The Secret Words of Happiness

what makes a word happy this is tala. from superc Canada let's talk about. [Music]. [Applause]. that good mythical morning this episode. is brought to you by culas dcom that is. of course the guys with the goods they. got things like look at this thing whoa. they don't just have crazy gifts they've. got stuff that you could really impress. your children with this is like a scale. replica look at thing it just it.

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all of it I'm excited about today's. episode. because this is one of those episodes. where link has done some research right. we sent link off as a research person a. research excuse me he did some research. and he's going to bring it to us and I'm. just like you and you're going to be a. subject I'm just like you I don't know. what this is about I well I know it has. something to do with happy words but. that's all you know right now okay. listen this is this is this is the news. article that I found new research. suggest people have warmer feelings.

toward words certain words make them. happier the ones that use mostly letters. on the right side of the querty keyboard. now the querty keyboard is just your. normal keyboard ASDF J K LM top left and. spells out upper left letter spell. querty so what there's I'm familiar with. it I see it every day words with a lefty. bent are viewed as more negative the. researchers report online what do you. mean negative they're not as happy they.

don't make you as happy oh words that. you type predominantly with your right. hand on a quiry keyboard are words you. happier are words that you deem happier. not the typing of the words no it just. seeing the word out in public take the. keyboard out of the equation entirely. the words that people react to with a. more positive feeling I I guess the. words that make you happier I guess that. is what they're saying a words that as. it turns out just so happens you type.

them most of the letters the majority of. the letters with your right. hand researchers they ask volunteers to. rate their positive and negative. feelings regarding English Dutch and. Spanish words the researchers found that. no matter the language and no matter. whether the Raider was right or. left-handed people had more positive. feelings about words that mainly. involved right side keyboard letters. even if the words were made up this. sounds like a middle school science. project you know what I'm saying like.

last year I did a volcano and this year. it does sound crazy I'm going to do. happy and sad words I knew you were. going to say that and that's why we're. going to conduct a test but first just. to clarify i d dad can you help me. because I would like you to write the. entire thing my parents didn't help me. at all with science projects my well my. mom would give me resources how to do a. science project and then I would just. take one of those and we're going to do. one right here this is what I'm getting. at I'm going to ask I'm but before we do.

that I just want to make an observation. according if if this is true my name mm. as a word makes people happier than your. name I type my name entirely with my. right hand l i n k that may be true but. if I as a person make people happier. than you make people then it's just it's. all moot it's all balances out I'm not. making this personal right that's true. your your name as a word is not as happy. as my name now here's what I'm going to. do it does sound like I'm going to say. have anything to do with the way it. sounds or just the typing on a scale of.

1 to 10 Focus I want you to rate your. happiness a 10 being very happy zero I. need to start a completely neutral place. I don't need to be happy or sad just be. normal I have no emotions right. Hulk scale 1 to 10 happiness yes R. uh five five. swag. eight Jill don't don't think about how.

you type these things I I'm trusting you. not to do that make it quick Jill eight. Zach. two. plop. 10 fluffy. 10. looking. nine ask. Scott. three. milk 11 can it be a 10 okay 10.

damage I like six okay. loint it's like joint but with an L. uh four I like how you're really putting. your all into this. zerv eight like the name of an alien I. made those up junip also made that one. up. eight stoit.

six okay I'm going ask Jason to tabulate. these and then at the end we're going to. reveal whether your experience supports. the fact that happy your words are typed. with only your right hand I believe this. is true because I have never been. happier in my entire life as I was in. typing class in high school and. especially when I was typing with my. right hand I realized that I got really. happy that's just not true at all well. thinking back I have a lot of fine. memories we took tying class Miss padet.

nth grade and you know and there was. like it was an elective it was one of. the elective classes it was like what. should I take I'm going to take typing. because I heard that it's fun not I'm. going to take typing because I'm going. to need this later and listen we took. typing class on typewriters yeah this. was not Computer Applications course. which was like you had to take typing. before you could take that this was. literally a room full of typewriters. shout out to Harnet Central High School. and she would sit there and she would. Str around the room and she would say.

class ready position and she would get. she would say good posture one foot. slightly in front of the other hands on. theod that the feet what does the feet. have to do with it you got the the point. is to go to like 50 words per minute and. then she would say as d f j k l s return. and then and it would return we're we're. not as old as you think we are well I'm. just going to I'm just going to blame. harness Central for being a little bit. behind no we we would literally be given. a typewriter an electric typewriter and.

a thing of white out I have never been. happier do you remember that it would be. like here's your thing of white out make. it last all. semester yeah and You' have to reach up. there and we and it never crossed our. minds that this wasn't normal that we. were on typewriters because we never. been on a computer before and of course. Kenny would drink his and you know he. would have to mooch off people the rest. of the semester or snorted or something. L sim a s DF J K L sim yes I'm familiar. with it now I.

they start to theorize that maybe excuse. me I'm I'm getting a cough here don't. give it to me no I'll cough this way I'm. going to put up the shield the. fiberglass Shield I've been talking. about they theorize that your right hand. is is is in charge of less letters than. your left hand well that's clearly the. case because and that might make you. happier you've got RS and T on your left. hand and you've got a and e on your left. hand those are those vows are used more. often there's no doubt that you use the. left hand more it's 15 letters uh with. your left hand versus 11 for your right.

hand so people think that maybe you just. get happier did you also know that. there's a whole other keyboard layout. that is not used by anyone but it's. severely more efficient I saw a book. about this one time uh dvorac didn't. read it I saw it the dvorac keyboard has. a you know if you just typed on it. without looking it' give you gibberish. but if you looked at the letters on. there it wouldn't be ASDF J KLM the home. row was designed that your left hand had. all the vowels on the home. and then your right hand had the most.

commonly used consonants and it was. extremely more efficient I mean you. could get to 203 words per minute why. aren't we doing this because we're human. and we don't like to change this guy. died he invented it a long time ago but. this guy died being frustrated because. we don't like we don't like and I'm I'm. not going to reveal the this like we. don't like change the Facebook change oh. timeline sucks know do you know do you.

know why the keyboard is the way it is. this is this is a teachable moment for. you people I know because the man who. invented it was his first his nickname. in high school was querty NOP he wanted. to he wanted to memorialize himself no. they call me quty that should be a song. back in the days of typewriters you know. where the you'd strike a letter and it. would go up like a mallet and hit just. like on a piano they could they had to. space out the letters physically so that. the most common used letters would be. far enough part so they wouldn't get.

tangled up that the Hammers wouldn't get. tangled up that's what determined our. keyboard and now we're subject to it we. should do this divor act thing but you. start well we have to like start a. movement in order to do that well let's. start a movement that we're not. participating in because I just can't. take time to learn the new configuration. yeah who who who came up with that idea. they say it's a lot easier if it ain't. broke don't fix it ladies and gentlemen. the proof is in the pudding right here. your happy on the scale of uh happiness. here I don't know what the total is I.

can add it up but you scored your left. hand scored a. 43 and your right hand scored a. 54 happiness quotient I think it was. just 43 to 54 C just you know. circumstance coincidence it's it's proof. it's proof that my name not not me. personally or rep personally but my name. is a happier name now they also said. that if you they said this is something. people can keep in mind if they're. developing products you develop names of. products or companies that are more with.

the right hand because it'll make people. happier so just in passing here here's a. few that I came up with I wrote him down. Moon milk all right hand wouldn't you I. drink that is it green is it made a. cheese I'm just coming up with the name. of it and taking a cut okay would you. use the unim. mop is that just a mop with one thing on. the end of it you tell me the plumia pop. would you lick the plom pop depends on. where it.

been what have would you buy a pool. Clooney I need it would need to be. explained to me it's a Clooney that you. use in your pool and would you. participate in a class of Hill kill po. it's like a a new form of taekwan do of. course because you type it with your. right hand but what about Zumba and Taio. I I'm regular I'm regularly. participating in those things yog but. when you hear it you're not. happy it's like when I hear gun range I. get anxious how are we going to end this.

episode high note and low note this is. when I make the lowest note I can make. and you make the high I've been waiting. on this when ever since it was put up. let's say something like see you. tomorrow okay three two one see you. tomorrow. [Applause]. [Music]. that's not making me happy that's not.

making me happy at all no it's not I. don't care how you spell it it's torture. for everyone. [Music]. [Applause]. [Music].