Oh no stupid

No, we are off the rails. Oh yeah, we are completely over the cliff

I'm Angela Duckworth. I'm Mike Mon and you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, what does it mean to have a good sense of humor?

Hey everyone, I've got this great joke. Angela, I think we have a fascinating question about sense of humor, and it's from this gentleman Jeremy Sackley.

Oh no I have no sense of humor Mike. Oh stop it really? No I'm not kidding ha.

See that's not even funny. That's not...

I thought it was a little bit funny.

I bet Jeremy's very funny.

Go ahead.

Here's his question.

He says, where does our sense of humor come from?

I know you've discussed in the past that our emotions fundamentally serve the purpose of our survival

but how does laughing or being funny prevent us from being eaten by a lion? I mean I feel like the question's already funny.

Not sorry, being eaten by a lion is not funny, moving on.

Or maybe being funny increases our chances of finding a mate and thus

perpetuating our species. That actually Jeremy is where my mind went.

Is that being funny helps you meet people. Also why do we find the things we find

funny funny? Thanks Jeremy Sackley. I love Jeremy, you know why I love Jeremy? Why? Because Jeremy learned something from our prior conversations like yes Jeremy,

everything pretty much is for our survival we just have to figure out how yes and I think there's a lot to say about how being funny and laughing actually do make us a little more likely to survive anyway.

Well look you just said you don't have a sense of humor.

I really don't. I mean I'm not like a humorless person but I don't think like oh funny would be in the top 40

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