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.

[@kahutochishisumi9056]

I believe humour has been there since the birth of humanity and thus, it's nearly impossible to be original, but you are original.

[@Patchitt]

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?

[@Lreclusa]

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.)

[@ChrisMahtal]

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.

[@ledocteur7701]

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.

[@ViridianFlow]

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.

[@jovetj]

The odds are 🟠%.

[@johnmckown1267]

5:32 Took the engineers long enough to figure out that bags need wheels.

[@almostbutnotentirelyunreas166]

Yup, they should've left it to the bean-counters instead, like Boeing does....

[@MichaelSHartman]

Stone age

[@EvA-is5ed]

In the 50s they still had porters...just sayin'.

[@johnmckown1267]

​@@EvA-is5ed I was a baby back then. But I remember them from movies. Bellhops too.

[@Voo_Doo_Blue]

​@johnmckown1267 and elevator attendants. Do you want more useless jobs? Milk man, newspaper boy, tv repair man, mail carrier, president of the United States. *mic drop 😂

[@bigedslobotomy]

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!)

[@classymuffin4589]

I feel like that's more of a statement than a joke, still true though.

[@Mtl-zf9om]

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.

[@Irreve-rsible]

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.

[@thomashudson3458]

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?

[@chaseadamsjohnson4188]

Don, I have no idea if you read comments, but your comedy is brilliant. Concise, and effective engineering of humor! I have spent 9 months on physical disability and your insightful and "humerus" perspective has lifted me and helped me to rebuild. Thank you!! You have perfectly modeled comedic signals in a system of content and presentation to apply proper analysis of their function. You show an mastery of control!

[@OriginalJoe]

That Paris Hilton joke would for sure be a Kardashian joke today

[@bikeny]

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.

[@MrDannyDetail]

@@bikeny I hope you don't mind me mentioning this, as I don't mean it specifically in relation to your mum, it was just the mention of a week's difference in lifespan depending on what life choice was made. This reminded me of a Billy Connolly routine. He says that something or other 'takes a week off your life' and then follows it with something along the lines of 'Ok so if I don't do that I get an extra week, seems great, but hang on though, it's not an extra week when I'm full of energy and excitement and sleeping around, it's an extra week sat dribbling on a commode in a care home.

[@bikeny]

@@MrDannyDetail No worries, I like Billy's stuff.

[@mjblue84]

Love this guy! He is a genius.

[@BlessedForever888]

Don, you are soooo funny!

[@JamesTDG]

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...

[@bbgun061]

Oh, if you have to pick two answers, you just add all the points, then double them.

[@johnduffy6546]

OMG! You are incredible.... You would make one heck of a TV Evangelist! Send us your credit card information😂😂

[@kieranbishop2581]

absolutely hilarious

[@richdobbs6595]

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.

[@maxpayne2574]

The scariest thing about A.I. is if it learns how to treat people from people.

[@jovetj]

@@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.

[@derekisthematrix]

GIGO

[@lightergreen]

@@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.

[@jovetj]

@@lightergreen It will actually have more niche flaws.

[@maxpayne2574]

As a nerd I love this guys act.

[@hikoakatsukisam]

He doesn't know how right he is about "The Rev1" and "Rev 2" lol

[@DeoFayte]

We hit TMI when the average person got a smart phone and, collectively as a society, we forgot that the average person is an idiot.

[@zelda1420]

I got 2 points. "You are lying - this is Sunnyvale!" Listen. I'm watching this online. I don't live in Sunnyvale. And yet this happens _when I'm literally in Sunnyvale, California._ Maybe I'm lying so well I don't know it!

[@WithTwoFlakes]

3:20 The spare cash / cache joke was nicely done. As for how many versions of Windows old ? I'm older than double-glazing in the UK. Heck, I'm even older than IBM OS/360 😟

[@Nick_C1997]

For the homeless guy question, how many points for saying “I don’t have any spare cash, I’ve got exactly the right amount, what are the chances?”

[@wisteela]

We put man on the moon before we put wheels on suitcases.

[@ObamaoZedong]

Would we have ever made it to the moon if men weren't strong enough to lift entire suitcases though?

[@paulmartin2348]

I have wheels on my tool boxes but have never had a wheel on a suitcase or bag. Seems kinda pathetic to me.

[@biaberg3448]

Siri is actually a common Norwegian girls name.

[@ChrisPollitt]

Hilarious!

[@z3cki]

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

[@iampitchapie]

Try using first two letters of the name. e.g. Aaron, Abby, Ace. Then Barney, BBop, Etc

[@Voo_Doo_Blue]

​​​@@iampitchapieB'Cause, B'Donka-donk, Beverly, B'For, B'Gawd, 😂😂😂

[@3615letetard]

1:33 I named them Alice, Bob and Charlie, how many points do I have?

[@hanswoast7]

I dont know. Are you sure the was no man-in-the-middle?

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

0

[@zacharynunley]

As much as this is funny and meant to be entertainment, he actually make some damn good points!

[@slinnova]

I miss Fry's Electronics, spend a lot of my teenage time there.

[@oldsaerotech1167]

The stores were great.

[@odgreen9113]

Circuit city for me

[@paulmartin2348]

@@oldsaerotech1167 Yea, but Fry's was very shady in how they treated their employees. I was about as close to criminal as you could be and still fend off most of the lawsuits.

[@simonetozzi7912]

Great and funny video! Actually a very interesting and true graph at 5:10 too. Ty

[@simonetozzi7912]

P.S.: Egg yolks are good for you. :)

[@Braincho]

Honey boo boo is like a "point of no return" kind of thing.

[@hagerty1952]

6:20 That Santa smoking ad is way before 1953. Those are Lucky Strike cigs in a green package. For whatever reason, they changed to a white package at the beginning of WWII with the slogan "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war!"

[@MrDannyDetail]

Coloured ink was very hard to come by during WWII (at least it was in the UK, so I assume there would have been some supply issues elsewhere too), so that may well be why. Then again it depends how the white one was made white, bleaching would fit the theory, but using white ink would go against it.

[@hagerty1952]

@@MrDannyDetail - I think you're right. I believe, but am not sure, that green ink is based on a copper compound. Copper is the fundamental constituent of brass, which becomes quite valuable as a war materiel (yes, that's spelled right). I could see the War Department clamping down on the entire supply.

[@NoahGilbertson-wp4tt]

Did anybody else go directly to search up how many “versions of Windows ago” they were born?

[@BobAliBall]

Honey, I was born before TV was invented. No windows in sight.

[@MikeSparksMusic]

I was born when Windows 3.0 was Microsoft’s current OS.

[@tierra314]

seriously he is a genius

[@frankdoss6313]

I wanted to name my son Frank Doss 2.0. My wife didn't see the brilliance in that. Oh, when my wife said we need to communicate better, I brought in a 3rd ISP connection into the house. I met my wife on-line BEFORE the Internet was publicly available.

[@miket900]

I'm glad I'm a Combat Engineer

[@terrancat]

I think I'm a DOS 3.something child.

[@JamesTDG]

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)

[@jovetj]

only major new versions count.

[@barleyeducated8714]

And you're a nerd! :P

[@DeborahJoshua24]

HAHA! Honey Boo Boo!!

[@practicalplinking6133]

Are you talkin the San Jose or Palo Alto Fry's ??

[@niteshades_promise]

I've been dumped via Facebook status. Yeah...😂😮‍💨🍻

[@JamesTDG]

5:48 I was about to say Air Bags.

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

Air Bags are advanced technology, requiring very precise timing, and detection, and the bag itself needs to be able to inflate at an insane speed, and without killing the subject. And even with all that, it still doesn't really save lives at all. Safety belts are basic technology, not requiring anything like sensors, electronic etc, are super cheap, and save a lot of lives.

[@DeathAndTaxesYT]

Your eggs joke is my Q-Tip life. Q-tips are how your clean your ears... then like 10 years later 'Q-tips' are bad for your ears... oh... Like.... Im just gunna use em, im fine. Damn the consequences, im fine. The AGE OF TMI... Bro. My true bro soulmate. Sling comedy forevermore.

[@DeathAndTaxesYT]

Like whats the worst that could happen with qtips? Sharp stick pierces ear canal and you die from bacteria? I dont think Q-Tips are a bad idea, I think whenever ... Q-Tips became "bad" thats like... directions for soap, common sense INSTRUCTIONS essentially stating "Soap not go in eye. Do not put soap in eye. No joke. Don't Drink soap." --- something like that ... May literally had to have been changed because some idiot kid saw Orange Hand Soap at home and his mouth watered for orange... Man... Lemme tell you, whoever that idiot kid was, I never had those thoughts and could have been them... I never needed to know not to drink soap or literally apply to eye. A happening we (all...) remember is some chick spilled hot coffee on her lap, sued... and won... --- That happened when I was a kid, it was huge... cause lol... Hot coffee lap is just ... Even if it's too hot, literally legally too hot, like how... did she win? I could... Find out why.... and just hope, really hope, that THAT was NOT the BEGINNING of the END of the WORLD.

[@robertveith6383]

I soak them in rubbing alcohol before I place them in my ears so they can melt the ear wax.

[@MrBallynally2]

The trouble now is not too much information but too little interest in contradictory information. So everybody just spends time in a wee corner making themselves feel good about the thing they are told they should consume without realising they have been propagandized. The sale/ ad is succesful if you no longer see it as such and think you've come up w the 'right' view all by yourself. It'S MY CHOICE!!!😄

[@4sl648]

We are even further into TMI than in 2013.

[@charlesurrea1451]

Hey man! You got any more of that granular data?

[@staa1337]

great

[@colintca094]

If I counted correctly, I was born 7 versions of Windows ago

[@Ithenna]

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.

[@JamesTDG]

2:42 Question, what if B and C are correct for me? Do I get 4 points?

[@OrenLikes]

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?

[@piccalillipit9211]

MM-DD-YYYY is just insanity

[@ldbarthel]

@@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.

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@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.

[@bucketspree4952]

​@@piccalillipit9211 yeah I have no idea how y'all get anything done with addresses that long

[@amochswohntet99]

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 😆

[@AlexArthur94]

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.

[@avinotion]

You're mostly right

[@josephreagan9545]

What if you name your kids "K-ID. ver. 1.0", "K-ID ver. 2.0", and "K-ID ver. 3.0"?

[@HFkepley9312]

I'm likely to name my kids Mac Siri Cortona and Alexa

[@kevinstreeter6943]

I prefer the phone book over google. With Google, I do not get local and get whoever paid to be at the top.

[@paulmartin2348]

Yea, that's rough. Of course if you are smart enough to search your city or "near me" it's not really a problem.

[@youuuuuuuuuuutube]

Basically you want to focus on the FACTS and only the facts, and disregard anything else, like opinions. How to find the facts? Either through evidence, or by going to the source. Example: if someone says "this person said X", then you want to find a video of that person saying X, and maybe it happened, and then you want to also watch the context, what was said before and after etc. Don't just believe what people say, always check the facts.

[@Scapestoat]

In regards to eggs and other foodstuffs that have been eaten since long before the dawn of civilisation; you don't need any additional information to know whether eggs, butter or bread are good for you.

[@maxp3141]

He’s not wrong

[@System.Error.]

so this was from 10 years ago but u decided to upload it now?

[@paulsengupta971]

It would be difficult to go back and upload it 10 years ago.

[@fedsummer90]

At this point, I would say we are in the middle of the post truth.

Now we're in the age of AI-generated information, and with Google going down the... oh right, Google owns the platform I'm commenting on - what I mean to say is Google has not changed in quality in any way the past few years and still works great.

[@JamesTDG]

0:57 Verizon's a bit of a joke now

[@paulmartin2348]

Yea, last year a 134 Billion dollar joke.

[@InsatiableMonkey]

Today I learned Elon Musk was a dentist model. 6:20

[@ricead]

That's an awful lot of cache.

[@sparkyenergia]

I guess the Viagra guys were in the know about Fry's before Don.

[@tierra314]

I AM a liberal arts major haha

[@erikziak1249]

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.

[@tehjoch]

I think I'm glad I never heard of honey booboo, looks like something I don't need to know about. Like anything on tik tok

[@Hijackerrr]

imagine to just give homless bitcoin... this day it was about 70k

[@TheAmos1]

😆😆😆

[@shawandrew]

Were these videos all filmed a decade ago, or does this guy not age at all?

[@Jedimeister17]

What am I, if I got exactly 24 points?

[@mworld]

He's correct about too much information. These days with sophisticated measuring tools, the amount of decimal places has increased dramatically. Now the can spin a 0.001 degree rise in average temperature and call it a disaster. Even though this is just called seasons.

[@kenchristie9214]

Who woulda thunk it? There was too much information when the vacuous Paris Hilton came into the equation.

[@alexwood5425]

Too much data, not much of it is turned into useful information.

[@jcmee91]

The information age ended at the new millennium. After that, everything went to shit.

[@billstephens396]

Is an MFA in Creative Writing a libs art's major?

[@RussellNelson]

I thought Fry's went bankrupt and closed?

[@markae0]

this is from 2013

[@alex_lomov]

Bitcoin is nothing?

[@frunomaol5069]

Audio not great

[@danielmadar9938]

Thanks. Funny, but also terrible. You did this sketch in the dawn of this misinformation, disinformation, and post-truth Era...

[@mbdg6810]

The fact you said mis and dis information.

[@petertaylor4980]

It's the difference between error and lie.

[@spudtaters8419]

daniel, please read 1984, and stop talking like an actual NPC.

[@curtishorn1267]

Fry's is sadly closed.

[@ValidatingUsername]

Are you trying to win the rat race like limitless in a dystopian socialism that isnt real socialism 😂

[@CF-3300]

We went into the negatives in 2016 when Trump ran for president.

[@paulmartin2348]

Good point. Better have a guy from your side that represents you all. Does not even know his own name.

[@ricead]

You said cash not cache. What's Frys?