WEBVTT - Episode 39: ASMR 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:18.919 And hello today it's going to be a very special 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:24.480 episode of sens is a s m R, which stands 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:29.080 for Autonomous sensory meridian responses. Um enjoying this or you 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.040 might be hating it because some people do not like 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.280 a s m R at all, which is so interesting. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.400 But you but just in case you want to know 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.760 you're in the right place. You are listening to Nerd Defficent. 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.040 I am your host if you away, And you know, 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:48.360 I'm really excited about this one because it's very very 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:53.120 quiet at times and sometimes it's loud. Um. You know, 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.880 I do know someone who hates a s MR. So 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.600 I and that person did pick it. It's Danny. She 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.280 hates a SMR, so I think you know, in her honor, 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.959 I'm just gonna do it like this for the rest 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:14.759 of the episode. The binural mix that I hew you doing, 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:22.920 little mom, I'm here, I'm back. I made it back 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:26.000 to the show. It's been sh wrong. I've been on 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:33.360 her show. How Naomi now she's in college, daughter Naomi 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:37.360 should college. She's in college now. It's been show long s. 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:45.320 I'm being on there NERD Tactic Podcast. During that whole bit, 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:47.960 Danny was moving her arms like she was using the cane, 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.480 but it just looked like she was going to ready 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.840 to shoot some dice. I was like, all right, you 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:56.360 want to lose your money, this is how much I 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.120 love you. I'll not that literally anyone at because I 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.120 don't think anyone. Maybe one person might have asked a 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.560 long time ago, but I can't remember. I thought it 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.480 would be fascinating to look at the world of a 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.840 s mr um because it is technically, I think a 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.040 part of the nerd community. I considered part of the 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.680 nerd community. It's definitely part of the YouTube community that's 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:19.959 really taken off its existed before YouTube. But yeah, but 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:23.560 that's kind of what made it explode. I don't like it. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.519 I in our group chat of this podcast that we 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.359 have with Dan and our producer and Anna i Um, 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.600 I said I would rather us going over hardcore porn 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:40.400 um SMR. I'm one of those people that find it 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.799 what's the word uncomfortable. That's the word I'm looking for. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.240 And it's got to find your right trigger. See, because 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:47.639 I was the same way, and I was like, this, 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:49.919 this is what's Bernain doing it for? But then I 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:55.560 found out slime and scratches is where Well, the thing 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.240 that I do want to say is that a lot 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:01.000 of these YouTubers are upset and rightfully so, that they're 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.639 being flagged as it being just a sexual fetish. And 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.919 they do a lot of people use a s MR 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:11.800 to sleep, to relax and sleep, and and there are 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.720 a lot of people that use it for sexual reasons. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:23.639 And that's fine too, and that's true, Iffy. Yeah, like 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.160 we said with Roger Craigsmith, some of that sonic art 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.080 you know, some of the sonic sonic art on Tumbler, 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.320 which Tumbler is now taking off porn anyways, Yeah, a 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.640 s MR, as if you said it is autonomous sensory 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:42.520 meridian response. Essentially, it is. This is the definition, is 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.160 an experience characterized by a static like or tingling sensation 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.360 on the skin that typically begins on the scalp and 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.440 moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.120 We know it as people talking very quietly on YouTube, 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:59.440 very very quietly, like like like this quietly, and you 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.880 can hear my mouth sounds. You can hear when my 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:06.560 my mouth comes together. But you might somebody might be like, yep, 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.800 that's it. I need Danny to start a YouTube play 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.160 I guess I could do an sm R Patreon. Maybe, 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.120 I don't know. I have some projects I need to 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.240 get funded. Um, I think i'd be good at it too, 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:21.720 especially this voice that I have. But voice I think too. 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.279 So yeah, if you tell me what we're what are 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.440 some of your favorite videos? Like what are you into? Well, 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.920 you know, I mean, what are you what do you 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.120 like to watch with a sm R. Let's not get 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.440 into what you're Well, it's too general of a question 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:38.880 with with a sm R. I found that it is 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.160 like The Slimes. And I found it because I was 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.280 like at a party, and you know how you go 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.800 to a party, the conversation is kind of all kind 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:49.640 of die out and you talk to everyone that you know, 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.200 and you know, you're like, all right, well let me 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.840 bust out this phone and you know, use this until 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.840 somebody tries to shame me for using AM at the 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.320 party and I tripped across it was so random. It 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.200 was on the Explore page, but it was a slime 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.000 Instagram channel and for some reason I had like, oh, 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.320 I didn't have headphones. I was watching it and then 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.160 like I was watching the Slimes and I was like, oh, 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.680 this is oddly pleasing to look at, but it said 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:21.600 a S A SMR, and then I kind of put 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.320 the phone up to my ear and I was like, oh, 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.520 this is tight. So yeah, I can't remember. I think 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.400 Danielle Radford, who is one of our close friends. She 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.320 was on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode. Yes, she 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.120 likes she like, She's openly said this, so I'm not 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:42.120 outing her. She likes listening to people eating sandwiches, and that, 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.960 to me is how I figured out that it was sexual. 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.680 I thought it was just like, oh, yeah, okay. I 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.720 didn't really think anything of it. And then when I 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.400 heard that of like people with beards eating sandwiches, I 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:58.320 was like, oh, oh gotcha. Yeah okay, but yeah, let's go, 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.160 let's get into uh a s MR. So although the 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.760 term a s MR and the niets YouTube community are 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:09.800 relatively new, the sensation itself is arguably not. There's no 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.560 actual record of a s MR existing until a few 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.800 years ago because people had no way of really talking 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.880 about it. The sheer volume of a s MR videos 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.760 on YouTube, though, is a testament to the thousands, I 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:26.120 would say, millions of people who feel these tinglies and uh, 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.200 I don't know they enjoy it. Yeah. Yeah, uh and 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.000 it's and it is crazy because it has like blown 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:35.599 up and it's been interesting to see kind of where 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:39.240 it started, which was I feel like a lot of 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:44.359 the videos kind of focused on the whispering kind of touching. Yeah, whispering, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.480 but like it's kind of blown up and there's so 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.560 many likes. Oh wait, I have it? Wait hang on, 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:56.120 oh yeah, you know what I feel like if wispy, 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:00.840 I mean they did the entire a song like that. 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.800 I bet that was you know, so I'm looking at 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.360 a billboard. This is an article on Billboard. It was 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.800 the ten times whispering and rap songs unintentionally created an 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.560 a SMR experience. You know, hip hop might have been, 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.120 it might have been started it, especially though, because that's 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:21.680 a little sexual. You know, that's a little sexy. Sexy. Well, 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.520 what's the number one pick on that? Let's see what 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.360 is another? Can you think of others? I mean that 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:36.200 wasn't oh David Banner, yes, yes, play yes, wait no, 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.280 oh no, this is the edited one. Okay, you would 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.240 have been late by the time you realize that. You said, 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:49.120 oh wait right after where two spice? You're right, and 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.320 that was a good call on their part because we 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:55.280 can't play that on here. Number one, run girl, we're 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.000 trying to get your body wet. Yeah we can say that, 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.800 you know. Number one I don't with is Ice Ice Baby. 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:09.440 I've yeah, no, no, no, but yeah, I totally agree too. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:13.160 Is the Whisper song from Yanang Twins and three is 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.920 David Banners play, which we're both both parts of my 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:24.120 high school experience. Um yeah, well, because I mean my 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:29.680 big thing was the like a pimp that was David Banners, 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.000 like big banger for me, but but definitely by like 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.840 I was well aware of David Banner by the time 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:39.599 play came out, But like that was the one in 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:42.319 high school I remember mostly because that was I got it. 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.360 Got it as a ringtone for my Boost mobile phone 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.480 and I was playing it because someone showed me how 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.120 to hack your Boost mobile phone to like put free 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:54.120 ring tones on and I was I was the King Frog, 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.120 remember that, Like commercially, I don't know how that frog 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:02.280 was like the baby Shark of our generation because everyone 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:04.000 was all about that dumb frog, and I was like, 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.559 how did this get so popular? Like I understand that 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:11.280 Ali McBeal, baby, I don't understand that Frog. Yeah. Yeah, 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.840 for those of you who don't know what we're talking about, Andrew, 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.319 you're younger than us. Um. It was this weird like 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:22.240 cartoon frog where you could get your ringtone essentially, you 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.400 could like, wouldn't it be a number that you set 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:26.640 up or you texted or called or something, and they 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.600 it would like give met you. It was called crazy Frog. Yeah. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:32.920 Do you remember while we're on this kick, do you 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.319 remember the Gerbil song or what was it? Like? Didn't 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:45.360 eat that? You don't remember that? Well? Aware of that 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:51.160 weird ass song, people have either tuned in or turned out. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.640 Oh all right, you should be able to Oh my gosh, 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.640 this is what happens when I'm delirious from shooting for 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:00.800 two weeks and you bring me back on this show. 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:06.280 This not only so so I buried the lead here. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:11.280 I found someone who uploaded the original commercial. But Crazy Frog, 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.520 which is the name of it, has its own Vivo 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.560 and so is it still alive. It's still posting. It's 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.640 under the first video. Okay, gonna eat that? You know, 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.960 I feel like I've seen this frog recently, like oh, 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:29.200 this was from nine years ago, but it's also copied 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:36.560 written Crazy Frog commercial jamster that was it. Okay, let 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:53.000 me see this is from two thousand and five from 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:57.679 your respond Okay, so you would text crazy one if 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.680 you wanted one of the like one of those songs, 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.599 and easy too if you wanted a different one. Anyways, 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.240 that was our life back then. Wow, didn't date that? 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:11.079 D No, d that didn't go and we'll pay whatever 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.640 dumb amount of money. Are you doing it right now? 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.840 Do you think that it still exists out all right? 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:22.840 Live on air? You're hearing right now if this jamster 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:28.839 frog works crazy that's so watch you like give money 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.600 to I don't know, hell, you've given one million dollars 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:37.480 to Isis. I was like, oh no, all right, let's 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:42.640 let's really reeling this back into a s MR um. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.120 It's a great so. The a s m R community 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:48.320 is a great example of how the rise of social 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.120 media and online communities and the Internet in general has 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.960 transformed the human experience. It was so fascinating. I don't 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:56.800 know if you saw Iffy today. I posted about not 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:01.600 ghosting people because people are people, and I think instead 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.079 of ghosting or ignoring someone, you can literally say hey, 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:07.679 you know that you want to move on? Instead of 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:12.160 doing that some passive aggressive stuff because that that person 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:13.880 on the other side of the phone has, you know, 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:19.120 feelings and value and worth and the world is no. No. 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:20.880 I was trying to say. I was trying to I'm 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:26.160 trying to tell the community here as a whole. I 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.280 was trying to tell the community here as a whole 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:33.640 um and uh that it's the adult thing to do 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:35.360 would be to just be like, hey, I'm sorry. You 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.520 know I've I'm going to move on from this. What 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.720 I mean here, I'm here for you, and you're right. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:42.760 What I meant to say was somebody came back at 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.079 me and said, well, I saw on the Today Show 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.080 they interviewed people from dating apps and they said they've 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.240 ghosted people and it doesn't bother them. And I want 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.160 to be like one not going to take dating advice 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.600 from people on the Today Show. But that doesn't mean 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:59.480 that it's okay. But also if you talk about because 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.199 you can't just use that okay. If you're on a 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.440 dating app and someone goes to you're like, all right, 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.240 we're here to play ball. When someone you know in 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.840 real life and I know it's bad because someone's been 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.559 trying for the longest to shoot a video at BuzzFeed 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.040 where they're like, um, where the casting notes that they 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.439 send internally to all of us is like, have you 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:23.559 ghosted someone? I'm doing a video where people like go 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.880 up to the person that they've ghosted and like, you know, 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:30.080 basically confronted and apologize and stuff. And that person has 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.120 been trying to shoot that video for like I think 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.640 at least two months now, because no one who wants 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.240 to admit that. Yeah. Yeah, But what I was going 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.120 to say is because they said that this has transformed 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:40.760 the human experience, and I was going to say that 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.680 person said, now we're really antisocial. That was their response 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.000 to me about why people ghost or whatever, which I'm 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.160 not disagreeing with, but because they're saying that people ghost 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.079 because we're antisocial. Yeah, And I think that's one of 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:56.760 those things where it's like, yeah, you kind of have 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.360 to get over it. You can't, Like I, I feel 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:04.719 like we're allowing too many excuses. I agree. Um, And 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:06.880 so what I was gonna say this relates in some 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.120 way to a sm R is that I think the 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.040 sounds of human touch. That's so this is like a 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:17.199 Black Mirror episode. I think the sounds of human touch. Um, 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.400 something about that that has that side of the human 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.359 experience that even though you might people might be antisocial, 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:29.480 they're able to find some comfort in. That's why now 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.800 we've seen the rise of like professional snugglers, which is 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.720 another thing that I've not smugglers. Snugglers that I've tweeted about, 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:38.400 and people like that's a thing. It is a thing 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.760 where you can pay someone to cuddle. When I made 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:42.320 a joke about it, I don't think the men that 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.800 wrote me understood what cuddling means. That it's not me 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.960 having sex with you. I don't do it, But I 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:49.880 just joked of like, hey, I want that as a job, 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.880 Like you know, um, have someone pay me to snuggle them. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:55.800 They're like, i'll pay you. I'm like, yeah, you're saying 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.240 it though in a way that you think that it's 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.800 you know, sexual, when it's just supposed to be transact Anyways, 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:06.800 Frog update, OK, I got terrible news for everyone. Shot. 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.960 They didn't just take your money and run. Now, they 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:14.480 didn't take my money. It belongs to Etna, the prescription 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:20.760 the company Etna r X. This automated system doesn't recognize 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.200 your message. Sign into your member website if you have 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:28.880 any questions about your prescriptions. And it's funny to think 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:32.800 that my favorite, uh not my favorite, that my initial 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.680 message was crazy one. So now it's like give me 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:40.040 the crazy ones, give me a crazy peel. I'm doing 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:46.360 drugs anyway. Um So, what was previously private and personal 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.160 is now public and common. Experiences that were not discussable 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.400 have been named and identified people who are alone in 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.200 their feelings as we're talking about of how may it 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.240 be you know, now people are able to share this 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:01.440 community online essentially. Yeah. So there was a pure viewed 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.840 article on a SMR by Emma Barrett and Nick Davis 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.200 and they're basically trying to show why the recent trend 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.120 could be important and helpful from a medical stamp. Interesting. Yeah, 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:17.080 and they're saying it's a SMR was previously unstudied sensory phenomenon. 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.880 So and like you were saying, I think it was 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.800 because you know, it's it's interesting because I think it's 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.800 all kind of fresh and new, especially with it being unstudied. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:29.440 But I do think it was like this thing people 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.560 would experience and you know, you didn't fit feel a 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.200 need to explain it to anyone because it might have 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.240 been weird or it might have come from, you know, 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.240 some whispering in your ear right before you're about to 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.080 do that thing, and you're like, of course, this feels wonderful. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.280 You know. Uh, you know what's so fascinating. They keep saying, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.760 like in this article, it's it's the static like sensation 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.840 across the scalp. You know what that reminds me of 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.920 this same right he whoever feels a prickly things from 0:16:55.960 --> 0:17:02.680 the back of your dad, whoever feels a cleansing. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:07.440 you're you're talking about six Yes, so a SMR was 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:14.000 now just um go SMR. Yeah, this the prickly sensation 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.359 against your scalp, the back of your neck, and at 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:20.159 times further areas in response. So now so yeah, So 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.400 essentially a sm R like if you watch and we'll 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.000 play some videos for y'all, but if you watch it now, 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:29.000 it's everything under the sun. It's people like with what 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.320 I've noticed is a lot of women with manicured nails 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.040 because they make that sound like on they'll scratch their 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.720 nails across hair brushes or tap it on, you know, 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:43.560 piece of plastic or something. The sensation itself is widely 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.160 reported to be accompanied by feelings of relaxation and well being. 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.800 The study that if he was talking about identifies several 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.960 common triggers used to achieve a sm R, including whispering, 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.720 personal attention. That is another thing that I've noticed in 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:01.960 the videos, crisp sounds, and very slow movements. And the 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.480 data obtain also illustrated that temporary improvements and symptoms of 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:09.040 depression and chronic pain and those who do engage in 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:13.159 a SMR and a high prevalence of synesthesia within a 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.960 sample suggests a possible link between a SMR and synesthesia 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.880 similar to that of miss aphonia. Links between the number 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.960 of effective triggers and heightened flow states suggest that flow 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.920 may be necessary to achieve sensation with a s MR. 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.119 So you know that that can be a tip to 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.520 any you know what what would you call the a 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.679 s MR or you know the person making them? Well, anyway, 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.879 that's a tip to you. But here's another tip. How 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.360 about you listen to these messages right before we come 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:49.960 back so you know where to find us that and 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.200 welcome back, okay, So if you so, I found another 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.960 reason why people thought that a sm R was sexual. 0:18:56.280 --> 0:19:00.520 Is many colloquial and why are you giggling because you 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.159 said it in a way that you're like you were 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.639 just waiting, like as soon as as soon as this 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.840 breaks over, I'm about to hit you all with these facts. Okay, listen. 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.800 So many colloquial informal terms used and proposed between two 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:16.080 thousand seven and two thousand ten included reference to orgasm, 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.480 and there was during that time a significant majority objection 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.640 to this use among those active and online discussions because 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.200 again people are saying that they just they don't only 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:31.280 use a sm R for sexual arousal um people of 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.520 a SMR wanting to know we're not horny. This is 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.240 this is this reminds me of the anime community. Listen, 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:43.200 it's not all tennacle porn. Yeah, it is somewhat technical 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:47.360 port there was there was that that period where when 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.280 nerdy wasn't InVogue, where like there were the people when 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:54.720 you you're like, oh yeah, you like that, you like that? Like, No, 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:59.359 those are two different things. Like saying like people who 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.520 like anim may like hinta is just being like if 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.600 someone's like, hey man, yeah I really like move movies, 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:09.760 I'm like a cinephiles, like, oh you like porn, you 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:14.800 like making love to movies. However, by a division had 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.520 in fact occurred within the a sm R community over 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:21.679 the subject of sexual arousal. So this created a segment 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:26.600 of videos categorized as a SMR erotica. Yeah, there was 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:30.200 a video I saw a while back of this woman 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.639 doing a SMR on YouTube where some of the comments 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:35.879 were very critical because I guess she was like wearing 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:38.280 like a low cut top and all this stuff, and 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.159 they're like, oh, we feel like you don't have to 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:42.000 be that sexual, and then there was a fight in 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.160 the community. I was like, let her do what she wants, 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:47.040 which there's truth to that, but their motives I don't 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.919 think are the same. Their motives are not let's give 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.879 her autonomy their their motives is I like that. But 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:56.680 so it is like interesting that it is kind of 0:20:56.800 --> 0:21:00.200 something at the forefront of the community. And I wonder 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:03.359 if that is because you know you, I mean, it 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:08.960 kind of removes some of the stigma I guess you 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.280 can say around the A S m R where like 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:14.240 if you were to tell someone you're in the a SMR, 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:16.480 they'll be like, oh, that's sexual sound thing. You're like, 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:21.040 you like bearded men eating sandwiches. Um, Well, I think 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.960 actually one of the hugest reasons is because it changes 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:28.800 their ads. So because now if you are categorized as 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:32.760 a sexual, it's going to change your your ads. And 0:21:33.000 --> 0:21:35.520 we'll get into that as well. Yeah, so if you 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:38.080 sent me a video, it is a s MR. Amy. 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:41.800 This is from November, so not too long ago. It 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:44.600 has over a million views. Um, it's a s MR 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:49.480 very intense breathing sounds to relax tingle with me, English whispering, 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:53.320 and she is wearing a low cut top. She is 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:56.760 a well endowed woman, which is fine and should be 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:01.359 acceptable on the internet. I I got ahead start on these, 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:04.440 so I just want to talk about these, uh the 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:08.320 specific one because you know, there's a million different types 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:11.160 of trash comments and you know, I the only ones 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:13.359 I really want to point out are the ones that 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:18.640 are like seem offended by it. Be like reap beats, 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:21.800 Uh said, Uh, this wouldn't be a bad a SMR 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:24.600 if she wore an actual shirt. But what does that mean? 0:22:24.720 --> 0:22:28.680 Because a SMRs for listening. That's you snatched the words 0:22:28.800 --> 0:22:32.760 right out of my mouth, which is so funny. Uh Yeah. 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:34.760 And then the one right after that was like who 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:37.000 came straight to the comments to see what people wrote, 0:22:37.000 --> 0:22:39.800 and it was like, yeah, me too, um, because it's 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:43.879 like it's so funny that that, like people are so 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:48.280 mad in their life. People'll get so worked up over boobs, 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:51.120 which are just boobs, and like half the population has 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:54.440 boobs and and all of the population uses them to 0:22:54.560 --> 0:23:00.399 eat typically at some point. You know, it's um interesting 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:03.880 if you I do know that some of the terminology 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:07.720 change in the a s MR community regarding this because 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:12.399 it was perceived as sexual. Yeah. So the initial consensus 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:15.160 among the a SMR community was that the name should 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:17.720 not pose a high risk of the phenomenon being perceived 0:23:17.800 --> 0:23:21.600 as sexual, and so because of that consensus, Jennifer Allen 0:23:21.640 --> 0:23:26.360 proposed autonomous sensory meridian response. Alan chose the words intending 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:31.240 or assuming them to have the following specific meaning autonomous, spontaneous, 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:35.280 self governing, or with or without control. The sensory is 0:23:35.359 --> 0:23:39.520 pertained to the census, of course, the meridians signifying a peak, climax, 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:42.720 or highest point of development, and response referring to the 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:46.879 experience triggered by something external or internal. Then Alan went 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:49.479 ahead and verified it into two thousand and sixteen interview 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:54.159 that she purposely selected these terms because they're more objective, comfortable, 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:58.359 and clinical than alternative terms for the sensation uh and 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:02.080 Alan explained that she selected the word meridian to replace 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:05.440 the word orgasm due to its meanings to the point 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:11.919 of period greatest prosperity. UH So, thus create the term 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:15.680