The Nature of Fun, Part 3
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
What exactly is "fun" and how does it differ from other concepts related to quality and experience? Robert and Joe explore the question in this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Joel Stein. I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch. |
| 0:05.7 | It's moving from side to side. You're getting very sleepy. |
| 0:11.6 | Great. Now that I've hypnotized you against your will, you're going to start liking long-form journalism. |
| 0:16.2 | Like so much. You're going to listen to a podcast where the host interviews a writer about their long-form story every week. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm that host. |
| 0:25.0 | Listen to Story of the Week on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:30.3 | The world of chocolate has been turned upside down. |
| 0:32.9 | A very unusual situation. |
| 0:34.9 | You saw this tax of cash in an office. |
| 0:36.4 | Chocolate comes from the cacao tree, and recently, Variety's cacao, thought to have been lost centuries ago, were rediscovered in the Amazon. |
| 0:42.6 | There is no chocolate on there like this. |
| 0:45.2 | Now some chocolate makers are racing, deep into the jungle, to find the next game-changing chocolate. |
| 0:50.3 | And I'm coming along. |
| 0:51.5 | Okay, that was a very large crack it up. |
| 0:55.7 | Listen to the obsession that's wild chocolate on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:02.9 | Hi, I'm Ophira Eisenberg. I'm a comedian and a parent of the absurdity of telling jokes late at night and then waking up early with a small child in the morning. |
| 1:18.4 | I have a new podcast called Parenting is a joke. |
| 1:21.6 | I'll talk to other funny people who are also parents. |
| 1:25.0 | Will we be laughing? |
| 1:26.2 | Will we be crying? |
| 1:28.0 | Find out by listening to Parenting is a joke. |
| 1:30.6 | On the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
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