How Michael Lewis Finds the Funny
The Science of Happiness
PRX and Greater Good Science Center
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
How can you unearth humor in everyday life? Best-selling author Michael Lewis goes looking for laughs.
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| 0:00.0 | Want to dive into how technology and black spirituality intersect, |
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| 0:25.0 | I was at my aunt's 90th birthday party on Saturday night |
| 0:32.0 | and my cousin was talking about how he had had |
| 0:35.4 | a scary colonoscopy where they found polyps and I flash back to my own |
| 0:41.6 | colonoscopy my first and only colonoscopy. |
| 0:45.0 | And I never written this down or really dwell on it, |
| 0:48.0 | where, you know, that kind of put you under. |
| 0:50.0 | And I remember liking the doctor, and I remember liking the doctor and I remember when it was done the nurse coming over and saying |
| 0:57.4 | you're fine you can go home and I said can I say a goodbye to the doctor he was really |
| 1:01.7 | nice talking to him and she said he doesn't want to talk to you. And I said, why not? She says, |
| 1:06.4 | you know the things you said to him? And I said, I said, what did I say? She said, well the thing that really |
| 1:11.8 | ticked him off was, you looked up and you said in the |
| 1:14.5 | middle of your colesby you said when you were a little boy did you imagine this is |
| 1:17.9 | what you'd be doing your whole life looking at people's buttholes or did you want to |
| 1:21.7 | be an astronaut? as |
| 1:25.0 | most people know Michael Lewis as the best-selling author of books like Moneyball, the big short, |
| 1:30.0 | home game, and the blindside. |
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