WHO CONTROLS THE BRAIN?! Americans React "The Ricky Gervais Show - S2E4 - Onion"

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[@Liam-pl2nr]

What I really like about listening to these is you can see why Ricky likes Karl so much. So many friends you have it’s more or less the same conversations over and over. Anytime you talk to Karl about anything it can literally go anywhere, and usually hilariously funny

[@pauljohnson577]

RSK (Ricky, Karl and Steve) are the best. I listen to their podcasts and old XFM radio shows every single night to get to sleep.

[@ianp1986]

I’m with Karl on the brain thing. I’ve had physical disabilities from birth and mental illness like depression for the last 10 years or so. I think of it as there’s me, then my body and then my brain and we don’t always get along. It makes things easier, somehow

[@Declan-yh6mz]

You from Manchester? 😅

[@bucky7162]

Man Karl Pilkington could read a dictionary and he would have me laughing my ass off! The guys line delivery is just impeccable.

[@galesito1733]

I cannot understand how people can sleep to this. I've listened to the XFM shows and the podcasts many, many times but I cannot fall asleep because I'm laughing so much.

[@Mrgarethw]

The thing with Karl is that he's completely free from looking stupid or intelligent, so often comes out with nebulous thoughts far beyond what Steve and Ricky can. In the brain discussion, like so many others, Karl is actually getting at something which is totally correct - about levels of consciousness - that Ricky just dispels. The more you listen to these old podcasts the more you realise that Karl is way smarter than his words allow sometimes.

[@softly128]

Karl is thinking of the conscious and subconscious brain.

[@rabbiebhoy]

Genius moment, "Karl could be easily manipulated". Have you ever seen Idiot Abroad? Guh!

[@emmanuelgoldspleen2905]

Tell 'em now, that we're not doin' Series 2. Nip that in the bood!

[@dapaintbrush6965]

Just been listening to the full versions off these on Spotify and damm they cut so much funny stuff out for the animation series that Leeds to what karl actually means on some of his points. But another great reaction bros ❤️❤️🔥🔥

[@CrisSelene]

I've started doing the same on my way to and back from work. It's so funny. And I've seen the animated version close to 10 times now. Still laughing out loud

[@dapaintbrush6965]

@@CrisSelene same the animation series are fucking brilliant and will always be that way. But the full versions are even more brutal. The sex machine for woman was so good 🤣🤣

[@SaintPhoenixx]

I really wish they had animated the full versions but I think a lot of the stuff they edited out was too difficult to animate or wouldn't translate well into a TV show.

[@dapaintbrush6965]

@@SaintPhoenixx well said bro I agree

[@bearofthunder]

The question about the brain is probably not as simple as many people like to present it. There is for example the question of free will. Can a person choose something freely? Can a person be creative freely? If the brain is who you are, and the brain is ruled by the laws of physics, then what goes on in the brain is not of your choise, or choise is an illusion, right? The question of the "duality" is an ancient old philosophical question that nobody really knows the answer to at this time. The only thing available now is to just choose your favorite theory. Everything is physical, ruled by the laws of nature, or there is actually a duality, a dimension of reality that permeates the physical world which is the actual part that you perceive as "you". But if the first theory is your favorite, then did you actually choose that as your favorite? Logically you did not really have a choise in the matter. Responsibility also becomes a very different matter. What matter what you do in your life your thoughts that led to your actions could have been calculated by the laws of nature one thousand years ago if we knew all parameters of everything that moves in the universe. This is called "determinism". Whatever happens is only observed by you. You only observe what you think, and free will is an illusion. When you think over all this then Carl's question is not as ridiculous as it may sound. We have a justice system that is founded on personal responsibility and the belief that you could have chosen differently. If this assumption is true, then there have to be a duality, where the brain is one thing, and your awareness is something else. So is Ricky a victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect when he laughs off Carl? Just asking.... If you can find the answers to these questions with proof, then you will probably be one of the most famous persons in history. Good luck, but for most people the best advice I can give is to accept that parts of life is quite mysterious, and maybe our "brain" or "awareness" are not really developed far enough to give the final answers to these things.

[@cazziefores2183]

A couple of beers and a blunt before bed is the best way to listen to these guys.. I literally chuckle myself to sleep 👍👍👌😂😂😴😴A big Hello from across the pond guy's.. Awesome reaction as usual 👋👋😘🇬🇧

[@andyq752]

Ricky - "Why are your eyes getting involved in sound?" Karl - "Because they can see what the ears are doing!" One of my favourite Karl/Ricky exchanges.

[@megs4193]

I love this, they're so calming to listen to, when you mentioned living in the Amazon you reminded me of a story a friend of mine told me 😄 he came from Peru, he went to spend some time with his dad in the Amazon each person takes a turn to put meat in the river for the whole tribe to keep it fresh, he forgot, everyone started beating him so he ran away in a boat got lost,, he said the sound of the insects were so loud it nearly sent him crazy, he was 15 terrified in the pitch black Amazon, when he heard the gunshots of everyone looking for him he knew he was forgiven 🙏🤗😃.

[@BaresEatBeats]

“He’s his own puppet”. That’s deep! 😂

[@AutomaticDuck300]

To be honest, the moon mirror would work because it’s always the same side of the moon that’s shown to us.

[@arifeannor9573]

Yeah, they are not always right when they dismiss Karl. The moon is tidal locked to the earth so even though it does revolve around the earth and rotates on its axis, it rotates at the same rate it takes to revolve around the earth. I had a science teacher in high school who was a pretty cute good looking teacher but she told the class the moon didn't rotate at all but when she walked around the room, I explained to her that it did. She was a little embarrassed about it but at the same time, I think it is a natural mistake for people to make. Tons of those types of missteps in logic people take when you take one fact and expand upon based on that alone without full thinking it through. We always see the same face of the moon therefore it doesn't rotate, when they totally discount the revolution of it that if it truly didn't rotate, one side of the planet would see side A, and the other side would see side B. Before humans could travel, I'm sure most people thought that because how would you know what the moon looks like half way across the world.

[@elizabethle221]

Karl comes up with things that no other person has thought of, with his calm monotone voice. Most of all I love the banter between Ricky and Steve, and nobody knows where the conversation will end up at. He honestly would believe anything written on paper. It must be true if it's in a book.

[@delCorteh]

Iiinnn boys, lovely little surprise on an early Saturday afternoon in South Africa.

[@gymno7478]

Guys the audio has been great recently but I noticed Spencer turn it down again on this one. When viewing we have to turn it up to hear the RG show then turn it down for your thoughts so our ears aren't blasted.

[@megs4193]

Do you know Ricky shows his own bloopers on KZbin, he introduces it, so so funny, especially extras, I love everything about this man, he's beautiful 💞👍 thanks guys 😃.

[@davidhuk3170]

I think this might be the best episode so far. Digging the end music.

[@spitsfreeman]

"No cos their not my hands" is one of my favs from karl 🤣

[@Exoixx]

“What if you put it on a mirror?” Karl is a philosophical genius

[@livingart2576]

Guys don’t forget, he never went to school. His parents were away often and didn’t seem too interested in his education.

[@sconaldo7]

The animals thinking like humans isn't as strange as you think. The way dogs look into your eyes , that behaviour was learnt over years of domestication.

[@kristoferpersson6751]

Karl should do a meditation app: “Aright…. close your eyes and that…”

[@jonhill134]

There is a remix on KZbin that someone made of Karl saying Stay green, stay in the woods and stay safe 😂It's hilarious 😂

[@wildwine6400]

When I was about 5 I used have a shirt with big picture of my face on lol It was a bit of a thing in the early 90s where they could put photos onto shirts. Was something my mum got me for some reason

[@fusakei1825]

I always understand what Karl means to say, I feel like I’d be a good Karl translator, the thing he said about the brain, I think what he meant was: Does your consciousness control your thoughts or do your thoughts control your consciousness, that’s still stupid but I think it’s a more detailed version of what he meant to say hahaha

[@galesito1733]

Ricky was completely wrong about the moon moving because it's tidally locked to the Earth so we always see the same part. In the next episode Steve mentions this and Ricky won't admit he was wrong.

[@tanyacampbell29]

It's October everywhere not just in Maryland lol did your brain tell you it was just October in Maryland?🤣

[@conallmclaughlin4545]

Carwow has a great video about using an American truck in the uk. Should have a look at that

[@megs4193]

One more thing, on his way to Australia he was in an American airport and he was trying to get a coke, he didn't put in enough money, when he seen the word dime he read it as dim-- e dimee- talk, so he started saying with broken English I want cok, please give me cok, cok 1 cok 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can't even imagine 😆😆😆 a kind American helped him, the embarrassment lived on for along time 😄😄😄😄😃🤗 💞 Carl reminded me of that 😁👏👏👏👏👏👏👏.

[@dogstaraycliffe]

Alabama Style just cracked me up 🤣🤣 There's a saying that states people from Alabama are thankful for Mississippi otherwise Alabama would be the worst state in the US.

[@bignumbers]

The moon is tidally locked to the earth, so the side that faces us never changes. I thought Ricky might've known that. The dark side is the side we never see

[@LOVEchristHEwasVEGAN]

omg where have you been you aarent showing up in my results!

[@sideshowmark913]

Which episode does Karl say kick a duck i don't want to ruin it by saying more. The malteasers story is so funny 🤣

[@xXscreamingkoalaXx]

Great reaction boys

[@watchreadplayretro]

Oh Karl, Karl, Karl! Thanks guys!

[@samdeane5003]

I used to think the brain was the most important organ in the human body, until I realized it was just my brain telling me that.🤔

[@phueal]

I used to listen to this while my baby slept in a sling on my chest. But after a while I got really worried that they might be subconsciously internalising the things Karl was saying…

[@igguilloda4383]

i did the same thing but stopped because Ricky's loud laugh would startle the baby awake!

[@blurkid33]

Ricky was wrong there about the moon. The same side is always facing the earth.

[@craigmcgougan]

he did adverts for the psp in the uk.

[@gleam6370]

Just in time 🫶

[@andrew348]

These guys don't know what they don't know. For that reason they don't realize a lot of what Karl talks about and thinks about are actually valid points. Neuroscientists Robert Sapolsky and Sam Harris talk about this all the time. Sure Karl's description of it isn't the most accurate but they are actually talking about the same concepts. Most of the decisions we make aren't really controlled by our conscious self. These two constantly shake their head at Karl like he's an idiot when in reality he's thought about the topic much deeper than these two. It's actually a little infuriating that they consider Karl an idiot because of their own ignorance.

[@phueal]

There’s something in that, but it’s not helped by the fact that Karl uses the incorrect words to express his thoughts. Presumably Karl is talking about whether his subconscious is sometimes in control of his conscious self, or whether his consciousness controls his subconscious. But he expressed it as whether “he controls his brain”: they’re perfectly right when they say that “he” and “his brain” are both the same, because both his consciousness and his subconscious are physically within the biological organ “the brain”. In a way both sides are correct, but while Ricky and Steve are literally correct, Karl is only correct if you generously amend what he actually says to mean what he probably would have meant if he had a better vocabulary.

[@hoya1178]

Karl is not right about anything that he said about the brain, there is no valid points. Karl was not talking about what you are refering to, you are just trying to defend him. Karl doesn't understand the subconscious is a part of himself/brain.

[@brianroman4114]

This episode is very much like Karl's TV show Sick of it.

[@arthurspils2565]

Liking the outro music guys, it available by itself?

[@ltj18taylor73]

Karl has the mind of a child. Unfiltered and open to anything

[@tonykeary1270]

Did you say you were drinking something called liquid death?

[@WilAdams]

Ricky is wrong about the brain. Karl is simply thinking of something not his brain, he is thinking of conscious and unconscious thought. When Karl set down to write his list, he was consciously thinking of items he needed. When the 'thought' of onion came to him later, it was an unconscious thought.

[@jameshumphreys9715]

Your brain is on auto pilot majority of the time, when, I was doing my Duke of Edinburgh, my expedition, due to weight of the backpack, it was strange I could move my left arm with ease while walking, but my arm, I could put it behind my back but couldn't reach my water bottle on that side. Carameleon changes colour due its emotional, and cells.

[@t8isgreat]

14:44 I feel like Karl is just grasping at the concept of a subconscious? They should have just said thats what it was

[@emmanuelgoldspleen2905]

Something said "an onion" 'n' tha'.

[@SaintPhoenixx]

Yeah, he was trying to explain how he was consciously thinking about the shopping list but then he subconsciously remembered something, but he simply interpreted it as someone else controlling his brain, instead of his brain having deeper levels of memory than just the short term memory.

[@emmanuelgoldspleen2905]

@@SaintPhoenixx But wha' I mean is...

[@WitchKing813]

I love Karl but sometimes I really wanna slap him silly lol

[@emmanuelgoldspleen2905]

Just like slap the back of 'is 'ead 'n' tha', rite?

[@SaintPhoenixx]

He's the dumbest genius of all time.

[@FEARYOYOYO]

@@emmanuelgoldspleen2905 that giving you flashbacks son?

[@philiphind7830]

The French lol

[@AD270479]

Really no need to play the music at the end over both of you talking. Trying to listen to what you're saying, but just getting distracted with a harmonica constantly... Never understand why folk do that? FBI files is the worst, every time the narrator is telling you important facts about the case, they decide to play loud dramatic music over what he's saying, so you miss crucial info.

[@sukhi17]

14:19 - Have you noticed in alot of videos that Spencer copies Daniel alot? And Spencer is always giving shifty eyes to the right.

[@TEXTMANNEN]

As many as 50,000 stray dogs roam the streets and vacant homes of bankrupt Detroit.

[@esabsablick5492]

You do know this is scipted comedy right? I hope so. If not we we have 2 real-life Karls.

[@5hanesBoard]

Karl is right about living longer if you don't know your age. People who always think of themselves as getting old tend to age poorly; Fact.

[@SaintPhoenixx]

This is why I stopped caring about my age when I hit 21. It still takes me a second to work out my age when someone asks. I intend on being immortal.

[@Delicious_J]

Not trying to offend anyone with dogs, this is not all dog owners, but I have always said dogs are appealing to idiots for a reason. They are attractive to the sort of people who lack the intelligence or insight to influence or intellectually spar or converse with another human, so they need an animal which will unconditionally 'listen' even though the dog obviously does not understanding a single sound, and can only understand anything we do through Pavlovian type conditioning, and will remain loyal unconditionally. These individuals are just smart enough to know they will always 'have' a dog. It is for this reason some dog owners I know strike me as weird/very insular and self contained people, who never seem to have much of an idea of the outside world. These are my own personal experiences with dog owners around here, at least.

[@Delicious_J]

I should probably add a similar phenomenon occurs with cat owners too, the obessive types who are completely fucking obssessed with their cat or cats, never allow them outside (a ridiculous trend which has become more popular recently in the United States due to some stupid article Peta, only the most trustworthy of sources, wrote about how cats should only ever be kept indoors, which is rich coming from them) and treat them as a baby or child because they are lonely, and do not know how to socialise.

[@SaintPhoenixx]

@@Delicious_J I don't agree with keeping cats indoors 24/7, I've owned cats and they happily spent most of their lives outside, only coming indoors for food, attention and sleep, but I think some people do keep them indoors for good and bad reasons. Some people live in a dog-heavy neighbourhood and it's probably safest for the cat to live indoors instead of being chased by rabid, free-roaming pitbulls 24/7. If you have the room for it and it's potentially unsafe outside for a cat, I understand keeping them inside. As long as they get exercise, enrichment, somewhere to sleep and food, I don't see an issue with it. Those are rare cases obviously, cats are perfectly well adapted to the outside world, as long as you don't live next to a dangerous, openly roaming dog.

[@NeilusNihilus]

Ricky rehearses everything. he is not that smart.

[@zwj5478]

Actually Karl’s onion story is not as dumb as you guys thought it was. It’s actually something neuroscientist don’t have an answer to…

[@Ishlacorrin]

It's the transition between subconscious thought and conscious thought. Depending on how much attention you are paying it can feel like inspiration from an outside source, but it's just a different part of your mind delivering information to your up front conscious mind. This happens all the time and most people miss it or prompt it consciously. Example: If you ever ask yourself when writing a list if that is everything (either aloud or not), you are prompting your unconscious mind to double check your recent memories. It's something you can train with memorization and recall exercises.

[@nancydavies6446]

@@Ishlacorrin that's interesting thanks 👍

[@zwj5478]

@@Ishlacorrin exactly but in a more philosophical way there is no answer to how much of you is you. That’s deterministic. If you train your brain to do something it’s your brain training itself because he decided to.

[@reallystraightguy2716]

Why are you reacting to shows you've already seen? WTF is the point in that?

[@jimmyboy568]

I am in no means an intelligent person but bless him listening to Karl makes me feel like a genius 🧠💪🏻

[@SirMarky007]

Are you going to continue with the moaning of life any time soon?

[@skibboshadow2670]

What colour is a chameleon in a mirror? A male chameleon will turn dark shades of red, orange, and yellow when confronted with his reflection in a mirror, while female chameleons will either turn more subtle shades of reds than the male or not change colour at all.

[@adamduffy311]

Karl is Britons THICKEST MAN ?.

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

@Adam Duffy - And you could apply for a BAD SPELLING award? (It should be - 'Britain's' not 'Britons' - Duh!) - Just saying. 😂