Dr. Coltan Scrivner

I think what we enjoy watching is probably, yeah, how...

people who we probably don't relate to in most ways, uh, respond to one another.

How do they, how do they get along in their, in their daily lives?

Like how do they respond to conflict with their family or conflict with these other kinds of, most of it is conflict driven, right?

Still, uh, conflict driven in many ways.

What evolved was the tendency to find opportunities to learn about dangerous things safely, right?

And for most of human history, that was oral storytelling.

You know, if I've never encountered, let's say, a wolf in my local community or my local environment, but I know they exist, I've heard about them.

The only way for me to learn about them is to either encounter one or hear a bunch of stories about people who have encountered them.

Right.

And so stories are a really great way to convey information about dangerous things.

We live in a world now where, you know, we're

inundated with that.

I mean, you can kind of find information about any kind of dangerous thing that you might want.

And you could probably find it in a relatively high budget film or TV show even car wrecks, I think are, you know, a similar kind of thing.

It's like you're driving along and you some somebody just had a terrible accident doing the same thing that you're currently doing.

And so that feels like something very relevant, right?

These people were just in a car and they just had an accident.

I'm in a car.

hope they're not injured but if they are i kind of want to know what the consequences of something bad happening in a car are um and many times when you when you're looking at a car wreck on the side of the road the police or the ambulances have already been called it's already been attended to it's not like you're looking at it and then nobody ever calls the police or calls the ambulance or nobody's been notified the authorities to come take care of it right um so i think it's less of the