we’re seriously considering shaving our heads after what we’ve discovered I’m Jose from Houston Texas good mythical morning good mythical morning today’s episode is brought to you by the rhett and Link community where mythical beasts gather and cross pollinate over 25,000 of you have joined the crowd over there let’s keep it going rattling community.com thank you for joining that and thank you for joining us today good mythical morning this is a show unlike any other show on the Internet really it may be an acquired taste but thank you for acquiring it and for inquiring that other people / choir yeah to it there’s no there’s no other choir words other than enquire and acquire yeah dis choir let’s disc wire this show that would be I think Stu quit it Squire you’re my Squire really yeah that’s also a word good news for balding men and for people who are looking to change their self-image in a positive way study that I just read and I want to share with you could have drastic impact on the way that we look what and what I was about to say in the way that our lives the quality of our lives here I what it’s gonna cut you off and say you’ve been doing research cuz I want to go yeah do it okay CBS News article talks about dr. Albert man’s who himself was was had a receding hairline he decided to shave his head yep and realize that he was perceived you’re clapping him yeah he was perceived differently so he decided to do some experiments because I guess this is his field and experimenter yeah self experimentation he tested other people’s perception of men with shaved heads and all three experiments that he conducted found similar results a man’s shorn scalp that means shaped head was linked with dominance in other words men with shaved heads were perceived as powerful by others and I think that we maybe this is not news you know shave heads on people they kind of look tougher yep tougher so but but they always need experiments to to prove these things I guess to the naysayers no no no but yeah I may be a naysayer actually I think there’s actually one of those Time Warner Cable commercials where it talks about the progression of things that happens yeah and you like them you shave your head to sell it to somebody because you can’t pay your bill or something and then you’re perceived as tougher than you get beaten up and left in a ditch so that actually preceded this study the first with the first study 59 college students looked at 25 photos of men enrolled in a business school program ten of the men had shaved heads while the rest wore their hair in various styles and links ponytails Mohawks yeah pigtails the volunteers rated the photos of men with shaved heads as more dominant they looked more powerful influential and authoritative and more bald or more shave maybe they weren’t necessarily involved but they decided to shave the heads well then they became ball when they shaved their heads well let me let me see what we really think of this I wanted to put this to the test with some famous people so feel free to write it in the comments or just think in response to what I’m saying as I’m asking you to think in response to famous shaved people their heads not like their armpits or their legs or like swimmers or something like that yeah I’m still talking about heads and you tell me if you think that they are more dominant and tough than if they had hair yeah this is the horrible science just just side note what he’s already done to science what’s the control group here what do you mean the control group I’m thinking about people that what they would be like if they had hair that’s my control group No yeah I’m one person we need like 25 people they’ve already done the experiment I’m just seeing what you think okay don’t scrutinize my my thing I barely know what control group means okay bryan cranston now this this is a Walter from Breaking Bad Walter White was not intimidating with hair and then when he shaved his head he became very intimidating I mean that and that’s an statement so I think he’s the poster child for probably the whole study or men shaving their heads left and right and you know getting into creating illegal substance yes okay in Italy it’s true for him definitely samuel l.jackson uh he’s bald I’ve shaped it I find him more intimidating with hair using about like the wig when he was in pulp figure a jheri curl that’s very intimidating to me I think it was the gun and the swagger I almost think he’s friendly with the shake did well think about Ving Rhames from pulp fiction he was very intimidating very authoritative Bruce Willis definitely more intimidating bald right we’re not talking about moonlight moonlighting Bruce Willis moonlighting going way back not at imitating it that was a television shows inviting in the 80s where he had hair and Sybil Shepherd is in it Michael Jordan you have to think about this the most dominant force on the basketball court he’s not gonna leave this dominant know he is intimidating I’m going to the control group in my mind which is him with hair I’m going back to the college days and I’m thinking about yeah he’s more intimidating without here definitely he was he wasn’t even good at basketball when we played in college yeah that’s that’s the rumor Michael Jordan didn’t even start playing basketball until he’s a junior in high school that’s true uh-huh it is true right he also had hair then mm-hmm so think about that one of the most for some reason the first person come to mom comes to my mind when I think about a bald person Howie Mandel who we actually met last week we did in his office we met Howie Mandel you may have seen my tweet about the fist bump fist bump with that so we were able to say first hand whether in the room is is he authoritative and dominant I would say he carries a certain Authority but I would not say yeah it seems like a nice guy he’s a comedian he’s not intimidating he’s just very welcoming I don’t know I he was a little there was a little intimidation thing going on in the room like the other guy did most of the talking so there was in silence with the baldness he was there was an intimidation factor there like oh I’m gonna dictate how you greet me you with a fist bump you know that kind of thing Crichton I respect him for that dr. evil or evil not intimidated by him really find him funny okay what about this dr. Phil dr. Phil well I’m scared of dr. Phil I have been for quite some time I do not want to meet that man on the street I would not want to cross that man really oh no not for a second he seems like a friendly father though you I think that you think that and finally uh Uncle Fester um scary not intimidating but scary and standoffish okay going back to the study here a second experiment for the same guy three hundred and forty-four adults were shown photographs of four different men here’s the funny thing one photo was of the man’s real hair and a second shot was of the same man but his head was digitally altered to remove all of his hair and here’s what happened adults adult men still raided the digitally shaped heads as more dominant than the quaffed counterpart in effect researchers say was largely due to perceiving men with shorn scalps as having more confidence in masculinity well this is convenient that there is such a thing as digitally shorn heads because I took the liberty of going and downloading an app in the App Store so this is your test yeah right we took pictures of ourselves and we didn’t take time to Photoshop it we just use the app and made ourselves bald so what you tell us are we more intimidating and masculine looking like this and there you are linked um well don’t ever do this first of all I think what it’s not shaved on the side a break you look like bozo the problem with this technique in this app is it just bald you on top I definitely think that if you had to choose between full head of hair are just bald on top you have to go full bald in order to get the intimidation effect cuz right now you just look like loser somebody I would not even I wouldn’t get ten feet from you definitely definitely wouldn’t let my children get ten feet from you okay now let’s look at you it almost looks like you have two horns yeah your hair on the sides you kind of brushed out now I think I might do this I think at some point I actually may sport this I think you were trying to give a facial expression but it just looks like you’re about to cry when your heads like that so fucking tears about that loud for me the lesson learned here looking at these pictures and taking the study into account is that if you’re a man out there and you’re losing your hair and you know the inevitable conclusion of this receding hairline is a bald head go on you need to go all the way some point and I say the point is when you you are now doing things with your hair to make the Scout be covered you gotta just embrace it you I can’t tell you how many people I’ve known that started to experience that and then when they went Bhagya like oh wow you’re cool now right now you’re sort of dominating and charred if you have if you have the science proves it go for it poorly shaped noggin it doesn’t even matter well no it doesn’t matter even if you have a even if you have a big dent from some weird accident you need to just go for it because because even it’s like yeah I can I can show you my my head looks looks weird but I’m still so dominant that I’m going for it but you could do like what Bret Michaels does and just wear a wig and then put a bandana around it and he puts the wig in the bandanna on like one of those things you buy at Party City he just wears it everybody thinks that Bret Michaels has this amazing here ladies he’s completely bald under there really yes it’s just is fake hair in a in a bandana yeah who doesn’t know this and you’re recommending that if you’ve got a a dent in your head I think you could do the Bret Michaels thing oh man like oh my goodness I think the other application is if we really need to go into a situation and dominate we need to ship first if we’ve ever got like a really big idea like a really big idea we’re like pitching some movie studio on something like a million dollar movie or something or several million dollar movie we’ve got to go in bald and you know that’s it suits and ties and completely shaved head we’ll do it we’re not above it we don’t care about our hair I think we’ve certainly established that in previous episodes yeah alright we ran in this episode of good mythical morning I think we’ve enriched people’s lives and a few of you are going over the edge into the world of dominance congratula looking for our lost cat chocolate who thinks of this stuff uh chocolate chocolate chitty-chitty chitty-chitty hey that’s how my grandma calls cast here kitty kitty kitty kitty kitty chocolate he’s lost in here yeah he’s somewhere in here come on we got a little treat for a chocolate you can be on good mythical morning I think he’s running away I don’t think is gonna come out of hiding in response to that