Dr. Andrew Huberman

They bred out the pain receptors, gave them a floppy face, short snout.

English bulldog, thank you for the specificity.

A biologist loves the specificity.

The Frenchies are pretty cool.

The Frenchies are pretty cool.

They have a little more kick in them, right?

The bulldogs, a little less, and Costello was a bulldog mastiff, so he was more or less like a sea turtle, you know, just slow movement, stopping, and he's going forward, and you can move aside.

In fact, Costello was so mellow that when he would lie down on the floor, I had one of those, you know,

kind of robot vacuums, things we called a Roomba in our country, it would come up to his face and he would just, and it would bounce off his nose.

And he wouldn't even take the opportunity to blink.

The bulldog is sort of the essence of economy of effort.

And actually, if you look at people,

People resemble different dog breeds.

I spent a lot of time thinking about this.

Some dogs and some people have a bit more kind of reverberation in them.

They've got a higher RPM all the time, all the time, all the time, and then they're the bulldogs.

right?

Rick Rubin, right?

There are these people that are just more still.

And we look at these people that are more still and think, well, there probably isn't that much going on in there.