The Nateland Podcast - #54 Psychology - LIVE at Zanies Nashville

Episode Date: July 7, 2021

It's our one year anniversary of the podcast! So in true Nateland fashion, we picked a topic we know nothing about and are unqualified to discuss - Psychology. In front of a live audience at Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville, we discuss Pavlov's dog, stuttering orphans, the 36 questions to make you fall in love immediately, and much, much, more.   Co-hosts: Brian Bates ( https://www.instagram.com/brianbatescomic) & Aaron Weber ( https://www.instagram.com/realaaronweber)   Podcast produced by Nate & Laura Bargatze Recording & Editing by Genovations Media https://www.natebargatze.com https://www.allthingscomedy.com https://www.genovationsmedia.com Email - [e-mail]

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

just, I mean, I'm not surprised they're just gonna give me a shirt to wear. Just wear the shirt. That's enough. Don't even, I think we're losing people. Have any of them

said anything about it? A couple. They, some are like, he's not even announcing. The reading, the way that I was talking about it in the first show, the way they write stuff. I mean, they have to.

So I have trouble with a lot of words. Like I've talked about it. Like when I did my pilot, when I was doing acting, they would have to spell, like when I would say, we'll be right back. Like I say, we'll wrong. So they would spell it W-I-L-L in the script because then I would say, we'll be right back.

I'll say it the way they want me to say it. And I mean, you feel pretty dumb because it's not like they privately do it. Everybody sees it. Everybody looks at the script, they're like, this is spelled wrong. And they're like, don't. They just, they go, don't.

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

Let's go folks Welcome To the live Nateland podcast Thank you for uh everybody at home listening thank you guys for coming out it's unbelievable that you guys come out uh to this uh i'm blown away by it to be honest nate welcome to nateland everybody we uh it is funny when you read ads we have to type it out i mean every word they like it says slash yeah it's not just a slash it says slash because they don't and it says period and they spell out period and they go now stop and that's what it says now stop don't read anymore and that's in all that's in black angry letters stop

quit reading don't read this part. And then happy is like, we can start now again. This is fun. The live podcast, I've loved doing it. We just done one other one, and it went good, I believe. And here's this one. And we started at this one. So I have nothing. I don't know how to get going.

We can start as we always start with the comments from you guys. Comments are from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple, podcast, NateLand, at NateBarguzzi.com. I looked at some of the Reddit stuff. That's got its own world. Yeah, it's fun on there, isn't it? I don't understand Reddit as much. But you're the age.

Is it younger than you that's Reddit? Probably a little older than me, actually. Oh. Yeah. Reddit's for... It's your age, but a different type of guy. Do you know what I mean? It's for me?

I feel like it's a lot of guys your age, but just very little overlap in your life experiences, I feel like. It's like opening the mail, like for Brian. Yeah, that's mine. Brian's age is like, it's a letter that he gets. You can mail comments to Brian as well, and he'll read them. I would love it if you did that. That would be so much easier.

Yeah, just every day, just get a little letter opener, just sit down, blow it, and pull the letter out. I race my mother-in-law to the mailbox every day. She likes it too. Yeah, and I love to get mail. She does too, so we race each other. Getting mail is a pretty fun, it is fun to walk. When you forget at night, and then you're like, oh, I didn't go get the mail.

It's like a little something else to do. You're getting it now. You're married. You're just trying to get out of the house. You're looking for anything. You're like, you know what? I saw a neighbor's trash can out. I'll go roll them up.

You just walk around pulling people's trash cans up the driveway. You're just trying to get out. You just want out of the house. Tyler Trepp. Love the podcast. Listen to every episode. I was wondering, once Nate starts his tour, will the podcast still continue? I hope it does. Love everything

from Nate, Aaron, and Barbados. I like Barbados. Yeah, I mean, I think we're still going to, it's going good. I honestly probably would hope it didn't go as good, and then I could easily back away. No. No, I really enjoy it, and once the tour starts, we will do it. I'll see how crazy it gets.

But we record on Mondays, and we were kind of planning for that to happen. So we will still continue. FC Schultz. I'm new to Nate Land, so I vote let's go, folks, because it feels like I'm on the ground floor of an inside joke. Just change it up every 50 episodes or so. That's what I agree. It's an inside joke.

That's why I like the let's go, folks, because it makes it, it's just us. We're the only ones that get it. No one else gets it Hello folks is I mean go to any Cracker Barrel in America That's how you get introduced and you're gonna feel like an idiot when you go. Ah, you podcast listen, they're like what? That's how I feel anytime I get recognized where I'm like, oh, what's up you you want to get a picture and they're like I don't know who you are I'm sorry I'm sorry so maybe I do want y'all to say it so y'all can feel the same thing that I feel Hunter Lambert land yeah Lambert yeah hello folks happened naturally which is why it became a staple let folks is, is being far too forced. You can't make it happen just because the irony is fun and exclusive to the folks. Sort of like how you can't give yourself a nickname,

nickname. It has to happen organically from others. I get the point, but Hunter is, is an idiot. The hello folks was organic. Let's go. Folks was organic. Let's Go Folks is organic. You created both of those.

Yeah. Yeah, so who, I feel like, I'm just appeasing. Is appeasing the word? Am I appeasing everybody? By letting them think that they can help decide. Yeah, that's, yes, that's exactly the word. I do want everybody to agree that I'm right. So that's, that might take some time.

It's going the other way right now. And I'm, huh? It's going the other direction right now. People are going against it. Yeah. The hello folks. Who, so clap if you like hello folks. All right.

Now clap if you like let's go folks. That's not. Let's go folks. People are more energetic. I guarantee you if Nate leaves the room, it'd be very different. But that's the point. I'm never leaving the room. The podcast would be very different. The podcast would be very different.

The podcast would be very different. A lot fewer people. Yeah. We just would appreciate some folks to listen to this podcast. Let's Go's got the more energy. We could go. You know what? I was thinking, what if you did both?

You said do both, which is, but I thought about that. I mean, rip me for it. Yeah, well, I think it's dumb, but then I came around to it as I thought about it. I thought about it a lot, a little more than I should have. We're still deciding. I still – I hope it just runs forever and we just never make a decision. It's got more people commenting than anything we've ever had. Yeah.

People are coming around, and they're getting it. I mean, I over-explain it, but... I think they're just accepting the fact that it's not going away. So they're like, I guess... Just get on board. We're doing this now. You know, we had people yell, let's go, folks, as they drove away. And that's fun.

That's people going. I know. We're not going anywhere. I know, but it makes it stand out more. I'm saying when someone, that's funny. It's funny every time because we're making fun of the let's go folks. The regular people that use it, I mean, dude, they use it. You see it.

Where was I watching? I mean, I saw a guy catch a foul ball with his hand. And you can't hear him, but you just see him go, let's go. And you're like, this is a problem. These people are just yelling it. They don't know they're yelling it. Was it an impressive catch's go. And you're like, this is a problem. These people are just yelling it. They don't know they're yelling it. Was it an impressive catch? I mean, this sounds like it might be an appropriate situation. You don't ever yell let's go where he's saying it too much.

Okay. And I know I'm trying to say we should say it more. But because we're better than them. And we are making fun of them. Right. And that's the funny part. I don't know. I haven't seen a poll that I like yet,

so I'll let you know when we get to one that I approve. Alexandra Moradians. Sounds like a Star Wars. Moradians. How would you say it? Moradians? Moradians. How would you say it? Moradians? Moradians? I don't know, Moradians.

Moradians. Doesn't that sound like a group that fights? What's that Star Wars show? Mandalorian? Yeah. Seems like a part of that. Like, they're not as good as the Mandalorians, the Moradians, but they're, like, decent.

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

It's no fun. Laura did. At your table, I think everybody got a little gift bag. And that was Laura's doing. Thank you. So she put them all together. You know, there's a lot of them. It's like 500 of them.

I wasn't going to do that. I was like, just hand them out. Just throw them at everybody. Let me walk in. Ed Orizem. Maybe a good compromise would be to keep hello folks as the intro and use let's go folks as the outro. Far be it from me to agree with birthday over Nate on anything,

but I think he may be on to something with the idea of keeping both. Despite Nate's instance. Huh? Insistence. Insistence. That's how you get nowhere in life. But that is how you get nowhere in life that is but that is how you get nowhere in life when you don't yeah all right Rosswood jr the mutant the mutant conversation is the hardest I've laughed in about 15 years

my dogs were barking at me because they thought something was wrong I really hope they put breakfast in the next movie. I'd love that. They might, yeah. Have you worked at all on pronouncing the word? No. I thought about acting. I thought you were going to say acting.

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

I love that. All right. I don't know. I read that sentence and I don't think I got it. Why the lung is smaller to make more room for the heart. Do you remember that part of the podcast last week? No. Brian was explaining that one of your lungs is smaller

because it has to account for where the heart is. Yeah. And you said it's just showing some respect. Oh, yeah. The heart runs things. Oh, so this guy gets it. Yeah. So I'm a big fan of Joe Friedman.

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Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Aaron Brockovich. Aaron Brockovich. Oh, I thought you were talking about John Malkovich. Yeah. That's the one I was thinking of. Yeah, both of them. Aaron looks like a chubby Brad Pitt. Hey, I'll take it. Seriously, if he stays on track with the white thing, he'll be better looking than Pitt because he's so much younger.

Wow. That's very nice. Yeah, because Pitt will eventually die. that's very nice yeah because Pitt will eventually die and so whenever that happens you will then take the reins

but I think you have to wait till five days after his death yeah I was about to say it still wouldn't be immediately I don't think it's not yet it's not immediate death

it's he's been we go it's time to move on it's when his family and friends have moved they go alright we can move on

Brian's mom is it just me or does breakfast carry the show is that your mom i don't think so but somebody changed their handle to that so the brian's mom is me or just breakfast carry the show but i agree with whoever that is yeah Yeah. It makes sense. Yeah. Teague Deal. Right? T-E-A-G-U-E. Yeah. Teague. And last name Deal.

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

You know, that's fun. The first episode of this podcast came out the week before my wife and I had our first child. It's a guy. We watched it while anxiously While waiting anxiously For her to go into labor And it eased so much of our tension My daughter missed one episode But we've watched every episode since altogether

Thanks for making our first year of parenting Even greater And congratulations on one year Thank you very much. This is the one year anniversary. You said that early at the beginning. Made it one year. Did you think it would last

one year, Nate? Because I feel like early on it felt very week to week. Paycheck by paycheck, baby. Way to go. Yeah, I know? Paycheck by paycheck, baby. We go. Yeah, I think one year, I thought. Yeah. I don't know how much longer after that.

But one year, we did it. Yeah. You know? I do enjoy it. And the fact that everybody comes out, and it's very fun. I do enjoy it. I mean, it's very easy on me. We're seeing what...

It's all going to... It's like everything COVID-related. You make so many plans, and then when COVID goes away, you're like, oh, dude, we have another kid and a dog. There's people that have that. They're like, we have another child. Because of COVID, we thought, let's have another one. And then that kid is named Teague and has to walk around.

And you're like, oh, I forgot he's here. You just always forget. It's like Home Alone when he leaves the kid. That's going to be like a lot of people because they had babies during COVID, and they're like, oh, God, yeah, we brought another person into this earth. Jordan McFarlane. Hello, folks. Should be the intro to the podcast, and let's go, folks.

Should be the outro. That way we can cut it out, cut it off before Nate says it. He says cut it off. That's a Southern. I was going to say, yeah. It's a Southern. Yeah. It has to be Southern.

Yeah. Cut it off. All right. Thanks, guys. Adam Webb. This is like your family, Adam Webb. But it's not all the way. No, that's two Bs.

Webb with two Bs. I'm a one B guy. I know, but I feel like y'all would be. We'd have something to talk about. Yeah. People always think you have one B, and they'd be like, yeah. We'd have to correct them. It'd be a quick conversation, but y'all would have a good time.

Nate just finished a wonderful seven-member family vacation in Hilton Head, South Carolina. No, Nate. I just finished. Like Adam just finished it. There's a comma in there. There's a comma. Why are you supposed to? Nate.

Are you sitting? Just finished a wonderful seven. Is that how you're supposed to read the sentence? You got to give it a break? Nate. Just finished a wonderful seven-member family vacation in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Period. Stop.

As you... Imagine all the reading, all those letters back then. They said stop. The telegrams. Telegrams. Yeah. Could they not just, were they so dumb that they couldn't figure out another sentence was going? As you can imagine, let's go, folks.

Worked perfectly for me in many situations. Stop. I can get my point across and laugh on the inside while doing it. Thank you. Someone that gets it. I don't know if y'all even got that sentence. I broke that up so much. Russell Dietrich.

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

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

Let's go. Let's go. Steve Kelly. If anything, every time someone's on a let's go, we should we get a good laugh. Right. Ourselves. Right. I mean, you have to notice it more.

Yeah. Right. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And that's the point. We want to point these people out. Steve Kelly in World War II. This is an old listener. He might read the podcast.

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

hello folks, let's go folks. That's a pretty good, all right, Steve. What's the out if they were just using hello, folks, normally? Well, they don't say it. And then you go, let's go, folks. And I'm like, what are you talking about? And he just kind of backed away. What do you mean? If you say hello, folks, and they don't respond.

No, oh. If you say let's go, folks, back to them. And they just, they were saying hello. I was just saying hi, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's hilarious, though. And that's, I mean, that makes me very happy. To mean you get thrown in just the worst situation.

Like, that's wonderful. And that's the reason we should do it. I'm on board with that. Michael Reynolds. Let's poll, folks. The double take Aaron and Nate gave when Buttafuoco, Buttafuoco? Something's Buttafuoco can't pronounce mutant,

you say mootin', was fantastic. Love the show. It's so great to be able to listen with kids in the car, and the only worry is that the info may not be right. We're not corrupting them. We're just misleading them. That's the worst we're not corrupting them we're just misleading them yeah that's yeah that's the worst we're doing yeah he just made them dumber ethan runnels i work at a paint store in western new york and i was listening to your podcast while stocking shelves in the warehouse some customers came in and when i went out to help them i automatically started speaking with a slight southern accent.

I didn't want to suddenly change it, so I just kept using it. Before they left, other people came in, and long story short, I ended up having to speak like that for almost two straight hours. I guess the podcast has a bigger influence on me than I realized. That's great. Some people, I would always hear servers would do that like you if you wait tables you go like in a british accent be like good day mate i don't know i don't know yeah how far could you keep that going

i couldn't do it i would i don't what is the british what i yeah could you do a British accent? Hello. I'd be a little aggressive. Hello, folks. I knew a guy. Hello, folks. Hello, folks. And they're like, oh, God, where are you from? You're like, I don't even know where to tell you I'm from.

So I know there's a bar here in Nashville. There's a regular there who is, I always knew him as a guy with an Irish accent. I thought he was from Ireland. And everybody found out years later that he is from Tennessee. And he just started using an Irish accent at this bar. And everybody, he dated a girl for years as an Irishman. Wow. Yeah.

And one day everybody just found out. They're like, no, that guy's not from Ireland. He's from here. He was faking it? He was faking it to everybody in his life. No, he just weirdly grew up here and had that accent. Ted Alexander has a great joke about

he loves the World Cup because he learns every four years where his neighbors are really from. Yeah. He just paints them all Mexican and then he finds out he's actually from Argentina. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that is funny. You guys... You guys should hear Ted tell it. When Brian says it, you're like, I don't think we should be saying this, man. Ted does it in a little bit better way. He does. Curtis Van Curen. We all need an update on that guy that seemed to have his pick of the ladies

after commenting about his breakup. I believe his name was Harrison. Is he married to another folk? Is he womanizing? That's two different options. I feel like I'm not the only person wondering. Yeah, Harrison's a folk, so now he needs to write in and tell us who he picked. I don't have the answer.

Can you remind us of the story of what happened with this guy? He wrote in he had just gone through a breakup. Yeah, how the podcast helped him through it, blah, blah, blah. I don't have the answer. Can you remind us of the story of what happened with this guy? He wrote in, he had just gone through a breakup. Yeah, how the podcast helped him through it, blah, blah, blah. Yada, yada, yada. And then the next week, I think two different women wrote in and said they'd love to meet Harrison and get to know him. See what happened. Here's a belt on the podcast.

Don Holio. J-O-L-I-O. Yeah, I think you're right. Joe Leo. I think you hit it right the first time. I listened to 48 episodes of this podcast until I just couldn't anymore. How could our... This is not a good sentence to mess up.

How could our school systems have failed us this badly? And yet we know they did. Nate is a comedic genius, but in terms of education, an absolute moron. No question. Obviously, this comment will not be quoted on the show, but Aaron, I understand your pain. Kind of put it on me there at the end. Aaron, why do you hate me so much? I don't know. He knows you went to private school.

That's why he's saying it. It's a parochial school if we're being technical. Oh, good. Poor boy. Here we go. I didn't go. I didn't go. You and Don Jolio. I didn't go to I didn't go. You and Don Jolio.

I didn't go to the scent of a woman's school. It was like a Catholic school. Notre Dame? It's a little more than that. No, I was talking about before that. Oh. All right. Well, Don, there you go.

We showed him. Yeah. Because we read it. Happy one-year anniversary, Don. I don't know. Is it the school system's fault? Could be. But, I mean, some are just not going to make it through.

Right. I didn't make it through. No child left behind. Yeah. I got left behind. I figured out my own path. To read in public. I'm not even a good poster for that.

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

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

Yeah. Big mistake. Yeah. Right now they're just going, excuse me. They're trying to get out. They're just walking away. Excuse, pardon me. This is not what I thought it was going to be.

Stephanie Himpleman. Is that right? Himpleman? All right. You made me laugh. Hold on. I got going too quick. Slow it down.

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

You made me laugh listening to calendars while I was in labor with our first baby. My husband and I are here at the show tonight as our first date since becoming parents. Make it a good one. I don't want to waste a babysitter. Congratulations. Did the laughing, like... Move it along? Induce it.

Move it along? Induce. Induce. I know what induce is. He's the parent. He knows. No, no, no. Slowed the process down, to be honest.

She's like, ah, calendars. The baby was late. Carol Shoemaker, we are visiting from Virginia and are new to the Nate Land podcast. We are golf fans in our 60s and want to know how many consecutive birdies Nate has had in one round of golf. Also, has he had an albatross? I've never had an albatross.

I have one hole-in-one, but it's on a par-three course, and so I don't count it. Because it was like – because I have a weird – it's all par-threes. It was 122 yards, and it just feels like – it's not in a regular round. So that's why i i but i because i always think if you if you have a hole in one you got to explain it then it doesn't count it's like you gotta be i've had one they're like where is it you're like as in between these condos like it's a real dicey area uh and uh i have my consecutive birdies i

had him not till i closed around with three birdies in a had them not until I closed a round with three birdies in a row, 16, 17, 18. It's pretty exciting. I'm the only one that cared. Me and Carol. So Albatross means hole-in-one? No, that's not. Above an eagle?

Eagle. No, Albatross is next. It's par five. You get there and you hit it in two. I think it's harder than hole-in-. Because you're three yards, you know, you'd be 280 yards, it doesn't matter, with a three-wood. It seems insane. But I don't, you know.

But thank you for coming from Virginia. I would say that for the golf. Carol, if you're new to the podcast, I'm going to start a golf podcast at some point. It's going to air during Aaron Land. An offshoot. Michael Birdwell.

Right there. Wow. He's just a big Michael Birdwell fan. I wish everybody was on board. Yeah, you're here for it. You came to see

Michael Birdwell's comment. You're like, yeah. Conley. Where is he? When you were developing the nateland podcast what alternatives did you not pick for example was there any other podcast names or comedians that were for consideration was it always a three-person format did you intend for the comments to be such a big part of the show or did that just happen naturally good question michael uh i have multiple comics i tried before them too and they're the only ones that worked out no i mean i did talk about i didn't know what i would do with a podcast uh it kind of figures out the comments were pretty on i i wanted to read

comments early i believe uh and so it was one of those when you did read them i thought i bet this could become a big part of the show just because you're doing it but i always wanted it because i feel like when you're talking someone reads it like you know especially because we're talking about whatever we're talking about and we don't know anything and then people listen and they always think that's not right and then you can't you're saying because i have it happen you're like no it's not true and then you you can't ever say that to anybody. So you wanted some outlet so then the audience could be like, y'all are stupid, as I've been told. And so you could get that out.

So I didn't know it'd be – it's become very cool, and I think it's great. But I didn't know. I figured it'd be good. But I didn't know how good. I didn't know we'd be doing them this long. Can I ask Aaron what question you get asked the most about the podcast how do you guys pick topics i get asked that a lot because they seem to come out of nowhere we still don't know yeah we look for a

formula and there's not i would like there to be some i mean again we always just say it's just trying to, something we can talk about so we can make jokes. So the topics don't really matter. They just gotta be like, what can we make the funniest? Yeah. And what can have the most information that can be like,

you know, that's why like presidents was good. Like some of them. I think this one's been good. What's yours. I get asked, how can I be a guest on a podcast? And I say, you've got to be a longtime friend of Nate's or used to work with his sister.

It's got to be one of those two. Yeah, you've got two ways in. Maggie Eason. My husband and I just celebrated our 10-year wedding anniversary a week ago. Congratulations. my husband and I just celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary a week ago congratulations and he gifted me with tickets for us to come to this show I don't know if we're going to have an 11 year

I've listened to every episode at least once and laughed endlessly don't stop doing what you're doing. You're all awesome. Here's to your one year, our 10 years, and many more years as this crazy world will allow us all. Thank you very much. Congratulations, y'all, too. 10 years.

10 years. That's about right when you start going like, all right, if we're going to make it, you got to get off me for a little bit you know 10 years is the marriage point you know up to 10 you're like this is can't believe we're married and then 10 you're like all right you gotta back away for a little bit all right huh you're just at one month one month yeah wow year and a half. A year and a half. Yeah. Ten. How many? What are you?

I don't know. 2006. Yeah, 15. Ours is October. But we've been together since 2001. 20. 20. No, she's here.

If you got, I think you all got stuff at your table. That's all Laura. My wife put all that stuff. It's all her. Her. Chelsea Hanson. What's up? Hey!

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

Y'all drive back tonight? Or are you staying to spend the night? Early in the morning. Early in the delivery. How many hours is that? Y'all drive back tonight? Or you stay and spend the night? Early in the morning. Early in the morning. Get back. How long is the drive? How long is that? Eight or nine hours.

Oh. Oh, man. You guys. How long have y'all been married? Nine months. Nine months. That's when you do stuff like that. You get 10 years, you start flying. You're like, hey, that can't be in

a car that long. Are you crazy? Before we get into topic two, we have some taglines. We've talked to you guys about the best way to describe the show to your friends. As Matt, you brought people and you go like i don't know how to explain it and uh so a couple ways that uh we've asked people and here's a few of them leanne or lena lena lena lena peters it sounds like l-e-n-n-a like this should have been a leanne and then they changed it up at the last minute what What if Lena was like, I should have been Leanne, and then they missed, the guy wrote it wrong, and now her whole life is Lena?

The more ridiculous the topic, the more accurate the information. Yeah. Yeah. Is that true? I mean, I think we nailed Bigfoot. Yeah, we solved Bigfoot. Jordan Brown, a podcast that covers everything where the audience learns nothing and the host can't read anything. That's pretty good.

That is pretty good. Yeah. I mean, if you don't get it from that, then you're like... Caleb clapped for that one. He loved it. He's like right on. Bri Hernandez. clip for that one. He loved it. He was like right on. Bri Hernandez. It's like waiting

in line for a movie and making friends with people waiting too. That's pretty good. But there's no movie when you're there. That's the let's go folks. That's what I like. It's because we're all in it together. It's a special and we're making fun of everybody.

Lindell Chambers, boldly going where no mistake has gone before. That's pretty good. Doug Stonier, Stonier. It's spelled S-T-O-N-I-E-R, Stonier. Yeah. Or what would you say? Stonier? You got it right would you say? Stonier? You hit it right the first time.

Stonier? Stonier? Stonier. I don't know. Like he's stonier than somebody else. He's stoniest. You about done? Yeah.

Three guys from the South without a single foul mouth who make great jokes for a bunch of simple folks. Oh. All right. That's sweet. That is a sweet one. Imagine just saying that to one of your friends. What's the podcast like?

It's three guys from the South without a single foul mouth who make great jokes for a bunch of simple folks. And they're gonna go what are you talking like they are you crazy dude like that's what you're gonna say yeah that took a long time to memorize that paul sheldon an old guy a smart guy and nate that's pretty good. Colin Green, a middle school project submits their rough draft every week.

That's pretty good. All right, we're on the right page. Like that's every week's that. All right, we're getting somewhere. Gregory Dunn, an educational podcast about something and nothing at the same time. That's profound in a way. Yeah.

You like that one. It's philosophy. I know. CJ Montoya, three men and a lot of maybe. That's pretty good. So what is that? Big Montoya fan over here. Yeah, he loved that one. That's a reference to what is it? Three men and a baby. Three men and a baby. Yeah, what is that? Big Montoya fan over here. Yeah, he loved that one.

That's a reference to, what is it? Three Men and a Baby. Three Men and a Baby. Yeah, what is that? It's a movie. I'd heard of it, but what is it? It's exactly what it is. If you're not getting it from the title, I don't think you're going to get it.

What do the three men and a baby do? Do they just kind of hang out? Can you imagine three men with a baby? It's not like it goes great. Oh, it's their baby. Just imagine you wrote a movie and you called it Three Men and a Baby. What would you have them do? It'd probably be a lot of stuff goes wrong.

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

It's exactly what it is. It's a hot tub with the time machine. There's no, when you ask to describe it, Three Men and a Baby. Right, those are the characters, but I'm talking plot-wise, what happens? Well, the baby kills one of them. And that's where it took the turn. I'll have to check that out. Yeah, it's a pretty good movie.

Because you go, there's no way that could happen. And then you go, oh, that's the only thing that could happen. I think we showed a scene from it in our Urban Legends episode because the three men and a baby ghost. Oh, with the ghost and the baby. Well, that wasn't a baby. That was a kid. That was an older kid.

That wasn't the baby. But that was the ghost. That was the ghost. Oh. Yeah. All right. Elliot DeLuca, G-rated chat at a GED level. That's not bad.

At a GED. You go to get your GED and you're like, I'm here for the GED. How about you not worry about it? Save this for last. Lito Cortez, a podcast where the facts are given and questioned at the same time that's true that's true that's good and lastly daniel laplante laplante it's like are you smarter than a fifth grader but without the children all pretty good. All right, today... You want to talk about the one year... Oh, yeah.

So, one year anniversary and... Oh, yeah, and also this Thursday, the Best Of episode. Yes, we have... It's so funny to do a Best Of and everybody's like, I don't even... We're very high on our horse. It's very short. Yeah. It's four minutes.

We took, uh, but I, we, I looked at it. It's great. Just, we had a best of coming out Thursday, uh, the day after the, uh, podcast, which I believe Thursday is the exact one year, July 8th, which is my daughter's birthday. which I believe Thursday is the exact one year, July 8th, which is my daughter's birthday. And then so we did like a best of. So then if you want to introduce someone to be like, hey,

if you want to catch up, I don't know why. They have nothing going on in their life. And you're like, you want to catch up on this. They have a 58-hour drive. Yeah. Then we can do it. So this is. There's some YouTube stats. The most viewed episode.

We've done what, 52 now? Did anybody... Can anybody guess what you think it would be? Would anybody know? Your dad. No, my dad. That's a good guess. It's a good guess.

The wife. It's the wife. Yes. Oh, it could be standard. Is it the wife? It's the wife. The wife. Nate's wife, Laura, 84,000 stand-up. Is it The Wife? It's The Wife. The Wife. Nate's wife, Laura.

84,000 views. Oh. That's, you know, that one is like, you talk about her so much. Stand-up comedy's got to be up there, too, though. Yeah, it's one of the most viewable. Yeah, because all the jokes about her. So then people are like, well, what is this lady's problem? Right. I think they want to figure out what my problem was.

The least viewed, the Christmas episode. Which makes sense. I mean, you're not going to watch that in July. Right. Yeah. We did it in July? No, but I'm just saying. Oh, you're not going to watch it.

Yeah. Right now it's July. Most of these topics are so great, they're universal. Yeah. You could watch philosophy year-round. Yeah. We're the only podcast that would give the least view. Nothing else would do that.

No one else goes like ESPN. They're like, you know our most watched game? And they tell you, they go, you know the least watch? No one does that. You don't promote how bad something's doing. You know what, you know the least one no one does that they you don't promote how bad something's doing you know what you guys which one you should check out the christmas episode well i bet it'll it'll pick up some steam again later this year that's right it dives off once it comes back around yeah check back with us in 10 years

guys it's still consistently for 10 years it's been the least episode we're gonna only do Christmas episodes from here on out that's where we learned about the microscopic gift card

Christmas card that was fun yeah the most liked episode the first one yeah 1800 people were checking it out

the most disliked second the stock market one that's a good guess um the wife actually it comes with the territory you get to the top people will bring you down yeah it's like when something gets so many views then more people see it like yeah outside of that's the hard then more people see it like outside of that's the hard part when people see this outside of like you guys and us and people are

furious like they're so there's a great clip where we were talking about I think it was an aliens episode and Brian says some people think that aliens must have built the pyramids because we'd have trouble rebuilding them now and nate goes a triangle and i took i put that clip on tiktok and it got picked up by like egyptian tiktok and these people are so mad about it they're like these americans

but it like got outside of us and these people have no idea who we are, what we're talking about. They are furious about it. So many comments in Arabic. I don't know what they're saying. They don't seem happy. But it's not good. Arabic, when you look at it, it never looks pleasant when you read it. You never read it and go, that guy's probably pretty cool.

It looks like, all right, man. And he's like, I'm just saying I'm a big fan of the show. And you're like, oh, I'm sorry. I read that so wrong. So if I go to Egypt, I could have protests. You might, dude. I don't know. The most comments from any episode, stand-up comedy episode, 373 comments.

That's just for YouTube. Because I think we asked people to submit. Because that was a two-parter. And we said, submit your stand-up questions episode, 373 comments. That's just for YouTube. Because I think we asked people to submit, because that was a two-parter. Yeah. And we said, submit your stand-up questions for next week. The second most, and I'll assume the first most, was last week's on the human body, because of the hello folks, let's go folks.

Oh, yeah. People are fired up. Oh, that's it? Oh, yeah. There's not a lot of YouTube stuff I can do. It's a year in review, right there. Yeah, right there. And for this topic, I don't know.

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

less we know usually the the better yeah right and this is gonna be right on so i started with googling what is psychology it's a good it's a good google or google google's just like oh boy like the definition of psychology yeah i just thought i'll start there yeah i don't that seems so it's the uh study of the human if you don't know you don't know that's what it says if you don't even if you're starting here i wouldn't start or maybe ask how old you are how old are you and you're if you're like i'm 50 and they're like he's like don't even i wouldn't even do it yeah i had a lie about my age started huh had a lie about my age usually you have to make yourself older i had to make myself younger for it to tell me for it

to tell you yeah 18 it's the uh study of the human mind and its functions especially those affecting behavior and then this article said that comedians are the closest thing to psychologists because psychologists test how people react to certain things in the world and they do experiments and comedians do that every night when they tell new jokes. They get immediate feedback on whether or not audiences like jokes, don't like jokes and why they do. So. Do you ever think of yourself as a psychologist? I do now. whether or not audiences like jokes, don't like jokes, and why they do. Do you ever think of yourself as a psychologist?

I do now. So, hello folks and let's go folks. Is a psychologist person would love it? What do they call themselves? Psychologists. Yeah. Is that like a job that you can just have? Like you're like, I'm a psychologist.

You can be an adjunct psychologist. An adjunct? Probably. That's who you go talk to, right? Psychologists, yeah. You go talk to psychologists. Well, there's a difference between psychology and psychiatry, right? Yep. What's that difference?

One of them can give you medicine. One of them can give you pills. And the other one wastes your time. At the end. So did I get medicine? Now now he's like i don't do that stuff and you're like then why don't you say that on the sign dude the whole reason i'm here is for the medicine it said that some ways comedians are better because they understand people better than psychologists and are often more right than psychologists. All right. That's pretty fun. We're the best at it.

Yeah. And you've talked about how you've noticed, like an experiment would be you've told jokes about your wife and some people thought they've come off as too mean. Yeah. At the very beginning. Uh-huh. Because you could tell that they take it,

they take it that way. Like, so when I first started comedy and I would do all these jokes about my wife they would be like well why are you married and you're like well that's not how

you're supposed to be taking the joke so but I would just tell him I know right ask myself that every morning man and he goes

what's that and I go oh I'm sorry no but you would you're realizing that you're taking you're like, I'm delivering this joke not in the way it should be delivered. And people are taking it the wrong way. Because like I said, you talk about marriage. I talk about the bad stuff of marriage or like the stuff that we get in fights about.

I don't talk about like how great it is or how she came up with all these ideas for these little things. And she went and did all these. Like, yeah, but that's no fun. If I just was up here, I was like, my wife's awesome. You're like, you know, you ever see someone talk about their wife being awesome to you and you're like, I don't trust, I don't believe in that marriage.

You'd just be hanging out with them and it's like, dude, my wife is just so great and you're like, what are you, a loser? You just kind of assume we all got great husbands and wives. I don't want to hear about it. Like, tell me the bad stuff. Right. That is, it's no fun when someone does that.

And then you have to sit there and go, that's great, man. That's, I'm so glad y'all are happy. And you're like, I don't care. But yeah, so I had to figure out how to, because you got to have love in it. That's where, we always talk about The Office, but that's where Michael Scott's character is so good because there was love in that.

You could tell that he loved these people and that was my favorite episode, the painting episode, where he goes to Pam's painting. Business school. The business school. The whole episode's great when he goes to Pam's painting

and he sits there and he's the only one that shows up. Yeah. And that's the sweetest thing I've ever seen on television. Just to be like, it's a guy that's

just doofus that everybody doesn't like but he goes there and is blown away by her painting. Yeah. Which is the sweetest thing ever. That's psychology.

In season one, they... Yeah. In season one yeah in season one they made him he wasn't quite so sweet well because you don't know him probably too then

you don't know the character right so then people take it it was mean and then it was also the way he looked because he was like

they gave him hair they gave him hair he was balding in season one and they're like we gotta make this guy likable yeah and so they gave him hair yeah yeah and he lost a bunch of weight yeah so sorry that's what we're gonna do for season two of naland is you go see i'll just come out the big way Bald Eagle over here is going to show up and be like, boom. Well, do you get that, Brian? Do you get people go, aww?

Do you get that from the crowd during jokes that you don't intend to? Happens to me all the time. When I first started, I got it a lot. Because you're trying. They can tell you're trying. Like, aww. He's up there giving it his all. I don't get it, but he is, we're watching.

What are you watching? The guy trying his hardest is what I'm watching. That's what I'm watching. Yeah, and we can make so many hypothesis, like an experiment, on why it didn't work. The crowd was tired. They just got off work. It's July 4th weekend.

But that's if you don't get the dynamic. This is why comics love, they always talk about comics making fun of each other. And that was a big thing. When I was in New York, it was like there's a comics table at the Comedy Cellar

that if you know comedy, it was like kind of famous because everybody would go there and just rip on each other. And the reason it works because everybody knows it's not real. Everybody knows we're just making fun of each other. Everybody loves everybody, and everybody's happy,

and you can just trash. There's times in stand-up where there's moments where you could be like, hey, could you just say you like me? At the beginning, you would be like, I don't think this person likes you. And you're like, if they weren't making fun of you, that's how you know they wouldn't like you. They would just ignore you and just be like, whatever. But if they start trashing you, that means how you know they wouldn't like you they would just ignore you and just be like whatever but if they start trashing you that means that's like a sign that they like you and comics don't want like all the nonsense of being you know like this the sweet

whatever and being like you did good like it's better to be like you were terrible and i would rather hear that from another comic just to make fun of you then to go like man you were so great and you're're like, all right, dude. Like, quit. It's being weird now. And we don't like weird. Speaking of, go ahead. He loves me.

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

Same show. So that's like a psychological experiment they did. Oh, right. Yeah. Have you ever seen when they go into the sitcoms and they remove the laugh track? And it just turns into like the creepiest show of all time because everyone's just pausing after they say something.

It's just silent. Yeah, you need, I like a laugh track. We need to bring that back. Did I talk about the professional laughers? So the pilot that I shot that went nowhere. It's only survived because I've talked about it on the podcast. And I have some pictures and stuff. But so for us, when we shot it, for us to get used to the rhythm of the jokes because you would

write all these jokes and i mean as a comic you know like all right that's funny and you know that people will laugh but it's not like you're always like dying laughing in a writer's room you just write something you go that's that's very funny and that's literally how you respond to most jokes you go that's really good and then you don't laugh i mean it's it's very stone cold face that's one of the best jokes I've ever heard in my life. And your reaction, you're like, all right, can you laugh? And you're like, I'll never laugh at it. But that's maybe the funniest thing I've ever heard.

So for us to get you when we were rehearsing, we couldn't bring a live audience in. So they hired guys that are professional laughers and so you bring in like eight guys or women uh guys and women and they sit spread out i'm not trying to say one's better women are terrible at this no there goes again women and one of the least fun group of people and so no it was women are great laughers and they so they would spread them out and they could laugh on command and so they and they laugh loud and they laugh at everything so they would laugh at where the jokes were and so then you knew like you could kind of get used to like you could have a pause of silence because the person would because those eight people would laugh

it was pretty unbelievable like that's those people's job is just to be like oh I need a Like, you could have a pause of silence because the person would, because those eight people would laugh. It was pretty unbelievable. Like, that's those people's job is just to be like, oh, I need a laugher. And they're like, yeah, that's what I do. And they could go sit and they laugh at the spots. That's the odd jobs episode. Yeah. Well, do you start to not trust laughs after that? That would get in my head, I feel like.

I mean, you're right in a show. I don't think, no, it's not like uh i mean i'm just thinking fake laugh but i mean you know they're laughing where the jokes are at i mean you're not you're really using it for like timing yeah uh just so you can because otherwise you're going to speed through everything like my special when i couldn't hear them laugh and i did 60 minutes of material in 43 minutes because all the energy is taken out and so you just start flying and you're like trying to you know once it gets silent you're like i gotta go again. And so you just start flying, and you're like trying to, you know, once it gets silent, you're like, I've got to go again.

And so this just helps you kind of pace that out. They did a psychological study on comedy clubs and what makes the best comedy club. Low ceilings because the laughter stays on. Everybody looks up immediately. All right. Crabbing people in. Don't have that here.

Go ahead. No, these are low. These would be considered low. It's low. Yeah, well, if you're in the balcony, it's super low. And uncomfortable. The taller you are, the lower it is. I mean, that's psychology right there.

And uncomfortable seats. They found if people were in comfortable seats, they relax too much and don't laugh as much. Well, they jam you in. So if you ever go to Comic-Con, as you can see now, everybody gets very close. This is the best setting for you and for us. You will have more fun close.

That's like when you do a show. If there was 50 people here and we had you spread out, it would be a nightmare. But if we got eight, didn't we say this? Did I say that? got eight then we say this did I say we talked about yeah you've eight people together yeah it's better it's way and that's why you try to get everybody to oh this is bogo the bogo show it'd be right for the show starts alright obviously everybody's alone yeah it's buy one get one free tickets for Brian's show and but everybody they can't it's all people that can't find a person to bring with them,

so they have to come alone. And then before we get started, Brian has to go, can everybody scoot up and let's all sit together? Move up, move up. But in general, the more uncomfortable you are, the better it is. Letterman, it was always like 55 degrees or something like that. I'm making that temperature up. It was very

cold very cold it was very and people would be freezing because that's better that's what makes you laugh so some famous psychological experiments they did a study on conformity and how people will just go along with the pack and then watch this dude in lines yeah watch lines i've noticed this morning go to like Starbucks. My joke about Starbucks was built off this. Just watch people just go get near people. Yeah. Is that what this is about?

Well, they were observing lines. Yeah. But it's about people just getting near people? No. Oh. But it's the same principle, maybe. They would look at a chart and say, which one of these lines is the same length as that line? And if you asked these people alone,

the majority of the time they would get it right. But if you put them in a group, they would place actors who would purposely give the wrong answer. Yeah. And then those other people who had it wrong before, they would also say it was the wrong answer. And then those other people who have had it wrong before, they would also say it was the wrong answer just because they thought, well, if that guy says it's that,

he must be right. People would just go along with the pack even though it's not their best interest. It would depend on what they look like. If they look smart,

I'd just agree with them. So basically you'd follow like you can watch people uh just like watch a line and you can see you can just see people just get in people get into lines that don't won't know what the line is for and you can you can usually just notice it you can notice it with uh i mean traffic can be that way where like people just get it you're like people are just stopped and no one knows why they're stopped and there's you can just watch people you can cut like cutting people off in traffic is easier than it's ever been in the history of driving because people are on their phones and so once they're on their phone then

they're like well i'm gonna get on my phone and then just a train reaction if everybody's on their phone and you just drive in front of those people and they're still sitting on the highway right now they don't know what's going on go to start if you go to starbucks look just look at the line and just watch people just scoot up i will sometimes you can stop like stop and then let people go and then just like keep moving up and just watch the person behind you they just do whatever you do yeah like they're not even looking at the grant like if you just go just look at the Starbucks, and we could probably fix it. I don't know what I'm really saying here.

But y'all are going along with this, you know. Yeah, that's a good example. We're all just like, ah. And I would argue on that poll that you did about, hello, folks, let's go, folks. Whoever the second answer is, I feel like audiences always cheer more. I feel like they get going, and then for whatever reason,

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

Yeah. Well, they're telling us. Something, all right. So how we value beauty. They did a test, and they put one of the world's best violinists, who people had paid hundreds of dollars just to see him perform, and they put him on a Washington, D.C. subway station as a homeless person. He was playing a $3.5 million violin, and no one would stop to listen.

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

because no one's down in the subway just loitering around. You don't go down there and hang out and be like, maybe I want to hear some good music today at the New York subway. We're getting thrown in the tracks. And you're like, I'm taking in the sights

to be like, oh yeah. They don't have time. If you walk by a guy peeing on a wall and then you see a violin, you're not going to be like, oh, but he was beautiful actually like that was

if it wasn't for the people using the restroom around me I would have stayed and enjoyed it more and then they go see this is an experiment that's a

that's a horrible place to try it because you're trained to not want to hang out yeah it's not a ride yeah it's it's you go down there then you're like we got want to hang out. It's not a ride. Yeah.

You go down there, and then you're like, we've got to get out of here. But you go see it. You don't go just enjoy it. I don't think it's a fair place to. I agree with that. Yeah. Every research lab needs a Nate in their office. Yeah. And they just run every idea by him, and you tell them right away why that's stupid.

Well, that's stupid. Yeah. Well, you're stupid. Yeah. Well, you're stupid. Yeah. Do you think you could tell the difference between just an amateur violinist and the best violinist in the world right now there? No. No, I have a theory with that with dancing is that I don't think anybody knows what's

good or bad. And the greatest dancer and the worst dancer is like, if you just told me that guy was, if you showed me the worst dancer and told me he's like, if you just told me that guy was, if you showed me the worst dancer and told me he's great, I would be like, okay. Like, it would be, you know, it's like robot. Like, unless someone does the robot, you're like, all right, I get that.

I get the robot. But the rest of it, you're like, you're just moving around a lot. Like, it's embarrassing. I agree. You take music out of dancing, it's one of the most embarrassing things you could ever witness. Just silent dancing. Just silent dancing.

You're like, this is uncomfortable, and we shouldn't be around. And you're asked to leave. They should do an experiment with that. Just have someone dance. The Jabberwockies, isn't that what they're called? Send them down. That's like the first time when you saw when people started wearing headphones and they started just talking and like and you're like who is this person and it was not normal do

y'all remember like when first bluetooth was like kind of becoming a thing and then people just start talking you're like i don't know this guy's crazy i remember going to san francisco and uh they have a pretty crazy homeless thing going on over there and I feel like I'm trying not to say anything bad and I just say the worst like make it real worse but you're walking around you're like I don't know who what's happening there was a guy walking and he had headphones in he had a suit on and I'm like all right so i follow him because he was like i'm like just trying to be with someone that's normal conforming that guy wasn't on the phone at all like he just kept making the same lap and i was like oh that guy's crazy like i he had a suit on and those headphones are just he

found him on the ground he doesn't have phone. He's just talking to his head. And I followed that guy for quite a while. Because I was just trying to find some, like, you know, normal person. Yeah. I thought he was a great violinist. The false consensus effect is when we overestimate how much everyone else agrees with us because we only surround ourselves with people. This happens really a ton now with social media and TV news. We think everyone agrees with us because we surround ourselves with only people who agree with us.

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

Yeah. Yeah. Is that the answer? That's what they did? They did all that just to go, yeah, you should hang out with people that don't think like you. They just said this has gotten much worse over the last few years because we all just. What is this, a regular – They give no solutions. They're just like, yeah, it's getting bad out there.

I mean, that's the dumbest. That guy went to college for that. And that's one of his things. He goes, you know, go outside. It's hot. It's going to be hot. If the sun's out, it's going to be probably hotter than if it's not. And you're like, yeah, yeah man is that what you went to

school for dude like that's that's that yeah because everybody just hangs out with people that agree with them okay all right yeah it's getting it's getting worse now you're like okay and i'm paying you're like i gotta pay and you don't give me medicine dude like you don't you hear all that do i get at least medicine at the end of this and he goes no I don't do that. I go what? What are we doing here? In a series of experiments Research found that those who thought about a backup plan did worse than those had not thought about a plan B

With those who realize they have options that are motivation succeed the first time dropped So researchers said you're more successful if you don't have a backup plan. That's like the let's go and hello folks debate. There's no backup plan. We're going to die with one of these things. But I think you would, I mean, you moved to New York with that mindset, right? I didn't go to college to make sure I don't have a plan B. Like I, there was, I had no options, but for this to either work out or just it all or live, I mean, just, I would have done nothing. I don't know what I would have done.

Wouldn't you say that's true though for guys who didn't make it maybe? Yeah, they didn't try it. They don't give it their all. Absolutely. I think a lot of people, if you don't, if you think you want to, that's like when so many people think they want to do comedy and they think, oh, I think I could do it. We just had this conversation about this with a guy about golf, of course.

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

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

but it's because they didn't really try, well, then they didn't make it. That's just making that person feel, you know, if you're trying to be nice and polite, that's all that is, is being like, I'm just trying to be polite. You didn't make it because you didn't want to try. Well, that's part of it. Right. The talent is everybody.

Everybody can have the crazy talent, but if you don't have the willing to, like, throw everything away and be like, this might not work out, then you didn't take the chance. And so you don't get to say – you don't get – which is mean, but you don't get to say – you don't get to go, I could have done it if I would have just tried. Well, you didn't try. So you didn't. So here we are.

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

That's why. I bet his music was garbage. Well, music is the most because everybody thinks they can be in a band. Yeah. And I bet he wasn't. And like so, look, that's not nice. I understand the idea. I get the idea of it not being nice.

But I think the person gets to hide behind, well, I want to focus. I can take stuff very slighted. Like when I had someone tell me they were, they were doing one thing and they, uh, in the, in show business and they didn't want to travel on the road so much. So they got out of it and they go, I just didn't want to be a, you know, a dad that's always gone. And I take it as like, well, you're throwing that on me, man. You didn't make it. You didn't make it. So don't give an excuse and make me feel like I'm a loser dad that I travel. You would travel if you could make it, but you didn't make it. So then you get to protect yourself by going, I don't want to be

like you and possibly be gone all the time, which is a very mean, I think I take, that's a very mean thing to say to me instead of just that guy going like, I didn't have what it took. So I had to, you know, I didn't get to make it. So I went and tried this other thing and that's fine, I didn't get to make it, so I went and tried this other thing. And that's fine. But no one's going to admit I'm a loser. No, I don't know. It's hard.

I make sure they know before they walk away from me. I go, so you're a loser. And then it gets uncomfortable. Yeah. The Stanford Prison Experiment was a famous psychological experiment. Stanford has a prison? Well, they did for this experiment. They had a prison? No.

Well, they created one. Oh. They created one to see how quickly we embrace roles. Can you imagine you get to that jail and you're like, so it's at Stanford? Is Tiger here? Yeah. You get a meet like, so it's at Stanford? Is Tiger here? Yeah. You get a meet? Yeah, it's at Stanford Prison.

So they assigned half the students to be, there's a research group, to be guards and the other half to be prisoners. So for two weeks, they had to do these roles like legit. And after six days, they had to cancel this experiment because things were getting so out of hand. And after six days, they had to cancel this experiment because things were getting so out of hand. People embraced their roles so quickly that the guards were torturing the prisoners. And the prisoners were accepting it. They'd both just taken on their role as what they were. And it just shows how quickly power can go to your head or lack of power can.

They had to stop the whole thing, shut it down. Yeah, once the torture started, maybe stop it. After six days. After six days. They're taking it too serious. I'd say that, yeah. How would they figure out, but that's not real life experience. This is the problem.

It's all these college-educated folk. You can't, y'all go, no, no, we're going to do it in a safe scenario. Like there's guys that are really in prison. Yeah. And then you have the audacity to go, I did that one time. Like that's, I did it. I went to prison. You can't go to a real prison and then be like, all right, for six days,

you guys are all going to be the guards. And then the guards, you know, there's no other way to simulate this. Yeah, I think we have a pretty good idea of what's going on there. So what are they trying to figure out? Yeah, the prisoners are a little more upset than the guards. And the guards take advantage of their power. You're like, okay, that's a prison. We see that happen in real time. And then Stanford goes, well, we're going to do it.

We should reenact it. And you go, you loser. People pay for that. Can you imagine if you send your kid and it costs 100 grand a day to go to Stanford? To get tortured. And you go, why are your both eyes black? Oh, I was a prisoner

and we were doing an experiment that prison's not good. That's crazy, dude. What is happening? This is why I didn't go to college, you know? Go to community college. This is just life. There it goes. The teachers have too much power. They is just life. There it goes. The teachers have too much power.

They're hitting you when you walk in. The age groups are wildly different. 17-year-old to like an 80-year-old in the same class. You weren't ready? You weren't ready? Huh? No. It's supposed to show how, if you look throughout history at some of the people who did mean things to others and say, I would never do that.

They were saying, if you ever got in that power position, you don't know what you would do. Right. It might go to your head. Right. I think there's guards that are probably pretty nice. I would hope so. I hope so. Yeah. That's what. I would hope so. I hope so. Yeah.

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

I don't know if I told it. It was with Bill Burr. It was, I was and we were in New York and we, me, Bill Burr I think everybody knows in the comic Joe DeRosa I started with. I remember we were sitting at the bar and this, and Burr was like

getting pretty known then where everybody was kind of recognizing him and someone came to him and said, the bartender goes, oh, my brother's like a huge fan of you. And he's like, oh, I appreciate it. And that was all he said. He didn't really react to it.

And I remember she goes, all right, I'm sorry. Like, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bother you or something. And he wasn't taking it bad. He was like, I just don't know how to handle, like you're saying something very nice and you're like, oh, I appreciate it. He's like, I don't know what you want me to do he's like i would have rather you just tell me your brother hates me we would have more of a conversation with that and but it's a weird balance because you obviously don't want to walk around just have people being like i hate you and

you gotta i gotta you gotta go talk to him what's going on over here but But on the flip side... Found Brian's mom out there. Thanks, Mom. As comics, we often tend to notice the one person in the audience not laughing as opposed to everyone else. That's a weird... I remember Comedy.TV.

I don't know if anybody's ever... Has anybody ever seen comedy.tv? That's crazy. That's so funny. That's my mom. You're busy to do TV. There's a couple TV things I've done where I'm like,

I don't know if a human being has seen this. I've seen it multiple times. And you're on television and nobody, it does not help at all. You go have a fun night and then no one sees it so comedy.tv was uh byron allen they did this comics unleashed was also another thing it comes on on abc at like two in the morning byron allen by the way is a billionaire this dude's figured everything out

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

show they did nine shows in a row and so with the same audience and so the audience would be paid to come none of us were nobody was known so the audience would be paid to come. None of us were. Nobody was known. So the audience, they pay them all to come. And so they have to watch nine comedy shows. I mean, it's six hours or something that they're sitting there. But we're one of the last shows. So by the time we're there, I mean, people are not laughing. They're not laughing.

They're laughing at the wrong parts. They're not listening. They're just truly like, what do you want me to do? Ha, ha, ha. And I remember just looking at this one guy, and his face was of disgust. And he had really big hair, and he just sat there and just didn't have any reaction, but just stared at you. And I remember just looking at him the whole time.

And it was almost like it was just me and him in a room. And there's 1,000 people in there, and you're just looking at him the whole time and i was like it was it was almost like it was just me and him in a room and there's a thousand people in there and you're just looking at this guy who's furious and then everybody else is just laughing if you find it you go look up in that comedy dot it's they laugh at wrong parts it's it's just it was like just get through the set and then just be done like you're the reaction is not real but you got a standing ovation right they gave everybody a standing ovation like they they you stood up when you walked out they stood up when you left they stood up i mean that was just they told these people they go stand up and they stood up it would be like this where they're just telling you what to do it was like the stanford prison uh cognitive dissonance is when, I can't really explain that, but they did a test and they made subjects do a very boring task.

And they said, we'll pay you to tell other people it's really interesting and get them to come do it. And we'll give you, they told some people we'll give you a dollar. it's really interesting and get them to come do it and we'll give you they told some people give you a dollar they told some people give you twenty dollars to convince people that this is really fun come and do it so then they quit even though they're lying they quiz the people afterwards why you did it the people who got twenty dollars sick because you gave me twenty dollars so it was worth it yeah people got a dollar he convinced themselves that this was fun because a dollar is not worth lying but yeah in their head they had to convince themselves because they're

embarrassed yeah yes and they're trying to convince themselves like I don't know it's kind of fun so yeah why not so it's it just shows the difference in our demeanor as far as yeah money is involved I don't know what are they doing what was the boring task they don't know. What are they doing? What was the boring task? They don't even say? The fact that you just got asked, a guy asked you for money off the street to go do something,

you'd be like, I did it because I wanted to see how this was going to play out. It just keeps going. Like, he just gave me a dollar. Like, I don't know. I got a dollar. Yeah, what's the point?

I mean, what do they get out of it? What do they, then they go, and that's why something. Like, what's, I don't understand the... I don't know, they looked at how people will convince themselves of something that's not true, just to justify in their head, to their brain that it was a good reason for lying.

Yeah. I guess I've done that. I've lied about something and convinced myself it was in the best interest for everyone involved. I know. Starting this podcast. Right before I walk through that door, every day I go, this is a good idea. I sit alone. Whoa.

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

if someone in authority told you to do this. And people went to the point where they'd shock enough to kill a person. And they just did it. They're not being shocked. They're not being shocked, but the people don't know that. They're following authority. This was done

after World War II, after the Holocaust, to show how the Nazis... Probably pick a better time to do it. Maybe let that breathe a little bit before you start. Before just already jamming them in there. You're like, hey, let's try it once they get out. Do you mind coming over here? We're going to do a little experiment. You're like, can I have some time?

It wasn't on them. Huh? It wasn't on the people in the Holocaust. I don't know. I just, even right after. I mean, I'm just saying. They didn't walk out. Oh!

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

are innocent of their crimes. What about these people that do all this? That make people try these things? Like the psychologists. These people, why don't they do something on them? They're the ones that are ruined. Like, who are they to go like, I These people, why don't they do something on them? They're the ones that are ruined. Like, who are they to go, like, I watch people.

They have no emotion towards people. And they're just wasting people's times. They're hurting people. They watch it, and then they write and go, huh, isn't that interesting? Like, it's all stuff that's like, yeah, I think we could have figured that. I think if you just talk to a person about it,

y'all could have come to the conclusion without wasting a whole day of a person. Yeah, the takeaway for me is if you sign up to participate in a psychological study, what's happening is not actually what's happening. They're messing with you in some way. That's how all these turn out. Yeah, that's like the twist. It's the same twist at the end.

They're actually, we were watching you do something else. You know, it's just dishonest. Oh, they did some really, really bad things, especially to children. Oh, I know who can't wait to read it. The bearer of bad news. I've been waiting for this. I don't even know which one to go with first. They're all so good. Let's do the one with orphans. They took 22 orphans.

Some had stuttering problems. Some didn't. Some were fine. But they split them up. And one group gave them positive, encouraging feedback. And they improved in their life. The other group, whether they studied them up, and one group gave them positive, encouraging feedback, and they improved in their life. The other group, whether they studied or not, they told them, they disparaged them, they said they had speech issues, they really put them down.

And those people, the rest of their life, Aaron. Who signs up to do this? They don't have a choice. They're orphan kids. No, they're orphan kids. No, not the orphans. Who signs up? do this? They don't have a choice. They're orphaned kids. No, they're orphaned kids. No, not the orphans. Who signs up? Can I berate the ones that can't read?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think I'd be real good at that. Well, no one's apparently watching these psychologists. No. They can do whatever they want. No. It was a six-month study, and the children grew up.

Six months? Yeah. It takes a while to really set it in. In 2007, a half a dozen of the former students got a payout from the state of Iowa for what they'd endured because of lifelong psychological and emotional scars.

This was a state-funded experiment? It was the University of Iowa. University of Iowa. That's a main college. You know, you hope it's something you never heard of. What is Iowa? It's in Iowa.

What's their, I know, what's their? Hawkeyes? Hawkeyes. Yeah. The Hawkeyes were doing this to children. Yeah. 1939. In 1939.

Yeah. That's crazy. they yeah and they were wanted to see how they would go out in life it just showed how verbal yeah people verbally berated just ruined these half the kids life yeah yeah what was the stuttering thing was that just you being mean about like i don't them stuttering what was the point of that i think they had to have a few kids that really stuttered so the other kids didn't catch on that something's up so they put a few good kids and a few bad kids together told them they were all bad so they're they're trying to so i don't understand what's the point of them stuttering i think they were just some ringers they threw in there. But one reason, the ones who got positive feedback, they improved on their stuttering.

Oh, so this is all stuttering people. And so they're trying to see. Now, there were some stutterers. In both groups, there were some stuttering kids and some kids who spoke perfectly fine. And in the group that got positive feedback, the kids who spoke fine continued to speak fine. And the stutterers improved because they got encouragement.

Yeah. And the other group, everybody went bad. Everybody started stuttering. Yeah. Yeah. So one kid was like, I didn't ever even stutter. And now I stutter. Yeah.

I know, but so the whole experiment is just for the stutterers? I think it's just to show how long-term effects on kids. So I mean, like like but the regular kids i mean that are just like so y'all did what is this they're like what is this study for you like it's about stuttering and again why was i in it then i didn't stutter and then he goes oh i know we wanted to bring some of y'all into you know yeah well i think if you had all stutterers and you say you're terrible and they continue to stutter like well what does that prove yeah but they had to throw some so you're trying to make some of the kids stutter yeah

that's crazy and what do we get out of this shows the long-term effects of people's verbal what they say to you i guess well i feel like it comes out so they, yeah, if you yell at a kid for a long time, it doesn't go well. It's that sentence is what they ruin these kids' lives just for a guy goes, so we learned it's not a good thing to yell at these kids for a long time. And they go, yeah, anything else? Like, does anybody get superpowers or anything? Like, is there anything worth? I mean, how stupid were they in 1939 that they didn't figure out right hey if you

yell at kids for a long time it's not good i'll do one more these people should be in prison the stanford right are they in prison stanford prison well it's 1939 so they're probably dead but they they're not looked on very well now. So we'll do one more. This was recently. In 1997, a psychologist did a study on how quickly someone could fall in love, and he came up with a set of 36 questions that if you ask each other across a table and then stare at each other's eyes for four straight minutes, you will fall in love.

So Brian and Nate are going to do that now. Yeah. This could be our new Krispy Kreme challenge. I mean, phew. And it worked. Yeah. They did it, and these two people fell in love with each other and got married, and then people have done it years later, and it's worked.

It's also helped marriages that were falling apart. What are the questions? Are they weird? I'm scared to ask them. Don't look at me. Okay. This is like the first online dating. I guess. Like, how'd y'all meet? Oh, I asked these 36 questions.

Stared at each other. Just stared at each other for four minutes. I mean, they're just intimate questions. And we realized we're both the only two stupid ones to ever do something like this. And that's when we realized we were meant for each other. I mean, here's... How do you feel about your relationship with your mother?

When did you last cry in front of another person? Oh, God. Are these for her? They go back and forth asking each other. It's supposed to last 90 minutes, and then you stare at each other's eyes for four minutes. The guys kept looking down some.

Yeah. But it works, apparently. Huh? Let me see some of these other questions. That's all 36. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest oh that's fun oh god he's like jesus everybody just says that and if you don't say jesus you're the worst well why would you not everyone say shack yeah i would like yours would be very reasonable

it'd be like it's you. Would you say the other person? I did a focus group for a toy company when I was like seven. And I remember they were disappointed with all my answers. Yeah. Because they had all these other kids in there. And they were like, what's the most important thing in the world to you? And I was like, God.

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

ear and he tells you what he's saying. You go, what did you say? And God goes, he asked just to pass the bread to be honest. It's a very normal, and he goes, hey, can you break that? He goes, are you guys going to

share this or is this more of a family style place or it's just asking, Jesus is just asking very basic questions. Like just, you know,

you think it's going to be this big conversation, but some of it is like, you know, like how long should be this big conversation but some of it is like you know like how long should i be here is that water we'll see once before making a telephone call do you ever rehearse what you're going to say oh yeah and then then it says why yeah i mean i think i think you should know that you're gonna have to explain that yeah like if someone do you ever rehearse what you should know that you're going to have to explain that.

Like if someone, do you ever rehearse what you're going to say? You go, yeah, absolutely. All right, that's good enough. Instead of why, it should be, what's wrong with you? That would be a thing. So what's wrong with you? You rehearse what you're going to say? Sometimes.

That Planet Fitness call, I thought about that ahead of time. Yeah. For sure. Because you want to get to thought about that ahead of time. Yeah. For sure. Because you want to get to it quickly. You don't want to... I do the drive-thru line. I take pride in how efficient my order is. I order for the whole table. Not the table, the car.

There's a table in my car. That's how often I'm going. You got a van. There actually might be a table in the van. Yeah, I've seen vans with tables in it. But I like to get it where I go, I order it, order it, and that's it. And they go, okay, your total is this. No follow-ups, no other questions.

That's the best. Thank you, guys. And you're good. I rehearse that. I never like it when they kind of keep cutting you off and they go, all right, is that it? You go, yo, man, I got a big car. So I need you to buckle up.

I'll let you know when we're done. Like you can feel like they're trying to be like, all right, is that it? You'll be like, we have a number one, no onions, is that it? No? No? Number five, is that it? You'd be like, we have a number one, no onions, is that it? No? No? Number five, is that it? It's not going to be it for a while.

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

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

Can I ask if anyone's done this? Yeah, because you should be on the news if you've somehow retained the minor body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life. Yeah, we'd definitely like you to come on stage because you've got a Benjamin Buttons thing. You're saying has anybody done this thing?

Yeah, because couples do it. Has anybody done this? Probably not going to admit to it now. Would you leave your wife if she asked Has anybody done this? Probably not going to admit to it now, but... Would you leave your wife if she asked you to do this? That should be the number one question. Before we get started, if we ask a serious

question, do you think you're going to leave this relationship? You're like, I absolutely am. You're like, alright. We only needed one question. Staring into each other's eyes for four minutes. I don't know what's worse staring or the questions the staring other questions and after you know yeah makes make three true we statements eat make all right make three true quote we, we statements each. For instance, we are both in this room feeling.

Oh. So you've got to say that. This is getting near the end, so now they're wanting you to feel like you're already a couple. Oh, like so we are both, we have both wasted most of our day doing that. And now you go. And she's like, we have both loved this and then i would say we are not probably going to ever see each other after this

we are not on the same page we are already not on the same page and we should leave now i don't think there's any reason for us to do any more of these questions. And then she goes, but we might fall in love if we ride this out. We are probably never going to fall in love. And I knew this from before we started the questions. I can't believe we've made it this far. So Dr. Gil Greengross wrote an article for Psychology Today about the intelligence of comedians. And so the average IQ score is 100.

70 and below is manually challenged. 130 above is top 2%. You can get Mensa. So you want to be 100? Well, 100 is average. You want to be higher than that. What's wrong with being average? That's the average. I mean, no one no one's you know you're doing pretty good uh i mean i needed to know that bottom do they what's the bottom you just don't

want to be i would be nervous to take a you'd be hanging around 70 yeah they would i would i would i would be pretty nervous you're gonna come out like i'm praying like when we all walk out the room they're gonna pull me to another door hey could we you right there could you come out this other door and I'm like what's over this door they're like just blocks and stuff like in there they go I don't we're gonna walk you out I don't we looked at your score and we don't know if you're gonna know how to get out of this they sampled 55 male comedians and they range from 115 to 160 with the average of 138. The average IQ of a comedian is 138?

Male comedians. Male comedians. And they did. They couldn't find enough female comedians? They found 14 female comedians, and they ranged from 112 to 144 with an average of 126. So they're also way above average. Yeah.

When did they do this? I think it was a long time ago. How would they find 55 comedians a long time ago? This is all these people that say they're comedians and they're not? I'm not saying it was like in 1800s, but I think it was not last year. I think it was...

I think I would know at least one of these comedians that go, no, I did this test. I remember... Right now, if you told me you asked 55 comedians, I would know one of them. Probably would. I would know at least one of these comedians that go, no, I did this test. I remember. Right now, if you told me you asked 55 comedians, I would know one of them. Probably would. I think it was probably like in the 80s or something. Okay. You sound mad that you weren't called about this.

I don't have a list of them. When do you go get your IQ? You just do it whenever? Why do people even do it? You can go take one now like you're in a smart world and then they're like you got to do an iq before you come in this world and learn about all the join minsa right nonsense huh but you have to you join you join it to join minsa you have to apply to join minsa and then you have to proof of your iq why are you in MENSA? Just to say you're a genius. Oh.

I mean, that'd be fun to say. Yeah. Obnoxious. I mean, that person's got to say it just the whole time. You know, I'm in MENSA. He just tries to get it in every conversation. Where are you going? My MENSA class.

What are you? Oh, the store. I thought, I'm in MENSA. Is it MENSA? Is that how you say it? it yeah M-E-N-S-A yeah they did a psychological test on uh timing of jokes and when jokes are the funniest and when they're too soon yeah they did it in a tweet version so this was at Texas A&M University and they uh 1,064 participants online for this. So a tweet. So this was, the tweet was from Hurricane Sandy.

They created a Hurricane Sandy tweet, account, and the tweet was, just blew the roof off of this olive garden, free breadsticks for everyone. So that's the tweet. That's the joke. This was a university made this account? I think so. Or at least this is the tweet, the account and the tweet they That's the joke. This was a university made this account? I think so. Or at least this is the tweet, the account and the tweet they used for this study. Okay.

1064 participants. Before Hurricane Sandy hit, people were loving it. They thought it was very funny. Then after it hit and did much more tragedy than they expected, it went down. It was least funny 15 days after hurricane sandy hit landfall but then it started slowly building again and it was at its highest point of humor 36 days after landfall imagine they put all their efforts towards helping with hurricane stuff instead of just can you imagine during it what are you working on during this hurricane? When is it right to do a joke or not?

You're like, why? Like, can't you just fill it out? All these answers are just stuff that you could guess. I know. Psychologists, their biggest trick is making you, how do any of these people make money? Yeah. They got to come up with just studies. So then it went back down again after 99 days.

So the study showed that. They kept it going for 99 days. He goes, is that joke still funny? I go, what joke? Oh, yeah. Are they just reposting the same joke every day to see how it does? That's a good question. Yeah.

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

I had a joke about it. I had a Hurricane Sandy joke. No, the day I moved from California to California was the day Hurricane Sandy hit. And we were supposed to be leaving the next day, but it was like, hey, this is coming. It's getting really bad. And so I had to drive our car across the country. So my wife's dad came up and stayed with her.

Harper was, I think, four months old or five months old. So I leave because I had to. But it's funny, in a hurricane, they tell you don't protect babies and old people. And I left my wife with both of those things. And I just drove away. And they got stuck and they had to go stay at a hotel by Grand Central.

And everything lost power except up to their street. And then they had to stay in that hotel for two days until they got home. Because we thought they could get out. They went to the airport and they couldn't get out. And so, yeah. So what do you think laura would found that tweet funny uh i mean i i said that joke to her pretty on the drive out oh your joke i said my joke i was trying it early um probably the most famous i guess, psychological experiment was Pavlov's dog. You guys heard of this?

Yeah, I don't know what it means. The guy's name's Pavlov? Pavlov, yep. Huh? Pavlov. Pavlov. Yep. Pavlov.

I'm just calling the guy that. Every time he comes over, who's coming over? Pavlov. You're like, what? Pavvy. Every time someone says, who's coming over? Pavlov. Pav're like, what? Pavvy. Every time someone says, who's coming over? Pavlov. You're like, no, I said who, not what.

And he's like, no, his name is Pavlov. You're like, oh. Pavlov's not. Can we call him Pav or something? And he goes, no, he makes you call him the whole thing. The whole thing. Is it a guy or is it a man or a woman? You're like, I don't even, I can never tell.

It's Pavlov. It's Pavlov. It's just, it's Pavlov is Pavlov. Brings his dog with him. Brings his dog. So he learned how an outside stimulus can lead to an involuntary response. So he noticed that his dog started salivating for food even when he just heard a,

everyone says it's a dinner bell. Actually, it wasn't a bell. It was other stimulus. But he used to ring this. A lot of people talk and argue about this regularly. This is a dinner bell. Actually, it wasn't a bell. It was other stimulus. But he used to ring this. A lot of people talk and argue about this regularly. This is a very famous. You probably hear all the time on the street. Everybody's going, that dinner bell.

And that's so wrong. It's people don't know. I think the majority of these people know. But he would ring it. How many conversations do you have about Pavlov's dog? I mean, I took one psychology class in high school or college. Just the one class. And they talked about that.

They opened with the Pavlov dog. Oh, this is a big one. This is a big one. That and Sigmund Freud. That was the two big ones. But he would ring something, and it would make the dog salivate for food because at first he would always feed him. Then he just started doing it, and the dog just started salivating

even though he didn't see the food. So it shows that you can create an outside stimulus from something. I would think the – go ahead, Aaron. I was going to say I feel that every time. Before every show here at Zany's, they play Soul Man, the Blues Brothers song. Yeah. It's before every show, and they've been doing that for I think years and years and years.

The whole time, yeah. The whole time. If I hear that song somewhere else, I'll get nervous like I'm about to go on stage. Because I just... I'm Pavlov's dog. Yeah, I hear it. We played it kind of at our wedding. We had it play, and I put it on the playlist.

And I heard it in the distance, and I got nervous nervous like you had to go up because you just think yeah You start to joke you're about to go on stage No, yeah, there's no there's no weird so lie, I don't he can fill two swimming pools with saliva I don't go. Yeah, I don't go on stage just spit all I do a little bit but I Don't know no spit involved But I've heard a lot of comedians say that that they hear soul man on the radio they tense up because they're used to going on stage yeah yeah that's crazy guys

but the difference is we're always usually opening the show so we got to go out right away by the time you go on stage it's been an hour and a half since that song played well it is very funny too we used to do that in new york uh so if you hosted a show you'd have to bring up like seven comics on a show and you could just tell someone like oh you got to go up now like if someone showed up late or they thought they were late we'd like dude they're calling your name and we would tell them and they would just run in the room and so these like it's like if someone just at this zany's door just came barreling in like and then he's like am i and you're like no dude you're like two more from now and you just see that person go what uh you could do it they walk out of this door you can

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

It's funny. It's very funny to do. Yeah. Pavlov's dog. Yeah. What kind of dog was it? I don't know. Why wouldn't they ask that? Well, I mean, I'm sure somebody knows, but I don't.

We'll find out next week. I just think that'd be kind of important. You're teaching schools. People are paying to go learn about this thing. Yeah. It'd be like, was it a schnauzer? And you're like, that's what I would ask that, like a domino picture, like figures.

All right. We'll find out next week in the comments. Yeah. Thank you, sir. I got one fan. Delayed gratification study. I think that just happened.

It's, they did a study to see if delayed gratification can be a predictor of future life success. So they would put children between the ages of three and five in a room with a treat, either a marshmallow or a cookie. And they would tell them, if you wait 15 minutes and don't eat this cookie, then we'll give you two treats. And then they see who could do it and who can't and the ones who could do it and wait usually went on to have higher SAT scores and went on to more success so they just tracked them forever there's a long study yeah yeah that's the real problem you like and then these people watched your kids for life so do they study the parents too? And that's something else we learned? These parents had just let us have their children for the day, and then we gave them candy.

We told them not to take candy from strangers. That's the main thing you tell a kid. And we shoved them in this room. Who does these tests? Let me see who this one was uh psychologist named walter mitchell i don't know where he's from michelin does he just give up these ideas and he goes all right yeah i think we could do that and he goes what are you gonna need from us a bunch of children from three to five years old you're like how are we going to bring that out to

the town because there's got to be a square town square they go town hall meeting and say we need your children they didn't look into i bet the kids that ate the marshmallow i bet they were happier they got it they don't care about happiness do they the act scores all this i bet that kid's happy you know maybe so you think the one that took it quick yeah all of them got were fat that's what the end of the story that should be the end of it yeah they call them up 20 years later how's things going you're like oh dude he died years ago like he he got him addicted to this candy, and he never stopped. And so he started working for that candy company and ate until his death. Is that the answer you wanted?

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

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

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

jumper? That's a movie in entourage. I was going to say a fictional movie that never got made. That never got made. The Dunning-Kruger effect. Oh, you know this? Did you take psychology in Notre Dame? No, never did. The Dunning-Kruger effect. Yeah. Oh, you know this? Yeah. Okay.

I have it. Did you take psychology in Notre Dame? No, never did. You just talked about this at the dinner table? Well, this one comes up a bit. You're going to know it. You've heard it. I bet I don't know where I'm talking about these.

You hadn't heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect? I mean, he hadn't heard of Pavlov's dog. I don't think he's going to have heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect. I thought Pavlov's dog was like a painting. It was like the Mona Lisa. He looked at it. Dogs playing poker. Yeah, yeah.

I think my parents took a picture they weren't supposed to, but they did anyway. Yeah, I've seen it. Dunning-Kruger effect is when people believe they're smarter and more capable than they really are. That should be the theme of this podcast. That's our tagline. Essentially, low-ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. But I think I recognize mine.

No, no, no. Are they all talking about me? Is this about me? No, no, it's not. It's not. I always think of it as in order to know whether you're good or bad at something, you have to be good at it. Well, it also says people are genuine experts. That's just the statement of that.

In order to know if you're good or bad at something, you've got to know that you're good at it. No, you have to be good at it. Because the same thing that lets you know how good or bad something is, is the thing that lets you be good at it. I feel like college is just made so y'all don't do anything in life. You don't help out at all. You just talk about, like that's why everybody that goes to college, like if there was a fire, y'all just talk about how the fire existed and watch just families burn and then you got to get a blue collar guy to go do the work like y'all just go but is the fire real if i don't think it's real

and if i'm not the fire and then then y'all, like it's just constant, like, ba-ba-ba. I got them going. Good uneducated folk in here, you know what I mean? We travel thick. What is this? Is there more to it? Well, I mean,

you put such a good button on it, I was going to move on oh you got an applause break I thought I don't know what it also talks about people who are

genuine experts in one area tend to believe they're also experts in other areas so this is about like not a good person it just means

our own blindness to stuff I know so it's not like a good person but you get a name for it and now he gets to walk around

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

Here we go again. When I worked at TV News people, we interviewed people on the street. People always ask, why do you always interview the dumbest people? Right. That's because they're the ones that are willing to talk. Right. Smart people are just going to keep moving. I don't care to talk about whatever.

But other people say, yeah, I'll talk. I'll get all day. You know, that's why like phishing emails, like the scam emails that you get, are deliberately over the top dumb sounding so that the people that respond have a higher percentage of actually tricking them. Yeah. You know? Now, in fairness, half the things we've discussed, you've ended by saying,

I could do that. Like I could do all the stuff that they're saying. Well, like the wallets or one of them said you could be a lawyer and philosopher. Yeah, I think I could fake it. But I would know I'm faking. Yeah. This person doesn't. They think they're real.

Yeah. So this is not a disease. No. This is a God. This is somewhere. It's a description of the phenomenon. That's a phenomenon. It's an effect, apparently.

I mean, so this is like, we should worship this thing. Can you believe we met a guy that has this? He's just a nightmare. He drains every second of you. But man, was it, it's an honor. It's a guy that walks in and just knows how to do everything. He's like, who knows how to fix this sink? He's like, I do.

And he doesn't know how to do it. And you're like, it's just an honor to be in your just around the fact that we need somebody knows cpr i know it and then he comes over and does that too that's how they should find the guy they just make all this stuff happen he doesn't realize that like this is all happening we talked to uh me and big j once talked to this guy there's a comic and uh we learned that no matter what you said he would tell you he's done the exact same thing so if you said i just bombed tonight he goes i bombed harder or if you go i just killed tonight he's like i killed two man the show was great so we learned that he would do that and so me and jay just kept saying stuff to

him and we kept like we're i remember i'll never forget we're just at his bar and we just keep and we're like just keep going because he's just gonna so we just keep adding stuff we're like you know I've driven a car once over 105 miles an hour he's like I did mine was like 120 and so he just would top us yeah and so we just kept doing this at one point me and Jay both take our pants off and are sitting in our boxes and he never addresses that like he's just and I don't know what that has to do with this but it was it was the it was just the idea that we both took our pants off and he never goes hey why are y'all doing this he just kept talking and then we tell him and then I start telling a story about how I killed a guy once because I was like you know I don't want to talk and he goes. And he goes, he goes, he goes,

oh, he goes, all right, finish your story and I got a story. Like he, he had a story about killing a guy.

I'm making up a story about killing a guy and he's like, oh, no, go ahead, do yours and I'll do mine.

Like there was nothing that was ever stopping this guy, free this guy and we didn't have pants on. I'm telling, why would I give this secret up? This is the time to come clean and tell you the time I killed a guy,

and I took my pants off first before I dive into it. We have a buddy of ours, a comedian who's a psychiatrist, and there was a crazy guy at an open mic one time, and he came up and talked to us for a while and then he finally left and the psychiatrist goes, you guys want to guess the diagnosis? It's crazy. He's just thinking I know everything that's wrong with this guy.

With that guy. Yeah. I should have had him on. The Pygmalion effect. You know this one? No. This is a study where researchers told teachers that certain students had higher potential based on IQ tests. They made it up.

They just told the teachers that. And these students are more bright. These are less. And then it ended up becoming true because teachers gave them more intention. In fact, it basically is self-fulfilling prophecy. Yeah, psychology just ruined a lot of kids' lives. Like that's the day psychology was invented. It just was made to just ruin people's lives so smart people can just have something to talk about to each other with.

I don't even know what you're getting out of that, except that guy gets to have a fun dinner party conversation as those poor families have to deal with the dumb kids that had a future and they ruined it for them. I don't think it's worth it to go, you know, we have a treat. If you give kids, you know, preferential treatment, then you can point to the results and see how much better they'll do. You don't think there's any value in that?

Yeah, but what about the no one thinks about the child that's just walking into a door because he was a part of the experiment because he doesn't know. There's a lot of stuff like this where it's like that where they go, so we put them in a room. We didn't tell them, obviously. You're making them out to be this guy. where they go. So we put them in a room. We didn't tell them, obviously. Like, you're making them out to be this guy.

You would think you would just study it like in the wild. Yeah. Much less you bring people in and like go, we're going to ruin some of these kids' lives.

But we will be able to talk about something. It's about to get much, much worse. Of course. The 1974 car crash experiment. Yeah. I mean, yeah.

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

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

The media can misconstrue stuff by the way you word stuff. So it was just a study on that. Oh, okay. That's better than the title. You made it sound like they were causing car accidents all over the... Boom, just ramming into other cars. Just being like, 1974 was a year, man. It was just going down the highway, just ramming people.

I remember that year. All right, the doll violence experiment. What is it, doll violence? Yeah, this is exactly what it sounds like. This is at Stanford, which we already covered the first one at Stanford. 72 nursery-aged children were given a doll, and then half of them, they watched adults violently beating the doll for about 10 minutes, and the other ones showed adult cuddling,

and it showed that the kids watching the adult beat the doll went on became more violent and aggressive and did it to the doll themselves I mean you're just doing like that's what I mean you're ruining like you have to do this to kids. This one says, nevertheless, the work has since come under fire on ethical grounds. Seeing as the subjects were basically trained to act aggressively with possible long-term consequences. Yeah. Finally, they're held accountable a little bit, you know? Yeah.

They're just going, guys, we probably shouldn't do this anymore. That's their account. That's how they're held accountable. Nothing happens to them. You're like, I'm fired. No, no, no, no. We're happy to do stuff to like dogs and stuff now.

But it's just, we're not going to do it to the children. You know, people are getting a little mouthy about it and you know how it is. The little Albert experiment. Oh gosh.

This is another external statement. Are you allowed to say this? It's another external statement. There's a nine-month-old baby named Little Albert. He was given a white rabbit and he played with it. He had no reaction. So then they started banging stuff behind him to scare him whenever the white rabbit entered the room and the boy started crying so over time anytime he heard a loud noise or metal pipe he would start freaking out and anytime he saw a white rabbit or anything we're close to that like a sat-up beard anything he started crying it's for little albert Albert. This sounds like it's for the rabbit. It says the little Albert experiment demonstrates that classical conditioning can be used to create a phobia. Yeah, I don't. So it's like being like, this is how phobias start?

Yeah. Often, like if you have a phobia, like, you know, I don't know why I'm scared of this or whatever, it could be something from your childhood. So maybe you had a freak out thing on a ride

when you were a kid. With claustrophobia? Yeah. Well, but that happened when I was 40. That happened two years ago.

But you don't have a good memory, so. Yeah, so it could have happened a long time ago. You were 38. And that's what

they got out of that? Out of beating a pipe behind a nine-month-old? Things didn't work out well for Albert, but... Did they say what happened to him? It didn't go well. Yeah. I mean, they weren't sure of his exact identity. Are you little Albert?

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

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's how you get to be that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's how you get to be that.

Well, we're at the, I don't know what time you want to wrap this up, but we still got those questions. We're eating a couple more of these questions, then we can be out of here. So we talked about previously about a study that said that the scientist said you can make anyone fall in love if they read 36 questions to each other and then stare at each other's eyes for four minutes and apparently it works nate is a little skeptic he might be surprised just the the nightmare of having to go through this uh to me would it be worth it you know like so uh we're eating something we haven't i wish i'd known about this sooner i would have done this in my 20s i mean i love my wife but come on yeah you would have just been your interviews it's a weird move yeah yeah is it weird as a dating thing just as you walk around

and you just pull out like a note card and go, oh, hey, nice to meet you. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as a dinner guest? And then you just ask them and see what they say. Oh, that's interesting. And you slowly, what is the greatest accomplishment of your life? What do you value most in a friendship? What is your most treasured memory? What is your most terrible memory? It's like that kind of stuff.

I mean, you know, for what in your life do you feel most grateful? Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die? Oh, my God. That's just thrown in the mix of something. What number is that? That was seven. I mean, that is. Three more questions again. That is. And she goes, are we almost done? You go, we're not even

started. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die? And she's going to go, is it you? Are you the one? Is that like, that's foreshadowing? I can't, You ask it again at question 25? I'm going to ask one more time. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die? Guys, thank you so much for coming out. I truly appreciate it. Thank you guys so much. Thank you. Thanks, everybody, for listening to the Nate Land Podcast.

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