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Coltan Scrivner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2167 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

But it's not their job to say something about the psychology of people who like those movies, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

that's a very different kind of territory.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

It made me realize that people have these intuitions and I kind of understand it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Like, oh, you like movies where there's a lot of suffering and people are getting hacked up.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

I kind of understand the intuition that there might be something wrong with you.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

I can sympathize with that, but the data doesn't bear it out, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

It's not accurate.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

It's not accurate.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Yeah, and so watching two people who are some of the best in the world do it, you can learn a lot.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Yeah, even the UFC has rules, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

It's the most unbarred fighting, but there are still certain rules.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Or it's a different kind of attention, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

The bar fight on the street might be like, I can't look away, but I don't really want to see it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Whereas the UFC is, I'll pay money to see it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

People hate unfair fights.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

It's also why there's weight classes in the UFC.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

If we really wanted to be unstricted, our early UFC, it was bananas, right?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

which violates your expectations, makes it more interesting.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Coltan Scrivner (on morbid curiosities)

Okay, well, if he can do it, what is he doing right?