This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.

It used to be that if you wanted to feel what it was like to do something, you had to go

out and do it.

If your dream was to see the Grand Canyon from a raft, you'd head to the river.

If you wanted to gaze up close at the Mona Lisa, you'd go to Paris.

If you wanted to know what it felt like to walk hand in hand with a lover on a moonlit

night, you'd have to go out and find a partner.

But something in our culture has changed.

As we sit on the couch and eat takeout, we watch kitchen virtuosos whip up gourmet

meals from scratch.

And it just makes the house smell like home to me.

And then we watch other people eat meals.

So if you were alone on Thanksgiving, I hope you were Thanksgiving dinner with me.

I mean that literally, there's a popular genre on YouTube.

Okay, my mouth's seriously celebrating right now.

When you just watch other people, bingey.

Okay, I'm starving.

I'm starving.

There's a lot here.

Oh my God.

Mmm.

It has never been so easy to bring the world into our living rooms and kitchens and bedrooms.

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