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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should know

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Speaker 1: from house Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Ay,

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Speaker 1: you have tape on your You have tape on your

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Speaker 1: new cover. Well that's because it's mine and mine alone.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna write Chuck on it at some point.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna affect something. It will. How does he sound, Jerry,

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Speaker 1: I'll screwed up. For those of you that don't know,

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Speaker 1: I got my own microphone cover because all the other

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Speaker 1: ones your smell bad. So I got one to keep

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Speaker 1: in my drawer, and uh, it's Chuck's. And I'm paranoid

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Speaker 1: that I'm making the microphone cover smell bad. Well there's

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Speaker 1: three of them now, yeah, Well you keep switching them

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Speaker 1: out and I can't smell it. So I'm like, all right,

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Speaker 1: I got something for you. Speaking speaking of you, just

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Speaker 1: laughing right there? You ready for this? Right? What do

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Speaker 1: you think I have integrity? I'm buying a cinnamon right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm buying a cinnamon at the airport that I arrived

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Speaker 1: at you understand why that's extra disgusting. Right when you're leaving,

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Speaker 1: if you're at your destined you know, when you're at

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Speaker 1: the airport, you're leaving. But you can go like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I gotta eat. I need to do food because I

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Speaker 1: might be trapped in the sky forever, and I obviously

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Speaker 1: to eat right now. But this is I've landed, the

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Speaker 1: trip is over. Not too shabby. Check. That's the great

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Speaker 1: Louis c. K. If I'm not mistaken, Yes, who I

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Speaker 1: think is one of the funnier people on the planet today.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. You know, I started as a

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Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live writer. Doesn't surprise me. Um. And that

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Speaker 1: was from his h his special, right, like his like

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Speaker 1: what's it called chewed up? Yes, chewed up? His stand

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Speaker 1: up special? One one of his stands. Very good. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so I've got one for you. Okay, all right, I

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Speaker 1: mean you couldn't get you to laugh here, listen up, chucker.

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Speaker 1: All right. When I finished, I want to take all

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Speaker 1: my graduation money and buy myself a motorcycle, but my

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Speaker 1: mom said no, she who died in a horrible motorcycle

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Speaker 1: accident when he was eighteen, And I could just have

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Speaker 1: his motorcycle. He's that guy. That's Anthony Jeselnick. He's hilarious.

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Speaker 1: Oh you saw him live, yeah, south By Southwest. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that was that guy. So okay, all right, we're laughing.

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Speaker 1: This is a pretty good it's a pretty auspicious start

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Speaker 1: to the podcast on how laughter works. Yeah, now we

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Speaker 1: just have to be as funny as Louisa. Kay. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think we should even try no pressure, Yeah, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I think we should just be ourselves here and explain

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Speaker 1: how after it works. Like this is a robust how

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Speaker 1: stuff works articles. Actually it was written by Marshall Brain himself. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: and he went to town, uh, figuring out exactly how

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Speaker 1: um laughter works why we laugh? And you can't up

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Speaker 1: with a bunch of really good data on it. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna share here. He gets right into it too. Did

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Speaker 1: you notice that with the joke with nothing man, it

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Speaker 1: after after that, after the intro. He does start out

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Speaker 1: same as humor and quote uh and that's a pretty

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Speaker 1: good point. Laughter is the physiological response to humor. Right,

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Speaker 1: So humor is a joke or um, Mo Howard slapping

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Speaker 1: you were going when you said Mo, No, Mo Howard

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Speaker 1: another funny moment, that's mo. What's most last name? Moda tenda?

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Speaker 1: So any of that is humor, and then we respond

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Speaker 1: when you laugh sometimes once in a while, Yeah, me too.

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Speaker 1: really laughing. It's wonderful. But um so when when we

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Speaker 1: what I found is that it's universal. Ho ho ho.

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Speaker 1: more the funnier the situation becomes. The church, even heathens

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Speaker 1: some people have their ideas obviously. Uh. It all goes

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Speaker 1: soon when you make a bad joke in poor taste

422
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 1: or Alan al said, did you ever see Crimes and Misdemeanors?

423
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 1: What do Allen? Movie? Alan Alda was this really pompous

424
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 1: director in that movie. And when he was he's trying

425
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: to explain comedy to what Allen And he said, if

426
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: it bends, it's funny. If it breaks, it's not funny.

427
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 1: But that's kind of true though, It's that take it

428
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:09,119
Speaker 1: to a certain point, but don't break it, because then

429
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:13,640
Speaker 1: it's just not funny. I don't know, sometimes it's funny

430
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 1: to break it. I think there's always just because you

431
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: don't take something it's funny doesn't mean that someone else does. Yeah.

432
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 1: I don't think you should ever begrudge somebody for taking

433
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: something funny, even if it offends you. There's not a

434
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: lot that offends me, as you know. Um. The last

435
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: one is relief theory, which is, like you were saying, um,

436
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:38,959
Speaker 1: some people populate was the first experience of laughter? Um

437
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,600
Speaker 1: was some danger past and everybody was just relieved so

438
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: they were laughing. Right, Um, have you seen Emerson the

439
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:50,120
Speaker 1: baby that's um scared of his mom no blowing her nose. Oh,

440
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 1: it's awesome. You gotta see it. This kid is terrified,

441
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: like you've never seen a human being terrified whenever his

442
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: mom blows his nose. And then he starts laughing and

443
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 1: she does it again. He's terrified again, and it's really

444
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 1: just I'll send you the link. It's awesome. But yeah,

445
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 1: he supports relief theory. Uh. The other thing too about

446
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 1: superiority theory before we move on, is that's that's the

447
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 1: basis of a lot of comedy period. Like Louis c

448
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: k is so funny because he's talking about how fat

449
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: he is and how he never has sex anymore and

450
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: like what a piece of crappy as a human and

451
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,160
Speaker 1: a bad dad. And that's that's not just him, that's

452
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 1: a lot of comedians take that route that self and

453
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 1: see that goes beyond self deprecating even it's like make

454
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: fun of myself, like everyone laugh at me and how

455
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: miserable I am, and feel better about yourself because you're

456
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: not fat and bald. And then relief theory. Also, Um

457
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 1: explains how uh, laughter is a great way to diffuse

458
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 1: a Mexican standoff, right, because you're in there and you

459
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: got your gun on one guy, he's got his gun

460
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 1: on you. And then if you laugh and you can

461
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: convince him it's a genuine laugh, he becomes disarmed and

462
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: then blam right, you're you're the last man standing. I'm

463
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 1: gonna remember that. Haven't you ever seen any movies? Yeah,

464
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: that happens to the movies. You're right, that's why that's

465
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: scientific fact. Are there really Mexican standoffs? Has that ever happened?

466
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 1: Three people? It has? I think you can do it

467
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: with two. But yeah, and I thought the definition was

468
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,479
Speaker 1: three people. No, I don't know. I know that if

469
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: you have your gun on somebody and they have their

470
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: gun on you, I think that's a a a Chilean standoff, right,

471
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 1: And I'm just taken. So we've just dragged humor through

472
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: the mud and just basically we've just eviscerated it. We've

473
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: vivisected it. Um, So let's find out what's not funny,

474
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: chuckers Um. Apparently it comes down to and again, there's

475
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 1: researchers out, there's a guy named Robert Provine, who's quite

476
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 1: a career for himself, like studying humor and laughter. Um.

477
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: But this laughter or humor research um has yielded that

478
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: there's basically two factor in somebody not finding something funny

479
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: that's age makes sense and attachment to the subject or

480
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: the victim that says it all. When you're a little baby,

481
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: you're discovering the world, you think your mom uh sneezing

482
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 1: is funny, no terrifying, No, no, no, I was just

483
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: using a different example. Or your dog, you know, lapping

484
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: water is funny because it's all brand new. You get

485
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: a little bit older, things are gonna change. When you're

486
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 1: a little toddler, you're gonna think poopoo is funny. Well,

487
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 1: when you're an adult, you might think poopoo is funny.

488
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: When you're an awkward teenager, you might be more into

489
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: h jokes that make fun of authority figures or that

490
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: focus on sex and like all these new things when

491
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,280
Speaker 1: you're trying to figure yourself out. And then as you mature,

492
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: supposedly you're supposed to get a little more evolved with

493
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: your humor and barriers are broken down much more um

494
00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 1: and uh, like you may joke about work, right sure,

495
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: the old the old boss, the old man, the old lady. Right, um.

496
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: And and with all of these, each of these stages,

497
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: even though like an adult thinks a teenager sense of

498
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 1: humor is just trap, right, um, if you if you

499
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: kind of take away that evaluation and look at all

500
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: of them equally, people laugh about or find things funny

501
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: based on what's a stresser in their life. So what

502
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: stress is a teenager oute is totally unrelatable for an adult,

503
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: so they're not gonna find it funny. There's it's not

504
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: a stressor. So mainly most of the stuff we laugh

505
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: about or we find funny are based on stressors in

506
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: our lives. Yeah, that makes sense, and your intelligence level

507
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: has a little something to do with it, um, as

508
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: far as what you find funny, I've known people, and

509
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: I'm sure you have that were dumb and that didn't

510
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: get jokes or humor. I used to have a rule

511
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,400
Speaker 1: of a measuring stick for intelligence. You remember the show

512
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: Doctor Kats. Did you ever meet anybody who was like, oh,

513
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: I can't watch that show. That's those quickly lines is

514
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: driving me crazy? Yeah, yeah, you have it. That's pretty good.

515
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: They just use that it was infallible. Yeah, or I mean,

516
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: there's a lot of TV shows like that, but it's

517
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: all just I don't know, it's all subjective. It's I

518
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: guess it's not right to say someone's not smart. But

519
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: I've known some dummies that in a quick paste funny

520
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: conversation they just sit there like I don't get it.

521
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,480
Speaker 1: They're lost. Yeah, it's sad and drags everybody else down,

522
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: and really they should just stay in their rooms, right,

523
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: um so chuck josh. Uh. Lastly, I guess where you

524
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: come from is another aspect of what you find funny

525
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: and what cultural for sure? May I may I play

526
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: an example of that. I brought another one today. Okay,

527
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: I have a joke. There is it cheer the cheer

528
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: walk Oh with a shot la la la, you walk

529
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: on the street that he's a walking from. Yes, well,

530
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: what's a funny image? Yes? Nice that one was using

531
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: her occipital lobe. Oh boy, that was from the genuinely

532
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: perfect movie Borat. Yeah, there's not not much as funnier

533
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: to meeting Borah. I love it, Yes, but it's a

534
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: great example of how, uh, something could be funny in

535
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: theory to a to a foreigner that the person in

536
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 1: the culture outside of that, and that's the whole basis

537
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,800
Speaker 1: of pride. That's all he does talk about things that

538
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: are funny in Kazakhstan. So, um, British humor. You've always

539
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: heard about British humor very specific and like if you think,

540
00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: like I didn't like Faulty Towers, well you just don't

541
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: get British humor. Like on, oh, I just not thought

542
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: it was funny. Yeah it was hit or miss. Fawlty Towers,

543
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: Monty Python was even hit or miss. I mean just

544
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: sometimes you're not in the move for absurdainity. Agreed, And

545
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: there is a British humor. But I found the Brits

546
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: are a little prone to get up on their high

547
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 1: horse about like, well, you just don't get it right. Well, no,

548
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: you know you have a British friend, don't you. Oh yeah,

549
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,400
Speaker 1: Justin will tell me. I don't get it took Oh,

550
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: it's just it's pretty human. You don't understand, right, No,

551
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: leave me alone while my beans drenched and catch up.

552
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: Justin's been here since he was seventeen though he's so

553
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: he's American, He's American Georgia and even until the girls

554
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: come around um, so chuckers. Oh lastly, um, if you

555
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: have an attachment to the subject, say you know you're

556
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: you're your brother really did die in a motorcycle accident,

557
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: You're never gonna find it. Might not find that Anthony

558
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: doesn't nick joke funny, or if you literally couldn't care

559
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: less about people dying in motors cycle accidents, you're probably

560
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: not going to find that funny. And that researcher Provine

561
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: has basically divided that up into two ends of the spectrum,

562
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: which based on things people commonly say, which is is

563
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: it offensive or what's the point? Or it is I'm

564
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:21,479
Speaker 1: sorry it is offensive or what's the point? Well, there

565
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: you have it. That means you Yeah, that probably means

566
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: you have a personal something at stake. Yes, and you

567
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: found even in time won't even cure that. Yeah, that's

568
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: like the Twin Towers falling. It was the first comedians

569
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: to start joking about that. It was remember that being

570
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: a very like tense thing when people started making jokes

571
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: about that. But I think one of the ways to

572
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: digest raw and negative emotions is to eventually laugh about it, right, Yeah,

573
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: because it's the best medicine. So, speaking of medicine, Chuck,

574
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: that's a nice set up. Um. There is no less

575
00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: than two UM groups dedicated to studying humor, and these

576
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: are international associations, well ones American UM what is it?

577
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:11,320
Speaker 1: The American Association for Therapeutic Humor and the International Society

578
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: for Humor Studies, and they are bona fide. They have

579
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: conferences all over the place. Because it's real, dude, it

580
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,280
Speaker 1: is UM. And there's like a definite hint of Patch

581
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: Adams in there. So I'd like to just skim right

582
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:26,720
Speaker 1: over this. But there is a physiological effect to laughter,

583
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: UM that is totally beneficial of the body. That's right, right,

584
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 1: And it kind of goes back to fight or flight

585
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: in a way very much, because we've talked about this

586
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: gazillion times. When the fight or flight response kicks in,

587
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,760
Speaker 1: that kind of a lot of your other bodily functions

588
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:46,399
Speaker 1: cease to happen and everything freezes up. And when we laugh, though,

589
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 1: is that uh, laughter shuts off the stress hormones, certain

590
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: stress hormones that the fight or flight response would normally

591
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: be shutting down your like immune system. It shuts that

592
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: down and actually boost to your immune system right temporarily, UM,

593
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,280
Speaker 1: not only that it boosts the production of gamma interfere

594
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:10,160
Speaker 1: on um B cells and T cells, which are all

595
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: UM engaged in warding off disease or boosting the immune system. Right,

596
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:19,919
Speaker 1: UM the production of blood platelets increases UM UH, SAL,

597
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 1: salivary immunoglobulin A, which UM protects against respiratory diseases. All

598
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: of these cells and antibodies their production is boosted. So basically,

599
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: we're just inherently healthier when we laugh, which is pretty

600
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: awesome if you ask me so. Not only is the

601
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: is the fight or flight the sympathetic uh, the sympathetic

602
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: nervous system like deadened, but we're actually getting healthier, right,

603
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: That's just that's awesome. It's pretty amazing. It also gives

604
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: you a pretty good workout. They found that laughing one

605
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: hundred times is about the same as fifteen minutes on

606
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: an exercise bike works out your diaphragm. You know you've

607
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: had your stomach kurt from laughing so hard, Yes, crunches,

608
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: I know, it feels so good. It feels so good

609
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,720
Speaker 1: your stomach kurts, and you realize you just peed yourself

610
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: a little. I've never pead myself laughing. Really, it's a gas. Uh.

611
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: There's a guy named Norman Cousins. Have you ever heard

612
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: of this dude? He is uh or was an author, humorist,

613
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 1: political activists, and he studied the biochemistry of emotions for

614
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: many years. And U c l A. And he struggled

615
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: with heart disease and then eventually a severe form of arthritis.

616
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 1: And he watched Marx Brothers films, and uh basically found

617
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 1: that belly laughing for ten minutes. Watching one of these

618
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: Marx Brothers films allowed him to sleep pain free for

619
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: two hours. And then it literally he could feel it

620
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: wearing off as if it were a medicine. And then

621
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: he would watch funny stuff again. If only I could

622
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 1: laugh at March but There's films, I'd be a happier person.

623
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: You don't laugh at March Brothers. No, I'm more like

624
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: in awe, like wow, these guys were comic geniuses. But

625
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: to find something that comic genius doesn't necessarily mean to

626
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: find it funny interesting. I don't. I don't, although I

627
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: do have to say and maybe like I'm like a

628
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 1: fan of The poor Man's Marks Brothers, but I do

629
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: laugh out loud. You me and I both laugh out loud.

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Speaker 1: At Three Stooges. Now, I would think you would laugh

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Speaker 1: at March Brothers because they have watched it. Man that

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Speaker 1: that's not even like higher class of comedy than three students.

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Speaker 1: I'll have to check it out again. No, Gratcha was

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Speaker 1: he was a sharp tack. Yeah, sure, And I think

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Speaker 1: my brain is activated where I'm like watching him on

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Speaker 1: an intellectual level. With with the Three Stooges, I can

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Speaker 1: just turn off and it's just funny. I got you

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Speaker 1: all right, Um, do you got anything else? Yeah? U

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Speaker 1: c l A has a study they're doing now too,

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Speaker 1: Um where they they inflict pain on children there. It

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Speaker 1: healthy kids and they wire them up and then ask

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Speaker 1: them to put their hands in ten degrease celsius water

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Speaker 1: and hold it there for as long as they can.

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Speaker 1: It's painful. It's not like inflicting damage though, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And Uh, on average kids can hold

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Speaker 1: their arms in the freezing water for eighty seven seconds.

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Speaker 1: But if they're shown funny videos while they're doing that,

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Speaker 1: their heart rate, blood pressure and breathing and all their

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Speaker 1: vital signs get better and stronger, and they can last

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Speaker 1: up to longer. And then afterward they sample the we've

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Speaker 1: talked about cortisol, the stress hormone before. Then there's saliva

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Speaker 1: and they laughing helps their bodies recover much faster. So

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Speaker 1: it's physical, baby, it's very neat. It's all in the spit.

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Speaker 1: I guess that's the that's the point of this whole

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Speaker 1: How Laughter Works podcast. It's all about your spit. It's

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Speaker 1: that the deal. Hey, you should check out. I think

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Speaker 1: it's a national geographic maybe Natio Nova. It's one of those.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those two um documentary on stress, like

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Speaker 1: the Physiological effects of stress. Who read about that too?

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Speaker 1: Really awesome, it's very good. It's that article actually, physical

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Speaker 1: effects of stress. It's good. It's streaming on Netflix. Check

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Speaker 1: it out. All right, you got anything else? I got

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Speaker 1: nothing else? All right? Well, if you want to learn

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Speaker 1: been a little while. Listener mail Josh. We asked for

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Speaker 1: I thought was the best one. This is from Chris

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Speaker 1: ef in Vancouver, BC, Canada. It's British Columbia. Two years ago.

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Speaker 1: The bear population came out of the mountains early because

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Speaker 1: with bears for for a summer. Um I'm sorry. In

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Speaker 1: the spring, I'm sorry. In the autumn, he returned from

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Speaker 1: walking his dog, walked into his cardboard and there was

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Speaker 1: dog was an energetic labradoodle, how old and happy excitement

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, booze mother came around the corner,

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Speaker 1: guy and the dog, who was barking four ft away.

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Speaker 1: When I hit her on the head with my golf umbrella.

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Speaker 1: The south stopped deadner Track sat back on her haunches,

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Speaker 1: shaking her head in disbelief, and was very surprised to

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Speaker 1: be smacked with the umbrella. For about five seconds, and

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Speaker 1: then she came straight at me in the garage and

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Speaker 1: I smacked her again with significantly less profound effect. Gave

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Speaker 1: me time to back out of the cardboard and do

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Speaker 1: the only thing I could think of, which was to

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Speaker 1: and close my eyes. Yeah that sounds like a reasonable

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Speaker 1: thing to do. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I am so tense right now. What happened? I opened

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Speaker 1: my eyes again and Moriarty was gone into the brush

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Speaker 1: along with Boo. But they became regular visitors throughout the

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Speaker 1: rest of the fall, ranging through the neighborhood for scraps,

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Speaker 1: small cub that we named Boo Too Happy ending for

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