Are you an information addict? | Don McMillan Comedy

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What do you get when you cross an Engineer with a stand-up comedian? You get Don McMillan. This former chip designer has been doing his one-of-a-kind, PowerPoint-Driven comedy show for audiences for over 20 years. In his show packed with graphs & charts, Don will show you the funny side of your world that has been sitting right in front of you - you are just too busy working to notice. Don graduated from Stanford University with a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. He then went to work at AT&T Bell Labs where he was part of the team that designed the world’s first 32-bit microprocessor. He then moved to Silicon Valley where he helped launch the start-up company, VLSI Technology. Then after 15 years in the tech world, Don quit his job to become a stand-up comedian. That year he won $100,000 as the Comedy Grand Champion on “Star Search”. Don’s been seen on “The Tonight Show”, “HBO”, and the “Comedy Central”. These days, Don spends most of his time writing and performing customized corporate comedy shows for companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Ford Motors, and Exxon/Mobil. Don has performed more than 800 corporate shows in the last 20 years and he was named the #1 Corporate Comedian by the CBS Business Network.

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@Patchitt 4 ай бұрын

I think that we've entered the age of "the wrong information". Say you are shopping for something and want to find a technical spec for it, what are the odds the the manufacturer or supplier will give you that information without an hour of trawling through their website, if ever?

@Lreclusa 3 ай бұрын

With that example, it depends on how good you are at finding the information, along with who the manufacturer is. If it's a generic item, you can probably find the specs pretty easily. If it's an obscure item, you can find them on the right forums and on things like manualowl. If it's an Apple product, you might find it if you work for them, but even then they'll only send you the part of the spec for the specific part you work on and not the entire product. (This is actually becoming more common too... I work in a technical field and my manuals that shipped with the panel used to tell you everything about the part, now they only come with the details about the specific bit that they think is relevant to you installing it, and if something doesn't add up you have to call tech support.)

@ChrisMahtal 3 ай бұрын

I think the problem is that we've been fed disinformation for a long time as marketers have skewed information to fit their narratives in order to sell us shit. Now we have information debunking all their bullshit, but it isn't easy to change people's beliefs. Especially if it is something they have believed for a very long time. It takes a lot of time and energy, and most people are comfortable in their delusions. So we live in the age of information conflict. Where it's up to each individual to try and figure out the truth. The problem is people tend to search for information that supports their beliefs and ignore the information that challenges it. We should all be keeping a careful eye on the information we consume, just as much as the food we consume. However, no matter how vigilant you are, something will eventually slip through the net.

@ledocteur7701 Ай бұрын

A few weeks ago we were shopping for a new vacuum cleaner, the manufacturer didn't even bother putting the airflow in the product description, nor the manual. And it was a pretty well known brand ! We ended up buying it with the only information about airflow being a costumer review saying that it works well. And it indeed does.

@ViridianFlow Ай бұрын

It's not wrong though, remember this is the age of "alternative facts", where if you don't like real facts you just get to pick and choose your own. Life is now a big choose your own adventure book where your fingers slip off the previous page before you know if you choose right or not, and even if you do choose wrong, just blame a group of people that you don't belong to so you can pretend you chose right anyway and if it goes badly it's someone else's fault.

@jovetj Ай бұрын

The odds are 🟠%.

@johnmckown1267 4 ай бұрын

5:32 Took the engineers long enough to figure out that bags need wheels.

@almostbutnotentirelyunreas166 4 ай бұрын

Yup, they should've left it to the bean-counters instead, like Boeing does....

@MichaelSHartman 3 ай бұрын

Stone age

@EvA-is5ed 18 күн бұрын

In the 50s they still had porters...just sayin'.

@johnmckown1267 17 күн бұрын

@@EvA-is5ed I was a baby back then. But I remember them from movies. Bellhops too.

@bigedslobotomy 4 ай бұрын

When you were talking about the “age of too much information”, that reminded me of a joke I heard: If you have a question about something today, you will say, “Well, let’s Google it!”. But before the internet, if you had a question about something, you’d look at each other and shrug and say, “Welp, we may NEVER know!” (Because though you sometimes had access to information such as encyclopedias, you would either forget to look it up when you had the time and had the encyclopedias available, or you simply didn’t care enough to look the information up!)

@classymuffin4589 4 ай бұрын

I feel like that's more of a statement than a joke, still true though.

@Mtl-zf9om 3 ай бұрын

Like Shazam. You think of an idea or question, if you're connected, you google it on the spot. Otherwise, you wait until you arrive at home to do it.

@Irreve-rsible 2 ай бұрын

It also depends on the interest on the subject being questioned. If you are interested in a topic generally you would ask, and still would ask as many people as you can to get your question answered because you want it answered. It just depends.

@thomashudson3458 Ай бұрын

The problem we had with encyclopedias, was knowing where to look for the answer. Do you look under "S" for Saturn or "P" for Planet?

@OriginalJoe 4 ай бұрын

That Paris Hilton joke would for sure be a Kardashian joke today

@bikeny 2 ай бұрын

We're watching this in 2024 and until he dropped the year at the end, I was just happy to follow along. But, yeah, 11 years later and Paris is a mom. My parents had a car with seatbelts when I was a kid and they told all of us 4 boys that the car couldn't (or wouldn't) move until we were all buckled in. The food stuff oh yeah we all loved those battles. At some point it was said that the food dye that made licorice and jelly beans black was bad for you. My mom's answer was "So I die a week earlier." Well, she died a week before her 91st birthday.

@kahutochishisumi9056 2 ай бұрын

I believe humour has been there since the birth of humanity and thus, it's nearly impossible to be original, but you are original.

@biaberg3448 3 ай бұрын

Siri is actually a common Norwegian girls name.

@richdobbs6595 4 ай бұрын

For those who expect, AI to change things in the world, the AI's are subjected to the same issues, and people using AI's will find that their AI's are being manipulated by folks who are also subjected to the same issues. I strongly suspect that rather than the future being affected by Artificial Intelligence, we need to factor in artificial stupidity, artificial deceit, and artificial manipulation.

@maxpayne2574 2 ай бұрын

The scariest thing about A.I. is if it learns how to treat people from people.

@jovetj Ай бұрын

@@maxpayne2574 There is nothing scary about AI at all. And the only respectable thing is it _may_ be better at knowing when to use an apostrophe than a human. Or it may not.

@derekisthematrix Ай бұрын

GIGO

@lightergreen Ай бұрын

@@jovetj The scary thing is that since we haven't completely programmed it by hand, there may be a flaw that may only appear in a niche senario. It applies to everything, but it will be much more common with AI.

@jovetj Ай бұрын

@@lightergreen It will actually have more niche flaws.

@hikosama7321 Ай бұрын

He doesn't know how right he is about "The Rev1" and "Rev 2" lol

@z3cki 2 ай бұрын

I wanted to name kids 1.1 and 1.2 so when I get married again I could continue 2.1 etc... 😔 idea was quickly shot down

@slinnova 4 ай бұрын

I miss Fry's Electronics, spend a lot of my teenage time there.

@oldsaerotech1167 2 ай бұрын

The stores were great.

@odgreen9113 2 ай бұрын

Circuit city for me

@wisteela 2 ай бұрын

We put man on the moon before we put wheels on suitcases.

@ObamaoZedong Ай бұрын

Would we have ever made it to the moon if men weren't strong enough to lift entire suitcases though?

@3615letetard 4 ай бұрын

1:33 I named them Alice, Bob and Charlie, how many points do I have?

@hanswoast7 2 ай бұрын

I dont know. Are you sure the was no man-in-the-middle?

@JamesTDG 3 ай бұрын

4:11 I don't know my total because not all questions were relevant to me! Additionally, IDK if I can do multiple choice for the Fry's one...

@bbgun061 2 ай бұрын

Oh, if you have to pick two answers, you just add all the points, then double them.

@kieranbishop2581 3 ай бұрын

absolutely hilarious

@BlessedForever888 4 ай бұрын

Don, you are soooo funny!

@Braincho 2 ай бұрын

Honey boo boo is like a "point of no return" kind of thing.

@johnduffy6546 3 ай бұрын

OMG! You are incredible.... You would make one heck of a TV Evangelist! Send us your credit card information😂😂

@ChrisPollitt 4 ай бұрын

Hilarious!

@maxpayne2574 2 ай бұрын

As a nerd I love this guys act.

@JamesTDG 3 ай бұрын

5:48 I was about to say Air Bags.

@JamesTDG 3 ай бұрын

2:03 So, I thought I was 4 windows versions old, but I just did a quick cross-reference with Wikipedia. When I was born, the latest Windows version to have released was Anvil, I HOWEVER grew up using Win 7. Mathematically, I am 10 Windows versions old (If we count version subnames, otherwise for major release versions, I am 6 versions old)

@jovetj Ай бұрын

only major new versions count.

@simonetozzi7912 3 ай бұрын

Great and funny video! Actually a very interesting and true graph at 5:10 too. Ty

@simonetozzi7912 3 ай бұрын

P.S.: Egg yolks are good for you. :)

@zelda1420 21 күн бұрын

I got 2 points. "You are lying - this is Sunnyvale!" Listen. I'm watching this online. I don't live in Sunnyvale. And yet this happens _when I'm literally in Sunnyvale, California._ Maybe I'm lying so well I don't know it!

@DeborahJoshua24 4 ай бұрын

HAHA! Honey Boo Boo!!

@DeoFayte 16 күн бұрын

We hit TMI when the average person got a smart phone and, collectively as a society, we forgot that the average person is an idiot.

@staa1337 Ай бұрын

great

@zacharynunley9677 3 ай бұрын

As much as this is funny and meant to be entertainment, he actually make some damn good points!

@curtishorn1267 Ай бұрын

Fry's is sadly closed.

@Ithenna Ай бұрын

I think the real problem is not that you can't make a decision, but that it takes a lot longer to make one because you have to sift through too much stuff now - which does result in many people just giving up and asking their Facebook friends or something instead and ultimately making their decision based on either popular vote or the first "expert's opinion" they found.

@kevinstreeter6943 29 күн бұрын

I prefer the phone book over google. With Google, I do not get local and get whoever paid to be at the top.

@JamesTDG 3 ай бұрын

2:42 Question, what if B and C are correct for me? Do I get 4 points?

@amochswohntet99 2 ай бұрын

Some of the funniest moments you'll have are when you say something but don't realize it's very funny until someone points it out. I was in a store once, and someone asked me if I was finding everything okay, and tentatively I said "uhh, I think so" and they just chuckled to themselves. I might as well have said uhh, maybe 😆

@TheAmos1 4 ай бұрын

😆😆😆

@ricead Ай бұрын

That's an awful lot of cache.

@AlexArthur94 4 ай бұрын

He's too real about the conflicting health information out there nowadays. At this point, I've settled that we really don't know. Probably best to avoid the obviously bad stuff (highly processed, additives, etc) and to eat a little of lots of different things. But that's just my (educated?) guess.

@avinotion 3 ай бұрын

You're mostly right

@OrenLikes 4 ай бұрын

Funny, Funny, Funny!!! In the Eurovision (don't bother if you don't know), you'd get 1100 points! (referencing your previous Hi-101). Can you do (did you) one about "Imperial" system (and MM-DD-YYYY) is bad, vs "Metric" system (and DD-MM-YYYY, or YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss) is good?

@piccalillipit9211 4 ай бұрын

MM-DD-YYYY is just insanity

@ldbarthel 4 ай бұрын

@@piccalillipit9211 I suspect it's a holdover from agrarian societies. It's most important to know the month or season. The day is a bit of a deeper dive - a fine-tuning if you will. The year is far less important because it gives no information that's really relevant except in record-keeping. In an information based society, the ISO standard YYYY-MM-DD is the only sane path, adding increasing specificity as you add more digits.

@piccalillipit9211 4 ай бұрын

@@ldbarthel Yeah but you cant get MORE agrarian than medieval Europe and we do DD-MM-YYYY. I agree that for scientific notation it should be YYYY-MM-DD and then HH-MM-SS Interestingly I live in Bulgaria now and they format the addresses Country City District Street House number Although apartment blocks have unique numbers so and address would be say Burgas, Bl122 Ap4 which is way easier then the long painful addressed we have in the UK.

@bucketspree4952 3 ай бұрын

@@piccalillipit9211 yeah I have no idea how y'all get anything done with addresses that long

@fedsummer90 2 ай бұрын

At this point, I would say we are in the middle of the post truth.

@System.Error. 4 ай бұрын

so this was from 10 years ago but u decided to upload it now?

@paulsengupta971 4 ай бұрын

It would be difficult to go back and upload it 10 years ago.

@marcocattaneo9974 Ай бұрын

Guess that TMI line has dropped below the zero bar by now and we entered some dark hidden imaginary (calling it 'j' as 'i' was already taken) twilight dimension.

@kenchristie9214 11 күн бұрын

Who woulda thunk it? There was too much information when the vacuous Paris Hilton came into the equation.

@HFkepley9312 3 ай бұрын

I'm likely to name my kids Mac Siri Cortona and Alexa

@InsatiableMonkey 3 ай бұрын

Today I learned Elon Musk was a dentist model. 6:20

@alex_lomov 2 ай бұрын

Bitcoin is nothing?

@sparkyenergia 3 ай бұрын

I guess the Viagra guys were in the know about Fry's before Don.

@JamesTDG 3 ай бұрын

0:57 Verizon's a bit of a joke now

@RussellNelson 4 ай бұрын

I thought Fry's went bankrupt and closed?

@markae0 4 ай бұрын

this is from 2013

@niteshades_promise 2 ай бұрын

I've been dumped via Facebook status. Yeah...😂😮‍💨🍻

@erikziak1249 3 ай бұрын

The quiz does not take into account a person without any relationship, any girlfriend, any family, any children. Not even having any dates at all, as having been only rejected by females. So, practically, me. 42 years old, virgin, working in IT.