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We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

Pop, Society & Culture, Culture, Games, Gadgets, News, Internet, Comedy, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Humans assign value to brands. Brands represent wealth, strength, and yes, sex. We are our brands. And for some rhesus macaques in a lab, one brand, Adidas, represents monkey genitalia. The researchers paired dominant male faces, subordinate male faces, and female hindquarters with some brand logos, then paired scrambled images with other brand logos. “We know how social rewards can be processed differently compared to primary rewards like food or water,” the study’s first author M. Yavuz Acikalin in the Stanford Graduate School of Business told Gizmodo. “Essentially, what this is looking at, ‘is can monkeys also associate the rewards with arbitrary stimuli, and create associations more directly though conditioning.’” Jeff and Anthony discuss monkeys and business.

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0:00.0	You ever see that movie Dr. Strange?
0:02.0	That's very good.
0:03.0	You know how he has that cape that helps him out?
0:05.0	Yeah, the magical cape that has sentience.
0:07.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's this magical cape and every time he's in trouble,
0:10.0	this magical cape comes and helps him out.
0:12.0	Cause he's a good dude and the cape likes what he's doing.
0:14.0	That's awesome! Yeah, you can kind of do that for this show.
0:16.0	What? You could be our magical cape?
0:18.0	You could be our magical cape and help us keep the show going and help us grow the show.
0:22.0	To find out how, go to patreon.com slash we have concerns.
0:25.0	Be our magical cape!
0:30.0	And we can be proud that we are literally the worst and have continued to be the worst.
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:38.0	To this very day, this is we have concerns.
0:40.0	Hi, Jeff Canada.
0:41.0	Hi, Anthony Carboni.
0:42.0	Hello, concerned citizens.
0:43.0	You know what they say, Anthony?
0:44.0	They say sex sells.
0:46.0	Hell yeah, they do.
0:47.0	Let's get paid.
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