Two In The Think Tank - 17 - Lefthanded-ness

Episode Date: February 18, 2016

You may have noticed Jess mention being left handed once or twice (or a dozen times). Well now she's done a full report on it to get it out of her system. We find out about the different cultural and social stigmas and Dave learns that there is a word for how useless he is! Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] the show and get rewards like bonus episodes:www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Now is the time, mycomputercareer.edu. See you! Hello! Welcome to DoGo on the podcast that you are listening to right now, you know you're aware of that That's why this is why this is why Dave normally does the intro as I suppose because look at I made a bloody mess of it Oh boy hi, Matt. Do you want me to save you? No, I don't want you to save me. Just let me flander. I'll never learn otherwise Now I can't save me All right, well you are listening to do go on and I give it let me I can't say me. Alright, well you are listening to DoGo on.

No, I give it a lemon. You are listening to DoGo on. I'd like to introduce my two co-hosts, my co-horts, Jess Perkins. How are you doing, Jess? I'm very well thank you. Matt, how are you? Yeah, really good, thank you. Thank you for asking.

That is very sweet of you. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. You are a sweetie pie. What? No, you're not. That's a lie. Who's our other host?

Our other co-host, of course, is the man to myth the legend. It's Dave Warnacky. Whoa. Hello to both of you. Hello, listeners. How do you feel Dave, with Matt doing that introduction?

How do you feel? I feel no threat whatsoever. Ha ha ha ha. Good to see you. Good to see you. I'm comfortable. I'm feeling, I'm good. I've got my hand out the window and

There's a safe distance between me and the over hanging branches on the side of the road Feeling good. Yeah, that is just like how you brought up the car metaphor and I just bloody ran with it You are a very cautious kid, weren't you? Over hanging branches on the road. Mm- yeah, no problem. Watch out for those. The silent killer of the roads. No, I think the starting point of the roads is ice. The drunk. Icey roads. Oh, right.

Of course, of course. And how are you, Matthew? I'm pretty, I'm pretty good, thank you Dave. Feels really good. What a great week it's been. Just cruising. Basking in the glory of last week's episode. Oh wow, when we're going to back it up this week, not with the report by either of where we are

actually in the backseat in the front seat this this episode is just perking. No, I want it's driving which is perfectly safe because they're very good drivers. Statistically, yeah, much safer. Not safe actually, yeah, and less accidents. So I don't like to generalize but generally speaking women much safer drivers and just better humans I don't like to generalize but generally speaking you are correct yeah yeah it is my turn this week I'm a little bit nervous about this topic but there's a bit of a backstory I was listening to Dave, your most recent episode about the curse of the pharaohs.

Yes, which has it so far taken any of our lives. Thank goodness, touch it. Touch it. Hot for touch. Touch it, hot for touch. Still pushing that. Touch it, touch it, hot for touch. And I was listening to that and I brought something up

during that episode that I realized I bring up a lot. Oh. So there isn't actually a question for this week's topic. I'm just going to give you clues. And I think you'll be able to pick it fairly quickly because it's something that I make mention of in nearly every episode. Oh, the hashtags. It's not hashtags.

It's usually in reference to somebody. You'll say somebody's name and I go, oh. You said, oh, left-handed. Left-handed. Left-handed.handed great topic we are doing hand-diveness or left-handedness hand-diveness that is such a good title it's a really hard word is it a word hand-diveness is there is a better word for it but it's it's not pronounced to say so I will be saying hand-d. So is the other word even more? Yeah, it's something. It's something. I have something that's...

You know, sometimes Jess, I don't have you've noticed this, and I used to think it was accidental, or something, and maybe it's on purpose, when you're doing a report and Dave's like, there's a questioner, and I reckon he knows that you don't know the answer to specifically, and then he'll push again when it's quite clear that you don't have it in front of you. No, I like a jerk.

I am just... Honestly Dave and I don't say this lightly. It's been on the tip of my tongue for a few episodes now. Fuck off. Well, the catchphrase that has worked against me time and time again. No, I'm just a very inquisitive person. No, thank you. The catchphrase that has worked against me time and time again. No, I'm just a very inquisitive person. No you are.

I love how we think that fuck off is our catchphrase. Look, it's a time we coined. We're the only people to think of it. We've had people tweet in saying that they are enjoying that as a catchphrase. Yeah, it's pretty great. I'm trying to find it now because I think I had it somewhere in my notes. But it is known as hand-edness. That's a perfectly reasonable word for it.

Fine, let's go with that. I didn't know that. No, no, I think Dave is right. Let's just say bog down in this minor detail. You absolutely. I'm trying to move on. No. Already. I'm holding up a finger on my left-handed this Guess which one it is

The pinky thumbs up thumbs up friendship. Why would pinky it doesn't make it like oh boy that shows how I'm like pinky promise I won't be pedantic anymore I think you swear we think you swear it on the podcast all right yes I'm really I'm actually quite excited for this topic should we go around the table Say what hand that we write with? Reveal with hand. Yes, yes, absolutely. This is exciting. Dave, would you like to go first? Well, wait, can we give him a drum roll?

No. Yeah, it's a shit. We had a drum in here for so long. We hated it. Now we need it. We used to set up around like a drum kit that was in the corner of the studio. I had to climb over it to get to my seat. Why, I didn't just move, I don't know, but that was my seat. But anyway, yes Dave.

I only bring this up because I want to talk about how I'm right-handed, but I actually play sports and things with my left hand. And there's a name for that which I will explain. Oh okay, we'll get to that, which is good, but one thing, because I feel like that maybe I should have been left-handed when I was growing up, I've got terrible handwriting with my right hand and my left hand is much stronger from playing slightly stronger. Well it is much stronger but comparatively to most people it's still a lot less full of strength. Still very very weak. Yes exactly that's what I'm trying to say.

Quite a preamble to whatever Dave's about to say here. Oh I just wanted to bring out that yeah. You think you should have been a lefty? I think I should have been a lefty so maybe this podcast will I'm trying to say. It's quite a preamble to whatever Dave's about to say here. Oh, I just wanted to bring out the... Yeah. You think you should have been a lefty? I think I should have been a lefty. Okay. So maybe this podcast will win me over. Yeah, and I'm gonna post it right in there. You're repverted.

Of you. Because that's how it works, right? You join a team. You get sorted into a house, Harry Potter style or the hat. Yep. Hep-Earth. And how about you, Mattie? You just straight up, right?

I'm straight up. Straight up, straight down the line, right, man. So there's no way of winning you over to the dark side? No, I occasionally put left handed. Just for fun, but yeah. That's about it. That's about it. You crazy.

And as you may have guessed, because I am doing this topic and because I constantly bring up left handed, as I am left handed. Have you been left handed your whole life? Yeah. I said a new, born, fake, real, real. I was born, born and raised, lefty, and very left.

Like if I get to a fork in the road, I'll turn left. No matter what. No matter what, I've failed anything left. Even if the GPS is saying turn right. I'd probably turn left. Was it a Zoolander that could only turn? He couldn't turn left.

I couldn't turn left. Yeah, so. Because there's actually, there's four types of handedness. Four. There's four types, right? So there's left handed's four types of handedness. Four. There's four types. Right, so there's left handed, right handed obviously. Mixed handedness, which is when you favor one hand for some tasks, but the other for other

tasks. So you would technically be, you would probably call yourself mixed handed. So a mixed hander. I mean, if somebody says you left a right handed, you wouldn't go, well, actually, you just say right handed because that's what it means. I mean, when I was a kid I probably did, but now I'm an adult, I'm not as much of a one. The problem with your kid, you just want right handed because I mean when I was a kid I probably did but now I'm an adult I'm not as much of a way to get you just want to tell people stuff Now actually stuff that makes you different and therefore kind of interesting. Yeah, why do you think I talk so much about being left-handed? Well, like I'm special you're not I probably depends on the scenario as well

Yeah, absolutely. So like if someone's going You go like to hire some golf clubs and they say you left or right hand, you don't get well, I right with my right hand. But I play golf left hand, okay, so you want left. Well, let me finish. I play hockey with my seat. Yeah, exactly, it does very much to pin. And so you've got mixed hand andness and ambidexterity

so someone's somebody's ambidextrous. So I always thought ambidextrous was when you did a bit with both of those. Is that when you have equal control? Equal control. Equal. So I find a lot of people will be like, oh, you left handed, that's cool.

I'm ambidextrous. I'm like, no, you're not fucking. Like, it makes me really angry. They might be mixed handed. They're mixed handed because less than one percent, or about 1% of the population are naturally ambidextrous. It can be taught, you can teach yourself to be better but like it's got to be some there's got to be a natural element to it and that's it's

literally equal so your writing would be the same left and right. Dave's trying to write Dave with his left hand now. You do have pretty bad writing, I can't really tell the difference. I was actually going to bring in some left-handed scissors for you guys to try that I forgot. Is this such a thing? Yes there is and I was going to say let's do the right handers don't know. Yeah it's because the blade goes on the other way. It's different so I can't use right handed scissors.

Oh so your whole life you have an adaptive to us? Oh I can if I absolutely have to but they will be very poorly cut. So I'll take a photo of... Take a photo and tweet this at the man. I know which one's which? Right left. Yep, I want to about a day. Left right.

So, alright. But I think my right hand is only slightly better than my left hand. Yeah. And it's not because I'm good with my left, it's just because I'm terrible with my right. Yeah. I'm equally terrible, does that make me amy-dexious? You would be ambivalous or ambi-cinister who are people that demonstrate awkwardness with both hands., neither of them are better. Does that mean you're equally untalented? Equally untalented. Shit. So yeah, I would say you can classify yourself as mixed

handinists. What do you do with your left? So sports throwing things? Okay, no. See, this is the bad thing. Oh, this is weird, okay. What's not looking up? This is porn. Oh, hang on, it was left-handed porn. It was on top of it. Relevant. It was relevant. That's funny. It was, it was funny.

It was left-handed porn. I'm sure there are left-handed porn stars. They have to be. Actually, this guy looks, he seems to be ambidextrous. No, he's a sinister sinister he's not he has no talent with either hand this is a real mess so I'll do right hand first so I write with my right hand but I do throwing action with my right hand but But then we swap to the left hand for bat sports, like cricket, baseball, golf, and tennis,

which when I did tennis, this was growing up, they tried to convince me to swap to right hand it because a serving action is similar to throwing. Oh, yeah, okay, fair enough. So I, but I'm a better throw with my right, even though my left hand is stronger and more powerful in the arm. It's very strange. I will also say that my terrible handwriting This is quite embarrassing when I was in prep so first year of primary school my hands were so small

I had to go to a special class because they were too small to properly hold a pencil So I was treated like a like a because they were too small to properly hold a pencil. I'm serious. I'm serious. I know. So I was treated like a learning difficulty if you were. And I had the once a week go on with this guy and like, he, like, be taught to write bed and I never got good at writing. Oh, that's so great. Oh. Did you have like left handed kids in the class?

Because a lot of them were like, hook, so they sort of, they write almost upside down. Because we smudge everything as we write. Oh, so they get the hand and they curl back around? They curl it right around. And a lot of my friends would almost write sort of upside down, but luckily when I was in prep, my prep teacher was left-handed, his name was Mr. Right.

I mean, you can't write this shit. And he made sure, no, you wouldn't, that's no good. He made sure the lefties had, we had these special grips on our pencils that made us hold our pens properly and he made sure we didn't like write weird. So I write, I hold my pen a bit wrong, but I write properly. You write proper? Yeah, I write proper good, but speaking of like the things that you do or being told to try with your right hand, I learnt guitar in early high school and I played left-handed And then a couple of years ago I bought a ukulele and I wanted to teach myself the ukulele and I decided I was going to string it left-handed because I played guitar left-handed. It's more comfortable for me.

And I was talking to the guy in the shop and I was like, oh, can you, like, you said on the phone you'd be able to help me re-string it left and he went, just try right. Just do it, just do it right for a bit. What a lazy bastard. Yeah, I know. And I play ukulele right-handed. I did it. I did try right. And now I don't want to go back because I have to re-teach myself how to play. And it's like, well, just play right-handed. It sounds like you are definitely a mix- mixologist. I'm not. I am 100% left. How do you?

And I am 100% ambisonister. ambisonister. Terrible at all. I am 100% left, how do you? And I am 100% envy sinister. envy sinister. terrible at all. Now, so there's a lot of studies into whether or not handiness is genetic. At one time, there was hope for finding a single gene that would be responsible for hand. Hope for finding a cure.

A cure. A cure for finding a cure. And we still hold out. There's always hope. At one time, there was hope and there still is. So, but no, did they find this gene? No, because what really happened was this general realization that no complex behavior

can be explained by just one thing. It's either it's a genetic or environmental. It can sort of be both. So you can be affected by the environment. Yeah, and the fact that they kept failing to find a gene responsible for handiners is just sort of further proves that point. They just, they can't, there's no direct link. There's indications, but nothing that's solid.

And there are the German researchers observed that there are several recent studies suggesting that handiners may not be a monogenic, but instead a multifactorial trait that is determined by multiple genetic and environmental factors. Matt's nutting like, yep, he wrote that, he wrote that. It's a good one. Word for word spot on, Matt. Yeah, so, but that said, handinist displays

a, what they call a complex inheritance pattern. So for example, if both parents of a child are left handed, there's a 26% chance of that child being left-handed. But that's if both parents are left, there's still only a 26% chance. Like right is just so much more dominant. Right, but if all four of your parents are left-handed, 50% chance. Yeah. Right. Eight parents. You're four fathers. Straight in there. Straight in, 100% left.

100% left. My mums are lefty, but maybe one of my sisters is left. You should probably know that. Really? You think that's the kind of thing that you should know what your sister's up to? You should probably know if your siblings are left or right-handed, yeah. Why?

I don't think I do. Well, then she's probably right-handed. I think my dad is left-handed. I reckon my younger she's probably right handed. I think my but my dad is left handed I reckon my younger sister's left hand you know that you know he's left handed which means You are aware so your sister's right handed, but then I can tell you that now your siblings are all right handed Okay, because you would know well I think because we make a big old song and dance about it Yeah, I reckon I know my cousins left hand because he bangs on about it. Exactly. We are obnoxious about it So what but what kind of where can you bring it up? Oh, anyway, absolutely. I always say golf course is pretty clear

because the it's like you're borrowing the clubs if someone's clubs or whatever. You're you can't go. I'll try to try out your driver. Ah, you're fucking drivers a bit. It's a bit backwards. Wrong. It's backwards. It's a bit backwards. A bit pointy on the front there. I am, because like if you put a lefty next to right hand or at a dinner table, we'll like bump elbows with you because it's the wrong hand. But my- Do you swap your hand your fork and knife? No, I eat right-handed.

Oh, see, I eat left-handed. I eat with my- Wait, see. What? So fork in your left hand or your right hand right hand I don't know that was the thing. Yeah, so every time someone sets the table It's polite I believe so hold the fork in your left hand and the knife in your right hand That's what most people do normally be so but over I swap it over. That's in polite. Oh, yeah, it's I just learned I by following my right-handed family. So I have fork in the left. Maybe I'm a little more mixed-handed than I thought. There you go.

I'm learning about myself. Ultimately, that's what this podcast is all about. Would you guys have any idea what percentage of the population are left-handed? Yes. 10%. I suppose to 10, I believe. Correct. Yeah, it's 10 to 12. But yeah, 10 sort of a good, because some say 7 7 to 10 so I'd say let's just stick with 10 Matt and I just high five for that right hands. I would actually would have guessed higher, but then when you said Yes to 10% when you said yes to 10% I thought no I reckon actually yeah, it's probably around 10%

I'll stick with 10 but when when you said that only 26% of kids of two left-handed parents, that seems like that should be higher than that. Doesn't it? Yeah. If I understand science, and I don't, then I think that should definitely be higher. Well, in his book, Right Hand Left Hand, and also called Chris McManus, argues that the proportion

of left-hand is increasing increasing and left-handed people as a group have historically produced an above-average quota of higher cheavers. Yeah right maybe that's why they seem more visible. I think it's pretty hard to quantify who was a higher cheaver and who isn't. True. I think well just as before we started rolling with saying that she is quite a high achiever. Big time. Big time. She's left-handed. Um, but yeah, I think...

Do you know what I do? I couldn't... We don't laugh there, it's so serious. I know. I'm kidding. Because he's just as hard as him. Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

Big time. Big time. All right. Did you have to go to a class about not being on a Horde pencil? I don't think so. I can't believe it. It's so cute. Tiny.

Yeah. How do you say little? When you put on print. I can't be very... No, it wasn't print, but very small child. So the point... Still a very small man. I'd have a lunch order on Fridays.

I'd get a half a hot cheese roll, and everyone would be pretty excited if I finish that half roll You were tiny Tim. Well, yes, I was the tiny Tim what days a day of Warnocky But today sir, it's Christmas day I reckon the left hand is probably rising because it's like I imagine in the olden days people like No, you don't like they get a beat out of them. Oh, absolutely You are a right-hander and they have their left hand hit with a rule about You're gonna talk about that a little bit of discrimination. Oh, I do. I've got a lot about that Yeah, it feels like that is the olden days as a fuck and so now nobody gives a shit

So if you left hand cool cool, we left handed. I'm just quietly offended, but I will keep that to myself. Oh no, fair enough. If you want to keep me off the podcast, that's fine. Wait, which video offended for? Well, just operating the laptop with your left hand, it makes me feel sick. Oh, right. The devil at work, I do. I thought you might have been offended by us.

Super patronizing you about your childhood of, of, of, of, I was smallness. Your tiny, well,. Your tiny childhood. Oh, finally. Your whittle childhood. Whittle Dave. Chris McMass. This is in his right hand. Right hand left hand. Oh, sorry. Oh, so he puts right first, does he? Oh, I see how it turns out, right? Once we get onto society and the history,

everybody puts right first. Left hand is brains apparently, a structure Oh, I see how trust operates. Once we get onto society and the history, everybody puts right first. Left-handers brains, apparently, are structured differently from right-handers in ways that can allow them to process language, spatial relations, and emotions in more diverse and potentially creative ways. Also, a slightly larger number of left-handers than right-handers are especially gifted in music and math.

And a study of musicians in professional orchestras found a significantly greater proportion of talented lefties, even among those who played instruments that seemed designed for right handers such as violin. Now before you have a go at me for being biased, it's not all good news for lefties. Right. Did you have written down now before you? Come and look at my laptop. I have now before you have a go at me I love it. I love it. I love it.

Because you're you're Saturday. You're reading and I'm like you've written this because I'm realizing it's a performance. It's so what it's so one-sided so left-sided But it's it is an all-good news for us now before you say that what I'm about to say is wrong, shut up. Yeah, shut your traps. Are you happy? You're happy you pointed that out? Thank you for noticing that. God, Dave.

Dave is giving me stinker. Sorry. So guys, I just saw that was a funny thing to do. I do it as well, but I just perform it a little better a bit more naturally by going by doing this Makes the team natural Yeah, that no Before we have a girl with me people probably people probably have a known We have a notice that until the year we got it up. Because you edited it out, that's why.

All right. I feel like that Jess, your wildly left, mat you wildly right, and because I'm Ambi Sinister, I'm sort of the one in the middle trying to control relations. Sinister means left, right? So what is, what are you, your, what did you call yourself? Mix Sinister.

Ambi Sinister. That means that's the one we are useless with both. Yeah. I wonder why it only mentions the left part. Maybe because an ambidextrous means being able to use both. Or because the word dextrous implies dexterity. But sinister implies leftness. But left is bad. I'm an ambi left. Yeah, but left is bad. Right. Yeah. I'm an amy left. Based on everything. Again,

I'll get to it. Shut your fucking face. You're going to talk about the right side of the father. That's where Jesus resides. Yes. Great. Oh, wow. So what I was saying before, my scripted line, now before you have a girl, me for being biased. Coma. Coma. It's not all good news for lefties. According to a 2014 study, right-handed people have higher cognitive skills, less behavioral and speech problems, less often have learning disabilities, and more often graduate their school.

40% of people with schizophrenia are left handed, and research indicates that left hand is more likely to become alcoholics, delinquents and dyslexic. That seems like something about the link between having being a left-handed and becoming an alcoholic. That seems... Yeah, well I didn't do the study. Wow. But I do... You do this study.

Yeah, I did this study. What I quite like about that though is that and I'm going to feel like an idiot for pointing this out because people never notice it until I do point it out. But I have a tiny bit of a list. I think I've pointed it out to you once Matt, we're on the train one time. And so now I'm kinda like, oh, it's cause I'm left handed.

What? So I'm glad you had braces and I can't say S probably sometimes. When do you... As someone who has been ridiculed on the show before for mispronouncing the word sixth. Sixth. I feel like that it is my time. Misery, and I?

No. We're ridiculing Jess here. But I've never noticed. Yeah, I can't say like kiddins. I've heard someone here who has three S's, two in their first, and one in their surname. Yeah. So you had to say kiddins.

Kiddins. Do you think that's the secret to your ador, so you had to say kittens. Kiddins. Do you think that's the secret to your adorableness? Yeah, big time. Kiddins. Kiddins. Kiddins. I can't.

But I feel X can be hard to make. The VX. But the T is the part you miss pronouncing. Yeah, kids is the bad ones. You've been described as adorable, but like... By myself, yeah, I just got... Oh, was it always by you? No.

I remember it coming up like three times recently, but it was all you always. It was probably always me. Oh, okay. It was probably nothing to it with the whispering. Nah. It's just your own body. But it's because I'm a channel.

It's because I'm a channel that I can't say yes properly sometimes. Wow, and because I'm ambucinist I can't say anywhere properly. EG6. You can't do anything properly. I just, I said so quick that Mac couldn't hear. Six. I love how somehow, me with the worst voice in the world. That's it.

Talking voice. But that's also not true. What kind of voice you... Well the world is a big stone, but I've got like a super dopey voice. It's funny that you two have somehow become the ones who have... Because I feel like you're on the offensive to cover up your life. Yeah, yeah, it's probably what it is. So that's how I live my life.

Hey, you've got a big nose. God, I'm going to never get me back now. Isn't that right? Your weird red bearded friend. So we're talking about beating it out of left handers. I want to talk a little bit about the social stigma Around being left handed at various times in history left handiness has been seen as many things a nasty habit I love that like picking your nose cut it out. Cut it out stop that a mark of the devil left hand is a children of the devil a sign of

I love a good nose pick I just want to say, I love a good nose pick. Oh, dang. Continue. What? Which hand though? No. Left. Interesting.

Left-handed nose picker. What you do in your own time is your business, but don't put that on the podcast. Sorry everyone. No, I'm leaving it in. It's been the same as a sign of rebellion. That's what my picking the nose is. Mm-hmm. Of a criminal nature and also homosexuality.

If you're a left-hander, you're also gay, apparently. Makes sense, doesn't it? Yeah, I think that. But it's also been seen as a trait indicating creativity and musical ability. So hey, we can be devil children, but, well, man, we can see. Paul McCartney, Jimmy Hendrick. Don't ruin more.

I've got some later. Sorry. And that's all. I've got some later. Sorry. Then that's all three of them. Damn it. Some scholars know that left handers may, this is the best, maybe one of the last unorganized minorities in society, because they have no collective power and no real sense of common identity.

Additionally, left handers are often discriminated against by social, educational and religious institutions. Some customs and even languages set the left hand are apart as different and even bad. I love that. I'm all guys minority and we're discriminated against. It's just get you shit together and overthrow this is this right-handed. Yeah. Well, you think about it. Like the word left in English, it comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lift, L-Y-F-T, which means weak or broken. Even the Oxford English dictionary defines left-handed as meaning crippled, defective, awkward, clumsy, inept, characterized by underhanded dealings,

ambiguous, doubtful, questionable, ill-omand, and illegitimate. Wow, what a rap sheet. Yeah. That's left-handed. That's the... Jess, that's you. Isn't it a wrap-sheet. Yeah. That's left-handed. That's the... Jess, that's you. Isn't it? I'm very awkward and clumsy.

They didn't have adorable in there, which is weird. Hmm. Must have run out of characters. So I'll probably update that this year. In the dictionary. Yeah, I ran out of characters in this dictionary. Um, even phrases in English suggest a negative view of left-handedness. So for example, a left-handed compliment is actually an insult.

Do you may have heard? Like... No, please. A left-handed compliment. A left-handed compliment is actually an insult. Do you may have heard? No, please. A left-handed compliment. A left-handed compliment. The phrase left-handed compliment. Yeah, yeah. Is that a back-handed compliment? Is that similar to that?

No. Oh, maybe. Yeah, maybe kind of similar. But like, yeah, I suppose it would be. But a left-handed compliment is an insult. So I guess a back-handed compliment is in a way, isn't it? Yeah, it's like, hey. Hey, Jess.

That's a pretty good top-your-ing for you. Yeah, yeah. I think that's like a back-handed compliment. Yeah, it's like hey, hey Jess, that's a pretty good top-your-ing for you. Yeah, I think that's like a backhand accorde. Yeah, not the best example, but that's okay. Well, I just saw me I wanted to get off my chest. Thank you, this top is a good top for me. People often say someone is speaking left-handed if they're drunk, have you ever heard that? I was talking left-handed, it's when you're drunk. No, but I have spoken left-handed a couple of times, if you know what I mean. No idea, I'm going to be pregnant. What do you mean?

I'm an alcoholic, I'm left-handed. An all-through history left-handed was forced to use their right-handed instead of their preferred left, as you were saying before. Even a couple of my uncles were forced to write with their right hand, but were natural lefties. Really? So what do they do now? I think one of them, my mum's brother has gone back and rights with his left hand, and my dad's brother still rights with his right hand, but does a lot of other things, most

other things left handed, and he prefers the left. This is kind of interesting, so until very very recently in Taiwan and still in mainland China, left-handed people were strongly encouraged to switch to being right-handed or at least switched to writing with the right hand and that's due to the importance of stroke order with writing Chinese characters because it's sort of developed for the comfortable use for right-handed people. Does that make sense? Because the stroke order is really important in their characters, so it's just better to be right-handed. Right. Yeah.

Which is kind of in some ways, because like you're saying with the smudging in English, it is also easier to be your right-handed. Because we left her right. So my hand is going over the fresh ink so it's just dragging across and my hands are always black covered in ink and then my pages are always smudged. Oh so you still you still get a smudge hand now you haven't developed a way to avoid that.

No. Should have didn't. Oh that's okay. No I just wasn't sure if people did avoid that like you're do yeah, that's why people would have done that absolutely or if I I can do it if I but it's it's less comfortable Just like quickly riding my hand just sort of drags along and when I was in primary school Like the cool thing to get with these like colorful gel pens that was super cool But I couldn't use them because they just much I remember those that were great. They were so good before colors Yeah, or you'd get the glittery ones too.

Oh, fancy. I don't know if you... They were super cool. You were a thousand years old, sure. You were selling them at the New Year's age to see a part-time 17-year-old job. Well, we were ten. I did do a part-time job at a New Year's age. Really?

Yeah. Did you sell those pens? Patterson Tats, News and Posts. I know, well. I, um, you know,'m obviously out there can see this but I'm I was talking about being such a bad handwriting writer that I do that get ankle over my hands and I'm right hand. Yeah well you're just not right. Constantly. You're bad at both sides remember. I'm bad at both sides but I am amazingly good at

some things. Such as. It's reducing introducing this podcast I don't want to take my own hall here, but yeah, that's right great speaking voice Was that a do you know that was a that was a forehander? Oh, cuz you have picked on me in the past anyway, please. No, no you're you're right. That's why we let you do it It's because you're very good at it. What why we let you do it? What what hand do you hold the mic with? Does that affect that? When you're doing stand-up, you hold left hand. Yep. How about you, Matt?

I think I'm right. I do both. I never really think. Yeah, I'll switch, but I'm so. I'm so. I'm so. I'm right. I'm so.

I'm right. That there are sometimes points when I know I need to swap hands. Like I do a joke where I look at my watch, so I know before that I've already passed the mic over to my right hand because my watches on my left. That's a nice peek by my chin. If I'm doing it the I know. My microphone technique, I prefer the left because I'm so used to hosting my game show Fact Effect where I have to control the laptop with my right hand that now that's become natural.

Yeah, there you go. So that's good. So yeah, that's... Yeah, I prefer left. But I never thought about that loud. So just thought I'd let you guys hear me think about it a little. Isn't it interesting? I'm just being in on that moment.

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So I was talking about like the stroke order in Chinese characters. On the flip side, there's right to left alpobets like Arabic and Hebrew and they're generally considered easier to write with the left hand. So there you go. I'll just... Yeah, it must be difficult if you're writing an Arabic if you're right-handed. Do you have the same... I imagine you have the same problem that you have in your? Yeah exactly, but do those cultures have more prevalence of a left-handed? No, I just see that it would still sort of be the same prevalence, whether or not they're encouraged or not, well maybe not encouraged, nobody's encouraged to be left-handed, but whether they're discouraged from being left-handed, I suppose. Nobody's like, oh, you can kind of favor your left hand, why not left-handed off you go? Like it's just whether or not it's um

Not discouraged. Yeah sure. What's kind of weird and interesting is how it comes across in lots of cultures and even religions so The angel Michael sits on God's right side why while Samuel is on his left hand side right side while Samuel is on his left hand side and the attribution of evil to the left and good to the right appears in various forms throughout the world. Many artistic expressions of the devil show him to be left handed. Oh, what's he holding the pitch fork? Probably pitch fork, just a severed head, maybe. Holding it up. Oh, and there's pictures of him riding his journal.

Did I? Did I? Not a big day. Satan here. Ugh. Tell you what, there's this girl in my class and she is a sweetie pie. I think I'm going to ask her to go to the disco with me. Yeah, disco in Ferno.

Then, maybe, then. Very good. Thank you. That wasn't even pre-written. It wasn't. That was, I'm loving to look at your screen. Check my letter, not there. Not there. Thank you. That wasn't even pre-written. It wasn't. That wasn't. That wasn't 11 look at your screen there. Chip, well I did not do that there. Not there.

How about when you dance it? It was that good that you'd think that's been more attractive. That, that's where it should be. Yeah, you set that up and spiked it down yourself. Ah! Do you dance with two left feet? No, I'm very coordinated. I can boogie-wogie with the best of them.

Yeah, it's interesting that it's not two right feet because it would be the same thing, right? Yeah, exactly. It's a thing. It's always left at scene is clumsy or... Just a funny punch line, I think. It's a funny word left. Left.

In witchcraft, it takes in medieval Europe, it was the left hand that was used to harm or curse another person. It was always the left, so witches would like touch somebody with their left hand and that would inflict the curse upon them. So obviously even these witches themselves believe that the left was... Yeah, yeah.

And it's really funny because both Jewish and Christian traditions are strongly right-handed in their practices. So for Catholics, Anglicans and other denominations, the priests must present the communion wafer with the right hand. And you have to accept with your right hand. the communion wafer with the right hand and you have to accept with your right hand, which stress me out so much as a kid. Okay, so someone who's never taken communion, do you have to take it with your right hand? Well, you've got, you sort of accepted in your right hand and then I would always take it. I would then take it out of my right hand with my left hand and pop it in me golf.

When I was a kid outside of the cross, there's always right hand. That's right. But I instinctively do it left hand and they're like, oh no. Shaking's always right hand, but that's not religious. I had my priest when I was a kid, he had, I don't know if it was a Lisbon,

just an interesting way to talk and he'd say, so when they held out the piece of bread, the Jesus bread, he'd go, body of Christ. Christ. It's it, hold the yes. piece of bread. The Jesus bread. It go body of Christ. Christ. It's it hold yes. Body of Christ. Oh great. Body of Christ. This is like to 100 people and a queue. Come on mate. Yeah. Everyone got that. We got things to do. It's Sunday. I'm gonna go. You had to say that a hundred times every week. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah probably a hundred plus. This is in the 90s. There were people

were going to church back then. Yeah, I would feel guilty. I would be made to feel guilty. I mean, Catholic church, so it was a lot of Catholic guilt regardless. But yeah, if I ever did the sign of the cross with my left hand, I'd be like, oh no, and then I'd like redo it again with my right hand. Yeah, imagine, imagine that God, you know, existed. Well, that'd be crazy. But also, imagine if he existed and he was like, this child just did the son of the cross at the left hand. Well, you're gonna hell, you little fuck.

Yeah. Good one, dickhead. Yeah. It's probably what he'd say. Sorry to any religious people listening. Well, look, we're all religious in Someway in our own ways. So yeah, my way. I'm religious in the way that I'm not at all religious speaking of fun facts about religion. Oh, the right hand is mentioned positively 100 times in the Bible while the left hand is mentioned only 25 times

all negatively So even like through the Bible, it's negative. In many Islamic countries, people have forbidden to eat with their left hand, which is considered unclean because it's used to cleaning your body after your poop. That's just a hygienic rule that might play. It stops the spread of hepatitis B. But I'm left-handed and eat left-handed So I would just go there and offend everybody

Additionally public displays, but you'd have to before you go relax guys. I wipe my ass with the right hand We're all good guys got a biday. No worries. No wiping. I just shake it off I don't have an anger Fine, I don't have a blue it off weeks fine. I blew it off weeks ago. I just sweat it out. I just sweat it out. You'll see. Well, there goes a bit.

Not only can you not eat with your left hand, but also just any public display or use of the left hand against the law in some Islamic countries. So I would be scurried. So what do you mean use of the left hand? Well, I'm guessing it's fairly general. So like handing money over left hand and maybe waving. You know, when the president has done a speech and never says it ran over applause. At least slap this time.

This on the chest. Why do you see that with my left hand? Oh, no. I swapped. I swapped. We're okay. Yeah, no. By that time you've been taking out the baton shot. They know. They go into it. But it you've been taking out the baton shot. They know, they go into it. But it's not again, it's not all bad. Oh great, you've got some perks.

Perks, Per has perks. Among the Eskimos, every left-handed person is viewed as a potential sorcerer. Oh! P-P-P-P-In a positive sense of the day. Or is that burn at the steak? Yeah, no, I think it's good. Like, it's friendly sorcerer. Oh.

Someone who, um, provides you with stuff is able to go out and get stuff. Someone who... Sources things like a random soldier where you're going with that. Oh, another please, I don't know. Not your best. Um, in Morocco. The left hand is considered to be a scar, SGA. A word that means either a devil or cursed person

So is that and that's a positive? No, but that's Morocco. That's a long way away from where the escalation is. Yeah, and over that was all in the one point So I'm guessing it's probably all negative Oh, I'm gonna take it positively because I reckon being a sorcerer would be pretty sick. Remember when Mickey Mouse was? Yeah, he had a good time. He had a great time. Fantasia, box office flop. Yeah, and tough movie to watch. Yeah.

You know when you're a kid and you're like, Mickey Mouse movie, oh, I hate this. Why is he dancing with bruises? Yeah. Who wants to watch the, who's the market for this? He really lost the market there, Walt. The Incas thought left-handers were capable of healing and that they possessed magical abilities. Pretty disappointing when you went performing any miracle. You don't know that.

And you're like, I'm just riding left-hand. Maybe you just have an idea of giving me a chance. Maybe that is the vehicle. The North American Zuni tribe believed that left-hand had a signified good luck. So remember how this podcast you guys do a couple of episodes and it was no good and then you're like, hey, we need a third voice, let's get Jess Perkins and now it's great. Yes. Well, maybe it was a little bit of left-handed charm you needed. We could hear a right-handed voice, and no one wanted to listen to it. No, what's that? No, what's that? You need the charm and arrogance of the left-handed voices and no one wanted to listen to it. No one's that, no one's that. You need the Charm and arrogance of the left-hander.

It definitely has improved since you got on board. Stop fishing for us to say that every week. Just want you guys to love me. We love you, Jess. Thank you. Despite all the left-handed awkwardness. There's a couple of nicknames for, there's lots of nicknames for...

Molly Duker? Molly Duker, very good. That's one of the ones I have. I've only got a couple here because a couple of nicknames for, there's lots of nicknames for... Molly Duker? Molly Duker, very good, that's one of the ones I have. I've only got a couple here because a few of them I just couldn't even figure out what they meant and anytime I Googled them people were kind of like, no, I think it might be this, like there's no real... They kind of actually... Yeah, thank you.

Can you explain Molly Duker? Molly Duker is an Australian thing apparently. Dukes referring to your fists and then they used Molly from what I can read to imply that you fought like a girl. Oh my god. I used that term a lot. I didn't realize it was so offensive. It's a far like a girl.

Southport is one that I think we may have even talked about before. I think mentioning a couple weeks ago. I believe Tute was a Southport. No, I think we may be even talked about before. I think mentioning a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, I believe. Toot was a Southport. No, I think you lied. I was only getting in my bed. But Southport, did you look at what it means? Yeah, so it's derived from baseball. I thought it was to do with the batter.

It's actually to do with the pitcher. So parks were often built with the home plate in the western corner of the field. And when a left-handed pitcher was facing the batter, his throwing arm would be the closest to the South. Oh, right. Thus the term Southport. And a Southport boxer is when someone is left-handed, but they use their right hand as their

main puns. Their right hand and right foot are forward, yeah. Yeah, right. Even though you're left-handed. You're leaving. You're leaving. Left-handed person leading with the right, which is very strange. I think that's how I would hit.

Because I did Taekwondo and I would yeah, I would to like that was I'd be a South Pole There's also my dad always calls me a cacander. Cac just means shit And that would go back to the People with white hair buns With the left hand your dad's a bit of a charmer. Isn't he just what is it? Cacander CAC Is that why I carry on canily was known as cac? left-end. Your dad's a bit of a charmer. Isn't he just? What is it? Cat. Cat. Cat. Can't I see I see. Cat. Cat. Is that why I carry-and-canily? It was known as Cat? No, because it's her initials.

It's her initials. I knew that for sure. Deak-head. Cat. I've got a list two of them. I'll see you again. I love Cat. We're talking about carrying-and-canily. Sure. I keep sent myself up for being taken out of context for that end part of the episode. I love CAC. I just did it again to make it easier. I'm trying to bring it back to poo, caca, that's Spanish for poo.

Very good. Very good. So as you may have heard that the left hemisphere of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right hemisphere controls the left, right? So just find the hemisphere. Literally the left side of the body and the right hemisphere controls the left, right? So, yeah. Okay, just find him as fear. Literally, the left side of the brain. So left side from your perspective or from someone looking at your perspective, right? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Not somebody looking at you, but like if you're standing looking at my brain, the left side is controlling the right side of my body and the right hemisphere of the brain controls the left I thought this was common knowledge. Is that not common knowledge? Did you know I've had a lot of people claim that Different parts of the brain and then I've heard other people dispute Yeah, it's one part some some people used to say and I'm sure I don't think is it once left is creative and right is Yeah, that's what I think. Yeah, no that's disputed. I believe yeah what I think is that one's left is creative and right is the logic of something? Yeah, that's disputed, I believe.

Yeah, I think so. Well, yeah, so it is disputed, but it's disputed in terms of left-handedness, right-handedness, that sort of thing. But those parts of the brains are responsible for those tasks. That's not that disputed, from my understanding. Not that disputed. No, but I don't think it has been. Like, when we did psychology at school and that was one of the things we looked at. So like the left brain, so you right handers would be,

or the argument is you'd be better with the logic analysis sequencing, you think in a much more linear way, mathematical, Dave, you're always with the numbers, language, math, you speak seven and a half languages. Facts, Dave, fact, effect, need I say more. And what's the left hand of suppose to do? A left hand of suppose to do. So the right side of the brain is more to do with creativity, imagination, thinking more holistically rather than in a more linear way. Intuition, rhythm, nonverbal sort of things, visualisations and we daydream a bit more.

Which is quite appropriate, but it doesn't mean that like right handers have no imagination. It doesn't mean left handers can't be mathematical. It's just that those sides of the brains... Right, so you'll say, and if your left hemisphere of the brain is stronger, you'll be a right hander and vice versa. Not like it's not sitting concrete and I'm no scientist. But does that mean that did you say that the left, if you're a left hander, the things that you're right, hemisphere of your brain is better at.

Yeah. You're better at. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, that's the argument. Yes. Well, I could have just, just I don't know I didn't need to ask I could just listen to podcast back when I got classic right hander not thinking I'm thinking dreaming that was a left-handed trait very good so that's what I mean like it's obviously we can all do all of those things it's just a tendency one way or the other they find that lefties do excel more or like a lot of people in the arts would be left-handed

So some sort of online quiz we can do that will tell us if we're left or right-hand That'll be great. That would be very question one. We chan you're right with right hand. Oh There's only one question in this quiz. I am right-handed. There you go. There you go. I'm not very creative after all I have a list of famous lefties if you'd like to hear those. Yes, please. So, US Presidents, there's been quite a few. We got Garfield, Hoover, Truman, which forward. Which Hoover?

Herbert. Herbert Hoover. Pardon me, I thought you were implying J Edgar Hoover, who founder of the FBI. Yeah, well, he's not a president That's right. No, Herbert Hoover Truman Gerald Ford Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush. That's the senior That's senior Bill Clinton and our current Owl the current US president Barack Obama is a lefty So is that me three of the last five? Or four of the last five? And the George W has not been, is there a time to the illuminati here, do you think?

I feel like he might have been as well, but he's not on that list there, so I could be wrong. But I had a feeling he was too, maybe. Yeah, because I think the left handers are often reptilian shape shifters as well. So that makes sense that they would have so often been US presidents, so that makes sense that I would have so often been US presidents

It's hardly makes sense. Yeah, it does make sense. It's funny that they're so open about there Yeah, I don't seem to know That's a Jess isn't That is me I do do that. Yeah, I picked it up You're right. I am adorable. Yeah George dubia I do do that. Yeah, I picked it up. You're right. I am adorable. Yeah, yeah, it doesn't look like it now George W. George Jr. is not. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no had no place upside down. Yeah, yeah Judy Garland Juju Jimmy Hendrix Robert plant. Oh my god. I'm like more than half of these have died very young Shut up seal. He's fine Robert plants or a lot a bit. I had Jimmy Hendrix Kokerbane. Yeah, that was 27 clubbers and Judy Garland didn't she make it. Oh, no. Oh ah I'm thinking who's her daughter's old

I don't know you have a Judy Garland she was she did she but how young was she I didn't know that oh maybe 40 Okay back to happier things tie back to so I'm just trying I'm just you were saying they're creative but like often creative people I have a lot of inner turmoil yeah Yeah, it's rough for us. It's hard out there for a lefty. That's lefty creative. You really got to mobilize. You really got to mobilize. You're going to mobilize.

You knew nice. Yeah. How else you got? You got anyone else there? Yeah, Paul Simon. Ringo Star. Yeah, right. Ringo was also a lefty.

So one half of the beat was left, and it's pretty cool. That is cool. Ties back to our previous episode. Okay, artist, this is the best. Artists, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michael Angelo, all left handed. Three out of four, Ninja Turtles baby. Two Beatles, three out of four, intertles. So which one was not?

Donatello, fuck off, Donatello. Oh my face. Why is he in Donatello? So Donatello, and he was the sculptor of the four. So the three painters. Mm. That's why Donatello can go get fucked. Oh, you heard it in the background.

He's your favorite. We know that. No, no, no, no. OK, I've also got some actors as well, like, Disney comedians. So, I mean, it's trapping. It's a pretty good list. All right, we've got Dan Acroix.

Hey, half of the blues brothers. Tim Allen. Oh! Oh, pop. Sorry, it's really loud, sorry. I love that noise out at the end. Dandandandandandandandandandandandandand Hello?

Not as good. Um... If I was going to guess, I would have thought our ball and would have been left-handed or that comedy duo. There you go. Charlie Chaplin was a lefty, then we also got Tom Cruise, that's disappointing. Robert De Niro, Fran Drescher, okay?

Fran Drescher. Fran Drescher. Larry Fine of the three stooges. We'll be Goldberg. Goldie Horn and the door to the case. Hey, we'll be Goldberg. What is noteworthy for being one of the few to win the... He got. He's very good.

Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. It all ties together. That's why I mentioned it so often on this podcast. I'm very sorry, but now maybe I won't do it as much. I probably will. Got it out of your system. It's a lot of family ties. It's also Goldihorn and Dorne.

I can't tell you're going to say Michael J. Fox. No. Jim Henson. Family ties. Jim Henson and Cermet the Frog. His son. Oh, Jim Henson also, the Jim Henson company did the total puppets for the first Ninja Turtles movie. Really?

Three out of four of them left-handed. We know that. That makes sense. Maybe that was why they were all left-handed because their puppeteer was left-handed. Yeah, that's probably it. Well, that's the other thing. So... That's very funny. No, Bart Simpson is left-handed because who created the Simpsons?

Matt Grayning. Matt Grayning is left-handed and he's created Bart as left-handed as well. And Ned Flanders, of course. Oh, the left-toreium. Left-toreium. What do we know? What one thing we need in the future? Left-handed stores. That's you, Flanders. That's great. Okay, Sarah. Sarah. What one thing we're not even the future left-handed stores that's you planters Great case or a sir are Other other notable lefties Steve McQueen Marilyn Monroe Anthony Perkins In the original psycho. T. Perk. Is that you don't say no? It's his middle name though. He's John Anthony. So whooo

Richard prior Sylvester still lying. okay, we got Rocky, good luck, right, Anders? There we go, we got Rocky. Edwin! Pretty good impression. Yeah, thank you. Have one, have a go, Matt? Hey, I'm a very talented writer and performer, Sylvester Slyne, wrote Rocky, and shopped

it around a lot. Sold my dog to make sure it happened, or is that a myth? Yeah, that story. And we're back and bought it from an alcohol shop. Jack Drew's doesn't have a clue about that. Ah, that's where I would have learnt it from. Jack Drew's, he's just downstairs. Not your best impression, okay.

What? I thought I nailed it. Tying back to the Mary Poppins episode and your favorite show, Diagnosis, a myth. Don't tell me the dick, Mr. Dick, Van Dyke is the left-hander. He is the left-hander. And finally, we also have the queen. We do actually have the queen, but we also have Oprah.

So the queen lives with the second? Yeah, I'm pretty sure she is. Charles definitely is and Prince William definitely is. And I have a feeling I've read that queen lives with the second is as well. Yes, I'm going to say this. We're not in the business of having a feeling like this. No, I've read it, but I didn't write it down.

Anyway. We're in the business of briefly looking at stuff online and then trying to remember it and talk about it. Oh no, that is the same thing, all right. Same thing, flip on. There's a few things in sport where they find left-handers to be very important, that I know after top of my head.

Very important. In cricket, nearly always the opening to batsman will be right hand left-hand combination the combo to try and that is so because every time they swap ends the whole field has to has to move around and the bowl has to change his line so it just becomes in it a bit tedious for the other time yeah and it's just like it's harder to find a rhythm if you're having a change from a left-hand to a right-hand or a ball. And I think it's a similar sort of idea with baseball and pitches.

They'll have a front line, left-hand or front line, right-hand a pitcher against, so whether or not to favor the whichever one you need, you can go to one or the other. It's interesting that it's just a tactical thing. Yeah, okay. Which means that 10% of the population has a better chance at,

you're gonna be seen as more valuable as a cricketer or a baseball or if you're left-handed. I mean, it's a bunch of other famous left-handed sports stars, Rafael Nadal. Swimming comes off the top of my head. There are a lot and they find it's really it's an advantage in nearly every sport except stuff like swimming That's kind of useless but

Fencing in particular it's a huge advantage to be left-handed apparently. We have you ever seen what's that movie the princess bride where he's like well But actually I'm not even left-handed Whoops, what's over? Oh man, left-handed. Whoops, I'm so bad. Oh man, what a moment. That makes him so good. That guy. If you've seen him talk about refugees and stuff on Colbert recently, very good videos, you should check that out.

So emotional. What's his name, the actor? Mandy Patinkin. Mandy Patinkin, great name as well. Yeah, great name Patinkin. He's the side track. Let's see how far away I can get from the topic. Mandy Patinkin, great name as well. He's the side track, let's see how far away I can get from the topic. Manipotinkin.

Golf and golf, it's most courses are set up to be harder for right handed slices. So if you're a left handed slice, you're more likely to be able to bend the ball naturally around corners, which is an interesting thing. Oh. Because it's much more common to be a right hand and you're much more likely to be a slasering golf.

It's easy, it's like just a more common fault, ideally you're moving the ball right to left. But if you move it left to right then as a right hand you're a slaser. So they make a lot of holes, dog leg to the left. So you're moving the ball the wrong you know, I'm talking about golf So I play golf like twice a year and I played it last week and I've been thinking about it a lot I'm thinking about your tactics. Yeah, it isn't advantage

I even playing basketball since I was seven and being left handed was a huge advantage because people would defend me on the wrong side Right, so they defend me there and I just roll the other way and then they're like, oh shit, you went the other way. So that's an advantage until anyone knows. Yeah, but they never figured it out. I guess amateur basketballs did. Oh yeah, big time. And it's just your instinct, you guard the right hander.

Yeah, absolutely. Um, yeah, I do have some fun facts and finishing on the fun stuff. Do you think they're more fun things? Uh, dog leg left at the golf course? Maybe. Well, this time I will read these and you can tell me if they're fun or not. They're not that fun. Oh no, they're interested in fun.

No, no, no, I would never pass judgment on your fun facts. Because I know. You say they're fun facts, they're fun facts. I'm Jess Perkins, a queen of the fun fact. I'm not sure. I said that's so drull as well. I'm Jess Perkins, the queen of the fun fact. Okay.

Apparently, so I said before that two left-handed is having a baby 26% chance that child's going to be left-handed. I'm going to put that out there. I don't care if this gets back to my future children. If I have a left-handed child, they're going be my favorite. I don't think you're gonna tell them not to because of the hardship you face. No, I'm proud lefty despite the hardship. Jess has grown up in a time where nearly all of the hardship doesn't exist

anymore, apart from smudgy riding. That's the only thing that worries you anymore. Everything else is an advantage, basketball. Pretty much, I'm very lucky. My brother teases me a lot, but you know, whatever it's just. Yeah, but your brother can get fucked. Thank you, thank you Matt, he can get fucked. So yeah, I said they're more likely to have 26% chance that two lefties will have a left handed baby,

but what's interesting though is mothers who are over 40 at the time of a child's birth This makes no sense at all now that I read it mothers who are over 40 at the time of a child's birth are 128% more likely to have a left-handed baby than a woman in her 20s No, that that's that's is that right? They're not working 128% more like. Yeah, more than two times. Okay, yeah, for some reason I think you like you will definitely have a left-handed movie.

More if it was 128% you're you've got a hundred and twenty-eight percent chance to happen. Yeah. Hundred and twenty-eight percent more likely. That would be so. No, it is locked in and then some. Yeah. There's a chance they're going to be double left handed. Which ironically makes them right handed. Yeah.

Two lefts make it right. Yeah, OK, that's right. Confused by my own statistics. Yeah, no, I definitely had to think about that. Was that interesting? Was that interesting? Yeah. So wait, was it fun though?

I think it took us on a fun journey. Didn't it? Speaking of journeys. I will not pass judgment, Jess, you can't make me. Speaking of journeys and also tying back to one of your previous episodes, Dave, one in four Apollo astronauts were left-handed. Oh, that's two hundred and fifty percent more likely. Your face just stayed completely dead when I said that. I was just thinking about the math

Wait, no that doesn't make sense one in four Because you 10% chance so your so 150% more likely To be an astronaut if you're left-handed and a right-handed does that make sense? No Can you make what I want to say make sense? So there's is there's only one in 10 people left-handed. But one in four people have been on Apollo mission. Left-handed have been on one in four Apollo mission astronauts have been left-handed.

Can you break that down in a simple sentence? I don't think you can. I don't think we can. Well, it's just, yeah, you're absolutely correct, like of general society, only one in ten people is left-handed, but of Apollo astronauts from the Apollo program, one in four. Yeah, so that's one in fifty percent. There's got to be a two fifty percent thing there, right? Yeah, but still you're more likely to be selected as an astronaut if you're right-handed. Yes, but as a left-handed person, because it's like...

I can hear the cogs in his head. Yeah, well my brain is just, they're not turning, that's a problem. Yeah. So, if you're a left-handed person, so you're in a room and there's... Okay, yeah, so you are more... I actually think you are correct that you're more likely to be picked because of general society, only one in 10 people is left-handed, but a whole quarter of the programmer left-handed. But if you are right-handed, you generally expect that 90% of the people picked for the mission would be right-handed. But only 75% are.

My brain just won't let me make that. Anyway. Maybe we'll let it out. Thanks Jess. Sorry Jess. Now, that's great. Oh fuck you. Real good. Studies have shown that if a left-handed injures his or her dominant hand,

they have an easier time learning to use the other hand than if, then they're right-handed counterparts. I'll show you as well. If I write Jess in left and right, it'll actually be, it's not terrible because we're more used to using... Oh, like with the ukulele, you know the guy was just like, just do it, just do it.

Is it because right-handed is the right way? So it's just, your naturally should be able to do it. Because that little evil party of rain makes you want to do it. Left handed. It's just the evil in our brains. Yeah, you can definitely, yours is definitely better on the left still. Oh, a big time, yeah, for sure. But I just mean because there's so many things that are designed for right handers

that we have to adapt to a lot. So we're just always using our right, then you guys would have to, you guys wouldn't be as forced to use your left, that's all. The closest inequality out of our three is definitely Dave and Dave, because they're both awful. I believe the term is ambicentist. I'll be taking a photo of that.

I'm going to tweet that. You've got lovely handwriting, Jess. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, sorry, you're going to say Dave then. No. No, it's, it's, I know that's possible. No, it's actually not that bad, it's fine. Thank you. Thank you. Oh Sorry, you're gonna say Dave Mate you make me feel physically ill. I am so happy to have been brought up in the computer Yeah, I actually I've was told a few times the kid that I have girlish hand What is that What does that even, no, I know you didn't mean that,

but what does that even mean? Just good handwriting or like quite neat or cursive? I think it might mean neat. I think that's fine. What a weird thing. Chega Matt, neat handwriting, what a girl. Well, I'm not sure who to be offended for right now. Is it interesting?

Well, I don't know if you know this. You can't play hockey left handed. I was going to bring that up before. Yeah, you can't play it. Oh, because all the bats are the wrong way, right? Exactly. And you're not allowed to. Oh, you get, actually, they blow the whistle if you hit the ball, if you're seeing a hitting

the ball with the non-flat side of the hockey stick. What a weird thing. It is a bit weird. I find that I can, with like sports or like a striking I can do both like left or right hand. So I think I'm actually a little bit better on right-handed when it comes to like cricket or um but I can comfortably do both. Just a little brag there not even to do with handiness. That is that's a hand like in cricket some the, like the 2020 games and stuff, there's more... The reverse.

More reverse hits. Reverse sweeps and stuff. So that'll be quite handy. Yeah. Modern cricket, I imagine. And the final thing that I want to talk about, it's my favorite day of the year. Oh, is there National Left-Hand at that? International Left-Hand at that.

International! Welcome. Do you know what date it is yes it'll be wait there'd be it doesn't make sense somehow no so there's no like being like yeah seven is like an upside down L so July July 7th no it's August the 13th. Ah, evil number 13. Classic. August 13th, starting in 1992, it was started by the Left Handers Club who only joined in 1990. And they thought they had an organist.

Yeah, that's right, you're starting to organise. So according to the Left Handers Club, this is how they describe it. International Left Handers Day is an annual event when left hand is everywhere can celebrate their sin astrology, meaning left hand in this, and increase public awareness of the advantages and disadvantages. Disadvantages. Well, just celebrate disadvantages. Yeah, that's right.

That's raising awareness. Oh, part of my thought it was like, yay, people aren't very nice to us. You're celebrating being left hand, but also just letting everybody know it's less for it. That's raising awareness. Oh, part of my thought it was like, yeah, people aren't very nice to us. You're celebrating being left-handed, but also just letting everybody know it's about awareness. It celebrates their uniqueness and differences who are from 7 to 10% of the world's population. Thousands of left-handed people in today's society have to adapt to user-right-handed tools and objects. We're just, okay, guys, we have to adapt. In the UK alone, because this is where the club is sort of based. So in the UK alone, this is in 2001 or so, it's a while ago, but there were like 20 regional events,

including left versus right sports matches, a left-handed tea party, pubs using left-handed corkscrews, where patrons drank and played pub games with the left-hand only Like it up in for that. Isn't it fun and they even have What they called lefty zones where they they made right-handers use left-handed objects to see just our walker It feels to use a wrong equipment and objects to see just how awkward it feels to use a wrong equipment. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Yeah, I put it on Facebook because I have a funny. I think it's ridiculous. You went away of this You were aware of this before the show. Oh, yeah, oh, I thought you might have just come across that now I was aware of that day big time big time away. Let's I text my left-handed cousins on that day. What date was it again? They take the ball. Let's I reckon this year Let's let's go to a pub and play left-handed

Yeah, I'd be no fish for me for sure. Did that for me? To get you to a pub, for sure. Party paper, the end. Oh my god. Everyone wants to go to the pub. Because you're embarrassed that you can't drink with your right hand. I can't. I can't do it.

You miss your mouth every time. Every time. Oh, jeez. What I like about it, though, is that they're like bragging and winging all at once. Because they keep mentioning that it's all about raising awareness. So they say stuff like, oh, we're more likely to develop schizophrenia. Because our brains are so much more creative.

Alright guys, come on. So yeah, the Lint Central of Tandas Day 30 of the Borgs, I thought about, I even looked at my calendar, I was like, maybe I'll save this topic for sometime in August and I'll do it then so it coincides. But I couldn't wait. I couldn't wait, firstly, and left Tandas Day also falls on like a Friday or a Saturday this year, which just wasn't going to work. I was like, you know, one of the boys will probably think to do left-handiness and then I'll miss my chance.

So I'm doing it now and I'll just share it on left-handism. Imagine if we'd brought up the topic of left-handism. You would have been so pissed. I would have been furious. We're talking about your thing. You already stole the Queen Elizabeth warden from me, so. That would be the thing. She's all out of queen, but you're the only left-hander. Wasn't letting it happen again. So there you go. How do you guys feel about left-handism now? You've got a question for you, Jess, you wear a watch. You always wear it on only left-hander. Wasn't letting it happen again. So there you go. How do you how do you guys feel about Lift-hand is now. Question for you Jesse where a watch. You always wear it on your left hand? Yes, because that is not what most left-handers do. I know most would put it on their right because right-hand is the word on their left, but I do I've always want my left. How about you Matt when you put a watch on?

I haven't I haven't want to watch in so long. I was trying to see if there was still a I haven't wanna watch in so long. I was trying to see if there was still a tan line, but it would be a good 15 years. So that's probably gone. Yeah, I have no idea. I would have thought right hand. That's the way I went to look at my watch. What would you put it on?

I would have on my left hand, like a right hand. Like an old person. That's the thing, see, I was raised by right hand, so I probably copied them a lot too. Just did what they did, because I just wanted to be cool. My brother always teased me for like, if we were kids, but like if we're buttering toast or something, you'd be like,

you put the butter on the wrong side of the knife, because I'm coming at it from a different angle. It was a very strange thing to tease him. Oh, that's a strange, do you butter with your left hand? Yeah, I do everything on my left hand. Do you butter with your right hand, Matt? Yeah. I find that very strange that I butter with my right hand,

but as I said before, when I'm holding cutlery, knife goes in my left hand. Do you bother with your right hand mat? Yeah. I find that very strange that I butter with my right hand, but as I said before when I'm holding cutlery knife goes in my left hand, I cut with my left. But okay, knife in your left, okay yeah, but fork in your right. Yeah, so then once you're finished cutting you've just got your right hand, because I think what a lot of people would probably do is like cut with their fork in their left hand knife in their right But then when it just comes to just stabbing food and eating it, they'd swap over to their right hand Oh, what about soup? Would you guys be left to right with the spoon right hand? Are left? Yeah, of course!

I literally cannot do anything with my right hand What do you do the cutlery that was just about fire d'abritz? What a... oh what a right hand I fight it with a hand obviously arm wrestle left left some more left okay javilan left how many times you played javilan like twice or I've never played but I have seen it played combing your hair left Left. Brush my teeth. Left. Yeah. Any other questions?

Coming for headlifes. Right. Interesting. What about holding a straw? Left. What about? You'll slip up one day. I do everything left-handed.

I can't even text properly right-handed. It's very awkward. Oh, I text left-handed. Well, I have a lot of more appreciation. And I'm still obsessing over the fact that I can call myself Ambi Sinister now. Yeah, I'm happy for you. I'm bragging about how ungood I am at things.

Ungood. I'm good, that's a lefty. Speaking left over there, mate. No, you're not helping the cause, Jis. Yeah, that's right. Well, I'm, I hope we've raised some awareness for the lefties out there. Probably. Undoubtedly.

And if you're a leftie, tweet to me. Oh, what's your hashtag? Hashtag, uh, hashtag lefties best. Well, that's good. No, no. No, I missed. Hashtag. What about hashtag left for Jess?

Left for Jess. So like, even if you're right handed, just so, give Jess a bit of support over you. Yeah, that's nice. Left for dead. That's the same. That's the same.. Less for dead. That's the same. That's the same. That is the same. I'm just telling you left for Jess.

Left for Jess. I do appreciate that. Do you guys have anything else you need to announce at the end of the show? It was all the rules. I'm right handed. Ooh. It turns. No, I'm not right.

Tickets on sale for Melbourne International Community Festival. Oh, yes, we're all doing shows at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Uh, we've done a show with Annie Matthews at the Tuxedo Cat called Logistical Nightmare. Love it. Great title. Have you got some of the logistical nightmares happening? Oh, a big time. Well, Andy has moved to Sydney since we decided to do the show. So it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, that title.

Oh great, well, I'll kick in for the kick start of getting Andy come back for a couple of weeks. Bring Andy home. And Jess, you are part of a showcase show, please tell us about that. Yeah, I'm part of Comedy Zone, which is a show Matt did last year. So I follow in your footsteps, everything you do, I do.

So next year I'll be doing a show with Andy Matthews. But for this year, I'm part of Comedy Zone which is five up and comers and let's put them by the Comedy Festival it's really fun. So it trades all all through the festival which is going to be super cool. Cool and I'm doing my quiz show fact effect versus the audience at the Imperial Hotel. It's the interactive quiz show so if you like answering silly questions much more silly stuff Come on down. There's stuff we stay on here.

And I'm also doing my brand new show, The Lonely Comedians Blind Dating Show Spectacular. I like it. The Melmontown Hall. Jess. What's the Evie Banner asked? I have not. Interesting.

Well, maybe I don't think you're lonely enough to be on the show. Thank you. I was going to say, fuck you, Matt, for applying them lonely. I do need guests. I'm lonely that I'm not desperate. I do need guests on the show, but I feel like the email subject, lonely comedians,

is going to be very hard to get people to come down and say, have a good time. I'm like, I could I be on it? I'm lonely. Don't ask, come on, it's his show. It's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, it's his show, off air. I imagine. But do you think that's appropriate, Dave? No. We, as soon as, actually, listen, no, as soon as the microphones go off, we never speak off air.

Oh, no, no, no, no. It just so happens that we have excellent chemistry on air, but off air, hate each other. Yeah, man, I can't say a single word off air to Matt and God. No, it's in my ride or I won't speak to him. It's pretty hard through all the hatred. We speak through publicists only. That's right, well I should have told you that all those shows are on sale now at

comedyfestival.com.au if you're in Melbourne town but if not, you can always hit us up on Twitter, at dogoonpod.com. And dogoonpod.com is the email to get in touch. You want to see us on Facebook. We're on to get in touch you want to see Facebook we're always here to mention Facebook Facebook as well yeah can you give me what do you call it the the ability to do stuff I still haven't let Matt have access to our Facebook page I will not I will not allow this you've ruined too much for me Matt

no I sure I'll do that after the show as well. Any other, uh, what else we got on the agenda today? I'll probably get to the beach this weekend. Really? No, I don't know. Um, we'll see what the weather's like. I think so much was me. We'll see you next time. Bye-bye. Hey, I think I'm going to close it out. Bye. Later. Nailed it. Are you working way too hard for way too little? There's never been a better time to consider a career in IT.

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