what makes a word happy this is Tallis in secrecy Canada let’s talk about that good mythical morning this episode is brought to you by catalyst calm 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 this thing it just it cut and then you can like lower this hanging you know what don’t tell my kids that I have this because we’re gonna waste many hours playing with this but put it away for now we’ve got stuff we need to talk about first of all thanks for sending in your gifts including this t-shirt the moment of nakedness should always be minimized that’s from good morning Cheon Lincoln episode my most embarrassing moment thanks for making that into a t-shirt and for those of you who send things to our p.o box we get all of it and we value 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 didn’t link off as a research person researches excuse me he did some research and he’s gonna bring it to us and I’m just like Ken you’re gonna be a subject I’m just like you I don’t know what this is about I well I know I 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 suggests people have warmer feelings toward words certain words make them happier the ones that use mostly letters on the right side of the QWERTY keyboard now the QWERTY keyboard is just your normal keyboard asdf JKL Sam top left and spells out let upper left letter spell QWERTY so what there’s what familiar that I see it everyday words with a lefty bent or viewed is 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 QWERTY keyboard are you happier are words that you deem fear not the typing of the words know it just seen 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 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 research has 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 great to do happy and sad words I knew you were going to say that and that’s why we’re gonna conduct a test but first just to clarify I acted dad can you help me because I would like you to write the entire thing my parents have helped me at all with science projects but 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 gonna do one right here this is what I’m getting at I’m gonna ask um but before we do that I just want to make an observation according if this is true my name as a word makes people happier than your name I type my name entirely with my right hand Li NK I as a person make people happier than you make people then it’s just it’s all moot it’s not balances I’m not making this personal right obviously that’s true your your name as a word is not as happy as my name now here’s what I’m gonna do it it does sound like writ I’m gonna say I don’t wanna do with the way it sounds are just the typing on a scale of 1 to 10 focus I want you to rate your happiness attend be very happy 0 viewers I need to start a completely neutral place I don’t need to be happy or sad just be normal I have no emotions or a Hulk scale one to ten happiness yes Rhett oh five five swag eight Jill don’t don’t think about how you type these things I don’t know I’m trusting you not to do that I’ll make it quick Jill eight Zach to plop pin fluffy ten looking nine Ascot three milk eleven gonna be a ten oh that look Larry ten damage oh six okay joint it’s like joint but with an L or I like how you’re really putting your all into this serve ak8 like the name of an alien I made those up Juna poo also made that one up eight stu get six okay Jason to tabulate these and then at the end we’re going to reveal whether your experience supports the fact that happier words are typed with only a 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 no well thinking back I had a lot of fun memory that is a trip we took miss a class miss Paget 9th grade you know and it was like he was an elective it was one of the elective classes it was like what should I take I’m gonna take typing because I heard that it’s fun not I’m gonna 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 Harnett Central High School and she would sit there and she would stroll 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 the corner stood that it’s defeat what does the feet have to do with it you got the point is to go to like 50 words per minute and then she would say a s d FJ k L Sam return and then and it would return I’ll know that win we’re not as old as you think we are we’re I’m just gonna I’m just gonna blame harness central for being a little bit behind no we would literally be given a typewriter an electric typewriter and a thing of whiteout I have never been happy do you remember that it would be like here’s your thing of whiteout make it last all semester yeah and you had to reach up there and we in it never crossed our minds that this wasn’t normal that we were on typewriters and because we had 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 say else and asdf JKL sim yes now in familiar with it now I they start to theorize that maybe excuse me I’m getting a coffee here don’t give it to me now I’ll cost this I’m going to put up the shield the fiberglass shield I’ve been talking about they theorized 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 have you’ve got RS and T on your left hand and you’ve got a and E on your left hand yes sir those evals are use more off there’s no doubt you use the left hand it’s 15 letters 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 official book about this one time Dvorak didn’t read it I saw it the Dvorak keyboard has it 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 JKL sim the home row was designed that your left hand had all the vowels on the home row 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 are we doing this because we’re human and we don’t like to change this guy 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 not gonna reveal you this is like if they don’t like change the Facebook change Oh Time Lord talks a lot 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 QWERTY nope he wanted to he wanted to memorialize himself no look at all recorded that should be a song back in the days of typewriters you know where the you’d strike a letter it would go up like a mallet and hit just like on a piano they had to space out the letters physically so that the most common use letters would be far enough apart 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 Dvorak thing but you start well we have to like start a movement to 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 config yeah came out without they say it’s a lot easy today broke don’t fix it ladies and gentlemen the proof is in the pudding right here you’re happy you’re on the scale of happiness here I don’t know what the total is I can it out but you scored your left-hand scored a 43 in your right hand scored a 54 happiness quotient I think it was just 43 to 54 sir just you know circumstance coincidence it’s it’s proof it’s proof that my name not not me personally or Rhett 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 would develop names of products or companies that are more with the right hand because it’ll make people happier so it just in passing here’s a few that I came up with I wrote him down moon milk all right hand wouldn’t you when I drink that is a green it’s automated cheating I’m just coming up with a name of it and taking a cut okay would you use the you know mop because just a mop with one thing on the end of it you tell me the plumbing you pop with you lick the plumbing pot because I’ll wear it Ben what would you buy a pool Clooney I need to 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 he’ll kill Pope it’s like a new form of Taekwondo of course because you type it with your right hand what about Zumba and tae-bo I I’m regular I’m regularly participating in those things yoga but when you hear it you’re not happy it’s like when I hear gun range I get anxious how we gonna in this episode high note and low no this is when I make the lowest note I can make and you make the ha been waiting on this one ever since it was let’s say something like see you tomorrow okay three Oh that’s not making me happy it’s not making me happy at all no it’s not care how you spell it torture for everyone