Episode Transcript
Speaker 0 00:05 Welcome to brain junk. I'm Amy Barton and I'm trace Kerr and it's the end of the year. It's the end of 2019 thought maybe we do some outtakes and then we also have something we're going to let you in on on that behind the scenes. Look, we asked you to get to see the wizard behind the curtain. I know, right? Because before we start an episode, I always just hit record and then usually Amy and I still have stuff to talk about so we just chat it out and then we start. It's exciting stuff. People I know. So exciting. He's a little window into the world behind a brain junk. Yep. So today it's everything you never knew you wanted to know about the stuff we usually cut out.
Speaker 0 00:50 Oh my word. I can't get rid of this frog. That's okay. You can just keep the frog and will I need to put my, I need to put my microphone in a new bag. I'll put your microphone in a new bag. I'll put some popery in there and make it smell like an old lady. That'll be delightful. I went to Albertson's and grabbed a sandwich and cookies and Oh wow. She didn't bring any cookies. I always say I'm going to eat one and I eat them both and regret it. I love it. So what was it, the safe way, like Tupac cookies, but I used their bathroom so, um, my hand smell like old lady perfume and I almost texted you can't come and record because it cannot concentrate cause I'm going to my shop off my hand. I'm gonna have to glove up to not smell that. I also talk really fricking loud. I feel like I do too. But no, not, not like, not like me. I'm like a tyrannosaur look at my cackles though. It's our super, if, and if, if I ever have to quiet you down, it's the laugh. It's sharp because you do a ha and that, see that, that big thing there that and you do. Yours is much prettier than mine. But um, that, and I'll see that coming along at me and I'm like, Oh, that's going to be loud.
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Speaker 0 02:07 next little bit. We're going to play. We had an episode about what was it, animals, I think that we were doing and one of the topics that I desperately wanted to do with something called chicken hypnotizing. Oh yes. And I was super excited about it. I have some chickens, I'd done some chicken and hypnotizing and then I actually researched what was happening. Oh yeah. Yeah. So we're gonna, we're gonna let you hear that part because it's interesting. But yeah, that's all I just have to say. I hope you enjoy. Okay. So yeah, sorry. I know chicken hypnotizing. All right. I'm kind of disappointed. It's a fear response. Oh so the, like the falling over, she basically they think yeah, they think they're going to die. And so they kind of go into a, I don't know what to do. I'd like to be not conscious for this.
Speaker 0 02:55 Yeah. And then they flop over. And so I know, I was like, yeah, we're totally gonna do that. We're gonna shoot some video and then we're going to talk about it. And I'm looking it up and I thought, wow, I've done that three times. Great. Ah poor chicken. Cause it's super cool. So let, I'll explain it to you really quick. So you hold on to them and you put her beak down in the dirt and then another person puts their finger right by the beak and I draw a straight line about 12 inches away from the chicken. Yeah. And if they're centered on that line, their body kind of relaxes and you can just let go of them and they will just flump there. Really. You wa what about that? Supposedly it's the fact that they're being held in a confined way and, but the line makes a difference because if you try it without the line, so maybe it's like overloading, there's some sort of, or they think it's a snake or they, I don't know what's going on, but something is happening there in their brain and they're like, Oh, and they freeze.
Speaker 0 03:48 So I'm, yeah, no more tipping sheep. And Oh, if I had those goats that, you know where you go boot and they go, they get stiff legged and they fall over. I would be doing it all the time. Yeah. I'm that person who would lean out of the house and clap my hands really loud and they'd all fall over. They'd be like, your coat me. Isn't that very good? It's not tender is it? It's really tough cause it's full of adrenaline and fear. I was telling jazz about the mosquitoes and how they were uh, confining a hamster and he's like, scientists are monsters, but don't you have some of those questions? Yeah. You're like, that's awful. What happened? <inaudible> study results. As long as we already know them, we're not going to do it to anybody. But no, you should learn from it. It's valuable. Which is unfortunate. Yes. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 0 04:49 Okay. I'm trying to new hairstyle cause I'm trying to see what it would be like with it's long. He kind of looked like Superman. It's distracting. It's maybe not, it needs a haircut. And so I'm just completely, I don't think it looks, it looks good. I think it's just going to take some adjusting because I think it's going in a direction. It kind of like, it just needs some length here and this needs a little trim. But my brain knows it's weird. Well you haven't, you haven't seen me looking above your glasses. You know, like you know that look that people get where you're like, Oh God, something's happened up here. What has happened? My ponytail self-destructed
Speaker 1 05:27 <inaudible>
Speaker 0 05:30 all right, our next piece is all about mushrooms because we didn't talk enough about him the first time. But there's good, there's so much in the fungus world. It was so good. And what often happens, well, almost in every episode is that one of us will ask a question spontaneously like, Hey, is that edible? Or wow, what year did that happen? And we're like, ah, that's not actually in my notes. I don't know. So this is what happens when thing happens with my life that you're being super gracious about that because it happens to me too. It's, Whoa. So I can think of once I am fairly quickly satisfied by my initial pursuit of the general topic, I always feel bad if I ask you, you get this panic look on your face like, Oh no. Like it's a test and you've just flipped to that back page. You totally didn't study for that part. So enjoy mushrooms and learning things. You didn't know.
Speaker 0 06:29 I wouldn't need them, but I didn't Google that part. I was looking at my notes thinking, is this toxic? Should we look and see if it is toxic? Yeah. And then you can ask me again and I will be so you'll have so much information. Yeah. A bleeding tooth. Why is it a tooth? It's got spiny is underneath. It's do they look like teeth? It has one. It's so gross. It is. It's weird. Uh Oh yes. The, the, the spines underneath look like teeth. It looks like meat, honestly. Yeah. Uh, is not toxic but tastes bitter. That's probably for the best. Yeah. That's disgusting. Cause they don't exactly know what the liquid is either. Uh, which surprises me. I'm like, we still have mystery liquid and 20, 19 scientists don't know. No, there are so many mysteries when it comes to fungus. That is pretty much all I came up with, with all of the research. It was like, Hey, it does this really cool thing. And we think it might be this, but we're not really sure. There's a little magic in there still. You know, we're working on it. That's some graduate students research paper, you know? Yes. And he's going to not, or she is going to not actually have the answer when they have that 50 page document. Wow. Yeah. That's going to be sad.
Speaker 0 07:46 Hmm. Okay. I know where I'm going to go. Okay. That's good. Cause I do that live while we're talking. Sometimes I try not to and it doesn't help. Sorry. That's why there's magic here. Is that what that is? Smelly stuff. Diabetes. Yes. I'm waiting for you. Oh yeah. It's me. I'm feeling so articulate today. All right. It's like nice that you haven't tried to stab me after so I might turn up. No, actually we had a really nice compliment. I went to spoken print in publishing center. Oh yes. And so I was talking with a wonderful yes, I was talking with those guys and um, one of them was like, you and Amy have, it's a, it's a great combination because you know it's delightful. Well, Holly, of course, you know, but you know, I said she keeps me from like going talking about science, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you tend to squirrel and so together, you know, it's like wonder twin powers. That's right. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 08:59 <inaudible>
Speaker 0 09:03 welcome to brain junk. I'm Amy Barton and I'm trace cur. Today we're going to be talking about winter and winter traditions. Actually, I'm going to start all over because that was ridiculously stupid. Okay. Hit me up again. Let's start with that one. Don't worry. I'll take care of the time. Minor, short and shallowly researched everybody. I will not push the clock. I actually, um, I don't require notes for this. No, you don't. I'm only meant to be delightful and general, but if you want to hold paper to make you feel special, yeah. I'm going to quietly hold my hands in front of me. Oh, okay. I think I'm ready. I love science. What's good? I like that you recorded that. Can use it for a jingle down. I'll have to keep it. I know. I was thinking I need to do another. Uh, I have, we haven't had a lot of really funny, funny bloopers. We've had like mildly chuckling bloopers that I've been bad today but not hilariously <inaudible>.
Speaker 0 10:04 I saw your little eyes bumping along and I'm like, stop looking at my notes. Dammit. I'm practicing for Friday. I'm going to be cheating then too. Oh no. I don't know. I'm going to be opportunistically. What are you cheating on? On Friday? Saturday game night. Not Friday. Oh, game night. I'm so glad you were available. I know. I'm like, Oh. Were like, Oh hold on. Wait, wait this Saturday. And I'm like dammit. It is a big deal to get three adult families together. I know. Let's just do cinnamon next. You know, this, this, this cider is giving me heartburn and that's not fun for me. Food should not hurt. Right. But then that's why I don't eat spicy food cause I'm also like get the ring around your lips. The spicy ring. No, cause I don't go that far. Oh, okay. I'm like, wow, this black pepper is really spicy and people say you're a white person. And I say, I know. Thank you for being more Western European than me. Yeah. I just glow in the dark. That's what I do. Oh my gosh. It's embarrassing. I like it. All right. What are we going to talk about? I'm not going to tell you. Okay. Welcome to brain junk. I'm Amy Barton and I'm dressed.
Speaker 0 11:17 I don't know my name. Yeah, let's try that again. I'm gonna make it more concise. All right. Stop. Dithering. Yeah, no, you didn't do there though. That's insulting. No, I was totally, I was saying woo. Woo doing an Amy. Yes. All right. Hold on. Hm. Okay. Alright. I think I got it.
Speaker 1 11:44 <inaudible>
Speaker 0 11:47 in looking this up, you can come across a lot of images of the Apollo program and you had seamstresses who were making these computers. You had the Playtex company which makes bras. They were making the space suits because they, in fact the way they, they play techs, people pitched it. It was something along the lines of we're really good at making things that are form fitting supportive and yet still bouncy and so they were making the space suits. I love that flexibility. The fixed mindset won't get us anywhere, but that flexibility like the Playtex company. I know, right? They were like, you can make bras. Why not? Space suits. Yeah. Which makes total sense. Uh, the cat and mouse act was camp. It's over. Son, could you talk about the cat and mouse act please? You've had a day. It's more like a stroke, but I would get there
Speaker 1 12:53 <inaudible>
Speaker 0 12:56 I'm imagining it's like the first day of kindergarten and the kids are all sitting on the carpet and the teacher's got a box of fruit loops and she's just like, nobody has allergies, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. Sprinkles it across the bottom of the carpet and then those kids would know their alphabet within an hour. Right.
Speaker 0 13:17 And a very happy new year from brain junk. I'm pretty sure this is gonna air on new year's Eve somewhere. It's going to air Eve of new year's Eve on 1231 all right. We're on Facebook and Instagram as brain junk podcast and you can find us on Twitter as at my brain junk and I'm really excited about this. Next thing you can find us on. Alexa. Now and she'll do it on your smart speaker. Do you want me to do that again? It sounded like you said sparked speaker. It probably did. You can also ask Alexa to play brain junk podcast on your smart speaker. You can listen to the latest episode. So exciting. No touching anything. Trace and I will catch you next time when we share more of everything you never knew you wanted to know and I guarantee you will not be bored. You will not be bored. You will not be bored. Can't even say that now. You will not be bored. Excellent. I'm putting that on there.
