🎬 CUTTING ROOM FLOOR: Default Mode Processing (Podcast Exclusive)

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, everybody, it's time for Chauncey and Amanda's cutting room
for Yeah yeah, Chelsea and Amanda's cut a room for.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Cutting room floor.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hey, hey, hey, ready for more?

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Get ready everybody, Here is some more of Chauncey and
Amanda's cutting room floor.

Speaker 5 (00:24):
On the cutting room floor, we find raw dogging back
in the news.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Raw dogging back in the news. I saw this woman.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
I think she's part historian, part scientists, socialist, not socialist
as a social scientist. She's brilliant, and she is talking
about the idea of sitting and doing nothing.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
That's what raw dogging is.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
And for many people, you think, I'd like nothing more
than to sit and do nothing, just be alone with
my thoughts. What a treasure, what a treat it would be.
But when it comes to the crunch, not many of
us can do it.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Have a listen.

Speaker 6 (00:56):
I think the Internet calls it raw dogging, but scientists
call it default processing, which is essentially what your brain
is doing when there is nothing else going on, you've
got no distractions whatsoever. There this whole bunch of experiments
where they got people to sit in a room in
silence on their own for fifteen minutes, and nine of
these studies, separate studies, would force it effectively that people

(01:18):
didn't like it. They didn't like it at all. And
then tenth to study took it a step further. They
wanted to see whether we would rather do something unpleasant
than nothing at all.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
So they took a group of people did.

Speaker 6 (01:30):
A questionnaire and they all indicated that they would not
like to receive an electric shock.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
In fact, they would pay money to not be shocked. Right.

Speaker 6 (01:39):
And then what they did is they got them into
a room on their own, with nothing to entertain themselves
apart from their thoughts for fifteen minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Which I don't think is very long.

Speaker 6 (01:50):
But there was a button in there that they could
press if they wanted to, that would give them.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
An electric shock. Now, of all of the women sitting in.

Speaker 6 (02:04):
There they managed to live through these fifteen minutes, only
twenty five percent of women chose to press that button.
Of the men, sixty seven percent, sixty seven percent chose
to give themselves an electric shark rather than sit in silence.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
WHOA, what would you do, Brenda?

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I think I pressed the button. I would say, press
the button.

Speaker 5 (02:26):
I can't people talk about like meditation and all that
sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
I reckon.

Speaker 5 (02:30):
I'm good for about three minutes of just total quiet
sitting there, I'd go nuts. If I was in jail,
I would go nuts.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
I think i'd press it, not because I'd be bored,
but I've got this weird thing where I want to
be tasted. Where if I see a sign saying we're paint,
I have to touch it.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
If someone says, yuck, this smells disgusting, I have to
sniff it.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
Oh, you would have loved the other day, in my
neighbor Gaz his freezer broke down.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Gas is a keen fisherman, and it was his bait freezer.
The smell was indescribably.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
I don't think i'd have liked it. But if he
said to me, I've got a small sample of this,
have a sniff.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Remember you may have Years ago here we had a
product called liquid ass.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
And it was that's.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
What scientists are spending their time making.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
It was a bottle of liquors smelling yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
And people would put it under your seat or something
and it smelt like homeless bottom.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Yea bottom that I don't know where you're I don't
know where you're hanging out to get this smell. But
nonetheless it was and I would say that this baits
gas is broken down.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Bait freezer was on par with liquid ass.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Do you think you could get it as a perfume?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Liquid ass? Get it now?

Speaker 5 (03:52):
But Gazs is an old fisherman, and he said to me,
coming come in here, and I walked in, I went
and I heaved, and.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
He said, what's the matter with you? It's bloody great,
nice gas. I can't talk to you. I've got to
leave this room.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
I'm a big dry reacher. That's Jack Rich's brother. Yeah,
but I'm fascinated by mankey things you are. I don't
like them, but I have a fascination. I'd have pressed that.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
If you and I'm celebrity, get me out of here.
You just beat it for the long drop.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
I been it for the long drop and for the tasty.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
Food camel sayin as anyone, yes, please, Okay, that's it.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
To day, come back tomorrow for more. John c and
a van that's cut a room for