I have a confession. You already know this, but maybe, you know, some of my friends or family don't. I feel like most of my family knows too, but I hate April Fool's Day. Like the entire day I just dread you know being duped

or tricked or feeling stupid I think it's that like just fear of humiliation that I carry around

from childhood from adolescence really like from this like incident that I still cannot let go of I've

talked about it on the podcast before but I think that's where my dislike for April Fool's Day comes

from but I have so what we're going to talk about today is just like humor can be harmful like it can

hurt people and I have sure like been a victim of it or

whatever but I've also been the perpetrator like I've also done things that have hurt other

people's feelings and I think that there's extremes to all things like you can take you know

people take things way too personally. I mean,

we just talked about taking offense last week. And at the same time, I just think that a lot of times

when people do things, they think they're funny. They later realize like, oh, that actually

really hurt that person's feelings or made them feel stupid. And I think where

we've got to, you know, take a pause and think is just when there are jokes or things that

hurt people and make them feel bad. But what do you think, Neil? Yeah, I think it, this one's really tough because I think everyone loves to be like funny.

I love to say funny stuff or like, but at the same time I realized how that so many times

someone being funny or trying to be funny causes a lot of hurt feelings or just straight

up problems or things that I've gotten just, you know, oh, that was meant to be a joke,

but someone's feelings get hurt or something bad happens because of it.

And it all comes from like, oh, we're just trying to, we're just joking around.

It's almost always at the expense of someone else.

Someone's always on the other side of it or, yeah, there really is most, most of the time

in most humor.

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