ASRM & Mukbang is apparently a thing in 2020?

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Listen to all Dead Men Walking episodes here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/958282 Look, we don’t always talk about theology and doctrine on Dead Men Walking. Sometimes the convo goes down the ASMR and Mukbang rabbit hole. (My slight dyslexia kicked in and I kept referring to it as “ASRM”. 🥴) Enjoy! #DeadMenWalkingPodcast

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Yeah, ASRM is where they take, like they rip paper and they like... Gotcha. Dave Grohl's really into it.
00:07
Okay. And what is it? Oddly enough, it's just people who are really affected by very specific sounds, like it either soothes them or it's like, it makes them feel good basically.
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And what's it called? I think it's called, I might be saying it wrong, but I think it's ASRM, it has to do with, or someone will just, if you
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YouTube it, there's people who have millions of followers and they'll just whisper in the microphone. You'll just play the video and it goes,
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I'm just talking to you. And you're like, what is this?
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Or some girl was just ripping paper, she's like, or she'll take her water bottle and she'll say, now just listen to this.
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Are you serious? And they make millions. I don't know if they're making millions, but there's millions of people watching it.
00:56
I was one of them. I have heard of the... Six videos in, I'm like, what is this? I don't know what this is called, but some type of weight loss program where people will watch someone eating a hamburger or watch someone eating chips or a candy bar on YouTube because that way somehow it satisfies their brain somehow and they don't physically do it because they're weightlifters or they're really in shape.
01:30
Oh, it's like a real thing, like, hey, I'm gonna watch this person eat a hamburger so I don't eat it.
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So the craving's gone. Psychologically, yes. So there's people out there creating... Content, yes. Well, I think
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I just need to become that. I know. Just eat like a pig and be like, hey, throw the camera on, honey. Yeah, right.