Arthur Brooks
speaker
984 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
Arthur Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's dumb.
For sure.
I mean, that's my father's favorite joke.
But here's the interesting thing.
Most people are either good at flicking that thing to change the mood because they're depressed, which is most comedians.
Or they're really good at having it flicked by somebody else, which means they actually enjoy humor.
Those are the two aspects of humor.
You're unusual because you laugh a lot.
Most comedians don't laugh that much because they're only good at one part of that.
They're really good at changing the tenor.
It's called emotional substitution.
And so you find out when you're a depressed kid that you're funny and you say a funny thing and everybody laughs and it makes things better inside your brain.
So it's a strange thing, right?
But you enjoy jokes, too.
Yeah, I mean, good jokes, not the one I just... I like Emo Phillips.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that's... Anyway, so that's... Sorry, I didn't mean to take us off that path.
What were we talking?
Pleasure is his idol.
Pleasure is my idol.
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