselves. Yeah.

I mean, you're just doing, like, that's what I mean, you're ruining, like, you have to do this to kids. This is, nevertheless, the work has since come under fire on ethical grounds.

Seeing as the subjects were basically trained to act aggressively with possible long-term consequences. Yeah. Finally, they're held accountable a little bit, you know? Yeah. Rather than just going, guys, we probably shouldn't do this anymore. That's how they're held accountable. Nothing happens to them. You're like, I'm fired? No, no, no, no. We're having to do stuff to dogs and stuff now. But it's just we're not going to do it to the children. People are getting a little mouthy about it, and you know how it is.

The Little Albert experiment. Oh gosh. This is another external statement. Are you allowed to say this? It's another external statement. There's a nine-month-old baby named Little Albert. He was given a white rabbit and he played with it. He had no reaction. So then they started banging stuff behind him to scare him whenever the white rabbit entered the room and the boy started crying.

So over time, anytime he heard a loud noise or metal pipe, he would start freaking out. And anytime he saw a white rabbit or anything close to that, like a sat-up beard, anything, he started crying. Who's this for? I was going to say. It's for Little Albert. This sounds like it's for the rabbit. It says the Little Albert experiment demonstrates that classical conditioning can be used to create a phobia. Yeah, I don't...

So it's like being like, this is how phobias start? Yeah. Often, like if you have a phobia, like, you know, I don't know why I'm scared of this or whatever. It could be something from your childhood. So maybe you had a freak out thing on a ride. With claustrophobia? Yeah. Well, but that happened when I was 40. That happened two years ago.

But you don't have a good memory. Yeah, so it could have happened a long time ago. You were 38. And that's what they got out of that? Out of beating a pipe behind a nine-month-old? Things didn't work out well for Albert, but... Did they say what happened to him? It didn't go well. Yeah. I mean, they weren't sure of his exact identity. Are you little Albert? Yeah.

That's what we find out. That's what we're getting. I mean, the years all start adding up a little bit. Yeah. It all comes together. It all comes together. You're like, dude, that makes so much sense. If we said Brian was a little average, I mean, everybody, I think, would be like, yeah, dude. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's how you get to be that.

Well, we're at the, I don't know what time you want to wrap this up, but we still got those questions. We'll read a couple more of these questions, then we can be out of here. So we talked about, previously, about a study that said that this scientist said you can make anyone fall in love if they read 36 questions to each other and then stare at each other's eyes for four minutes. And apparently it works. Nate is a little skeptic. Just the nightmare of having to go through this. Uh...

To me, would it be worth it? You know, like, so we're eating something we haven't read. I wish I'd known about this sooner.

I would have done this in my 20s. I mean, I love my wife, but come on. You would have just been in your interviews. It's a weird move. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, as a dating thing, just as you walk around and you just pull out like a note card and go, oh, hey, nice to meet you. Give them the choice of anyone in the world. Whom would you want as a dinner guest? And then you just ask them and see what they say. Oh, that's interesting. And you slowly, what is the greatest accomplishment of your life? What

What do you value most in a friendship? What is your most treasured memory? What is your most terrible memory? It's like that kind of stuff. I mean, you know, for what in your life do you feel most grateful? Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die? Oh, my God. That's just thrown in the mix of something. What number is that? That was seven. Seven.

I mean, that is, and she goes, are we almost done? You go, we're not even started. Yeah, we are.

Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die? And she's going to go, is it you? Are you the one? Is that like that's foreshadowing? You ask it again at question 25. I'm going to ask one more time. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die? Guys, thank you so much for coming out. I truly appreciate it. Thank you guys so much. Thank you.

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