This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedantam.
It used to be that if you wanted to feel what it was like to do something, you had to go out and do it.
If your dream was to see the Grand Canyon from a raft, you'd head to the river.
If you wanted to gaze up close at the Mona Lisa, you'd go to Paris.
If you wanted to know what it felt like to walk hand in hand with a lover on a moonlit night, you'd have to go out and find a partner.
But something in our culture has changed.
As we sit on the couch, any takeout, we're gonna take the green peppercorn mayonnaise.
Yum.
And we're gonna put a little.
We watch kitchen virtuosos, whip up gourmet meals from scratch, turn her over and.
Look at the color, and it just.
Makes the house smell like home to me.
And then we watch other people eat meals.
So if you are alone on Thanksgiving, I hope you will have your Thanksgiving dinner with me.
I mean that literally.
There's a popular genre on YouTube.
Okay, my mouth seriously salivating right now.
Where you just watch other people binge eat.
Okay, I'm starving.