1276: Coltan Scrivner | The Evolutionary Logic of Morbid Curiosity

Jordan here. Before we start this show, I want to let you know this episode contains violence and some explicit themes, so no kids in the car for this one. And if you leave the kids in the car and you still play the episode, don't blame me when they have nightmares. Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger show. Darwin, of course, was famous for his theory of evolution.

He was a theorist. heard about this story from a zoologist named Alfred Brim who gave a story about these monkeys that he saw a snake inside of a bag. This was an experiment that he did. And a monkey would look inside the bag and scream and then another monkey would come up and look inside the bag and scream and run away. The other monkeys had to come up and see it because he survived.

That other monkey survived, he was fine, and he signaled danger, so I kinda want to know what that thing is, and that's a very similar thing to oh, this thing is terrible, you don't want to see it, but now I kinda do. Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the story's secrets. and skills of the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

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