Episode 11: What’s So Funny? A Very, Very Serious Discussion about Laughter and Humor

The Two Humans break their funny bones trying to figure out what's so damn funny about laughter.

Episode 11: What’s So Funny?! A Very, Very Serious Discussion about Laughter and Humor.

An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.

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