Arthur C. Brooks
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1,407 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Arthur C. Brooks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like when you tell a joke, which doesn't bring you happiness, but brings somebody else happiness, the reason is because it's not surprising you, but it is surprising.
Yes.
And that's a little part of the brain called the parahippocampal gyrus.
And then when you flick it, not too much.
Don't talk about mom dying if she died last week, right?
Not too little because this is a dad joke.
Right.
And it'll groan if you flick it just right because I've given you dad jokes apparently.
No.
Not even that good.
So you flick it and then people laugh involuntarily.
That's what it comes down to.
I mean, dumb, like.
Lisa, 12, washing beard.
Jones College.
Shakira Kwan, TGIF, Carter.
University of Northern Arizona.
Parahippocampal gyrus, University of Texas at Austin.
Yes.
And parahippocampal, would have been a good one.
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