Shawn Ryan
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Podcast Appearances
And then you move the shocker up, shock him higher voltage for every wrong answer.
You keep moving it up.
And at the end of this little shocking machine, it says 450 volts, XXX danger severe shock.
Two-thirds of the way through this shocking thing, the guy in the other room, you can hear him screaming, you can hear him yelling when you shock him because the thing's painful.
He's an actor.
He's not ever getting shocked.
But two-thirds of the way through, he stops and he says, I don't want to do this anymore.
I want out of here.
I have a heart condition.
I don't want to do this anymore.
And you look back at the guy running the thing in the lab coat.
The guy in the lab coat says, it's important that you keep going.
The experiment has to continue.
The experiment requires that you continue.
And well, you keep going.
And around like the 400, 350 volt mark, the guy in the other room stops making all sound and stops responding to questions.
He's not even answering the questions anymore.
And you turn around to the guy in the lab coat.
The guy in the lab coat says, any non-answer must be treated as an incorrect answer.
Please continue.