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Smoke Detectors · THINK BEFORE YOU SLEEP

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  Speaker 1: Guess the chicken for $ 100.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, hold on.
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  Speaker 1: That's KFC.
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  Speaker 3: That's Publix.
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  Speaker 1: Publix chicken.
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  Speaker 3: Popeyes!
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  Speaker 2: This one is for sure Popeyes. The joke is that
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  Speaker 2: he can see through the bottom of the blindfold. And
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  Speaker 2: if you didn't notice that, then it might be the
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  Speaker 2: magician's sleight of hand of distracting you with the ceiling
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  Speaker 2: bird that's in the background. That being said, welcome to stereotypes.
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  Speaker 2: And on that note, we have a TikTok sociologist here
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  Speaker 2: who got 3 million views for explaining the reasoning behind
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  Speaker 2: the smoke detector phenomenon.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about how we came to associate
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  Speaker 1: the beep of a dying fire alarm with being broke? Really?
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  Speaker 2: Because I've always associated people not being able to replace
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  Speaker 2: a battery with being stupid and lazy. Where is the.
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  Speaker 4: Where's the.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: You see what I mean about the quality of a
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  Speaker 2: person who lets those things go off incessantly? But I
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  Speaker 2: guess I'm wrong. Not having about $ 3. 50 to quiet the
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  Speaker 2: noise of a safety device that's designed to piss you
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  Speaker 2: off until you fix it is really just about being
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  Speaker 2: born into oppressive situations, and the generational trauma from that
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  Speaker 2: has caused them to become immune to the sound.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a sociologist, and sociology is the study of society
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  Speaker 1: and human behavior in social context. One of my five
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  Speaker 1: major focuses is the biopsychosocial axis, or semantics, and the
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  Speaker 1: social is how our lived experiences are at least in
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  Speaker 1: part experienced. the responsibility of someone else and vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: Holy shit, man, we get it. You've read a book before.
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  Speaker 2: This is Kaisa Nat in like three years.
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  Speaker 4: Her love for me goes beyond all reasons and does
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  Speaker 4: not come from a place of reciprocity.
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  Speaker 1: Reciprocity, yes.
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  Speaker 2: The sad thing is that simply being willing to look
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  Speaker 2: up a word that he didn't know puts him ahead
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  Speaker 2: of most college English majors according to this literacy study.
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  Speaker 2: But let me translate for all the people who didn't
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  Speaker 2: waste time taking college classes in a field that is
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  Speaker 2: largely considered to be a joke these days. Essentially, the
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  Speaker 2: sociology guy said, if you're too lazy to change a battery,
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  Speaker 2: that's the fault of society, not yours.
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  Speaker 1: Today I want to talk about the prefrontal cortex. In
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  Speaker 1: order to identify the relationship between beeping fire alarms, being broke,
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  Speaker 1: and the prefrontal cortex, we need to understand what the
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  Speaker 1: prefrontal cortex is. But the prefrontal cortex also has a
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  Speaker 1: role in governing executive function. And executive function is many things,
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  Speaker 1: but I mostly identify it as the ability to identify, initiate,
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  Speaker 1: follow through on, and complete a task.
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  Speaker 2: Bro, it's not that complicated. You open up the smoke detector,
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  Speaker 2: take the battery out, get a new battery, and put
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  Speaker 2: the new battery in. And if you're too ignorant of
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  Speaker 2: how electronics operate to figure that out by yourself, then
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  Speaker 2: there are like a million YouTube shorts that will teach
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  Speaker 2: you how to do that in like a minute. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: for how ridiculously easy this is, it is insane how
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  Speaker 2: many black people I've covered on this channel who have
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  Speaker 2: beeping smoke detectors go off in the background. For those
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  Speaker 2: of you who are regular viewers, I don't go out
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  Speaker 2: and Google like 500 videos of black people just to
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  Speaker 2: find the one person who has a ceiling bird chirping
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  Speaker 2: in the background. When I cover people like that rapper
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  Speaker 2: Dank DeMoss who sued Lyft because she was too fat
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  Speaker 2: to fit into a normal-sized car, it's just in the
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  Speaker 2: video of her talking about the event.
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  Speaker 3: I'm outside and you pulling off on me, bitch.
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  Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck if you gave me my
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  Speaker 1: fucking money back.
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  Speaker 2: There's a reason why black people get ridiculed for this.
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  Speaker 2: There's a reason why other black people are ridiculing black
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  Speaker 2: people for this.
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  Speaker 4: And I just really feel like I deserve this job.
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  Speaker 4: And if there's one thing about me, if there's something
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  Speaker 4: that needs to be fixed, I will fix it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just sitting here waiting for this guy who's writing
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  Speaker 2: his doctoral thesis on smoke alarms to call me a
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  Speaker 2: racist for criticizing black culture.
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  Speaker 1: Listen the fuck up, white people.
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  Speaker 5: Every other race is more racist than you. You don't
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  Speaker 5: believe me? Ask a black person what they think about
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  Speaker 5: a Chinese guy.
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  Speaker 3: Ask a Jew what they think about black people.
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  Speaker 5: Ask an Indian what they think about Mexicans.
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  Speaker 2: Ask a Japanese person what they think about the Chinese. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to. They'll just tell you. So miss
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  Speaker 2: me with the racism bullshit. It's current year and everyone's
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  Speaker 2: done with getting called racist for criticizing the behavior of
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  Speaker 2: anyone who isn't white. Anyway, let's get back to why
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  Speaker 2: the African American community can't figure out how batteries work.
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  Speaker 1: One of the most common circumstances in which we can
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  Speaker 1: identify a dysregulated prefrontal cortex and by extension an inhibited
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  Speaker 1: capacity for executive functioning is in people with an ADHD diagnosis.
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  Speaker 1: ADHD is characterized by a lot of things, but chief
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  Speaker 1: among them, the ability to identify, initiate, follow through on,
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  Speaker 1: and complete tasks. This is also why adults with ADHD
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  Speaker 1: can have a hard time being on time to things.
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  Speaker 1: Because if the prefrontal cortex is not firing the way
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  Speaker 1: it's supposed to, it's just not firing. And no amount
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  Speaker 1: of yelling or frustration or cutting people off is going
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  Speaker 1: to change that.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just get ChatGBT to translate that last segment.
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  Speaker 2: And he's saying that black people are late all the
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  Speaker 2: time because of biology. Well, that sounds kind of racist,
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  Speaker 2: but whatever. Now, I know he didn't say black people,
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  Speaker 2: but notice how he's only covering black stereotypes as he
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  Speaker 2: uses his college degree to continuously make excuses for the
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  Speaker 2: problem instead of providing solutions.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of biopsychosocial phenomena that correspond with
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  Speaker 1: the dysregulation of the prefrontal cortex or other parts of
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  Speaker 1: the brain, like anxiety and depression, but also acute and
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  Speaker 1: chronic stress and trauma. And those are the ones that
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  Speaker 1: I kind of want to focus on, especially because the
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  Speaker 1: definitions of stress and trauma and what constitutes something that
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  Speaker 1: is stressful or traumatic isn't really up to you. or
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  Speaker 1: somebody else. What does is the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis
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  Speaker 1: and the sympathoadrenomedullary axis, which are structures within the brain
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  Speaker 1: that govern our stress responses. When they identify something that
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  Speaker 1: constitutes stress, they release stress hormones. They release cortisol, they
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  Speaker 1: release adrenaline, norepinephrine, noradrenaline. And in circumstances where there are
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  Speaker 1: continual stressors that they can identify, they are releasing that
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  Speaker 1: on a loop. They're releasing it too frequently, and this
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  Speaker 1: overwhelms the brain and dysregulates its traditional functions.
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  Speaker 2: My God, enough with the SAT words. Speak normally. If
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to watch someone masturbate all over themselves, then
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  Speaker 2: I would just go on chat roulette. I can't stand
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  Speaker 2: it when people speak like this. Because the point is
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  Speaker 2: not to effectively communicate an idea. The point is to
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  Speaker 2: make people think you're smart. Look, he even pulls out
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  Speaker 2: a book to read, which I'm sure that decision had
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  Speaker 2: nothing to do with another negative stereotype about black culture.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what? I do think it's fine to
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  Speaker 2: use specific or esoteric terminology when you're talking to your
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  Speaker 2: colleagues who are knowledgeable in that field. For example, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to spend time talking about neurotransmitters with your
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  Speaker 2: friends who are psychology majors... I think that's great and useful.
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  Speaker 2: But when people speak like this to general audiences, quite honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's pretentious. I think it's done to make
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  Speaker 2: the speaker look good at the expense of making the
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  Speaker 2: audience feel stupid. And most importantly, I have yet to
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  Speaker 2: see a person who speaks like this to general audiences
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  Speaker 2: who wasn't doing that to hide the fact that he
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  Speaker 2: is either saying nothing of importance or hide the fact
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  Speaker 2: that his argument is retarded. Because certainly, not being able
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  Speaker 2: to simplify his talking points so that regular people can
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  Speaker 2: follow along is a sign that he doesn't understand them
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  Speaker 2: that well.
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  Speaker 1: Now, there are countless studies, many of which I draw
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  Speaker 1: on for my own research, that link the lived experience
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  Speaker 1: of low-income or impoverished socioeconomic status with deviations in longitudinal
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  Speaker 1: adolescent neurological development, which is just adolescent neurological development over
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  Speaker 1: time and well into adulthood.
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  Speaker 2: I have longitudinal studies on the lived experiences of the
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  Speaker 2: adolescent trauma response to the intricate modalities of semi-hardwired electronic
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  Speaker 2: warning devices. Okay, where are the studies then? It's a VOD.
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  Speaker 2: Show them. Put them on screen as B-roll. You know
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  Speaker 2: how to use a video editor, right? 12-year-olds can figure
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  Speaker 2: that out. I mean, you're going to read a book
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  Speaker 2: and use all those $ 10 words, but you're incapable of
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  Speaker 2: bringing up a study to help confirm your hypothesis about
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  Speaker 2: smoke detectors? Is it ever a shock how these people
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  Speaker 2: are required to cite sources on their college papers or
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  Speaker 2: risk getting expelled, but they can't put a source in
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  Speaker 2: a video to save their life? And the crazy thing
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  Speaker 2: here is not the fact that this video got millions
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  Speaker 2: of views. The crazy thing is all the people in
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  Speaker 2: the comments who are acting like this guy is the
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  Speaker 2: second coming of Jesus, for using a bunch of technical
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  Speaker 2: jargon to say that it's not your fault if you're
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  Speaker 2: too stupid to change a battery. This guy is like
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  Speaker 2: the human equivalent to Duolingo. That app will waste tons
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  Speaker 2: of your time making you think that you're learning Japanese
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  Speaker 2: without actually teaching you anything significant outside of a few
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  Speaker 2: colors and how to say hello. There's no bigger indicator
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  Speaker 2: that someone will never get past beginner level at a
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  Speaker 2: language than them saying that they study with Duolingo. So
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  Speaker 2: this is like the TikTok influencer version of that. And
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  Speaker 2: by the way, for me, The smoke detector thing is
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  Speaker 2: not about black people. That just happens to be the
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  Speaker 2: internet stereotype.
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  Speaker 1: The African ceiling bird.
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  Speaker 5: It calls and is ignored.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't even aware of it until I started using Twitter.
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  Speaker 2: But my dislike for people not being able to change
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  Speaker 2: their smoke alarm batteries comes from listening to years of
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  Speaker 2: a love, sex, and relationships radio call-in show called Loveline
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  Speaker 2: with Dr. Drew and Adam Carolla. It was a running
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  Speaker 2: bit on the show to ridicule every caller who had
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  Speaker 2: their smoke detector beeping in the background.
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  Speaker 4: My question is, is it okay if you're tired of
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  Speaker 4: hearing about it? Oh my God.
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  Speaker 3: First call of the night.
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  Speaker 2: Smoke detector, huh?
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  Speaker 1: Brody, did you hear that little chirping sound?
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  Speaker 5: You can hear it?
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  Speaker 2: We're just glad to know that you can hear it.
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  Speaker 2: TV's still on, too. You're tired of hearing about 9-11?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and I just want to know, is it okay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, most people... There we go again.
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  Speaker 1: How do you live with that thing chirping in the background?
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to have a car.
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  Speaker 4: You sort of just learn to tune in.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there's one in another room going off. Did you
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  Speaker 1: hear that? You can hear. You've got two separate smoke
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  Speaker 1: detectors that are low on batteries.
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  Speaker 4: There's like one in each room.
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  Speaker 1: And they're all chirping?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That would bother a reptile.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even think two is the record. Actual Justice
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  Speaker 2: Warrior did a video on this where he brought up
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  Speaker 2: the interview of that black girl who smacked the girl
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  Speaker 2: on the back of the head with a baton during
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  Speaker 2: a race. She had like eight smoke detectors going off
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  Speaker 2: the entire time. I can't believe the reporter didn't just
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  Speaker 2: hit the silence button so they could do the interview
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  Speaker 2: in peace. But that's not why I'm bringing up actual
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  Speaker 2: Justice Warriors video. I'm bringing it up because of an
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  Speaker 2: interesting comment about fatherlessness that was written by a viewer
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  Speaker 2: that I think is confirmed by the Loveline episode. Now
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  Speaker 2: that's in.
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  Speaker 1: Your bedroom, right?
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 5: And at night... It keeps going.
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  Speaker 2: You go to bed, right?
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you live with, by the way?
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  Speaker 4: My mom.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting phrasing. I would love to see a study on
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  Speaker 2: the correlation between single parenthood and the proclivity to have
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  Speaker 2: a beeping smoke alarm in the house. As for the
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  Speaker 2: PhD candidate, I hate it when people just sit and
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  Speaker 2: complain and don't provide solutions or search for solutions to
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  Speaker 2: the problems that they speak about. Fortunately, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 2: it is none other than other black people who have
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  Speaker 2: to live around people who can't change a battery who
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  Speaker 2: are the most disgusted by that behavior.
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  Speaker 4: People have black fatigue, not because they hate black people
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  Speaker 4: because they're black. They have black fatigue because of how
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  Speaker 4: people act, how black people poorly represent themselves and carry
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  Speaker 4: themselves within society. All the problems that we have, we
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  Speaker 4: can blame ourselves for it. But we'd rather sit back
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  Speaker 4: and blame the white man for it. That's why people
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  Speaker 4: are tired of dealing with black people. Because there's no
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  Speaker 4: positive solution. There's no productiveness of black people today in America.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody today hates black people because black people exist. Nobody
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  Speaker 4: has a hatred of black people because black people are black.
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  Speaker 4: People have a disdain for black behavior. And guess what?
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  Speaker 4: We're judged by the content of our character and not
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  Speaker 4: the color of our skin today.
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  Speaker 2: You see how he was able to speak plainly in
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  Speaker 2: a way that's easy to understand without trying to insult
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  Speaker 2: you by flexing how many SAT words he's memorized? You
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  Speaker 2: know what's also great about this video? Unlike our sociology student,
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  Speaker 2: this guy actually provides 5 minutes of solutions to the
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  Speaker 2: problem instead of 8 minutes of excuses.
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  Speaker 4: So how do we stop people from having black fatigue?
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  Speaker 4: How do we change this? How do we turn it around?
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  Speaker 4: Crime is the biggest issue within the black community. It's we,
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, we have to deal
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  Speaker 4: with the crime and instability that affects our community. That's
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  Speaker 4: not the white man coming into the community and shooting
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  Speaker 4: up the gas station and the bus stop. That's black
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  Speaker 4: people doing it because that's what? We glorify music of violence.
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  Speaker 4: We glorify a culture of instability. We glorify a culture
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  Speaker 4: of having no order and no control for ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: My opinion is that the pretentious sociology student doesn't give
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  Speaker 2: a shit about black people at all. And let me
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  Speaker 2: clarify that by saying that as much as you think
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  Speaker 2: people on Twitter are racist, personally, I think the most
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  Speaker 2: racist people are people like this guy who pretend to
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  Speaker 2: help black people while at the same time doing everything
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  Speaker 2: in their power to sabotage them. Your local Twitter Nazi
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  Speaker 2: couldn't dream of being so effective at harming the black
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  Speaker 2: community that he would get 3 million views for it
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  Speaker 2: and tons of public praise for it. So, uh, congrats, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: Though in reality, I think the people who actually care
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  Speaker 2: about you are people like this guy, Andre Williams, who
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  Speaker 2: will speak frankly instead of filling your mind with bullshit
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't actually lead to a solution. And a very
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  Speaker 2: simple solution to help catalyze what this man is saying...
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  Speaker 2: is just to bring back a culture of shame.
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  Speaker 5: We need to judge people and their poverty because the
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  Speaker 5: same thing that makes people make poor financial decisions so
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  Speaker 5: they do not advance economically is likely what is leading
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  Speaker 5: them to ignore the smoke detector chirp, which is a
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  Speaker 5: lack of long-term thinking and long-term planning.
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  Speaker 2: Right, because the reality is that if you're poor, it's
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  Speaker 2: not because of a system of oppression. You have access
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  Speaker 2: to infinite good information on your phone. you can learn
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  Speaker 2: any skill you want to the highest extent for free
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  Speaker 2: or for very little cost and not that much time investment.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're destitute, then it's because you're lazy or
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  Speaker 2: because you make bad decisions or because people who would
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  Speaker 2: help you don't want to be around you because you're
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  Speaker 2: a bad or a toxic person.
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  Speaker 1: Wrapping it up nicely together in the dying fire alarm,
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  Speaker 1: if we can start to understand that the lived experience
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  Speaker 1: of low-income or impoverished socioeconomic statuses can dysregulate the prefrontal
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  Speaker 1: cortex such that the simple task of replacing the fire
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  Speaker 1: alarm is made difficult, then we can also start to
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  Speaker 1: recognize that living with fire alarms that beep and beep
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  Speaker 1: and beep until they die is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: more common occurrence in places where people of those socioeconomic
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  Speaker 1: statuses are concentrated.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Poverty is why they can't go onto their phone and
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  Speaker 2: Google how to change a battery. How is this guy's
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  Speaker 2: mentality helpful? By the way, for those of you who
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: think that shaming doesn't work, here's a proof of concept.
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  Speaker 3: Something so tragic happened the other day that I was
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  Speaker 3: just silent for like 20 minutes because I can't believe
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  Speaker 3: that actually just happened. I live in Tokyo and in
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  Speaker 3: Tokyo everyone like keeps to themselves like they don't really
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  Speaker 3: say anything to you like even if they're thinking it
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  Speaker 3: but we just did a road trip down to Miyazaki
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  Speaker 3: which is like still the city but it's the countryside.
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  Speaker 3: Anyways this old lady like had to have been I
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  Speaker 3: don't know 70 to 85 and she's walking along behind
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  Speaker 3: us and she does like the full like rubberneck like
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  Speaker 3: looks right?
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  Speaker 1: She pulls this one.
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  Speaker 3: She looks at me up and down and goes.
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  Speaker 2: Now you might think, how rude of that Japanese lady.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't she have any manners? Doesn't she know how to
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  Speaker 2: treat people appropriately? But here's the thing. The shaming worked.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think I was fat until I moved to Japan.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say I was ever like morbidly obese. And
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  Speaker 3: obviously I try to love myself at any size, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what this is about. But when I moved
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  Speaker 3: to Japan, I started losing weight. Since I moved here,
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  Speaker 3: I've lost about 20 pounds. So that's 11 kilograms. I
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  Speaker 3: love living in Japan, but every once in a while,
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  Speaker 3: every once in a while, a culture difference just slaps
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  Speaker 3: you in the face when you're least expecting it.
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  Speaker 2: Congrats! She's getting healthier because obesity is frowned upon in
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  Speaker 2: Japanese culture instead of it being promoted like it is
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  Speaker 2: in American culture. Shaming is effective because people who are
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  Speaker 2: resistant to change will not improve themselves unless they're made
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  Speaker 2: to suffer, and shaming a negative behavior is a way
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  Speaker 2: to cause suffering. Here's the thing, though. In general, psychologically speaking,
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  Speaker 2: everyone is resistant to change. When it comes to the
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  Speaker 2: people who are worse off than others, a major reason
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  Speaker 2: they are like that is because they don't have a
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  Speaker 2: regular practice of learning new ideas and more importantly, implementing
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  Speaker 2: what they learned as quickly as possible. In fact, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to get to higher levels of skill and
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  Speaker 2: really upgrade your life, then getting good at doing this
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  Speaker 2: all the time is essential. But to put it into
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  Speaker 2: more basic terms so that people who aren't used to
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  Speaker 2: this can understand, you have to make change easy and
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  Speaker 2: break it down into small steps that you can handle
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  Speaker 2: until you can handle more complex and quicker changes. So
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying is that if changing a smoke detector
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  Speaker 2: battery is too complicated for your brain, and for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people it is because they don't understand electronics,
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  Speaker 2: Then break it down into steps. The first step is
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  Speaker 2: to Google a video. You don't even have to watch it.
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  Speaker 2: Just Google it and take a break and watch the
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  Speaker 2: video the next day. Then the day after that, buy
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  Speaker 2: the battery, and on the last day, change it. It's simple.
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  Speaker 2: And what you'll find as you get used to breaking
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  Speaker 2: down an activity into small steps is that not only
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  Speaker 2: will changing a battery be easier next time because you
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  Speaker 2: already know how to do it, but also, each step
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  Speaker 2: will sort of have its own momentum. Objects in motion
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  Speaker 2: will stay in motion unless acted upon. That's the law
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  Speaker 2: of inertia, and I think you'll find that it's easier
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  Speaker 2: to continue working if you already are. So, how it
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  Speaker 2: plays out is that you Google the video, and in
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  Speaker 2: your head you'll say, well, I've already got the video
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  Speaker 2: pulled up, it's only a minute, I might as well
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  Speaker 2: just watch it. Then you might say, I think I
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  Speaker 2: have one of those batteries in a cupboard, I'll just
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  Speaker 2: go get it out, and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 2: The idea is that your goal is to replace the
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  Speaker 2: smoke detector battery in one sitting, but you genuinely give
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  Speaker 2: yourself the option to do just a little bit at
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  Speaker 2: a time, and you'll find that more often than not,
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  Speaker 2: you'll initiate an activity that you told yourself that you
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  Speaker 2: only had to spend a few minutes on, but because
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  Speaker 2: of inertia and because it's easier to stay on the
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  Speaker 2: same activity than it is to switch to a different one,
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  Speaker 2: you'll find yourself having done multiple hours of work. That's
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  Speaker 2: actually one of the primary ways that I motivate myself
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  Speaker 2: to make videos when I don't want to do anything.
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  Speaker 2: Over 90% of the time, it results in accomplishing hours
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  Speaker 2: of work instead of the five minutes that I initially planned. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: you in the next video.