Are you an information addict? | Don McMillan Comedy
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What do you get when you cross an Engineer with a stand-up comedian? You get Don McMillan. This former chip designer has been doing his one-of-a-kind, PowerPoint-Driven comedy show for audiences for over 20 years. In his show packed with graphs & charts, Don will show you the funny side of your world that has been sitting right in front of you - you are just too busy working to notice. Don graduated from Stanford University with a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. He then went to work at AT&T Bell Labs where he was part of the team that designed the world’s first 32-bit microprocessor. He then moved to Silicon Valley where he helped launch the start-up company, VLSI Technology. Then after 15 years in the tech world, Don quit his job to become a stand-up comedian. That year he won $100,000 as the Comedy Grand Champion on “Star Search”. Don’s been seen on “The Tonight Show”, “HBO”, and the “Comedy Central”. These days, Don spends most of his time writing and performing customized corporate comedy shows for companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Ford Motors, and Exxon/Mobil. Don has performed more than 800 corporate shows in the last 20 years and he was named the #1 Corporate Comedian by the CBS Business Network. - Komedie
I think that we've entered the age of "the wrong information". Say you are shopping for something and want to find a technical spec for it, what are the odds the the manufacturer or supplier will give you that information without an hour of trawling through their website, if ever?
With that example, it depends on how good you are at finding the information, along with who the manufacturer is. If it's a generic item, you can probably find the specs pretty easily. If it's an obscure item, you can find them on the right forums and on things like manualowl. If it's an Apple product, you might find it if you work for them, but even then they'll only send you the part of the spec for the specific part you work on and not the entire product. (This is actually becoming more common too... I work in a technical field and my manuals that shipped with the panel used to tell you everything about the part, now they only come with the details about the specific bit that they think is relevant to you installing it, and if something doesn't add up you have to call tech support.)
I think the problem is that we've been fed disinformation for a long time as marketers have skewed information to fit their narratives in order to sell us shit. Now we have information debunking all their bullshit, but it isn't easy to change people's beliefs. Especially if it is something they have believed for a very long time. It takes a lot of time and energy, and most people are comfortable in their delusions.
So we live in the age of information conflict. Where it's up to each individual to try and figure out the truth. The problem is people tend to search for information that supports their beliefs and ignore the information that challenges it.
We should all be keeping a careful eye on the information we consume, just as much as the food we consume. However, no matter how vigilant you are, something will eventually slip through the net.
A few weeks ago we were shopping for a new vacuum cleaner, the manufacturer didn't even bother putting the airflow in the product description, nor the manual. And it was a pretty well known brand !
We ended up buying it with the only information about airflow being a costumer review saying that it works well. And it indeed does.
It's not wrong though, remember this is the age of "alternative facts", where if you don't like real facts you just get to pick and choose your own.
Life is now a big choose your own adventure book where your fingers slip off the previous page before you know if you choose right or not, and even if you do choose wrong, just blame a group of people that you don't belong to so you can pretend you chose right anyway and if it goes badly it's someone else's fault.
The odds are 🟠%.
5:32 Took the engineers long enough to figure out that bags need wheels.
Yup, they should've left it to the bean-counters instead, like Boeing does....
Stone age
When you were talking about the “age of too much information”, that reminded me of a joke I heard: If you have a question about something today, you will say, “Well, let’s Google it!”. But before the internet, if you had a question about something, you’d look at each other and shrug and say, “Welp, we may NEVER know!” (Because though you sometimes had access to information such as encyclopedias, you would either forget to look it up when you had the time and had the encyclopedias available, or you simply didn’t care enough to look the information up!)
I feel like that's more of a statement than a joke, still true though.
Like Shazam. You think of an idea or question, if you're connected, you google it on the spot. Otherwise, you wait until you arrive at home to do it.
It also depends on the interest on the subject being questioned.
If you are interested in a topic generally you would ask, and still would ask as many people as you can to get your question answered because you want it answered. It just depends.
The problem we had with encyclopedias, was knowing where to look for the answer. Do you look under "S" for Saturn or "P" for Planet?
I believe humour has been there since the birth of humanity and thus, it's nearly impossible to be original, but you are original.
Siri is actually a common Norwegian girls name.
That Paris Hilton joke would for sure be a Kardashian joke today
We're watching this in 2024 and until he dropped the year at the end, I was just happy to follow along. But, yeah, 11 years later and Paris is a mom. My parents had a car with seatbelts when I was a kid and they told all of us 4 boys that the car couldn't (or wouldn't) move until we were all buckled in. The food stuff oh yeah we all loved those battles. At some point it was said that the food dye that made licorice and jelly beans black was bad for you. My mom's answer was "So I die a week earlier." Well, she died a week before her 91st birthday.
For those who expect, AI to change things in the world, the AI's are subjected to the same issues, and people using AI's will find that their AI's are being manipulated by folks who are also subjected to the same issues. I strongly suspect that rather than the future being affected by Artificial Intelligence, we need to factor in artificial stupidity, artificial deceit, and artificial manipulation.
The scariest thing about A.I. is if it learns how to treat people from people.
@@maxpayne2574 There is nothing scary about AI at all. And the only respectable thing is it _may_ be better at knowing when to use an apostrophe than a human. Or it may not.
GIGO
@@jovetj The scary thing is that since we haven't completely programmed it by hand, there may be a flaw that may only appear in a niche senario. It applies to everything, but it will be much more common with AI.
@@lightergreen It will actually have more niche flaws.
He doesn't know how right he is about "The Rev1" and "Rev 2" lol
Don, you are soooo funny!
absolutely hilarious
I miss Fry's Electronics, spend a lot of my teenage time there.
The stores were great.
Circuit city for me
As a nerd I love this guys act.
1:33 I named them Alice, Bob and Charlie, how many points do I have?
I dont know. Are you sure the was no man-in-the-middle?
4:11 I don't know my total because not all questions were relevant to me! Additionally, IDK if I can do multiple choice for the Fry's one...
Oh, if you have to pick two answers, you just add all the points, then double them.
Hilarious!
OMG! You are incredible.... You would make one heck of a TV Evangelist! Send us your credit card information😂😂
Honey boo boo is like a "point of no return" kind of thing.
5:48 I was about to say Air Bags.
We put man on the moon before we put wheels on suitcases.
Would we have ever made it to the moon if men weren't strong enough to lift entire suitcases though?
Great and funny video! Actually a very interesting and true graph at 5:10 too. Ty
P.S.: Egg yolks are good for you. :)
great
HAHA! Honey Boo Boo!!
2:03 So, I thought I was 4 windows versions old, but I just did a quick cross-reference with Wikipedia. When I was born, the latest Windows version to have released was Anvil, I HOWEVER grew up using Win 7. Mathematically, I am 10 Windows versions old (If we count version subnames, otherwise for major release versions, I am 6 versions old)
only major new versions count.
I wanted to name kids 1.1 and 1.2 so when I get married again I could continue 2.1 etc... 😔 idea was quickly shot down
I think the real problem is not that you can't make a decision, but that it takes a lot longer to make one because you have to sift through too much stuff now - which does result in many people just giving up and asking their Facebook friends or something instead and ultimately making their decision based on either popular vote or the first "expert's opinion" they found.
As much as this is funny and meant to be entertainment, he actually make some damn good points!
Fry's is sadly closed.
That's an awful lot of cache.
I prefer the phone book over google. With Google, I do not get local and get whoever paid to be at the top.
so this was from 10 years ago but u decided to upload it now?
It would be difficult to go back and upload it 10 years ago.
😆😆😆
At this point, I would say we are in the middle of the post truth.
Some of the funniest moments you'll have are when you say something but don't realize it's very funny until someone points it out.
I was in a store once, and someone asked me if I was finding everything okay, and tentatively I said "uhh, I think so" and they just chuckled to themselves. I might as well have said uhh, maybe 😆
He's too real about the conflicting health information out there nowadays. At this point, I've settled that we really don't know. Probably best to avoid the obviously bad stuff (highly processed, additives, etc) and to eat a little of lots of different things. But that's just my (educated?) guess.
You're mostly right
2:42 Question, what if B and C are correct for me? Do I get 4 points?
Guess that TMI line has dropped below the zero bar by now and we entered some dark hidden imaginary (calling it 'j' as 'i' was already taken) twilight dimension.
Funny, Funny, Funny!!!
In the Eurovision (don't bother if you don't know), you'd get 1100 points! (referencing your previous Hi-101).
Can you do (did you) one about "Imperial" system (and MM-DD-YYYY) is bad, vs "Metric" system (and DD-MM-YYYY, or YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss) is good?
MM-DD-YYYY is just insanity
@@piccalillipit9211 I suspect it's a holdover from agrarian societies. It's most important to know the month or season. The day is a bit of a deeper dive - a fine-tuning if you will. The year is far less important because it gives no information that's really relevant except in record-keeping.
In an information based society, the ISO standard YYYY-MM-DD is the only sane path, adding increasing specificity as you add more digits.
@@ldbarthel Yeah but you cant get MORE agrarian than medieval Europe and we do DD-MM-YYYY. I agree that for scientific notation it should be YYYY-MM-DD and then HH-MM-SS
Interestingly I live in Bulgaria now and they format the addresses
Country
City
District
Street
House number
Although apartment blocks have unique numbers so and address would be say Burgas, Bl122 Ap4
which is way easier then the long painful addressed we have in the UK.
@@piccalillipit9211 yeah I have no idea how y'all get anything done with addresses that long
Bitcoin is nothing?
I'm likely to name my kids Mac Siri Cortona and Alexa
Today I learned Elon Musk was a dentist model. 6:20
0:57 Verizon's a bit of a joke now
I've been dumped via Facebook status. Yeah...😂😮💨🍻
I thought Fry's went bankrupt and closed?
this is from 2013
I guess the Viagra guys were in the know about Fry's before Don.
Were these videos all filmed a decade ago, or does this guy not age at all?
The information age ended at the new millennium. After that, everything went to shit.
Is an MFA in Creative Writing a libs art's major?
imagine to just give homless bitcoin... this day it was about 70k
The quiz does not take into account a person without any relationship, any girlfriend, any family, any children. Not even having any dates at all, as having been only rejected by females. So, practically, me. 42 years old, virgin, working in IT.
Too much data, not much of it is turned into useful information.
Audio not great
Thanks.
Funny, but also terrible. You did this sketch in the dawn of this misinformation, disinformation, and post-truth Era...
The fact you said mis and dis information.
It's the difference between error and lie.
Are you trying to win the rat race like limitless in a dystopian socialism that isnt real socialism 😂
You said cash not cache.
What's Frys?