The Irrational S01

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00:00 I need your help solving a murder.

00:02 Oh yeah? Whose murder?

00:04 Mine.

00:06 My name is Alec Mercer.

00:10 I was brought in because I know people and why they do inexplicable things.

00:16 You're the science guy.

00:17 That's Bill Nye. I'm actually the behavioral science guy.

00:20 Morning, Professor.

00:22 Hello, hello. Welcome to Applied Psychology 101.

00:26 Are you familiar with predictable irrationality?

00:29 Paradoxical persuasion.

00:30 Attentional blindness.

00:32 Bereavement sex.

00:33 Nothing irrational about that.

00:36 I did it. I must have snapped.

00:39 How did it feel when you shot her?

00:41 I don't remember.

00:42 What kind of gun?

00:43 I don't know.

00:44 He confessed.

00:45 He did. But I think he was mistaken.

00:48 Why are you so sure he's innocent?

00:50 When we remember things, we remember images, specific details.

00:53 But he's a former Marine and couldn't remember what kind of gun he fired.

00:58 Whoever did it is still out there.

01:01 Pride.

01:03 Revenge.

01:04 The perfect crime.

01:06 You're the world's leading expert in human behavior.

01:08 Why are you looking for outliers?

01:10 The answer was right in front of us.

01:12 We just didn't see it.

01:13 Who do you think you are? James Bond?

01:15 I think I threw my back out.

01:17 People are irrational, but predictably so.

01:21 One error in judgment leads to another.

01:24 So this is just a theory?

01:26 Well, gravity was just a theory at one point.

01:29 [♪♪]

01:33 (whooshing)