August 17, 2026 • 14 mins
In a totally unscripted, candid conversation, we ask one another: what is the weirdest thing you believe? It's a conversation bound to leave you a little surprised, confused, and maybe disappointed. Or maybe thinking about things a little differntly. What's the weirdest thing you believe?
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
You're listening to Why we do what we do. Welcome
to Why we do what we do?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Mini.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I'm your host Abraham and I'm your host Shane. We
are a psychology podcast. We talk about the things that
humans and non human animals do. And this is a
short format type of discussion where we just do a
quick get in there and have a conversation, then get
out of there, and these come out on Mondays. Our
full length discussions come out on Wednesdays. The short form,
(00:39):
we just take on a topic that we think we
can handle fairly quickly, and then you have some information
you can use. I guess, and this one's a little
bit off the beaten path, maybe the most off the
beaten path we've ever gone, because we have no notes.
I just wanted to engage Shane in a conversation that
I thought would be fun for other people to hear
and think about and maybe even have you, if you
(01:00):
would like, have an opportunity to weigh in with your
own thoughts about this thing that we're going to talk about.
But before I get into that, thank you all for
joining us. Glad that you're here.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
If you're here for the.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
First time, then you're in for a treat because this
is just very different from how we normally do our discussions.
Although maybe if you aren't seeing the fact that we
do have notes that we refer to the fact that
you just would won't be in a different at all.
But if you're a returning person and welcome back, I
hope that you continue to find joy and the things
that we are creating for you. And either way, if
(01:30):
you would like to support us, you can leave us
a rating and a review like subscribe, tell a friend,
join us on Patreon, and I will talk more about
those things at the end of this discussion. But it's
a mini So are we ready to dive into this
or do you have anything you'd like to add in
preamble before we get going?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
No, I think I'm ready to get into it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Okay, great, So Shane does not know what we're doing,
and that's okay. Now that do you listener? So this
discussion is a question kind of I would like to
start by you and then I'll weigh and myself. So
I would like to and take whatever time you need.
We'll cut all the silent stuff if there's a lot
of it. But I want to ask you, Shane, what
(02:10):
do you think is the weirdest thing that you believe,
and you can think about this however you want, Like
whatever is the first thing that pops into your head,
you can use that. I've asked people this question and
sometimes they go with like a conspiracy theory they believe
or something. Yeah, but it's sort of like the thing
about which you know you have the least like evidence
(02:32):
for it, but you kind of just believe it anyway.
Maybe you just want to believe it but you don't
actually believe it, or maybe it's something you really do believe,
but you also know that you're kind of just like
you're kind of alone on an island.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
On this belief Okay, yeah, yeah, I don't know that
I'm alone in these beliefs.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I think there's two that stand out to me.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
One's a little bit more like day to day personal,
and then the other one's like kind of bigger.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Okay, I like it.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
But the one I think I believe, I think, you know,
on a on a like a daily level, I believe
in like superstitious like totems like I believe that like
like I can't help but be like this is my
good luck charm essentially. Okay, and I think about that
or like good luck rituals, like I think that those
are like real things.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's a baseball player in you.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It's the baseball player, I mean one hundred percent, and
I know that it's like and I know that that's
not the case, Like that's not at all what happens.
Like I don't, like, you know, tap the plate three
times and I no, I know I'm going to get
a hit.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
There's nothing reliable there.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And I know I know what happens in the real world,
but I still believe it and I still practice those things,
you know, which I think is fun.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And the other one, I think that's the bigger one,
is that I don't believe that aliens or supernatural or
paranormal experiences are because of creatures that exist on our
planet of existence. I think that they're from a parallel dimension.
Like I think that it's unrealistic to think that they're
coming from other planets or or that ghost surreal. I
think that there's something that's happening that's like more likely
(03:56):
a parallel dimension, which and I would back that up
by saying that like they're there's maybe some quantum physics
that could possibly explain some parts of that, But you know,
I'm just like, that's just as a fun belief that
has no bearing on my world except for.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Like, Eh, you saw a ghost. Are you sure it
wasn't somebody from.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The Earth next door? You know, So that's probably That's
probably where I would come from.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So for the big one, I would call the big
one the latter one that you shared. To be clear,
you're you're sort of saying that people have had like
real experiences, but the explanation for their experience is a
parallel dimension or like universe or something.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
To me, that's the most this is gonna sound crazy,
this is that's the most parsimonious explanation.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I think.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I think I think it's the most parsimonious explanation besides cryptids.
I mean, we talked about cryptids, but like, I think
paranormal exposure, like like people who experience ghosts or like
aliens or like have been abducted. I think part of
that conversation is, like, does it make more sense that
an alien came from another part of the galaxy like
and has that level of advanced technology, or maybe it
just so happens.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
The veil between realities is thinner here.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Do you feel like that's more parsimonious than like people
like just sometimes they have psychological issues and experiences that
are subjective and unique to them, and just it looked
very strange and unique, but wasn't actually anything.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I think I think it's more let me say it
like this, I think it's more encompassing.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I think that when you have aliens and unidentified flying objects,
and then you have skin walkers, and then you have
like abductions, and you have weird cryptis that nobody can explain,
and you have all ghosts and all those things, I
think all of that is better explained through parallel dimensions.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
But also I don't hold I don't hold that so heavily,
like I don't hold it, just to be clear, I
don't hold that to a degree where I'm like, if
you if you catch me at a bar, I'm going
to be like, did you know that there's parile dimensions?
I'm like, this is fun. I'm like, I go, this
is fun, and I go I want another explanation, but
this is a fun thing for me to kind of
like this makes the most sense to me in this
in this context, you.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Know, Honestly, part of the fun I've had with this
conversation is like people who I know are very smart,
accomplished people who will say wild things to me that
I'm like, wow, I would have never ever landed there.
But it's like it's fun to hear someone have like
that kind of conviction and like thoughts around it and
then actually like go through and sort of justify it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I really don't begrudge people having these beliefs, even if
(06:33):
I don't share them, And I think that people will
also disagree with the things that I believe. Yeah, and
so's it's just been a fun exercise, all right. So
then I'm gonna turn the question on myself and I'm
gonna ask what I think the weirdest thing I believe
in this? And part of the reason I wanted to
ask other people is because I feel like I've reflected
on this myself and been like, this feels like again,
I'm maybe a little bit alone in this, which is
(06:54):
that I don't like ads, but I actually know that
I'm not allow on that's that's everybody who's ever lived,
We're back. I know that that's not a weird. That's
not a weird thing that I believe. That is how everybody.
Everybody feels you're weird. If you like ads, that would
(07:15):
be the weirdest thing. Actually, yeah, that would have been a.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Much mob straight way.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah yeah, oh well, I didn't want to be dishonest.
I guess Okay. The weirdest thing that I believe. I'm
going to go also in the route that you went
is I'm going to go with like the low steaks
sort of one and then go to the one that
I actually was thinking of when I was sort of
doing the reflection one. So the low stakes one is
that I believe, or at least it makes sense to
(07:37):
me that a lot of the people who have sort
of who were critics of Donald Trump and flipped to
being like unapologetic sycophants. I think they're being squeezed or
leaned on somehow, like they've got they're either being threatened
or they're being promised something or both of those things
where they get like some kind of financial windfall or
(08:00):
some protections, or they're like or they're being blackmailed like crazy,
or again both of those things are true at the
same time. Like JD Vance, I feel like who used
to be a critic of Donald Trump. I'm like, like
Donald Trump is like got his kid in like a
prison of the gun pointed at their head or something
like this. Like this guy went from being like I
would have disagreed with him on basically everything, but he
(08:22):
actually seemed like he maybe had thoughts in his brain
to now he seems like he is just a tumor
growing off of the butt of Donald Trump, just saying
whatever Donald Trump's butt is thinking, yeah, which is a
lot more than his brain is usually thinking, but it
is is his butt piece. Yeah, And so he just
he just is an unapologetic sickophant of Donald Trump now
(08:43):
And that was a very jarring sort of switch for him.
And so I'm like, they've got something on this guy.
And I feel like there's like a handful of people
who sort of are in a similar position. And I
think that's actually not the most parsionoious explanation for what's
going on. Most likely it's that people are just like
I just need to get on board or else like
I'm going to get attacked, and so they're just like
they're just getting on board because they feel like it's expeditious.
(09:05):
But the thing I think is I'm like they've got
some pressure that's been put on them in some capacity. Sure, Sure,
that's the small thing, all right. The big thing I
believe because anybody who has thoughts in their brain doesn't
support Donald Trump, You like, you have to be so
unbelievably stupid, like just a pile of rocks looks like
a genius next to you if you are still supporting
(09:25):
this person after this amount of right anyway, The thing
that I actually think of, which almost feels like it's
going to contradict the first thing I said that is
the weirdest thing I believe is I think that human
beings are generally good. I think that they generally are
trying to do the right thing and are trying to
be good people pretty much all of the time. Yea,
And people are gonna hear that, and they're gonna say, yeah, button,
(09:47):
then give me five examples why I'm wrong. And I
think what you you didn't hear me say four times
already is generally good.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Generally does not mean always, It means most of the time.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
But there are people out there who I think they
want to cause harm because they enjoy causing harm. But
I think that most of the time, the vast, vast,
vast majority of people, like ninety nine point nine percent
of people are generally trying to do the right thing
and do good and be good people most of the time.
And what that looks like to them looks like evil
to someone else. Sure, like the people who are religious
(10:21):
zealous who go around killing people in the name of
their religion, to them, they think they're doing good. Now,
I don't think that what they're doing is good, but
I think that to them, they think that they're doing
the right thing. And I think that for most people,
they feel like they're trying to do the right thing
right most of the time, and that they're they're generally
doing good. And that's a thing where again, people try
(10:42):
and every day I think the news gives me evidence
of why I'm wrong about that, and they really test
me and my belief about this thing. They're testing your faith,
they're testing my faith, yes, a lot. But that is
to me, the weirdest thing that I think that I
still believe is that people are generally good, and they're
generally trying to do good, and they're generally trying to
help each other do the right thing.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, you know what, I think though, like that belief.
I think that if because I believe that too, and
I think that there is like I think that it's
sad to think that that would be a weird thing
like that most people wouldn't also believe that, you know
what I mean. Like, I think if most people believe
that everybody was trying to do good, I think everybody
would be much kinder to each other in the world
(11:21):
at large and like, you know, in their day to
day interactions. So it's just it's kind of unfortunate that
that's not a more common belief, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, I do think that there are a lot of
people who navigate the world with the assumption that generally
people are trying to do harm and would cut your
throat as soon as look at you to get ahead
in whatever situation. I'm like, I just don't think that
that's how people operate. I just don't think it is.
I think that there are people that operate that way,
for sure, but I think that is that is the exception,
not the norm, Right. I think the vast majority of
(11:50):
people are going to are going to do the right
thing and try and try and help each other out. Yeah,
So that's the where I's thing. I believe some of
the people I have asked this though, have given me
really great answers that I would love to share. But
this is a mini and we're kind of already at
the time we'd like to spend on a mini, so
I'd like to just pull our audience. If you have
something you would like to share about what you think
is the weirdest thing you believe, we would certainly love
(12:11):
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Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, it's good times.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's such a great thought experiment, Like it's such a
great question to make you really think about, like, what
is it that I do believe, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, yeah, some people believe in crystals. Some people believe
in ghosts. Some people believe in the phases of the
moon having some kind of impact on our personality. There's
all kinds of things that weird people believe and they
kind of know deep down, they're like, this isn't true,
but I believe it anyway, Like I want to believe
that this is the case, even if I don't really
have any evidence for it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, and so that's.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It's just meant to be fun, that's all.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Mini.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I'm your host Abraham and I'm your host Shane. We
are a psychology podcast. We talk about the things that
humans and non human animals do. And this is a
short format type of discussion where we just do a
quick get in there and have a conversation, then get
out of there, and these come out on Mondays. Our
full length discussions come out on Wednesdays. The short form,
(00:39):
we just take on a topic that we think we
can handle fairly quickly, and then you have some information
you can use. I guess, and this one's a little
bit off the beaten path, maybe the most off the
beaten path we've ever gone, because we have no notes.
I just wanted to engage Shane in a conversation that
I thought would be fun for other people to hear
and think about and maybe even have you, if you
(01:00):
would like, have an opportunity to weigh in with your
own thoughts about this thing that we're going to talk about.
But before I get into that, thank you all for
joining us. Glad that you're here.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
If you're here for the.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
First time, then you're in for a treat because this
is just very different from how we normally do our discussions.
Although maybe if you aren't seeing the fact that we
do have notes that we refer to the fact that
you just would won't be in a different at all.
But if you're a returning person and welcome back, I
hope that you continue to find joy and the things
that we are creating for you. And either way, if
(01:30):
you would like to support us, you can leave us
a rating and a review like subscribe, tell a friend,
join us on Patreon, and I will talk more about
those things at the end of this discussion. But it's
a mini So are we ready to dive into this
or do you have anything you'd like to add in
preamble before we get going?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
No, I think I'm ready to get into it.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Okay, great, So Shane does not know what we're doing,
and that's okay. Now that do you listener? So this
discussion is a question kind of I would like to
start by you and then I'll weigh and myself. So
I would like to and take whatever time you need.
We'll cut all the silent stuff if there's a lot
of it. But I want to ask you, Shane, what
(02:10):
do you think is the weirdest thing that you believe,
and you can think about this however you want, Like
whatever is the first thing that pops into your head,
you can use that. I've asked people this question and
sometimes they go with like a conspiracy theory they believe
or something. Yeah, but it's sort of like the thing
about which you know you have the least like evidence
(02:32):
for it, but you kind of just believe it anyway.
Maybe you just want to believe it but you don't
actually believe it, or maybe it's something you really do believe,
but you also know that you're kind of just like
you're kind of alone on an island.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
On this belief Okay, yeah, yeah, I don't know that
I'm alone in these beliefs.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
I think there's two that stand out to me.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
One's a little bit more like day to day personal,
and then the other one's like kind of bigger.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Okay, I like it.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
But the one I think I believe, I think, you know,
on a on a like a daily level, I believe
in like superstitious like totems like I believe that like
like I can't help but be like this is my
good luck charm essentially. Okay, and I think about that
or like good luck rituals, like I think that those
are like real things.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's a baseball player in you.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
It's the baseball player, I mean one hundred percent, and
I know that it's like and I know that that's
not the case, Like that's not at all what happens.
Like I don't, like, you know, tap the plate three
times and I no, I know I'm going to get
a hit.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
There's nothing reliable there.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And I know I know what happens in the real world,
but I still believe it and I still practice those things,
you know, which I think is fun.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
And the other one, I think that's the bigger one,
is that I don't believe that aliens or supernatural or
paranormal experiences are because of creatures that exist on our
planet of existence. I think that they're from a parallel dimension.
Like I think that it's unrealistic to think that they're
coming from other planets or or that ghost surreal. I
think that there's something that's happening that's like more likely
(03:56):
a parallel dimension, which and I would back that up
by saying that like they're there's maybe some quantum physics
that could possibly explain some parts of that, But you know,
I'm just like, that's just as a fun belief that
has no bearing on my world except for.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Like, Eh, you saw a ghost. Are you sure it
wasn't somebody from.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
The Earth next door? You know, So that's probably That's
probably where I would come from.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
So for the big one, I would call the big
one the latter one that you shared. To be clear,
you're you're sort of saying that people have had like
real experiences, but the explanation for their experience is a
parallel dimension or like universe or something.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
To me, that's the most this is gonna sound crazy,
this is that's the most parsimonious explanation.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I think.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I think I think it's the most parsimonious explanation besides cryptids.
I mean, we talked about cryptids, but like, I think
paranormal exposure, like like people who experience ghosts or like
aliens or like have been abducted. I think part of
that conversation is, like, does it make more sense that
an alien came from another part of the galaxy like
and has that level of advanced technology, or maybe it
just so happens.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
The veil between realities is thinner here.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Do you feel like that's more parsimonious than like people
like just sometimes they have psychological issues and experiences that
are subjective and unique to them, and just it looked
very strange and unique, but wasn't actually anything.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I think I think it's more let me say it
like this, I think it's more encompassing.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
I think that when you have aliens and unidentified flying objects,
and then you have skin walkers, and then you have
like abductions, and you have weird cryptis that nobody can explain,
and you have all ghosts and all those things, I
think all of that is better explained through parallel dimensions.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
But also I don't hold I don't hold that so heavily,
like I don't hold it, just to be clear, I
don't hold that to a degree where I'm like, if
you if you catch me at a bar, I'm going
to be like, did you know that there's parile dimensions?
I'm like, this is fun. I'm like, I go, this
is fun, and I go I want another explanation, but
this is a fun thing for me to kind of
like this makes the most sense to me in this
in this context, you.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Know, Honestly, part of the fun I've had with this
conversation is like people who I know are very smart,
accomplished people who will say wild things to me that
I'm like, wow, I would have never ever landed there.
But it's like it's fun to hear someone have like
that kind of conviction and like thoughts around it and
then actually like go through and sort of justify it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I really don't begrudge people having these beliefs, even if
(06:33):
I don't share them, And I think that people will
also disagree with the things that I believe. Yeah, and
so's it's just been a fun exercise, all right. So
then I'm gonna turn the question on myself and I'm
gonna ask what I think the weirdest thing I believe
in this? And part of the reason I wanted to
ask other people is because I feel like I've reflected
on this myself and been like, this feels like again,
I'm maybe a little bit alone in this, which is
(06:54):
that I don't like ads, but I actually know that
I'm not allow on that's that's everybody who's ever lived,
We're back. I know that that's not a weird. That's
not a weird thing that I believe. That is how everybody.
Everybody feels you're weird. If you like ads, that would
(07:15):
be the weirdest thing. Actually, yeah, that would have been a.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Much mob straight way.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah yeah, oh well, I didn't want to be dishonest.
I guess Okay. The weirdest thing that I believe. I'm
going to go also in the route that you went
is I'm going to go with like the low steaks
sort of one and then go to the one that
I actually was thinking of when I was sort of
doing the reflection one. So the low stakes one is
that I believe, or at least it makes sense to
(07:37):
me that a lot of the people who have sort
of who were critics of Donald Trump and flipped to
being like unapologetic sycophants. I think they're being squeezed or
leaned on somehow, like they've got they're either being threatened
or they're being promised something or both of those things
where they get like some kind of financial windfall or
(08:00):
some protections, or they're like or they're being blackmailed like crazy,
or again both of those things are true at the
same time. Like JD Vance, I feel like who used
to be a critic of Donald Trump. I'm like, like
Donald Trump is like got his kid in like a
prison of the gun pointed at their head or something
like this. Like this guy went from being like I
would have disagreed with him on basically everything, but he
(08:22):
actually seemed like he maybe had thoughts in his brain
to now he seems like he is just a tumor
growing off of the butt of Donald Trump, just saying
whatever Donald Trump's butt is thinking, yeah, which is a
lot more than his brain is usually thinking, but it
is is his butt piece. Yeah, And so he just
he just is an unapologetic sickophant of Donald Trump now
(08:43):
And that was a very jarring sort of switch for him.
And so I'm like, they've got something on this guy.
And I feel like there's like a handful of people
who sort of are in a similar position. And I
think that's actually not the most parsionoious explanation for what's
going on. Most likely it's that people are just like
I just need to get on board or else like
I'm going to get attacked, and so they're just like
they're just getting on board because they feel like it's expeditious.
(09:05):
But the thing I think is I'm like they've got
some pressure that's been put on them in some capacity. Sure, Sure,
that's the small thing, all right. The big thing I
believe because anybody who has thoughts in their brain doesn't
support Donald Trump, You like, you have to be so
unbelievably stupid, like just a pile of rocks looks like
a genius next to you if you are still supporting
(09:25):
this person after this amount of right anyway, The thing
that I actually think of, which almost feels like it's
going to contradict the first thing I said that is
the weirdest thing I believe is I think that human
beings are generally good. I think that they generally are
trying to do the right thing and are trying to
be good people pretty much all of the time. Yea,
And people are gonna hear that, and they're gonna say, yeah, button,
(09:47):
then give me five examples why I'm wrong. And I
think what you you didn't hear me say four times
already is generally good.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Generally does not mean always, It means most of the time.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
But there are people out there who I think they
want to cause harm because they enjoy causing harm. But
I think that most of the time, the vast, vast,
vast majority of people, like ninety nine point nine percent
of people are generally trying to do the right thing
and do good and be good people most of the time.
And what that looks like to them looks like evil
to someone else. Sure, like the people who are religious
(10:21):
zealous who go around killing people in the name of
their religion, to them, they think they're doing good. Now,
I don't think that what they're doing is good, but
I think that to them, they think that they're doing
the right thing. And I think that for most people,
they feel like they're trying to do the right thing
right most of the time, and that they're they're generally
doing good. And that's a thing where again, people try
(10:42):
and every day I think the news gives me evidence
of why I'm wrong about that, and they really test
me and my belief about this thing. They're testing your faith,
they're testing my faith, yes, a lot. But that is
to me, the weirdest thing that I think that I
still believe is that people are generally good, and they're
generally trying to do good, and they're generally trying to
help each other do the right thing.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yeah, you know what, I think though, like that belief.
I think that if because I believe that too, and
I think that there is like I think that it's
sad to think that that would be a weird thing
like that most people wouldn't also believe that, you know
what I mean. Like, I think if most people believe
that everybody was trying to do good, I think everybody
would be much kinder to each other in the world
(11:21):
at large and like, you know, in their day to
day interactions. So it's just it's kind of unfortunate that
that's not a more common belief, you know.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, I do think that there are a lot of
people who navigate the world with the assumption that generally
people are trying to do harm and would cut your
throat as soon as look at you to get ahead
in whatever situation. I'm like, I just don't think that
that's how people operate. I just don't think it is.
I think that there are people that operate that way,
for sure, but I think that is that is the exception,
not the norm, Right. I think the vast majority of
(11:50):
people are going to are going to do the right
thing and try and try and help each other out. Yeah,
So that's the where I's thing. I believe some of
the people I have asked this though, have given me
really great answers that I would love to share. But
this is a mini and we're kind of already at
the time we'd like to spend on a mini, so
I'd like to just pull our audience. If you have
something you would like to share about what you think
is the weirdest thing you believe, we would certainly love
(12:11):
to hear that. And if you want us to share
this as part of like a listener mail, we're happy
to do that too, assuming it's not something that's like
so outlandish that it could like actually cause some harm
in some people. But if you would like to tell us,
feel free to reach out to us. You can email
us directly at info at wwdwwdpodcast dot com. Again, that's
info at wwdwwdpodcast dot com, or you can reach us
(12:32):
on the social media platforms. And we would love to
hear from you about this silly tripic that I decided
to take on today.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Yeah, it's good times.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's such a great thought experiment, Like it's such a
great question to make you really think about, like, what
is it that I do believe, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, yeah, some people believe in crystals. Some people believe
in ghosts. Some people believe in the phases of the
moon having some kind of impact on our personality. There's
all kinds of things that weird people believe and they
kind of know deep down, they're like, this isn't true,
but I believe it anyway, Like I want to believe
that this is the case, even if I don't really
have any evidence for it.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, and so that's.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
It's just meant to be fun, that's all.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
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Speaker 2 (13:48):
Uh No, I think we're good perfect.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Thank you all for listening. This is Abraham and this
is Shane. Why we Do what we Do? Mini is out.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Bye.
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