A Case FOR The Giggles

Wow in the World

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Education, Stories For Kids, Education For Kids, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 7 August 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Why in the world do they say that "laughter is the best medicine?" How in the world do you catch a case of the giggles? And what in the world is a Laughing Yogi?! Try not to LOL, as Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas guffaw their way through the science of laughter, on this seriously silly episode of Wow in the World! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members! You can listen to Wow in the World, Early and Add Free on Amazon Music.
0:06.7	Download the app today!
0:36.7	Okay, bye! I'll see you tomorrow! Hey, watch out for that pile of breakable stuff at the end of the drive!
0:51.7	What's going inside? Hey, what's going on?
1:08.7	Hey, Ron, what is going on here? Hey, Mindy, you caught me in the middle of my new morning exercise routine.
1:20.2	This is not exercise, you're just standing here laughing to yourself like you've gone bonker balls!
1:25.8	This is not funny, Guy Rods, it's getting weird! Okay, well, well, maybe this will help you here. Come watch this video.
1:38.8	Video, man, I've been trying to be all eyes up, screens down. Okay, what's the video about?
1:45.8	No, he is a video of the laughing yogi, his name is Ramesh Padni, and he lives in India where he's known as the world's greatest laugh teacher.
1:55.8	A laugh teacher? Guy Rods, who needs to be taught how to laugh?
1:59.8	Well, grumpy people for one thing, Mindy. Well, I'm not grumpy, but I'm also not in the laughing mood because it came over here to tell you about this serious,
2:08.8	serious, signing story that I learned. Well, and you're just acting like life is one big joke laughing, jiggling all over the place.
2:15.8	I don't even know what's going on anymore. Well, Mindy, let's make a bet.
2:20.8	You want to make a bet? Yeah, a bet. I will bet you that this video of yogi, Ramesh Padni, will make you laugh within 30 seconds and Mindy, if I'm wrong,
2:32.8	I will fill up your swimming pool with gummy bears. Okay, first of all, that's not a swimming pool, that's a tunnel that I'm digging to China, but second of all, I'm intrigued what happens if I lose.
2:44.8	Well, if this video makes you laugh, you have to clean up my cat palace's liver box for a whole week.
2:51.8	That's a little...oh man, I've been using that as a tiny sandbox!
2:56.8	You mean she poops in there? Well, so what do you say, you want to shake on it? Your video of some guy trying to get me to laugh on command? Good luck with that, guys.
3:06.8	You sure about that? I am so sure I'll win this bet that I've already sent out a telegram to all of the gummy bears in the world and
3:15.8	is stretching them to march toward my house. Well, that knits some bet. You ready? Lay it on me. Okay, okay, so here goes. Here is yogi, Ramesh Padni, doing his laughing exercises.
3:30.8	Laughing exercise for the heart and mind. Very easy.
3:34.8	Laughing exercise for the heart and mind.
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