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(Auto-generated)Welcome to the Laughing Matters Podcast. I am W.S. Walker and you found me. And that's

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good because boy do I have something to tell you. So what is the Laughing Matters Podcast

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about? Well, 10 years ago on the school grounds of APSU, I made a massive discovery. You

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see for centuries, one of the questions that the biggest brains in the business have thrown

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their hats into the ring of has been the almost nebulous elusive answer to why is it that

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we laugh? What is the purpose of humor? Why is who? And this one's a big one. Why is it

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that something is funny? Now, admittedly, I was messing around with stand up and doing

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a comedy podcast at the time, but it's a story. It's a whole story. And this discovery was

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so massive that I wound up a student at APSU in the middle of a blizzard in 2011, walked

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out with only the clothes on my back and a satchel with like two blank books in it. But

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that's I'll explain all that. Walked out in the middle of a blizzard, no wallet, nothing

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in my pockets and headed in the nearest direction. I don't know how better to put it. I struggled

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with this knowledge for almost nine months, concerned that I had gone crazy because I

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understood something to be absolutely true, but nobody had ever said it before. It made

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complete sense. And every time I follow an aspect of it down the rabbit hole, I find

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out new truths to other things and how it connects to these things. And it's a rabbit

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hole, but it all makes sense. It all connects together and it all supports one another as

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well as with the stuff that's all around you that you've known your whole life. It plugs

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in perfectly. And as somebody who did quite a bit of time studying physics, if the math's

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right, not to mention when I did talk to people about it and explained what I'd found, it

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made sense to them. And it, well, you'll hear a quote from one of them in a moment here,

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but it made sense. Anyways, I left out in the middle of that snowstorm in 2011. It's

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now 10 years later and I am trying to tell the world what I found. Now, fair warning,

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guys, this is not for the faint of heart because I found a lot more than why we laugh. And

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also because a lot of it feels, so I'm told, and I'm trying to quote accurately, warmly,

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unnervingly, specifically accurate. It is a pretty massive sledgehammer right to the

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core of you when you learn some of this stuff, because it sheds light on an aspect of ourselves

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that we don't like to look at. But if I haven't scared you off yet, if you're out there still

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looking for answers, if you don't feel like you've completed your journey for understanding

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the world and yourself, then yeah, welcome to the Laughing Matters podcast. Let's get

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you some answers.