1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:08,839 Speaker 1: Understand the thinking atheist. It's not a person, it's a symbol, 2 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:10,000 an idea. 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,519 Speaker 2: The population of atheists this country is going through. 4 00:00:13,359 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: The rule, rejecting faith, pursuing knowledge, challenging the sacred. If 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,120 I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth, 6 00:00:22,519 --> 00:00:23,160 not because. 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:24,839 Speaker 2: I put my hand on a book and made a. 8 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:28,839 Speaker 1: Wish and working together for a more rational world. 9 00:00:29,079 --> 00:00:32,039 Speaker 2: Take the risk of thinking. Feel so much more happiness. 10 00:00:32,079 --> 00:00:34,719 Truth Usian wisdom will come to you that way. 11 00:00:35,679 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 1: Assume nothing, question everything, and start thinking. This is the 12 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:52,759 Thinking Atheist podcast hosted by Seth Andrews. 13 00:00:56,479 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 2: Today is going to be a show about fun science. 14 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,600 We're going to learn things and take a much needed 15 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,840 break from religion and politics. I need a break. I 16 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,680 logged on this morning just to stay informed. You know 17 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:15,760 what sucks about being alive, staying informed? The world is crazy. 18 00:01:15,879 --> 00:01:18,239 I need a break. You need a break. Let's do 19 00:01:18,359 --> 00:01:20,799 some fun science. This is the kind of thing that 20 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,840 our school teachers might have done when we were kids. 21 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:25,959 You walk in, you sit down in your desk, and 22 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,359 the teacher says, all right, we're gonna do some fun 23 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,519 experiments today. Get ready to have a good time and 24 00:01:31,799 --> 00:01:35,319 expand your mind. I like that kind of stuff, so 25 00:01:35,439 --> 00:01:38,000 let's do it today. It has to do with a 26 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,000 term that I had not heard until recently. I was 27 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,879 talking to a friend of mine, Adrian Hill. She's part 28 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,120 of the Guerrilla Skeptics on Wikipedia. You may have seen 29 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:51,319 Adrian with Richard Saunders on the Skeptic Zone podcast. She's 30 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,799 worked a lot with Kenny Biddle, who is an investigator 31 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,680 Slash Deep Bunker. He does a lot of work talking 32 00:01:57,719 --> 00:02:02,680 about our desire to believe, the pattern seeking brain, the 33 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,799 voices that we hear in white noise that sound like 34 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:09,759 ghosts communicating to us. People who look at photographs and oh, 35 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,120 look there's a face in the window where somebody's in 36 00:02:12,159 --> 00:02:15,439 the graveyard walking. It must be a spirit. Maybe it's Grandma. 37 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:17,199 She does a lot of that kind of thing. And 38 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:21,520 she was doing a speech in Canada at Calgary's We 39 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,199 Can Reason conference, and I'm going to release the video 40 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,560 of that. I begged for permission. I said, your ghost 41 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,520 speech is amazing. Can I put it on my channel? 42 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,439 So it's coming up in a few days. But she 43 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:37,080 brought up a term called monday green. Now, Monday green 44 00:02:37,319 --> 00:02:40,680 wasn't actually a word until it was It was made 45 00:02:40,759 --> 00:02:44,520 up by an American writer named Sylvia Wright, and she 46 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,800 was publishing a piece in Harper's magazine back in nineteen 47 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:50,680 fifty four, and she was talking about her childhood and 48 00:02:50,759 --> 00:02:54,120 a specific instance when she had heard the lyric to 49 00:02:54,199 --> 00:02:57,840 a poem, but she had heard something different than the 50 00:02:57,879 --> 00:03:00,280 words on the page. Her mom used to read her 51 00:03:00,319 --> 00:03:04,599 from the Releaks of Ancient English Poetry. This was a 52 00:03:04,599 --> 00:03:08,080 compilation of poems from the seventeen hundreds, and so her 53 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,360 mother was reading, ye Highlands and ye Lowland, So where 54 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,879 have ye been? They have slain the Earl A Murray 55 00:03:16,199 --> 00:03:21,360 and lady MONDE Green. Except that's not what the lyric 56 00:03:21,479 --> 00:03:26,400 actually said. The lyric was laid him on the green. 57 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:31,240 Yet Sylvia carried monda Green in her brain for decades 58 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,680 of her life, and when she wrote about it, that 59 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,599 term kind of stuck. So now when you and I 60 00:03:36,719 --> 00:03:39,080 miss here a lyric and we learn it wrong and 61 00:03:39,159 --> 00:03:43,000 our brains are connecting dots in that incorrect way, we 62 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:45,439 call that a Manda Green. And we're going to get 63 00:03:45,439 --> 00:03:49,159 into some science about why our brains connect dots in 64 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:51,439 this way. We're going to talk more about mind and 65 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,360 memory and mondagree. But first I brought so many examples 66 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,439 that you are just gonna love. And you may hear 67 00:03:58,639 --> 00:04:02,360 or mishear some of the a certain way. Everybody's difference. 68 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:05,759 I would be curious to survey this audience as to 69 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:08,520 what they hear when I play the clips. We're gonna 70 00:04:08,599 --> 00:04:14,240 begin with Taylor Swift. Twelve years ago, Taylor Swift releases 71 00:04:14,319 --> 00:04:18,839 her fifth studio album, which includes the song blank Space. 72 00:04:19,199 --> 00:04:24,360 An often misheard lyric in that song exists in this 73 00:04:24,519 --> 00:04:31,040 short clip see what you hear? 74 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:33,439 Speaker 3: Now? 75 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 2: I have to keep these musical clips really short, or 76 00:04:36,199 --> 00:04:39,519 else YouTube's gonna sting me with a bunch of copyright bullshits. 77 00:04:39,519 --> 00:04:42,040 So roll with me as best you can. Let me 78 00:04:42,079 --> 00:04:49,680 play Taylor Swift from blank Space again. What do you hear? 79 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:55,360 A lot of Swifties have been singing these words. Got 80 00:04:55,399 --> 00:05:00,160 a long list of Starbucks lovers? See if you hear it? 81 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,600 So many people got this one wrong. That Taylor Swift 82 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:12,079 has actually spoken about it in interviews. She's totally in 83 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,199 on it and thinks it's kind of awesome. But the 84 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,120 lyric itself has not got a long list of Starbucks lovers. 85 00:05:18,199 --> 00:05:29,040 It is got a long list of ex lovers. Okay, 86 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,519 let's go back to nineteen seventy two with the legendary 87 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:38,319 British musician Elton John and his classic Tiny Dancer, Except 88 00:05:38,319 --> 00:05:42,959 according to a great many people, he's not saying tiny Dancer, 89 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,360 He's saying somebody's name. Try this. 90 00:05:48,519 --> 00:05:50,319 Speaker 4: Son something of dance? 91 00:05:52,959 --> 00:05:58,439 Speaker 2: Did your brain here? Hold me closer? Tony Danza. 92 00:06:00,199 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 4: Sun Dance? 93 00:06:04,439 --> 00:06:07,639 Speaker 2: Okay, Tony Danza was an actor. He's still around, but 94 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,920 he was an actor that was most famous in the seventies. 95 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,560 In the eighties, he was on taxi and he was 96 00:06:12,639 --> 00:06:16,759 on Who's the Boss? Do you hear hold me closer? 97 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:19,199 Tony Danza. 98 00:06:20,759 --> 00:06:22,519 Speaker 4: Sun Dance? 99 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 2: Of course the song says hold me closer, Tiny Dancer. 100 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,680 Still in the seventies, Jimmy Hendrick's Purple Hayz. Do you 101 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,560 know this when you can hear it coming? 102 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,439 Speaker 4: Excuse me while kiss the sky. 103 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 2: I don't know what your brain hears. My brain heres. 104 00:06:43,519 --> 00:06:46,279 Excuse me why I kiss this guy? 105 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 4: Excuse me while kiss the scuf. 106 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,639 Speaker 2: And of course he's saying, excuse me while I kiss 107 00:06:54,959 --> 00:06:59,319 the sky. Let's back up to before the nineteen seventies. 108 00:06:59,399 --> 00:07:03,439 This was Bad Moon Rising, written by John Fogerty, performed 109 00:07:03,439 --> 00:07:07,000 by Creeden's clear Water Revival. This is from the Green 110 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,160 River album released in April of nineteen sixty nine, with 111 00:07:11,279 --> 00:07:15,439 one of the most famous misheard lyrics or Monda Green's 112 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,720 in history, from the song bad Moon Rising. What do 113 00:07:19,879 --> 00:07:32,639 you hear in this clip? Is there indeed a bathroom 114 00:07:32,759 --> 00:07:38,600 on the right? There's a bathroom on the right. I 115 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:46,079 hear it in my head? Do you hear it? Of course, 116 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,240 the correct lyric is there's a bad moon on the rise, 117 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,839 hence the title of the song bad Moon Rising. Apparently 118 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,959 John Fogerty enjoys this Manda Green so much that in 119 00:07:58,079 --> 00:08:02,879 concerts sometimes he would say there's a bathroom on the right, 120 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,480 and he would sing it that way on purpose, and 121 00:08:05,519 --> 00:08:09,920 the audience loved it. One of my favorite records Toto 122 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:13,959 four with the song Rosanna on it, and probably equally 123 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:18,279 famous the tune Africa but do we really bless the 124 00:08:18,439 --> 00:08:20,600 grains down in Africa? 125 00:08:21,399 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 4: And then the rain. 126 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,079 Speaker 2: I'm working it out in my head, I bless the 127 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:32,200 grains down in Africa? Do you hear it that way? 128 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 4: And then the ray. 129 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:40,240 Speaker 2: Of course, the actual lyrics, It's going to take me 130 00:08:40,279 --> 00:08:42,919 a lot to drag me away from you. There's nothing 131 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,279 more than one hundred men or more could ever do? 132 00:08:45,919 --> 00:08:51,120 I bless the rains down in Africa. Now, if it 133 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,919 sounds like a lot of the Manda Green examples are 134 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,720 older tunes, it's pretty obvious that we have been singing 135 00:08:57,759 --> 00:09:01,279 something on the order of decades right came classics, which 136 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,039 is why they've stuck in our minds and in the culture. 137 00:09:04,159 --> 00:09:06,720 So it would make sense that we would go back 138 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,159 to nineteen seventy and talk about Stevie Wonder in his 139 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:21,559 hit single Signed Sealed Delivered, I'm yours. People have not 140 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:26,720 been hearing signed Sealed Delivered, I'm yours. They're hearing something else. 141 00:09:26,759 --> 00:09:37,840 Try again. I don't get this one. People are insisting 142 00:09:38,159 --> 00:09:45,480 Stevie Wonder has been singing down to the River Onions, Onions, 143 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:53,399 down to the River Onions. That one's a stretch for me. 144 00:09:54,039 --> 00:09:57,679 Everybody's brain is different, That one's a stretch for me. 145 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,360 Dancing Queen, by Abba, you are the dancing Queen, young 146 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:08,480 and sweet, only seventeen. Dancing Queen. Feel the beat from 147 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:21,679 the tambourine. Oh yeah, oh no. The Manda Green here 148 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:31,960 is See that girl, Watch her scream kicking the dancing Queen. 149 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:50,840 See that girl, watch her scream kicking the Dancing Queen. Okay, yeah, 150 00:10:50,919 --> 00:10:55,759 I mean it's close. It's close. And another one from 151 00:10:55,879 --> 00:11:00,519 the eighties from the Rocky three classic soundtrack Survive I 152 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:04,879 of the Tiger and the last known survivor stalks his 153 00:11:05,159 --> 00:11:15,080 prey in the night, except he's not stalking prey. Did 154 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,559 you hear it? Let me play it again for you, 155 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:30,039 and the last known survivor stalks his bread in the night. No, 156 00:11:30,519 --> 00:11:32,759 I'm serious. Let me play it one more time. The 157 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:36,080 last known survivor stalks his bread in the night, and 158 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:43,799 see if you hear it. I wonder if the lead 159 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,399 singer of Survivor sometimes sings the Manda Green version to 160 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,000 his audience. You know, is he in on the joke? 161 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:53,360 Is the band enjoying the Manda Green along with the 162 00:11:53,399 --> 00:11:56,639 rest of us? Okay? How can we talk about misheard 163 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,480 lyrics and not talk about the Begs? You know, the 164 00:12:00,519 --> 00:12:05,240 beg Staying Alive Saturday Night Fever. This iconic seventies group 165 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,960 the Begs from their song Jibe Talking. The lyric actually 166 00:12:10,039 --> 00:12:13,639 says jive Talking. Tell me why but people have been 167 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:19,759 singing child Swallow? Tell me why that's creepy? How deep 168 00:12:19,879 --> 00:12:24,360 is your love has been? Miss? Sung? I'm a beaver 169 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:29,679 in love from Night Fever. I get higher in my walking. No, no, 170 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,559 people have been singing I get higher in Milwaukee. Not 171 00:12:34,759 --> 00:12:37,799 I get higher in my walking. And here's a clip 172 00:12:37,879 --> 00:12:41,600 from the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever nineteen seventy seven, 173 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,559 the song more than a Woman. What do you hear? 174 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,919 Does that sound like bald headed woman? I mean, I'm 175 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:00,240 sure people know this is bogus. They're not thinking. Marry 176 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,960 Robin and Maurice Gibb wrote bald headed Woman as a lyric, 177 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,960 but that's what many brains have been hearing. 178 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:07,519 Speaker 5: Do you. 179 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 2: Bald headed woman? The beg's And maybe the big question is, 180 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,759 the next time you hear this, for the rest of 181 00:13:22,799 --> 00:13:25,559 your life, every time you hear this, are you going 182 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:39,879 to hear bald headed woman? You're welcome, You are welcome. Okay. 183 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,480 I'm going to talk about patterns seeking and how our 184 00:13:43,519 --> 00:13:47,480 brains operate to try to make sense or nonsense of 185 00:13:47,639 --> 00:13:50,480 our natural world. We're going to get into that in 186 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:59,879 just a second. I was reading an article about mon 187 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:04,360 greens in The New Yorker, published several years ago by 188 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,960 Maria Konik Koba. The piece was titled Excuse Me while 189 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,840 I kiss this guy, And of course we played that 190 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,720 classic Hendrix clip a few minutes ago. In the article 191 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:20,679 she says this, She says hearing is a two step process. First, 192 00:14:20,759 --> 00:14:24,919 there is the auditory perception itself, the physics of sound 193 00:14:24,919 --> 00:14:28,159 waves making their way through your ear and into the 194 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:31,440 auditory cortex of your brain. And then there is the 195 00:14:31,639 --> 00:14:35,039 meaning making, the part where your brain takes the noise 196 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,200 and imbues it with significance. That was a car alarm, 197 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,799 that's a bird Manda Greens occur when somewhere between the 198 00:14:43,879 --> 00:14:48,039 sound and the meaning communication breaks down. You hear the 199 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,200 same acoustic information as everyone else, but your brain doesn't 200 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,279 interpret it the same way. What's less immediately clear is 201 00:14:56,399 --> 00:15:01,240 why precisely that happens. The simplest cases occur when we 202 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,440 just mishear something it's noisy, and we lack the visual 203 00:15:05,519 --> 00:15:08,279 cues to help us out. This can happen on the phone, 204 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:13,039 on the radio, across cubicles, basically anytime we can't see 205 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:15,720 the mouth of the speaker. One of the reasons we 206 00:15:15,799 --> 00:15:18,720 often miss here song lyrics is that there's a lot 207 00:15:18,759 --> 00:15:21,919 of noise to get through, and we usually can't see 208 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,679 the musician's faces. Other times, the misperceptions come from the 209 00:15:26,799 --> 00:15:30,879 nature of the speech itself, for example, when someone speaks 210 00:15:30,919 --> 00:15:34,720 in an unfamiliar accent, or when the usual structure of 211 00:15:34,799 --> 00:15:38,720 stresses and inflections changes, as it does in a poem 212 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,000 or a song, what should be clear becomes ambiguous, and 213 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,759 our brain must do its best to resolve the ambiguity. 214 00:15:47,399 --> 00:15:51,279 Human speech occurs without breaks. When one word ends and 215 00:15:51,399 --> 00:15:55,679 another begins, we don't actually pause to signal the transition. 216 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,720 When you listen to a recording of a language that 217 00:15:58,759 --> 00:16:01,960 you don't speak, can you hear a continuous stream of 218 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:06,320 sounds that's more a warblink than a string of discernible words. 219 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,960 We only learn when one word stops and the next 220 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,360 one starts over time, by virtue of certain verbal cues. 221 00:16:14,879 --> 00:16:19,399 For instance, different languages have different general principles of inflection, 222 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,559 the rise and fall of a voice within a word 223 00:16:22,639 --> 00:16:28,840 or sentence, and syllabification the stress patterns of syllables. Combined 224 00:16:28,879 --> 00:16:33,799 with actual semantic knowledge, very young children can make mistakes 225 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:38,200 that shed light on how the process actually develops in 226 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:42,919 the language instinct Stephen, Pinker, don't get hung up on Pinker, 227 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,399 all right, don't get hung This is a twelve year 228 00:16:45,399 --> 00:16:50,120 old article talk about Pinker in the Language Instinct, Stephen 229 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:54,120 Pinker points out a few near missus I am have 230 00:16:54,759 --> 00:16:58,480 as a response to behave, I don't want to go 231 00:16:58,639 --> 00:17:03,679 to your Amy replied to going to my Ami. People 232 00:17:03,799 --> 00:17:07,400 immersed in an environment with a new language often initially 233 00:17:07,480 --> 00:17:11,440 experienced the same thing, a lack of clear ability to 234 00:17:11,519 --> 00:17:15,279 tell what words exactly should properly emerge from the sounds 235 00:17:15,279 --> 00:17:19,920 that are being spoken. Most likely, my sister's unconventional talent 236 00:17:20,039 --> 00:17:22,960 stems partly from the fact that English is not our 237 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,319 first language. For us, on a basic level, word processing 238 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:30,359 will always be just a bit different from that of 239 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:34,920 native English speakers. A common cause of manda greens in 240 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,759 particular is the oranym word strings in which the sounds 241 00:17:39,799 --> 00:17:44,400 can be logically divided multiple ways. One version that Pinker 242 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:50,319 describes goes like this, Eugene O'Neill won a pullet Surprise. 243 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:54,400 The string of phonetic sounds can be plausibly broken up 244 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,279 in multiple ways, and if you're not familiar with the 245 00:17:57,359 --> 00:18:01,039 requisite proper noun, you may find yourself taking an error. 246 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:08,359 In similar fashion, Bohemian Rhapsody becomes Bohemian rap. City Children 247 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:12,400 might wonder why Olive the other reindeer was so mean 248 00:18:12,519 --> 00:18:17,720 to Rootolph Olive the other reindeer, And a foreigner might 249 00:18:17,799 --> 00:18:21,559 become confused as to why in this country we entrust 250 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:26,799 weather reports to meety urologists, or why so many people 251 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:31,920 are black toast intolerant, or and m's result in not 252 00:18:32,079 --> 00:18:35,799 so much a mangling as an incorrect parsing of sounds 253 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,960 when context or prior knowledge is lacking. In other times, 254 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,720 the culprit is the perception of the sound itself. Some 255 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:48,359 letters and letter combinations sound remarkably alike, and we need 256 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:52,440 further cues, whether visual or contextual, to help us out. 257 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,440 In their absence, one sound can be mistaken for another. 258 00:18:56,599 --> 00:19:00,759 For example, in a phenomenon known as the McGirk effect, 259 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,400 people can be made to hear one consonant when a 260 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,759 similar one is being spoken. There's a bathroom on the right, 261 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,279 standing in for there's a bad moon on the rise 262 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:16,079 is a succession of such similarities, adding up to two 263 00:19:16,319 --> 00:19:21,480 equally coherent alternatives. What usually prevents us from being tripped 264 00:19:21,559 --> 00:19:25,240 up by phonetics is the context and our own knowledge. 265 00:19:25,759 --> 00:19:29,000 When we hear a word or phrase, our brain's first 266 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:32,319 cue is the actual sounds in the order in which 267 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:36,240 they are produced. According to the Cohort model, one of 268 00:19:36,279 --> 00:19:41,000 the leading theories of auditory word processing, when we hear sounds, 269 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,839 a number of related words are activated all at once 270 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,960 in our heads, words that either sound the same or 271 00:19:48,039 --> 00:19:51,599 have component parts that are the same. Our brain then 272 00:19:51,759 --> 00:19:54,759 chooses the one that makes the most sense. For instance, 273 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,759 if I'm talking about the role of the syllable and 274 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:03,079 language comprehension, also, on some level, thinking about a silly 275 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:08,799 looking ball rolling away a silly ball, you're also considering 276 00:20:08,839 --> 00:20:13,720 the smaller snippets that form each word's makeup row along 277 00:20:13,759 --> 00:20:18,119 with roll, sill, along with silly and sill a bowl. 278 00:20:18,799 --> 00:20:21,720 Only after I say the whole phrase, do you understand 279 00:20:21,759 --> 00:20:25,480 what I'm saying. Songs and poems, in some sense, lie 280 00:20:25,559 --> 00:20:29,759 between conventional speech and a foreign language. We hear the 281 00:20:29,839 --> 00:20:33,960 sounds but don't have the normal contextual clues. It's not 282 00:20:34,079 --> 00:20:37,400 as if we were mid conversation, where the parameters have 283 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:42,240 already been set. Along with knowledge, we are governed by familiarity. 284 00:20:42,519 --> 00:20:45,200 We're more likely to select a word or phrase we're 285 00:20:45,319 --> 00:20:51,119 familiar with, a phenomenon known as Zip's law zip F 286 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:56,000 zips law according to which the actual frequency of a 287 00:20:56,039 --> 00:21:00,200 word can affect how seamlessly it is processed. If you're 288 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,240 a member of the crew team, you are far more 289 00:21:03,319 --> 00:21:08,920 likely to select row row instead of row r oe 290 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:13,319 from an ambiguous sentence. If you are a chef, the 291 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:18,119 opposite is likely, you would choose roe the food roe. 292 00:21:18,559 --> 00:21:21,519 One of the reasons that excuse me while I kiss 293 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:26,039 this guy, substituted for Jimmy Hendrix's excuse me while I 294 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,759 kiss the sky remains one of the most widely reported 295 00:21:29,839 --> 00:21:32,960 Monda greens of all time can be explained in part 296 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:37,599 by frequency. It's much more common to hear people kissing 297 00:21:37,759 --> 00:21:43,400 guys than skies. Expectations to play a role. You're much 298 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,400 more likely to miss here cry me a river as 299 00:21:46,839 --> 00:21:51,279 crime mean river. If you've recently been discussing the situation 300 00:21:51,559 --> 00:21:55,799 in Ukraine. Manda greens are funny, of course, but they 301 00:21:55,839 --> 00:21:59,960 also give us insight into the underlying nature of linguistic 302 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:03,559 processing and how our minds make meaning out of sound. 303 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:08,200 In fractions of seconds, we translate a boundless blur of 304 00:22:08,279 --> 00:22:15,279 sound into sense. It comes naturally easily. Effortlessly. We sift 305 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:20,079 through sounds, activate and reject countless alternatives and select one 306 00:22:20,279 --> 00:22:24,160 single meaning out of a myriad homonyms, near matches, and 307 00:22:24,319 --> 00:22:31,119 possible parsings. Even those speakers may have different accents, pronunciations, intonations, 308 00:22:31,279 --> 00:22:35,920 or inflections, and in the overwhelming majority of instances we 309 00:22:36,079 --> 00:22:40,319 get it right. To gain a better appreciation of how 310 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:45,759 complex that constant, instantaneous interpretive dance is, consider the problems 311 00:22:45,759 --> 00:22:51,839 of speech recognition software, which, despite recent improvements, still usually 312 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,839 generate a mix and muddle of whatever a user was 313 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,759 trying to say. And if I can jump out, I'm 314 00:22:58,799 --> 00:23:02,839 thinking of speech to text, which it really has improved. 315 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:04,759 I mean, I use it all the time because it's 316 00:23:04,759 --> 00:23:07,240 easier than typing with these big meat hooks of mind. 317 00:23:07,279 --> 00:23:09,720 But how many times have we been doing speech to 318 00:23:09,799 --> 00:23:12,920 text and it just gets it wrong? Back to the article, 319 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:18,200 Our brains are exceptional creators of logical meaning, even when 320 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:22,160 it's not quite the intended one. Some Manda greens are 321 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,960 so plausible that they can become the real thing. The 322 00:23:26,079 --> 00:23:30,559 term spitting image was once a Manda green, a mishearing 323 00:23:30,799 --> 00:23:37,200 and improper syllabic split of spit and image. Spit is 324 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:42,079 another term for likeness, so spit and image was likeness 325 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,559 and image today it is spitting image. When you eat 326 00:23:46,599 --> 00:23:51,519 an orange, you're actually consuming a nourange from the Persian 327 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:57,160 and Sanskrit. Your nickname is historically speaking, an Ecan name 328 00:23:57,599 --> 00:24:02,599 E K E, N A M E, or an additional name. 329 00:24:03,039 --> 00:24:06,400 Who knows. Maybe someday, when you do something for all 330 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:11,480 intensive purposes, no one will blink an eye, and maybe 331 00:24:11,519 --> 00:24:15,000 in the future some avant garde poet will finally pan 332 00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:20,200 averse to that most lovely of women, Lady Monda Green. 333 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,279 I'll link the article in the description box of the show. 334 00:24:24,799 --> 00:24:27,839 That's some fun science. Then I've got a lot more 335 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:33,440 examples of fun Monday greens for us to decipher and decode. 336 00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:37,400 This next example is a little more recent. This released 337 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,119 from Outcast in the album speaker Box two thousand and three. 338 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:45,359 The song you Know It's called Hey Yeah. The line 339 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,079 has written says, shake it like a polaroid picture. But 340 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:57,720 that's not what people have been hearing it. Okay, I 341 00:24:57,759 --> 00:25:02,720 don't know, do you. It is alleged that people have 342 00:25:02,839 --> 00:25:07,519 been singing shake it, shake it like a horny white preacher. 343 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,759 I may have to I might sing it this way forever, 344 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,960 shake it, shake it like a horny white preacher. I mean, 345 00:25:20,039 --> 00:25:25,640 is there any other kind? Shake it like a horny 346 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:36,319 white preacher. It r e M Losing My Religion, Released 347 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,480 in nineteen ninety one from the Out of Time album. 348 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:44,200 The lyrics actually say this, that's me in the corner, 349 00:25:44,519 --> 00:25:50,200 that's me in the spotlights, losing my religion. Oh no, 350 00:25:50,559 --> 00:25:52,200 that's me in the corner. 351 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:55,359 Speaker 4: That's in the. 352 00:25:55,519 --> 00:26:01,920 Speaker 2: Spot Lie, are they really peeing in the corner. Let's 353 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,279 pee in the corner. Let's pee in the spotlight. 354 00:26:05,599 --> 00:26:12,079 Speaker 6: That's me in the corner, that's the in the spot Live. 355 00:26:13,599 --> 00:26:18,039 Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy six saw the Manfred Mann album release the 356 00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:21,559 Roaring Silence big hit, and of course we still sing 357 00:26:21,759 --> 00:26:26,599 blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce, another 358 00:26:26,799 --> 00:26:31,440 runner in the night. But are we really singing it correctly? 359 00:26:31,759 --> 00:26:36,880 Red dems in the night? And you know where I'm 360 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,079 going with this one, right because you've sang it. Don't 361 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:43,079 tell me, you don't tell me you haven't sung wrapped 362 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:47,000 up like a douche, not a deuce. No no, no, 363 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,440 we've been wrapping it up like a douche, a doms 364 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,640 in the night. This lyric, of course, brings logistical challenges. 365 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:01,720 How exactly does one wrap up a doucheh, how do 366 00:27:01,759 --> 00:27:06,200 you rap a douche? I mean, we critical thinkers have 367 00:27:06,279 --> 00:27:08,440 to work this out in our brains. Do we not? 368 00:27:09,319 --> 00:27:12,759 Jump forward twelve years the year nineteen eighty four, the 369 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:17,720 extremely talented and sorely missed George Michael still the lead 370 00:27:17,759 --> 00:27:22,720 singer for Wham, and the hugely popular album by Wham 371 00:27:22,759 --> 00:27:26,559 Make It Big, featured the single Careless Whisper, and you 372 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,519 know the lyrics I'm never gonna dance again. Guilty feat 373 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,720 have got no rhythm. Though it's easy to pretend. I 374 00:27:34,839 --> 00:27:37,599 know you're not a fool, but that is not what 375 00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:43,440 many people have been singing. Guilty feat have got no rhythm? 376 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 4: Or guilty. 377 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 2: Do you hear the word penis in that? Guilty penis 378 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:10,160 got no rhythm? Guilty Guilty penis got no rhythm? Guilty penis, 379 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,960 I got a I don't know, my brain is starting 380 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,240 the short circuit. And guilty feet have got no rhythm, 381 00:28:16,319 --> 00:28:19,920 Guilty penis. I guess it works either way. I mean, 382 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,599 who hasn't had a guilty penis? Right, the jury has 383 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:33,200 rendered a verdict and your penis has been found guilty guilty. 384 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:38,880 Another late great talent, Prince, released his Paisley Park Record 385 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,200 in nineteen eighty five with a hit single Kiss, where 386 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,519 he sang the entire freaking song in falsetto. And this 387 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,359 might explain why some people have had a hard time 388 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:54,039 understanding all the words. Let me play. I just want 389 00:28:54,079 --> 00:28:58,680 your extra time and your kiss and see what you hear. 390 00:29:00,799 --> 00:29:01,319 Speaker 4: Extra. 391 00:29:05,839 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 2: I think the Manda Green is just better. I wish 392 00:29:09,119 --> 00:29:12,720 Prince had actually written the words I just want to 393 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,279 extradite your kids. 394 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 4: Extra. 395 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,599 Speaker 2: I just want to extradite your kids. I just want 396 00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:31,599 to extradite your no, no, no, no, no, no, no kids. 397 00:29:32,799 --> 00:29:37,440 That's awesome. Still to come, I have Shanaiah Twain, Selena Gomez, 398 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:42,799 Beach Boys, Nirvana, Metallica, the Beatles, and more so tune 399 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,079 thine ears and return to me in just a moment. 400 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,079 We are just a few days away from the July 401 00:29:58,319 --> 00:30:02,960 eleventh events. Noah Illusions, the scathing atheist and co host 402 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,960 of God Awful Movies, among other broadcast He and I 403 00:30:06,359 --> 00:30:08,319 we've done a lot of conventions where we were in 404 00:30:08,359 --> 00:30:10,359 the same space, but we've never had a chance to 405 00:30:10,359 --> 00:30:13,480 take the stage together. This is a first. I am 406 00:30:13,599 --> 00:30:16,319 so excited and so we're going to be at the 407 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:20,720 Anderson Theater in Cincinnati, Saturday, July the eleventh, there are 408 00:30:20,799 --> 00:30:23,839 still a few tickets left, and then the free event 409 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,359 the following day, We're going to segue about twenty minutes 410 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,359 down the pipe to Williamstown, Kentucky for a big Heathen 411 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:35,319 protest at the entrance of Kenham's Arc Encounter. If you 412 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,519 can come out, make a sign, bring a sign, print 413 00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:42,519 a sign, or just bring your sarcastic ethan self and 414 00:30:42,599 --> 00:30:45,119 let's stand out there next to the highway and hope 415 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,599 that maybe ken has to drive by to go to 416 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,200 a business meeting and he sees us all waving as 417 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,920 he goes into his already rotting one hundred and ten 418 00:30:55,039 --> 00:30:59,680 million dollar boat replica Thinging details on all of that 419 00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:07,240 Thethinkingatheist dot com, slash events more Monda Green examples in 420 00:31:07,279 --> 00:31:10,119 our final segment, I'm just going to read to you 421 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,480 a few before I play the next audio clip, Starship. 422 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,839 We built this city on rock and roll. Many people here. 423 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:24,440 We built this city on sausage rolls. We built this 424 00:31:24,599 --> 00:31:28,480 city on sausage rolls. The Beatles I want to hold 425 00:31:28,519 --> 00:31:31,680 your hand has been sung I want to hold your 426 00:31:31,839 --> 00:31:36,279 ham Celine Dion. I believe that the heart does go 427 00:31:36,519 --> 00:31:40,519 on from the Titanic soundtrack, right, I believe that the 428 00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:43,359 heart does go on. You might have sung I Believe 429 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,559 the hot Dogs go on from the soundtrack to the 430 00:31:47,559 --> 00:31:52,119 movie Grease, John Travolta, Olivia Newton, John, I got chills, 431 00:31:52,279 --> 00:31:57,519 They're multiplying has often been sung I've got heels, They're 432 00:31:57,559 --> 00:32:02,240 made of plywood. And then there is Adele and her 433 00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:05,799 lovely voice singing the lyrics. Or should I just keep 434 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:11,880 chasing pavements It's not penguins, it's not Or should I 435 00:32:12,039 --> 00:32:17,559 just keep chasing penguins It's supposed to be pavements? And 436 00:32:17,599 --> 00:32:20,720 before I get to my next actual audio clip from 437 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:25,279 Shanaia Twain, there are other versions of Manda Green's Michael Caine, 438 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,839 the legendary actor. He was on the Graham Norton Show 439 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,000 a while back and he was telling a personal anecdote 440 00:32:32,039 --> 00:32:34,559 about Amanda Green in his own life. Check it out. 441 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 7: I was making a picture in the Philippines. No, I'm 442 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,200 in Manila and we were invited to this very very posh, 443 00:32:39,279 --> 00:32:43,200 expensive house to a party, and I'm being introduced to 444 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,119 people and staying and getting a drink and all that, 445 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,319 and the hostess is standing over there and she's looking 446 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,160 at me rather nastily, considering I'm a guests, you know. 447 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,559 And there was a moment when I was a bit 448 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:58,640 free and she went so I went over her and 449 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:03,319 she said, are you a drug dealer? I said no, 450 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,519 why do you are? She said, why is everybody calling 451 00:33:06,559 --> 00:33:13,519 you Mike Cocaine? You know that story is true because 452 00:33:13,519 --> 00:33:14,319 you couldn't make up. 453 00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:21,359 Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety seven, country music superstarshan Ayah Twain released the 454 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,160 song You're Still the One with the lyrics looks like 455 00:33:25,359 --> 00:33:28,720 we made it, But that's not what many of her 456 00:33:28,799 --> 00:33:31,000 fans have been hearing. 457 00:33:31,279 --> 00:33:36,200 Speaker 3: Looks black, we made it, look kafa, we've. 458 00:33:36,079 --> 00:33:37,559 Speaker 8: Come up there. 459 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,759 Speaker 2: So it is alleged that it sounds like looks like 460 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:46,920 we made it. Looks like we made it. 461 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:47,839 Speaker 5: Do you hear that? 462 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 4: Looks slack? We made it? 463 00:33:51,599 --> 00:33:53,480 Speaker 5: Look kafa, we've. 464 00:33:53,279 --> 00:33:54,759 Speaker 8: Come up there. 465 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,519 Speaker 2: Looks like we made it. Looks like we made ted 466 00:34:00,359 --> 00:34:06,119 looks back when mating nineteen seventy seven, it was Crystal 467 00:34:06,279 --> 00:34:08,840 Gaale who hit the top of the charts with Don't 468 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,760 It Make My Brown Eyes Blue? But many people have 469 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,199 a Manda Green for this one as well. 470 00:34:15,599 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 3: And Magma Bana. 471 00:34:22,039 --> 00:34:26,599 Speaker 2: So apparently it sounds like donuts make my brown eyes blue, 472 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,599 not don't it but donuts. 473 00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 3: And Magma Bana. 474 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:40,159 Speaker 2: I'll let you argue about that one. Nineteen eighty six, 475 00:34:40,599 --> 00:34:44,079 Bonjobi released one of the biggest albums of that year 476 00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:46,880 and of the entire decade. The song Livin' on a 477 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:51,079 Prayer still played all over the radio and beloved and songs, 478 00:34:51,119 --> 00:35:04,880 sometimes incorrectly even now. The lyric in question. It doesn't 479 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:09,800 make a difference if we make it or not. Apparently 480 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,719 people have been singing it doesn't make a difference if 481 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:25,079 we are naked or not. Do you hear it? That 482 00:35:25,119 --> 00:35:27,519 may work both ways too. It doesn't make a difference 483 00:35:27,559 --> 00:35:29,639 if we make it or not, or if we are 484 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,639 naked or not. I don't know why there's a problem. 485 00:35:34,199 --> 00:35:37,039 Bohemian Rhapsody. This was a song that was mentioned in 486 00:35:37,079 --> 00:35:39,880 that New Yorker article just a few minutes ago, from 487 00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:43,159 The Night at the Opera album nineteen seventy five. Now, 488 00:35:43,199 --> 00:35:45,880 I will admit I don't understand, and I love this song. 489 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,079 It is one of the most iconic pieces of music 490 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,280 I have ever heard. I don't have the first clue 491 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,239 what this song means. I see a little silhouetto of 492 00:35:55,280 --> 00:36:00,119 a man, scaremoush scaamush, Will you do the fandango? Thunderbol 493 00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:05,280 and lightning? Very very frightening me galileo And it doesn't 494 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:08,280 matter that I don't know what it means. It doesn't 495 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,440 have to mean anything to be epic. But there is 496 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:16,400 a Manda Green within this song. I'll play the clip 497 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:25,519 and we'll talk about it. Okay. The line in question 498 00:36:25,679 --> 00:36:34,159 here is spare him his life from this monstrosity. Spare 499 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:38,199 him his life from this monstrosity. Apparently some people have 500 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:44,960 been singing saving his life from this Warm sausage tea. Oh, 501 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,800 we got to hear this again, Warm sausage tea coming up? 502 00:36:57,599 --> 00:37:01,440 This next one. Well, I will never be able to unhear. Now. 503 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,559 I don't follow the work of Selena Gomez, not really 504 00:37:04,559 --> 00:37:07,199 my demographic, but this is from an album that released 505 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:11,280 eleven years ago called Revival. The tune is called I'm 506 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:17,000 fourteen Carrot, right, fourteen carrot? But will you be able 507 00:37:17,039 --> 00:37:23,000 to hear this lyric again without thinking of farting carrots? 508 00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:27,400 Speaker 5: I'm a fourteen carrots, I'm fourteen. 509 00:37:27,039 --> 00:37:37,760 Speaker 8: Cart It sounds like it she's farting carrots. 510 00:37:38,119 --> 00:37:42,519 Speaker 5: I'm a fourteen carrots. I'm fourteen cart. 511 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,360 Speaker 2: Back to the nineteen eighties, and I'll admit that I'm 512 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,559 a little biased. There's something magical about the music of 513 00:37:49,599 --> 00:37:52,519 that decade. Plus it was part of my upbringing. I 514 00:37:52,519 --> 00:37:55,280 was in high school, becoming a young twenty something, and 515 00:37:55,639 --> 00:37:59,039 you know, just the tunes hit different back then, nineteen 516 00:37:59,159 --> 00:38:05,519 eighty three, the earrhythmic singing. Sweet dreams are made of what? 517 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:12,280 Speaker 4: Sweet jeams are madea things to deserve? 518 00:38:13,679 --> 00:38:18,039 Speaker 2: Sweet dreams are made of this? Who am I to disagree? 519 00:38:18,159 --> 00:38:22,400 I traveled the world in the seven sees. Everybody's looking 520 00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:28,559 for something except apparently, sweet dreams are made of cheese. 521 00:38:28,599 --> 00:38:31,400 Speaker 4: Sweet jeams are made things. 522 00:38:32,679 --> 00:38:36,039 Speaker 2: I don't hear this one as much. Maybe people are 523 00:38:36,119 --> 00:38:40,719 driving really fast engine noise makes the these sound like cheese. 524 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,480 I'm not really getting that one. 525 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,519 Speaker 4: Sweet jeems a madea thing. 526 00:38:47,119 --> 00:38:50,159 Speaker 2: Still in the nineteen eighties, the Beach Boys, who of 527 00:38:50,199 --> 00:38:53,920 course defined the nineteen sixties well, they came out with 528 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,360 an album called Kokomo. That single went to the top 529 00:38:57,559 --> 00:39:00,760 of the charts, and about halfway through of the song 530 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:05,480 you hear Martinique that monserrat mistique. No, I don't really 531 00:39:05,639 --> 00:39:09,599 know what that means Martinique, that monserrat mystique. That's not 532 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:19,880 what we have been singing, Jnique, the Manda green for Martinique, 533 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:25,480 That monserrat mystique has been the Martinique, that Mom's a 534 00:39:25,679 --> 00:39:38,719 rotten stink, that mom is just a rotten stinkique. The 535 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,079 Beach Boys had quite a few of these. Nineteen seventy 536 00:39:42,079 --> 00:39:45,800 one song, the song the Cork on the Ocean. Of course, 537 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:56,639 people with dirty minds aren't hearing the word cork. Do 538 00:39:56,719 --> 00:40:07,480 you hear cock on the ocean? You? You are so bass, 539 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:18,840 so based cock on the ocean. Let's do a few 540 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,239 more before we call it a show. I'm going to 541 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:25,000 play a clip here from Nirvana nineteen ninety one. Smells 542 00:40:25,199 --> 00:40:28,880 like teen spirits. There's a section where the lyrics say 543 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:34,800 this an albino, a mulatto, a libido a mosquito. I 544 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,159 don't know how you've been singing it. I have never 545 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:41,360 known what this section even said. My brain couldn't decipher 546 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:46,119 an albino, a mulatto, a libido a mosquito. Let's play 547 00:40:46,159 --> 00:40:47,079 the clip. 548 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:55,159 Speaker 3: Now. 549 00:40:55,199 --> 00:40:57,960 Speaker 2: This takes us back to how our brain works with 550 00:40:58,079 --> 00:41:01,440 the familiar, as it connects its dots. We probably don't 551 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,239 have any reason in this context to be thinking about 552 00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:09,880 a mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, or a libido. As such, 553 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,079 it might make a lot of sense that people have 554 00:41:12,199 --> 00:41:17,199 been singing I'm a lion, I'm a vinyl, I'm a skittle, 555 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:29,920 I'm a beatle. Once again, I'm a lion, I'm a vinyl, 556 00:41:30,039 --> 00:41:42,440 I'm a skittle, I'm a beatle. What's the song you 557 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,480 think of? If I say Metallica, I don't know if 558 00:41:46,519 --> 00:41:48,760 they love this or hate this. The fact that there's 559 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,920 one tune that just seems to define the whole band 560 00:41:52,039 --> 00:41:57,719 nineteen ninety one. Enter Sandman lyrics from that song, Dreams 561 00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:01,480 of war, dreams of liars, dream of dragons, fire, and 562 00:42:01,559 --> 00:42:06,000 of things that will bite. Yeah, but what does your 563 00:42:06,079 --> 00:42:12,559 brain here want? In the Last in the Wagons file five, 564 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,159 The Manda Green for this one is interesting. Dreams of war, 565 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:23,480 dreams of lies, dreams of dragons, fire, and of baked 566 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,199 apple Pie. 567 00:42:26,119 --> 00:42:29,679 Speaker 4: The want in the last in the Wagons file. 568 00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:36,159 Speaker 2: Fe Okay, let's play just the little section again of 569 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:45,840 Baked apple Pie, and let's finish our show today with 570 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:51,480 the Beatles nineteen sixty seven. Lucy in the sky with diamonds, 571 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,719 and you gotta know where I'm going with this one. 572 00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,880 Speaker 6: A girl with clydees gooofer. 573 00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,880 Speaker 2: Picture yourself on a train in a station with plasticine 574 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,199 porters and looking glass ties. Suddenly someone is there with 575 00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:16,119 the turnstill. The girl with kaleitiscope eyes. 576 00:43:16,119 --> 00:43:18,960 Speaker 6: A girl with collideas gooop. 577 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:26,760 Speaker 2: Now, this is one of my favorite Manda Grains of 578 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,719 the entire list that we've done today, which is why 579 00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,960 I saved it for last. People have been singing, apparently 580 00:43:34,079 --> 00:43:38,000 since nineteen sixty seven, people have been singing A girl 581 00:43:38,119 --> 00:43:40,880 with colitis goes by. 582 00:43:41,199 --> 00:43:44,679 Speaker 6: A girl with collideas gooop. 583 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:49,199 Speaker 5: Ah. 584 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:56,039 Speaker 2: Yes, colitis the inflammatory bowel disease where the body's immune 585 00:43:56,079 --> 00:44:00,440 system attacks its own intestines. So a girl roll with 586 00:44:00,679 --> 00:44:03,760 colitis goes by a girl. 587 00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:05,920 Speaker 6: With callda's gooop. 588 00:44:13,599 --> 00:44:17,639 Speaker 2: Maybe the colitis is the reason she's got colitis scope eyes. 589 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,079 I don't know. I hope you have enjoyed this little 590 00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:25,639 journey in a nice distraction and fun science this week, 591 00:44:26,039 --> 00:44:28,920 learning new things and having some laughs along the way. 592 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,079 And now that you feel validated that you're not the 593 00:44:32,079 --> 00:44:34,559 only one who has been hearing these lyrics in a 594 00:44:34,639 --> 00:44:37,960 strange way, you also might have some of these tunes 595 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,599 stuck in your head for the rest of the day, 596 00:44:40,679 --> 00:44:43,599 and you'll be humming them whether you realize it or not. 597 00:44:44,119 --> 00:44:48,119 You are welcome. 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