Doorbell cam captures moment Paul Milgrom finds out he has won the Nobel prize for economics

US academic Robert Wilson had to walk across the street at 2am in the morning to deliver the news to his fellow Stanford University colleague Paul Milgrom that the two had won the 2020 Nobel prize for economics.
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Milgrom had his phone on silent mode, prompting his neighbour to step outside and deliver the news in person. 'I was asleep and the doorbell rang at 2 in the morning. And then I picked up the phone - it's a video doorbell. And I saw Bob's face and he was knocking at the door, telling me that they were trying to call me and that we had won a Nobel Prize, which is pretty, pretty good news,' Milgrom told Reuters. The pair won the prize for work on auctions hailed as benefiting buyers and sellers around the world of everything from fishing quotas to aircraft landing slots
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[@muse0ver]

I've just read your article. Can you explain what a 'free-trade activist' is? Thank you.

[@artg3ne]

@@muse0ver so presumably, free trade is basically trade where there’s no tariffs, quotas or other restrictions on the trading. being a free trade activist means you support the efforts for free trade !

[@dylancarr1703]

@@artg3ne not exactly free trade when we pay tariffs to china and they not for use.This guy didn't deserve the nobel peace Prize and the nobel prize is garbage just political hack award now.

[@melol69]

but that's just a theory, a game thnory

[@kcjd8659]

Can you imagine being the kind of person whose neighbor comes over in the middle of the night and rings your doorbell to tell you you’ve won the Nobel prize and it’s not a prank?

[@valap_]

Can you imagine being the other neighbors in a neighborhood where two people have won the Nobel Prize? The block parties must be something.

[@davidstephenson164]

Yes I can, that's pretty much anywhere that isn't council owned.

[@s.t.santos5928]

​@@davidstephenson164😁😁😁

[@kcjd8659]

@@davidstephenson164 I have a PhD and work with published researchers, and I don’t live anywhere near council-owned housing, or the US equivalent of it, and this still doesn’t happen in my neighborhood. I don’t think it’s a common occurrence anywhere, as they don’t award very many Nobel prizes. 😑

[@kcjd8659]

@@valap_ yeeeees!

[@simonemastroianni1985]

"You have won the Nobel prize!" "Yeah, OK"

[@user-xf6ox6zx4w]

Best reaction

[@Pllayer064]

"Just one?"

[@aaronvannatta9329]

@Asa Nichols It's a joke buddy chill out

[@DyLimbo]

@@aaronvannatta9329 they don't have a sense of humor... Don't bother

[@sauercrowder]

"Uh, it's 2am"

[@lalakuma9]

This guy's hatred of phone calls and getting bugged at 2am is too relateable.

[@newmankidman5763]

I completely agree. I LOVE turning off my phone and my doorbell, and I try as much as possible to be unreachable

[@Joey-xx9po]

He hated bells. So they gave him Nobell prize.

[@dannydevito5729]

@@Joey-xx9podamn dude that's a great pun

[@timdowney6721]

@@Joey-xx9po I see what you did there. 😉

[@350zKingz]

​@@Joey-xx9powtf? It's a shame this exquisite wordplay will be buried in the comment section of a video few will see. But I see you!

[@smasherblues5322]

Paul: “it’s 3am, they can keep it”

[@Dreamskater100]

🤣

[@shreenidhhi8633]

Loll

[@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv]

Haha

[@geofreyoteng]

🤣🤣🤣 yeah, they should show some respect and call during the day like normal people

[@solar0wind]

​@@geofreyotengI think it's because of the time delay between Sweden and the US.

[@tennislover2005]

Bob was my Game Theory professor at business school. He was super smart and just as grounded as this video demonstrates. Three of Bob’s PhD students went on to win the Nobel Prize.

[@kapilsharma320]

Bob who? and Which school you went sir ?

[@tennislover2005]

Bob Wilson as he liked to be called at Stanford GSB.

[@worawatsr9803]

Why does a professor at one of the top business school has such an outdated intercom? Is he getting paid properly?

[@CyberCheese392]

How does this video show any intelligence? To me it shows instability.

[@tennislover2005]

@@CyberCheese392 Hello CyberCheese, I was referring to the video showing Bob as being grounded rather than smart. I’m sure all of us would sound incoherent if we were woken in the middle of the night and told that we had just won the Nobel Prize.

[@gabrielakominkova9667]

Wow that's amazing! When he said [inaudible] it brought tears to my eyes I was so happy for him

[@susanne4106]

[Inaudible]

[@seanj6333]

@@susanne4106 [Inaudible].. [inaudible]?

[@wakkjobbwizard]

Wow your comment is so [inaudible]

[@tothelighthouse9843]

I [inaudible] your [inaudible].

[@garmen-]

@@tothelighthouse9843she [inaudible] on my [inaudible] until i [inaudible]

[@bca7730]

Don’t press his bell... it’s no bell prize!

[@heiaaehkls]

아재개그는 국경 초월인것인가

[@schnioula]

You win the big internet today! Best comment! Ever! 😂

[@wackey2k10]

get out

[@successfulatpeace]

Ba dum tss

[@guillermoberganza5855]

You deserve the no bell prize 😂😂

[@firelunamoon]

Omg imagine sharing a Nobel prize with your neighbour 😄

[@xijialiu5740]

and he is your teacher

[@mosabhijazi4701]

He’s his teacher and Paul is the 3rd student of his to get the Nobel prize , this man is an economics legend .

[@JanasZoro]

at the moment i am sharing just the bin for the garbage. never say never

[@markofsaltburn]

Is there a Nobel Prize for being a Baby Boomer version of Hyacinth Bouquet?

[@user-xf6ox6zx4w]

.,.,.,.

[@nakatominocalamari2969]

The fact that he doesn't even open the door is just icing on the cake.

[@continuousself-improvement1879]

It's 2 AM, he's old, it's gonna take him a while to get to the door.

[@unon735]

Even i was wondering about that but then they said it was 2020 and they were wearing masks so i realised why he didn't open the door

[@wilke238]

Exactly, I was also literally shocked by this fact, your neighbor comes in the middle of the night to call you to give you this news and you don't even deign to open the door to thank him personally for his kindness........ wow....... . BUT if everything took place during the confinement period due to Covid then obviously the perspective changes completely. However, in general, Covid has made us all so suspicious and distant from each other that I always feel a certain sadness.... .

[@silviamagda]

​@@wilke238about your last paragraph :that what the government wanted.

[@powsniffer0110]

​@@silviamagdacan't say you're wrong...

[@TheCMLion]

I'm proud to say that I know Bob Wilson! I work at Stanford and his assistant and I are in the same office. You could not find a kinder or smarter man. This is so well-deserved.

[@TheCMLion]

@Evan Davis We heard the day he won--after he had heard. Most of us learned through the news. I've been at Stanford for almost 23 years! Administrative staff works all year long. Summers are often the busiest time, with new faculty arriving, prepping to close out the fiscal year, working on all the projects we put off throughout the last academic year, and prepping for the upcoming academic year! This year, we have the added bonus of COVID to contend with. I got the job by applying to the University.

[@jurgenfrohwonne]

That’s where I work too! ☺️ what a nice place and so kind and helpful ppl there! Love it!

[@rudemooddudehamburg]

Would be more impressed when you would be Bob

[@Steve.._.]

​@@rudemooddudehamburglol "I'm proud to say I am Bob Wilson!"

[@jango9892]

People didn’t seem to comprehend, the neighbor and the guy won the Nobel prize TOGETHER. he’s not just a random neighbor

[@TheYellowDK]

Telling me I've won a Nobel Prize is the only acceptable reason anyone is allowed to wake me up at 3am

[@YazminM2222]

I agree

[@NoriMori1992]

Or you've won the lottery 😂

[@sirisaac6225]

I feel there’s a couple reasons lol. Unless that’s the ONLY thing you care about. Also, I’m 2 years late to this comment.

[@Lommy9999]

Kind of him to say you have won, and not we have won, to not take away from his moment of recognizing he won.

[@PrincessSharifa434]

That’s what I thought about too 🫶🏾

[@JL-wh2sf]

Use that prize money to buy better intercom

[@vatomalo68]

Yeah, no shid. Buy the model that is $5-7 more.

[@troyjusthutz]

We have the same doorbell, ours works great, but I would punch my neighbour if he rang like that 😂 I mean ok...so he doesn’t answer do they give it to the next guy? Chill people 😆 I love how he said ‘I came over in my pj’s’...no you didn’t 😆

[@cridgemcking2471]

I guess they will just donate it somewhere.

[@zoewheelwright2325]

@@cridgemcking2471 I think it’s supposed to be invested in your future work

[@AlexSC2006]

@@cridgemcking2471no i aint wasting if i were you need bill man and important stuff

[@musaddiqali1]

Well, no surprise there, that you won a Nobel Prize. When someone has to come to your door to tell you to keep your phone on, it's clear your priorities are on better things.

[@howardlam6181]

if you're a phd chances are you have your email notifications turned off, phone wifi turned off and on silent mode, and probably wear a pair of QC35 headphones too.

[@CestosChannelByElite]

@@howardlam6181 why

[@howardlam6181]

@@CestosChannelByElite too much distraction from departmental duties like asking you to do risk assessment about biological and chemical hazard in a lab when all you do is maths and computer simulations.

[@nlsantiesteban]

@@howardlam6181 lol I guess I'm a bad PhD then.

[@Ideophagous]

Huh, when I was working on my master's thesis, I deactivated or logged off of every social media account I owned for a whole year. And that was just for a single thesis+publication. Imagine working on hundreds of publications over your career, and how much focus you need for that.

[@JanasZoro]

such a funny joke to do to your friend while they are sleeping at 3 in the morning.

[@sutil5078]

gracious, funny, natural, and neighbor/colleague spirit all in one.

[@TheGamingAlong]

Community spirit, the value that we've lost in the modern world..

[@otogun3324]

@@TheGamingAlong We never truly had it to begin with

[@pix_d20]

@@otogun3324 are u able to elaborate?

[@unmasking7974]

@@otogun3324 we did but now it seems like we are truly further than ever from such values.

[@Levi_Skardsen]

While most people are aware that the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award a person can receive, many don't realise it comes with a big cash award too. Depending on exchange rates, it's around $1,000,000.

[@Romy---]

I think everyone knows that already

[@abigailgarcia3090]

@@Romy---I didn’t

[@db5094]

​@@Romy---i didnt

[@iantholel-jo2jw]

They more than deserve it

[@remnant1978]

I didn’t

[@ForeverDTF]

And here we have an example of how awful the Nest Doorbell is at 2 way communication.

[@fabricofdreams.]

The fact that they happen to be neighbours is my favourite thing about this

[@Inflake]

“You won the Nobel prize” “okay, can I sleep now?”

[@theece8654]

'Captures moment' is a very loose way of describing it.

[@johnmartinez7440]

0:35

[@Tomato-ripe]

That was an amazing story! Loved it! Also the neighbour's wife had such a cozy caring grandma feel to her 😊😊

[@brucewayne3141]

Richard Feynman hung up the phone when the Nobel committee called him.

[@n0body550]

So did penrose cause he got bored on hold 😂

[@kimmarleen14]

Makes those amazing smart guys look a lot more human. Love this video. Thanks for sharing and congratulations

[@Bruno-vw8jv]

This has to be the worst Nest commercial ever.

[@jetaddicted]

I love the elderly version of banging at your door ❤️

[@MrFlexNC]

That's probably the best news ever being transmitted over intercom edit: no never mind, "Your pizza has arrived" beats it

[@vatomalo68]

Delivery, Chinese food

[@KidTrigger]

No most people think Nobel peace prize is more exciting then getting a pizza you prdered

[@KALSAFilms]

I'd bet at some point someone must have been told over intercom that their missing child was found, so there's that

[@MrFlexNC]

@@KALSAFilms pizza tastes better tho

[@MJeanzy]

Before right now I had no idea who either of these men were, but I really needed this wholesome story. Thanks, youutbe recommended. And congratulations, Paul and Robert! :)

[@VenomOnPC]

i’m sorry but, the moment they had to ring his doorbell he should have had to forfeit the prize. absolutely ridiculous that they are handing out NO BELL prizes using door BELLS!

[@ahabduennschitz7670]

Wow so creative, very funny, totally the first comment here that is about that pun, 10/10

[@hamilcross]

the comma comes before the “but”

[@KimSearch865]

Aww! That was so cute!! I love how determined his neighbors were! Ding ding ding ... knock knock knock!! Heelleer!! Nobel prize!!

[@homomorphic]

I have no idea how many nobel prizes I might have missed given that my ring doorbell battery is dead.

[@MrPositive3D]

That part at 00:48 where he says "Ya, I had [inaudible]....wooooow" made me cry.

[@MrPositive3D]

They are such cute Professors! Thank you for your academics and research and work and congratulations!!!

[@mzubair10]

What a noble soul

[@srinivasareddy5505]

No Game theory would have predicted a cooperating neighbour. That too some who cares. Maybe the neighbor deserves a Nobel for disproving that. Caring is still a human trait,

[@OO-sq1gg]

Both won the Nobel Prize.

[@royalmason1539]

It's nice to hear a Noble Laureat as spaced out and out of it as me!

[@AllenHanPR]

Bob: You won the Nobel Prize! Paul: Im working on my second one. Let me sleep.

[@ginao6810]

Well, this is a bit cute

[@seerpou]

"just leave it at the door"

[@dr.downvote]

Old people are a treasure! They are as adorable as kids!

[@sjs7917]

Such a lovely clip, huge congratulations.

[@sauercrowder]

He won the no-bell prize, in that after this incident he will be removing his doorbell.

[@daydreaming9465]

Paul: Understandable, Can I just finish sleeping?

[@marshallgrey2159]

The hand gestures of that man are immaculate

[@kimberlyp2778]

The gentle rebuke of "Will you answer your phone" was such a sweet mom-ish moment, lol.

[@chedelcastromahinay764]

"Hey paul, you won the nobel prize" Really? *gets flustered* Wow "Nobel prize for deez nutz haaa!" *runs away*

[@autumnicleaf]

Ok, I will keep my phone on, and see how that works out.

[@sheilla6315]

This warms my hearttttt ❤️

[@bunny_smith]

Wow that was a really great video. I mean Paul’s excitement was palpable.

[@ands1894]

In a way, Bob Wilson also won a “No Bell” prize as the door bell didn’t seem to work.

[@Candycanecapun]

75 year old lenord and Penny coming over to Sheldon for delivering the news Looks like TBBT ending if show had continued for another 5 season

[@GenericInternetter]

Hahah i dont even watch that show but still found this funny

[@saradmatthewtigga4413]

Nobel prize for being Obnoxious .😂✌

[@hitashasharma2178]

The show ended with Sheldon receiving one so!

[@arunimakarali2971]

And then here are my neighbours: "Hey Mr. Karali your daughter has been trespassing in our garden"! 😑

[@liljes34]

Well, is your daughter trespassing in their garden?

[@arunimakarali2971]

@@liljes34 I'm the daughter, and I was just kidding 😂😂

[@thegalhorowitz]

well win a nobel prize then 🤣 see if that helps

[@liljes34]

@@arunimakarali2971 oh oops hahaha

[@arunimakarali2971]

@@thegalhorowitz trying my level best

[@naufalnabil208]

this gives me goosebumps

[@angelocastillo9779]

This is sooo sweet! ❤😂🎉 congratulations!!!

[@haggaisimon7748]

Great people. Love their models.

[@CSum-em8jg]

A couple things here. 1. my man mashing that doorbell like 10 times in a row at 2am is great. 2. My man got dressed tucked his shirt in and walked across the street as if it was noon. 3. its 2am. I am sure the nobel prize committee is in another time zone with people this smart cant they figure out a way to work around waking my guy up at 2am. I bet he had a small heart attack. Congrats tho! lol

[@brittany6315]

My neighbor is around the same age as these gentlemen and he dresses to the nines every day. Even wears a belt with his sweat suit😂❤️ he’s my favorite.

[@gourabroyy]

So great yet so simple ♥️

[@mattsapero1896]

Understated response.

[@krisboyfavour8603]

What a great love for a neighbour to walk across the street at the middle of the night.

[@Asa...S]

Things you do when you, and your neighbor, just won a Nobel Prize.

[@IamwhoIam333]

That is PRICELESS

[@RoskinGreenrake]

Ironic as the economy is all about putting a price on people. Who knows, he might've been preoccupied with one of those people just when those neighbours knocked on his door.

[@melodypudding]

Wow … great minds act alike. They all turned their phones off 😂 love that

[@mrs.spicer]

It’s the incessant door bell ringing and knocking for me… tickled me!

[@tunelowplayslow]

I did this same prank to my neighbor once. Why didn't you guys shoot the reveal?

[@har9020]

Okay, Bob needs to learn to be a little less aggressive with the knocking and the doorbell. Give the resident TIME TO ANSWER.

[@troyjusthutz]

Exactly 😆😆😆😆😆

[@musavvirmahmud8432]

Imagine how exicted he was! It was reflection of that.

[@StandingWhere]

Omg. I have a neighbor who does this to tell me it's going to rain. I projected my anger immediately onto this man. Let's hope he only does this when people win the nobel prize.

[@jaketyler7088]

Not to mention his irrational urgency, like just wait until the morning it's not like they gonna take the prize away.

[@musavvirmahmud8432]

@@jaketyler7088 No, it cannot wait until the morning. The Nobel Prize committee can announce when they have talked to the person who has/have won it. Journalists and other people wait for the announcement. The announcement was delayed due to this. So the urgency was not irrational

[@jonshecket3010]

It should be like a radio contest where if you miss the call they give it to the next person

[@ayushsrivastava6399]

Genuis is madness!!! Incredible.

[@EGarrett01]

Murray Gell-mann said he got a call at 2 in the morning when he won the Nobel Prize in 1969. Rather than go back to sleep his wife just made coffee and they stayed up to answer the rest of the calls, and newspaper journalists came by after sunrise to take pictures. His son posed in his Halloween costume.

[@Visiblediety]

Casually just going across the street to change my neighbors life forever .

[@deepdockproletarianarchive4539]

I love how he keeps aggressively pressing the dorrbell

[@ZenZill]

I love those abrupt wake ups where you're angry for 5 seconds before you jump for joy at the news.

[@AkshayGundeti]

Question: Why do the organizers have to inform the results to the winners at such odd times? Can they not wait for a few hours?

[@kalzhae]

because it's only an odd times where he lives. The nobel prize are handled in Sweden and I think Norway for the peace one. As such they're announced by the swedish committee during swedish working hour, then they immediately contact the one that receive it so they learn it from the committee and not from a random journalist.

[@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.-]

The number of campaign calls and texts this election was outrageous. We need to tighten the regulations on those. People shouldn't need to resort to unplugging their phones.

[@Worick_]

This would do my head in, just wait till morning

[@paulainsc8212]

Great story. Incredible

[@rsolsjo]

Today I learned that if I ever win a Nobel Prize they'll never be able to reach me. Miss me with that random phone call stuff. 😂

[@talisdorman.9796]

He is too old for that, have mercy on him.

[@trentjohsnson]

I want to be that well connected with my community. Precious

[@ChaossX77]

The doorbell cam didn't capture him at all. It captured the other people letting him know.

[@alonecomplexe]

When you want to be the First to tell something before anyone else:

[@SonLe-mk4sq]

Reaction in a nutshell. Robert: "Paul, you won the Nobel Prize! Congratulations! " Paul: [Inaudible]

[@QletTV]

The funny thing is how the neighbor just keeps pressing the button, even after he is talking to the guy

[@Autonova]

Wow incredible clip

[@arjunabeuger]

I think people underestimate how comical this is

[@cdxst3968]

Why is this being recommended to me? Neither am I a Nobel prize winner not am I intelligent

[@johnmartinez7440]

Do you enjoy interesting/humorous content? In other words, are you a human being? This is why it was recommended.

[@cdxst3968]

@@johnmartinez7440 do you understand sarcasm/humour?

[@johnmartinez7440]

Yes, which is why I find jokes about KZbin recommendations deeply unfunny.

[@cdxst3968]

@@johnmartinez7440 well that is idiosyncratic I mean humour is subjective Some people like dark humour But other's don't You can't force humour on someone

[@johnmartinez7440]

@@cdxst3968 Humour is subjective, but some jokes will always be unfunny.

[@coastaf]

great sign that being chronically off your phone can lead to wonderful things the whole world round

[@drohrstestes]

Awesome, man!

[@emogeane]

Awwww hahahaha I would do the same thing but go running like crazy saying he's just won the Nobel Prize 😋

[@alihankankul7244]

I think Mr. Wilson is just too old for it. )))

[@RoskinGreenrake]

😉

[@Patrick_Spack]

can somebody explain to me why they chose to call him so late at night? why not just wait for the morning?

[@shehanmello2489]

The Nobel committee is in Norway?

[@moi1310]

@@shehanmello2489 The nobel comittee is in Sweden. Norway handles the peace Nobel prize.

[@TiTi-pm4my]

This would absolutely be me 😂 phone anxiety to the max

[@0r0r0]

Okay that was fun to watch with Paul's voice constantly breaking up. I'm gonna go slam my head into the wall. Brb.😬

[@hazelb7218]

Should have just sent a letter!!! LOL

[@lucijacetin8724]

A true millenial/gen z at heart: doesn't wanna answer the phone ♥️

[@tommyreusse3858]

omg the aggressive ringing and knocking would get you looking at a barrel

[@jamielancaster01]

What a fabulous story

[@krishnar1182]

Wow, they could have given him a heart attack with the way they were ringing the door bell and banging on the door.

[@kalzhae]

I mean, if that's enough to give him an heart attack, I don't imagine what he would have while learning he just won a Nobel Prize.

[@jspur6]

Watching old people communicate is like watching toddlers come up with words they forgot lol

[@CC-hl1hi]

This is the kinda chill I want in my life. Phone on DND after 10pm, don't care if the Nobel committee calls!

[@bilal3791]

That’s a really bad commercial for that doorbell camera