Jeremy Beus

There are a lot of Monday to Friday snakes on this, whatever he says, plane.

Have you ever seen where they bleep out all the MF-er?

Samuel Sumlin.

L. L. L. Well done.

Yeah, so this is a... We'll call it a study out of Oregon State University, OSU.

And yeah, they basically spoke to 100 kids and talked to them about their feelings regarding snakes.

And they were trying to prove, and they did prove, spoiler alert, that...

when there's what they call negative speak, so negative references, negative comments, little passive-aggressive comments regarding snakes, it causes these children who are in their sort of prime of life as far as learning and imprinting and whatnot, it causes them to have lifelong negative feelings.

And basically the study they did was...

They took these 100 children, they put them into groups of 50 and 50, and they read them a storybook and showed them photos of various snakes.

And in the storybook, in the different groups, in the sort of, let's call it the negative speak group, the storybook was regarding the life of a snake.

You know, it was a cute little drawn animated snake, cartoon snake illustration.

And the snake didn't have a name.

And the snake, they never once referenced in this book, this storybook, the snake had feelings.

And they always used the pronoun it.

So non-gender specific.

And then in the other group, they gave the snake a name.

They gave it the she pronoun, so they always referred to it as she or by its name.

And they discussed that the snake had feelings.

Maybe the snake was afraid, and maybe the snake was happy, and maybe the snake was sad, right?