Little experiments, big fun.
with Dr. Ken Rochon (Dr. Smiley) and Ryan Today
Miracles love dressing up like ordinary life! A shadow, the weight of your own head, the sound of breath. Made astonishing again in 8 minutes or less.
Here's a secret your brain keeps from you. It's built to stop noticing details of anything it thinks stays the same, so it's free to catch whatever's new! Handy trick. But it comes at a price. The most astonishing things about being alive (the little things) get quietly filed under whatever. And like a sad little muscle never called off the bench, the skill of curiosity and discovery begins to fade.
Or NOT! When you notice, smile, and play!
So each episode we take something simple or seemingly plain, add in a dash of neuroscience, a touch of absurdity, and an easy way to play with that thing, to reveal something truer, deeply connected, or perhaps slightly more stupid about reality than before.
The game is to play with blindfolds of life. Look through them, don them like a shawl, admire the texture and patterns. It's not like we can stop our body from filtering reality, so why not play with the filters? See what all comes through? In other words, we're not gonna tell you life is amazing. You catch yourself feeling it. All it takes is a little playfulness and little experiments equal big fun! 🧪✨🎉
👆 Tap one. That's the show in miniature.
It's a short show. That's the whole promise. In about eight minutes you'll catch an insight, try something new, laugh at least once, and walk away with something that doesn't just put a smile on your face. It leaves you more connected: to your own body, to whoever's next to you, to a world you never stopped looking at, but perhaps haven't noticed.
Play along from right where you're standing. No gear, no setup. Walk out more awake. Short enough to fit into any day, big enough to change the afternoon.
Ken is exactly who you want asking, "So, what are we playing with today?" A keynote speaker, author of some 60 books, and founder of the Keep Smiling Movement, he's spent a career chasing one question: what actually makes people light up? On the show he brings the joy, throwing himself into every experiment and often laughing before Ryan's even finished explaining it. He's your permission to be amazed.
Ryan is the one who can't stop noticing connections that exist, even if loosely! He asks the strange, delicious questions (why can't you tickle yourself?) then hands you something to do with your own body so you can find the answer yourself. Twenty-five years of watching how bodies come alive taught him one firm rule: never tell a kid something is true when it's really just interesting. He brings the invitation, and the truth.
We're just two guys who won't settle for sleepwalking through life, and love seeing others come alive!
A new little experiment every episode, free for you to play with. Guaranteed to make you smile, or your money back! 😉
The one thing that's been touching you every second of your whole life, and you've never once felt it. Grab something with a little weight and find out where "easy" actually lives.
The oldest game in the world, played for real. What your body already knows the second the floor turns dangerous.
Feelings aren't single notes, they're blends. Let's mix a couple on purpose and taste what happens.
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