Good Job, Brain! - 82: Body Hackin'

Episode Date: October 9, 2013

BODY MODIFICATIONS - ways to decorate and enhance the body! Plastic surgery tidbits and vocabulary quiz, outrageous/cool/eyeroll-inducing celebrity tattoos, and hacking your own body with....home electronics? The amazing body transformations of the mimic octopus, and breakthroughs in sports reconstructive surgery. And pee tattoo. ALSO: Second Chance Pub Quiz, Brainiacs' Book Club Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, Starry, Starlets, Starving for startling facts about star fruit, starlings, and starfish. This is good job, Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia podcast. Today's show is episode 82 and, and of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your kitchy kittens kiting for kitlings. I'm Colin. I'm Dana. I know Chris today.

He is in Portland at a retro gaming show. Again, another retro gaming show. Hopefully he'll sell a lot of or buy a lot of old video games and have some interesting tidbits and trivia. He's a wheeler and dealer. Yeah. Wheelan and dealing. Well, I'd like to start with a headline to share with you guys. Oh.

Are you guys familiar with the biohacking movement? bio. Oh, is it where you plant random things like greenery? Oh, interesting. No, I think that's more like the gorilla gardening. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm thinking about. Is it the like RFID chips that people? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's like, like people, there's a whole subculture or culture of people, you know, hacking your own body, extending human abilities through technology, basically. There are, there are. It does sound a little scary. And yet, you know, it's this great intersection of kind of, DIY with home electronics and, you know, bordering on home surgery almost. But there was a story, a story about a guy named Rich Lee. And the story that made the news is a particular project that he had performed on himself.

So what he did is he had magnets implanted in his ears. Okay. So, you know, the little flap of skin outside your ear, the tragus, you know, the part that a lot of people get piercings in, he had magnets inserted one really small, powerful responsive magnet in each tragus. He wears a wire coil around his neck that he can plug into his music player. So his MP3 player sends the signals to the wire coil that generates a magnetic field that drives the magnets in his ears. It's fundamentally the same technology from headphones that you would wear, but they are built into his body. So because the magnets in his ears

just respond to a magnetic field stimulation, he can connect all kinds of things to this headphone jack that he wants. He uses it for music, but he's talked about some of the other projects he's considered maybe in the future, like adding a proximity detector that feed signals in. And he could be like Daredevil or a bat where they'll vibrate based on his proximity of the things. Oh, that's like those things built into cars when you back up in reverse. Yeah, yeah. So he could theoretically navigate in the dark. Are there other examples of other projects that people have more than one person who have implanted RFID chips in their hands? For what? So for example, the most common use is you might be a researcher at a lab where you have an RFID to control

the door. And so instead of taking out your card key out of your wallet, you just put your hand up against the sensor and it triggers, you know, there are some people who have experimented with just putting small magnets in their hands or their fingers as a way of controlling magnetic devices or also just as a way of adding a new sense. Part of the biohacking movement is really, you might screw it up. Yeah, or handling your credit cards. You're like, what happened? Serious solutions with very simple activities. It's part of a larger philosophy, though.

I mean, it really is a movement of trying to redefine what it means to be human and kind of extending, you know, it's, you know, some people believe anything that we can do to it to enhance our abilities. Why not? Before we start our quizzing, I want to share some cool community achievements, I would say. Special shout out to two people. Jesse wrote us on Facebook. And she said this, I'm on the University of Michigan's solar car team. I am currently in Darwin, Australia, awaiting 8 a.m. tomorrow for the beginning of the World Solar Challenge race. Awesome.

From here, Darwin, to Adelaide across the outback. Oh, I didn't even read about that. She said, just want to let you guys know that sometimes the desert gets boring even with a solar car. And I've gotten a few teammates hooked on Good Job, Brad. Love the podcast. Aw. What a cool thing. That is really cool.

That is awesome. Well, good luck. It already happened. Oh, hope it went well. And I have another one, and this is from a couple weeks ago. Scott emailed us, and he said, I was listening to your podcast while on my climb of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The highest, I think it's the highest mountain in Africa and the highest freestanding mountain in the world. Ah.

You mean not part of a range? Yeah. Okay, so Everest. Everest is part of a range. Yeah. Oh, that's a good trivia stat. Yeah. Super, super awesome.

And thank you for listening to our podcast. Without further ado, let's jump into our first general trivia segment, Pop Quiz, Hot Shock. Colin versus Dana. So I have a random trivia pursuit card here from the box. Here we go. Blue Wedge for Geography. What South American Country boasts a huge underground cathedral carved entirely from salt oh Colin is country yeah country I'll guess Brazil incorrect hmm that is a big country

yeah uh Venezuela incorrect it is Colombia huh it's called the salt cathedral of Zipakita that sounds so cool I'm gonna go look at pictures of it in a former salt mine huh yeah I'm gonna go visit it and lick it and lick it yeah Pink Wedge for pop culture name the five official film ratings of the Motion Picture Association of America. You even work together if you want to. G. G. PG-P-G-G-13. Right.

R. NC-17. Yes. Yeah. Good job. I was like, are there going to be any trick ones? No, no trick ones. All right.

Yellow Wedge. What Japanese city is synonymous with efforts to stem global warming? It's, uh, where they signed the, uh, Kyoto. Correct. The Kyoto Accord. Right, right, right. Very good. Purple Wedge.

What company known for speed has an arrow hidden in its logo? Everybody. Federal Express. Federal Express. FedEx, yeah. It is FedEx. If you look closely, you can see the arrow, I believe it's between the big E and the small X. And it's one of those things where once you have it pointed out to you, you're like, how did I never see that?

Yeah, it can never be unseen. I don't know if it's a happy accident or maybe it was designed that way. No, I think it was on purpose. It was on purpose. All right, Green Wedge for science, what does a basilisk do to earn its nickname Jesus Christ lizard? These are the lizards that can walk on water, is that right? Yeah. So how it works is they have pockets of air under its fast-moving feet.

So Basilisk and D&D, like they turn you to stone. They don't talk about them running on water. And I didn't think they were real. So I was like, I don't know why it's the Jesus Christ. It seems very controversial because it's not real. Actually, before this question, I didn't know what's a real thing too. I was like, oh, it's in Harry Potter. It's in D&D and it's in World of Warcraft.

All right. Last question, Orange Wedge. What women's sport has five players on a side divided into blockers, jammers, and pivots? Oh, quidditch. I was just kidding. Women's Writers and Blockers, Jammers, and Pivots. Is it Roller Derby? Yes, Roller Derby.

Good job, Brains. So this week, I mean, I guess it's kind of a coincidence that you shared that headline. So this week, we decided to talk about weird ways or maybe common ways that people change their bodies. So this week, we're talking about body modifications. So I want to ask you guys Do your body work I feel my boss working over time I get shy in these lights I feel you're

So I want to ask you guys What body modifications do you guys have? Dana I have pierced ears Okay I have caps on my teeth Oh that counts Oh I guess that does count

Got ear piercing as well Yeah I mean I wore braces So I guess orthodontics counts right Oh, that's true. That's kind of a body modification. That sounds so much cooler when you call it a body modification. Oh, you mean braces? No, I was biohacking, guys.

I biohacked my teeth. I myself have a couple of tattoos. I have four tattoos. I used to dye my hair blue body mod. Yeah, I used to dye my hair. I guess that counts. I don't need more. I wasn't allowed to die my hair.

Say it like that. In line with the theme of. of body modification and change and transformation. I have put together a quiz for you guys about body modification in fictional character. Oh. Okay. So it could be from a variety of media. And I will tell you a little bit about the character, a little bit of a hint, and you tell me what character I'm talking about. Huh.

So here we go. I'm glad I have the reaction from you, Karen. You haven't been thinking about it leading up until now. Well, no. Like, even if you just, can you think of a famous character that, you know, has, I was like, I can't, maybe like some tattoos. Let's get started. Let's get started. So each of you guys will be writing down your answer, and we will be reading them both out and see who, maybe both of you are correct.

This comic book superhero has had extensive body modifications with the most prominent laying alongside his radius and ulna. Alongside. Don't overthink it. all right and answers up dana says wolverine yes indeed Karen says Ironman Tony Stark no Wolverine the claws of course laying alongside the two bones of your forearm the radius and the ulna oh in yeah I was like what covers what character has like arms darn yes and his body modification in case you have never read Wolverine or seen the movies he has a skeleton laced with metal and metal claws What's the name of the medal? Adamantium.

I'm so glad you asked him. I know that. You can't spell adamantium without um. This popular character from TV and movies made daily use of a device known as the visual instrument and sensory organ replacement. Wait, say it again, visual. Visual instrument and sensory organ replacement. What character am I looking for here? Popular character, TV and movies.

All right, answers up. Karen says Batman. Dana says, yes, Jordy LaForge. Oh, from Star Trek. Yes, from Star Trek Next Generation. Yes, Jordi Flaude, blind from birth, but had his cool electronic device that spoke directly to his brain. Yeah, yeah, he was in the movies. They actually...

Did that acronym spell out Viser? It does spell out Viser. Yeah. The A, though. The Azer. Oh, yeah, you have to leave out the A. Yeah. Visual instrument, sensory organ replacement.

Although I have read that this was only mentioned in some of the novelizations, that they never actually said this acronym on the show. It does spell out of visor. I was trying to... I was like, who would do that? Oh, I think it's probably Star Trek. Yeah. Yep. This South African-born filmmaker has directed two feature films.

Both of which rely heavily on themes of body modification. Oh, man, how do I spell this? I'll take close enough answers. Can I say what the name of his movie? Of course, sure, for bonus points. Absolutely. Oh, I wanted the original point. Wait, are we right now movies, too?

Sure. There's three possible points here. We're looking for the filmmaker and both of the movies he's directed. Okay. Feature films. All right, answers up. Oh, that's his name, yes. Neil Blomkopfels.

Oh, very, very close. Very close. And Dana. District 9 guy. District 9 guy. All right. Together. Together, you guys are like 70% of the way there.

I am looking, of course, for Neil Blomkamp. Oh, okay. Yes. Not Blomkopfels. That sounds like a tasty dish, though. It's District 9 and Elysium. District 9 and Elysium. Yes.

District 9. Of course. Without giving away any spoilers for either of those movies, yes, they both revolve around body transformation, body enhancement. Oh. I've got a really bad riddle for you guys here. No wordplay, just a bad riddle. Sure. What do Darth Vader and a crocodile have in common?

Ooh. Think about a very particular crocodile named TikTok. Oh, from Captain Hook. Yes. TikTok, the crocodile ate Captain Hook's hand. Yes. And... Darth Vader took off Luke Skywalker's hand.

Oh. They both took off somebody's hand. All right. For one bonus point here, you guys got to tell me which hand is Captain Hook missing and which hand is Luke Skywalker missing? So you got 50-50 for each one.

Okay, I'm thinking of, okay. I mean the Disney, the classic Disney representation of Captain Hook. Well, I guess they're both Disney characters now, aren't they? Oh, yeah, you're right. Yeah, these make good pup trip. Answers up. Whoa, we flipped it.

You guys flip-flopped it. Dana is correct. Captain Hook is missing his left hand. Luke Skywalker is missing his right hand. And they, of course, both had them replaced with prosthetics on very opposite ends of the technology spectrum. From literally just a hook all the way up to a fully sensory, yeah, cybernetic hand. Martin Caden's 1972 novel Cyborg was the basis for this TV secret agent who was worked for the fictional government agency, OSI. Oh.

Wait a minute. Ugh, I'm so sad. I don't have a guess because OSI... Is In Venture Brothers, too. I'm like, isn't that, that's the only reference I have for it? I don't know. Blank. Oh, blank for Dana.

Oh, Inspector Gadgett. Not a bad guess. Oh, it's not? I'm so sure. The $6 million man, Steve Austin. Oh, the biography. The story would be so cool. of Inspector Gadgett was inspired by

Cyborg. So let's move on here. This animated crime fighter was the bane of the evil organization known as Mad. M-A-D. Oh, that sounds so familiar. All right.

Answers up. Answer's up. Karen says Inspector Gadgett. Dana says Inspector Gadget. Yes, it is Inspector Gadget. I had no idea. I was like, I'm just going to put what I put in the last question. Dr. Klon. And they have confirmed, he is a cyborg. He's not a robot.

We are supposed to believe that he is a person. Part human. Yes, who's been retrofitted with all these devices. Because Penny's his niece. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, good point. Good point, Dana. Thank you. I thought about all that research. I'm glad you brought this up. All right, last one here. I got my fan picture.

For more details. All right, last one. Here we go. This Academy Award winning movie from 1986 featured the main character undergoing a transformation into a Musca Domestica. Oh, 986, though. This is not right. The transformation was pretty gross in this movie. Oh, I do know.

I do know. Oh, that was the hate you guys needed. It was gross. No, no. I wrote something else, and then I triggered another thought. Okay. All right, answer is up. Oh, I don't think it's...

Ready? Dana says the fly. Oh, Karen says American werewolf in London. Interesting. Yeah, we both had metamorphosis on there. It crossed it out. Metamorphosis. As like a beetle.

No, there was a fly. And then you're like, you went to the were... All right. Well done. Nice. So it seems like we're talking a lot about stuff that gets added to your body. But I want to talk about actually just changing the shape of your body. So there is a species.

Oh, I... have to say this. I came across this first astute listeners when, no, I really like Disneyland. Yeah. And I also, I don't know if you can tell, but I play World of Warcraft a lot. I mentioned it on the show. I was like, that sounds like World Warcraft. In World of Warcraft, there's these daily quests that you do and you can fish. And that's like mostly what I do now in World Warcraft is I fish. And sometimes you get weird fish and you turn it in for gold or whatever. And there's this one thing called the Mimic Octopus. And I thought it was like a fairy tale animal. I didn't know it was real until I read more about it. So it is a real thing. So I'm sure you guys probably

came across videos or images or heard or read about octopi or species of octopus changing colors, you know, when they're scared or something or defense mechanism. They would change from like black to white or white to black. And it's very reactive. The mimic octopus, which is the species name, not only changes color, but it changes the shape of their body. with their tentacles to look like other animals. In addition to the color changing anything. I've actually talked about how they change color is very similar to how chameleons change color in terms of the science.

And I actually talked about that in our color episode. So the mimic octopus is the only known aquatic species to be able to mimic not only one other sea creature, but multiple animals. they can shape themselves to look like up to 15 different animals outside of octopuses. They're smart enough to know what animal shape to turn into based on their situation. The mimic octopus is actually rather small. It's like maybe two feet long. So it can impersonate a lot of smaller animals.

So one of the animals they can do is lionfish. They're stripy and they're really spiky. Yeah, they're kind of spindly. So the mimic octopus would change and turn its tentacles to look upright and straight to look like thorns or spines coming out from the lionfish. And then the color, like red and white stripes. And it looks from far away. It looks like a lionfish, but it's an octopus. And another thing they do is sometimes they would hide in reefs or, you know, under the sand.

And they would leave a couple of tentacles out and it would look like sea snakes. and the colors would look like the bands of sea snakes. They can basically flatten their whole body or turn all of its tentacles and lay it on one side so it looks like a flat fish. It looks like an actual one piece of fish. But it's just all the body parts jammed together. They're just like in a disc almost.

That's really cool. Don't researchers say that octopus are supposed to be a really smart animal? It kind of freaks me out how smart they are. they can do aggressive mimicry to catch prey. So sometimes they would transform into a shape of a crab and lure other crabs thinking that it's a mate and that eat the crab. Oh, man. Look at that huge big crab. There's a big crab.

I don't know. And there is a connection. A lot of these animals that the mimic octopus turns into are poisonous. Ah, right. Okay. Which there's not a lot of study. This species was only discovered in the 1990s. And so it might be because the octopus itself doesn't produce poison.

So it's mimicking other things that have poison to be like a defense mechanism. Yeah. That's amazing. And things that other animals are conditioned to avoid just on site. The ocean is full of monsters. Yes. It's full of crazy monsters. Smart monsters that will trick you.

There could be one here right now. Is that really Cullen or? I wonder, though, if they have group behavior, if they're multiple mimic octopi, that they can band together and make like a bigger animal. Like a Voltron? Yeah, like a Voltron. Not only are the transformers, they're a Voltron into like a giant, I don't know, they can look like an anchor or look like, I don't know, like something.

They're crazy. I love that. Yeah. And yes, that is the new nightmare animal is the mimic octopus. You're welcome. Thank you. Yeah, thank you, Karen. I have something maybe a little lighter and less scary than that.

So celebrities be getting tattoos all the time. It comes up for us in trivia sometimes. We have to identify celebrities by their tattoos. We had one, like three weeks ago, two weeks ago. Mina Savari has a big old lion on the back of her neck. Who knew? Yeah, but we lost the point. So this is to maybe help you guys get a little more familiar with what tattoos people have.

Okay. All right. Yeah. So you guys will work together and see if you can puzzle it out. Okay. Okay. All right. So this pop singer has more than a dozen tattoos, almost 20, I think, including the word love that's inside of her ear.

The words just breathe on her chest, a dream catcher, Roman numerals, and a Theodore Roosevelt quote. Rihanna. I was going to say Rihanna, but those don't sound like things. Oh, wait, no, no, no. It's not. It's not. It's not. Sorry.

Miley Cyrus. Oh, Miley Cyrus. It is Miley Cyrus. Because the theater Roosevelt quote is like, basically. Basically, it's just, hater's going to hate. That sounds like something that he would say, actually. Yeah, I can see him saying that. So this Canadian singer has tattoos of a crown, Roman numerals, the Japanese kanji symbol for music, praying hands, and the Hebrew word for Jesus.

Wow. And a big old picture of Jesus. Big old picture. Canadian singer, Celine Dion maybe? No. Wait, is it a lady? No. Michael Boublei.

That would be funny That would be great But Michael Buclay Canadian Canadian singer He's a guy from Nickelback He's a single performer He performs by himself

He also plays Oh is it Is it Justin Bieber? Yes Oh I forgot that he was Canadian I thought he was from YouTube A land of YouTube

YouTubeia YouTubeia This actress has the words Lucky You With a horseshoe On her rib cage She also has two circles with the letter A on her right ankle, a colored sunrise on her left forearm, and an eye-heart

New York charm bracelet on her right wrist. Tattooed on her? Yes. Oh, is it from New York? Is it Angelina? I guess we would have noticed the tattoo on our forearm. I definitely saw the Lucky You tattoo with the horseshoe on her rib cage and gossip stuff recently. It looks a little homemade. Colin, you should be good at this. I have another hint for you guys. She won a Tony for her performance in a view from the bridge recently. Showing my ignorance of the Tonys. It is.

It is Angelina Jolie. No. No. Still no. It is Scarlet Johansson. Oh, that's right. Oh, okay. Huh.

While on the South American leg of her tour, this singer got a tattoo of an R-T-O, and the T might be also a cross, on her neck. and it was derived from the signatures of three of her fans, and they were all from different neighborhoods, and they were different ages. Whoa. That's intense. That's kind of cool, though.

Yeah, so somebody. It's got to be somebody who, I'm going to, is that Rihanna? I'll guess that that's Rihanna. Because, like, she's already got so many tattoos. What's another small one? I don't know. Like, what, what stars really couldn't, oh, Lady Gaga? It is.

Oh, like, what musician is super connected with their family? She got a tattoo of Little Monsters after she won, I think, some Grammys. And she has, I was going to tell you that another tattoo she has, which is a unicorn with a banner wrapped around it that says, born this way. This actor got YOLO, Y-O-L-O, which probably stands for you only live once. I'm assuming that's what he would have been told by the young ones. Well, I mean, that's what it means to other people. I don't know what it means to him. He got it tattooed on its hand.

and Simon Cowell offered him a record contract, but he turned it down because acting was the main priority at the time. Well, is that Drake? I mean, because he was an actor, right? No. Yeah, but I... I guess Simon Cowell, though, that wouldn't have wind up. Yeah, his breakthrough role was on the Disney Channel as Troy Bolton.

Zach Ephron? Yes. Oh, from high school musical, yes. Among the tattoos on her body, this actress has the Tennessee Williams quote, A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages. Is this Angelina Jolie? Is this Angelina Jolie?

She also has a Cambodian prayer on her body and seven lines of geographical coordinate. Yeah, that sounds sufficiently dramatic. Oh, that's cool. I have coordinates tattooed on your body? Yeah. It's like a clues. Yes. Six of them are for where her kids were born or was she first.

That's cool. I like that. And one is for Jolie's lost treasure. No. And then the last one. And then the seventh one is where Brad Pitt was born. Oh. I want the Jolie treasure.

Jolie's gold. Cool. Good job you guys. Oh, man. That was rough. And Rihanna didn't pop up at all. Yeah. It was like the, yeah.

Rebel flur. We always get that question in tribute. We always get it. Yeah. So did you guys know that people used to use P as a mixing agent to mix tattoo dyes, and then they would tattoo it into your body. So you would have pee, like, in your skin. Why?

Interesting. I just saw that in the tattoo museum website. I was like, hmm, interesting. I'm here for my tattoo. Okay, fill up this cup, please. Oh, you put your own pee on it. Yeah. Oh, it's a nice personal touch.

All right, let's take a quick break. And we have our recurring segment, Brain the X Book Club, where we share our favorite. nonfiction good read picks that you can get as an audio book on Audible and uh column what'd you pick uh i picked a book uh called emergency by neil strouse and i like this book because it's uh sort of a survivalist guide for when i like the tag when everything goes bad so he he takes the idea of what how would he what would he do if things really turned bad in the world or his life and the poop hits the fan yeah there you go i was trying to find a clean way to say that and you you yes thank you

I forgot. So it covers everything from, he goes and meets with like doomsday scenario survivalists to people who teach them how to, you know, get fraudulent IDs and where to stash your money and how to get out of the country, how to live in the wild, how to make your own gilly suit, how to, just everything that you would need. What's a gilly suit? It's like what the snipers wear, you know, kind of the shaggy looking suit, you know. So you look like a bush. Yeah, exactly.

To how to hide assets if you need it. So it's really it's a guide to. you become a criminal or get away you know it's a set of tools it's a set of tools and skills that you you can decide how you want to apply those skills read by the author himself cool Neil Strauss sounds familiar did he what other stuff did he write yeah he's written a couple other books he wrote uh the game uh which was about like like pickup culture exposing yeah yeah but also how to I yeah again it's it's how do you want to approach it. It's laying out a set of techniques, and it's up to you to decide, is this

an expose or is this a how-to guy? Pick-up artist. The full title of the book is The Game, penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists. Oh, scandalous. It was very scandalous and in the best possible way, trashy. All right, so I have a pick, and it's called what Einstein told his cook. Kitchen Science Explain. It's a little bit of a misnomer because it's not really Mr. Einstein. It's kind of just like what a science guy told his book. You know what I mean? But it's catchier.

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It's funny because we've done a show before entirely dedicate to torture. But I don't know. Like reading some of this stuff about body modification makes me just feel weird. It gives me like the hebi-jeebies. And I was looking into the historic roots of plastic surgery. And I mean, it's probably not a surprise that a lot of the roots of plastic surgery stem from. Right. Because of like war disfiguration.

And then I came across this one line and it just creep me out. In 1892, Robert Weir experimented unsuccessfully with xenographs. Which is what? Xenographs are basically a grafting skin or parts of the body from a different species. So the actual operation that he was working on is for. sunken noses, he would graft duck sternum and then fill it in to sunken noses. So it's not like a whole body part, you know, shoved in or whatever. But just the fact that there is a word for grafting procedures from other species, xenographs, it's like, ugh. I thought you meant like

he put a monkey paw on his left hand or something like that. Okay, all right. So I have a quick quiz. It's kind of like a vocabulary quiz. I have formal names of major plastic surgery procedures and I want you guys to write on a notepad what body part do you think the procedure is for. All right. So for example, rhinoplasty is, everybody, for the nose.

For the nose. Like rhinoceros rhino is nose. Okay. Breakoplasti B-R-A-C-H-I-O-P-L-A-S-T-Y. Breakioplasty. answers up Dana says throat slash neck

and then Colin says neck lift it is actually arm arm lift oh like brazzo

yeah oh okay I know I was thinking at first I thought it was neck too I was like oh that seems I was thinking like like brachiosaurus yeah

what is otoplasty otoplasty answer is up Dana says chin and Colin says ears ears is correct

the most common procedure is ear pinning so if your ears out forward you can pin the ears back that counts as one of the

otoplasty procedures okay all right next one ridectomy rhidectomy R-H-Y-T-I-D-E-C-T-O-M-Y.

Rydidectomy. It's like a spelling D. I'm just going to make up a body part. Yeah, do it. So, Dana says, calf. Colin says, eyes. It is facelift. Oh.

I can't think of a general word for face that I can easily associate with ritectomy. But that's the technical name. That is the technical name. Okay. That's a good one to know. All right. This one is abdominaloplasty. Dana says Tiffany?

Tummy Tuck. Oh, tummy tuck. Or abdominal. Tiffany Tuck. And then Colin says Tummy Tuck. Yes, it is tummy tuck. Reshaping and firming of the abdomen. Blaphoroplasti.

Bluffaroplasti. B-L-L-E. P-A-A-A. H-A-R-O-P-L-A-S-T-Y. Here's a hint. It's probably the most common unpopular procedure in the world. In the world. Hmm.

Well, that may have changed my answer, but I already wrote it down. Okay. Colin, what's your answer? Chin-dimple. Oh, to actually make the chin... Yeah, I don't know. I was thinking something around there. But when you said it's the most...

Yeah, I don't think that's... I have no confidence. my answer anymore. Dana says boobs. It is eyelid surgery. This is the most popular in the world. Probably one of the most popular in the world. This is a procedure done actually in a lot of Asian nations is to make the crease, the crease of the eyelid.

But this also includes tattooing permanent eyeliner to your eyes as well, which a lot of cultures do. Blopharoplasti. Blufferoplasti. All right. And last one, we can just yell it out. Mammal. Boobobs. Boops. Boobes. Boobes job. Well, very good. Now you learn, learn some vocabulary and bits about plastic surgery and xenographs.

Do you think, like, sometimes people get parts of a pig's heart or a cow's heart? Is that a xenograph? Is that a xenograph? Yeah, that counts. It counts. Pigs and baboons. Baboons? How many baboons are there? I think. scientists have said that chimpanzees are very close, but chimpanzees are close to being endangered. So they're more baboons. I don't know. Sorry, baboons. I think I read somewhere that they were jerks, so I don't know if that makes it better. I got this baboon butt transplant. That's a weird doctor. I would like a baboon butt. Get out of my office. Well, I'd also like to talk about surgeries and surgery names, a surgery that has a very specific common name.

and a very specific technical name. Okay. So if that's not an obscure enough intro. And I'm like, all right, so there are two names. So what are you talking about? So I know you guys are not big baseball fans in particular, sports fans, really. I like baseball food. Okay.

Yeah, I like going to baseball games. Yeah, okay. So I'm willing to guess that you guys have not heard of Tommy John. Sure. That sounds like a gangster. It does sound like a gangster's name. Is Sean Puffy Comtesy. I'm sure that we have some listeners out there who are, oh, yes, Tommy John, I know, nodding along.

I will get to share the story of Tommy John with you too here. That is his name, yes. Tommy John. He was an actual baseball player. He played mainly in the 60s 70s. He was a left-handed pitcher, which are particularly prized among pitchers. He debuted with the Cleveland Indians in 1963. He played for a few teams over the next few years. Starting in 1972, he was with the Dodgers, the LA Dodgers, and really started to have some impressive seasons put together making a name for himself and I understand everything so far yeah yeah I know sports yeah I know I know what the Dodgers means yeah he was doing really well he was having a great season in 1974 and when he sustained serious damage to his ulnar collateral

ligament and on his left hand on his pitching that's right on his pitching arm that's right the UCL the ulnar collateral ligament is the little bit of the ligament that connects your upper arm, the humorous, with your ulna. And as you can imagine, for a pitcher, this comes in use a lot. The UCL damage is a big deal if you're a pitcher. We as humans, you know, we're not really meant to be throwing spheres 90 miles an hour, you know, we're not, this isn't a behavior that we're really that well designed for over the long haul. Well, you put it that way, though, it's pretty awesome. Like, oh, human can throw something 90 miles per hour. Indeed, yeah. It was a common injury among pitchers, just overuse, and the ligament will get frayed or torn or damaged.

And if you sustain serious enough damage, you know, it could be career ending. One of the Dodgers team positions was a man named Dr. Frank Job, and he pioneered the first UCL reconstruction surgery. So he and Tommy John, you know, got together and basically like, you know what, I think we can do this. I don't think this has to be the end of your career. Has there been attempts before? No.

This was revolutionary at the time. I would think if someone's got to be the first, you know. I mean, and it's, you know, it's really an injury that if you weren't a major league pitcher, he might be able to get by with rehabilitation and rest. But in order to continue his career, throwing balls at high speeds with great accuracy. Got it. Got it. So they decided, no, we're going to go ahead with UCL reconstruction. And it was successful. And basically how the procedure works is, you know, he opens up his elbows, his elbow, his elbow, his pitching elbow.

He's like both of them just for fun. Right. Well, he did have to have surgery on both arms because what they do for this procedure is they drill two little holes, one in the humorous, one in the ulna. They took a tendon from his other, from his opposite arm. So they took a tendon from his right forearm. And what they do is they went in and they essentially weave the tendon as a replacement or a patch for the UCL in a figure eight pattern, actually. And so it connects the two bones with a rubber band. With a new tendon.

Now, again, you know, this is a little. was the first time this had been done. Dr. Job at the time said he figured that Tommy John had about a 1% chance of this rehabilitating him to his former strength. So now this is a big deal. He took off the entire 1975 season to let the surgery heal up. And he came back for the 1976 season and, you know, a lot of people like, well, how's this going to go?

And it went pretty well. He came back and with, you know, within a season or two was pitching at or near the level he was pitching before. He, in fact, went on to have more victories after the surgery than he had before the surgery. So now, the technical medical name is, as I say, ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction surgery, but it is now known as Tommy John surgery. So once the rest of the league saw how successful this surgery could be, everyone's like, well, wait a minute, this doesn't necessarily need to be the end of someone's career. We can go, they can go have Tommy John surgery, and they can be on the mound again in a year or so pitching again at the same. level, maybe even higher.

There are a lot of cases that pitchers come back throwing harder than before they had the surgery. Because it's still less used compared to their other heart. Maybe, or they practice a lot now and do lots of exercise. You know, it's funny that you say that, Dana. So Dr. Job, that is his opinion on why in the cases of pitchers being able to throw harder after the surgery. He maintains it's that they're more focused on rehabilitation and strength training.

Here's where it gets into sort of an interesting medical, ethical issue. you guys can maybe imagine that if there is a surgery available that might make me throw harder this is going to be an inducement for people to want to have it done preemptively and in fact that's exactly what has happened over the years there's but what about your other arm your other arm is is one one short no it's a tendon from the forearm it's not the other ligament yeah yeah they can also do it with uh they can also do it from cadavers it doesn't have to be from the same patient although it typically is. So it gets into this weird area where sports doctors and sports surgeons report people coming to

them and saying, I'd like to have Tommy John surgery done. There's nothing wrong with my UCL now. I want to have it done as a preemptive or maybe even an enhancement to essentially hack my body. And is this ethical to perform a procedure on someone who does it? So what's the word? Well, most doctors, at least on the record, will not do this. No. Most doctors will say, no, I'm not going to perform the surgery on you.

I mean, so now I should say, like, in the years since they pioneered the surgery, the success rate is actually fairly high. It's around 90%. Wow. So that's a pretty high success rate for sports surgery. As in coming back to to at or above. Got it is so common a procedure that this is from a report done by a bleacher report just last year, one third of current major league pitchers have had Tommy John surgery. Wow. And that's assuming they had UCL actual.

UCL problems and receive. Right, right, that's right. So over, I mean, in the decades since Tommy John Surgue has invented hundreds and hundreds of pitchers, I mean, at all levels, I mean, primarily major leagues, but there are college, you know, level pitchers who have had it done. But that also means this condition is very prevalent among pitchers, too. It really is. And, you know, they've started at youth levels of baseball in the last, in recent years.

They've started limiting the number of pitches that young players throw as an effort to try and prevent this from developing later on. But there are some troubling stories of, you know, I mean, there's the stereotypical sports parent, the overbearing sports parent. There are stories, unfortunately, of doctors being approached by parents of, hey, doc, you know, maybe you can juice up junior's arm and give him the Tommy John surgery. And again, no, no serious physician would agree to do this preemptively. But the pressure is out there. As you can see, you know, it's a world of sports, you know, any advantage you can get, even if it's perceived. As I say, Dr. Job, the man who pioneered this procedure, he says he thinks it's crazy. He's like, I would never do this for

somebody preemptively. This was a last resort. That's right, to save his career, which it did. Yeah. I mean, as long as you can still use your arm, you don't really have. You're like, well, I won't have a career anymore. Yeah. For sure, if I don't do it. It is an enhancement, but it's not like a substance you take. This is taking one part of your body and put it in the other part of your body. It's from you, technically. Right. Right. Right. And even in its best case scenario, there's still a chance that you might have nerve damage. I mean, it carries a lot of risks with it like any surgery does. There is at least one pitcher who never needs to worry about blowing out his UCL because there is a pitcher named by the name of R.A. Dickie, and he was born with no

UCL. He does not have an older collateral ligament. And he can still pitch. And it's one of those things where, like, the experts, they're like, he shouldn't be able to pitch, let alone at a major league level. Wow. And so here's the, one of the, one of the reasons that he's been so successful is that his signature pitch is the knuckleball. So his signature pitch is the pitch that puts the least amount of strain on your arm. You're throwing it really slow and using movement to fool the batter.

But he is an example of, even without a ulnar collateral ligament, you can still go on and be a successful major league pitcher. But that's weird. From the terrifying power of tornadoes to sizzling summer temperatures, ACUweather Daily brings you the top trending weather-related story of the day every day of the week. You can learn a lot in just a few minutes, stories that will impact you, such as how a particular hurricane may affect your area. Or will that impending snow event bring more than just a winter wonderland? occasionally there are weather-related stories from the lighter side, like how a recent storm trapped tourists inside Agatha Christie's house, a setup perfect for a plot of one of her novels.

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was and we're like oh my god we had this question before what is it and why can i remember so here i've compiled some questions that we've gotten wrong repeatedly and i want to see if you guys can get it right all right well i think we should work together yeah let's work together that's the more accurate okay yeah it'll minimize the shame when we get it wrong too Yeah, you're right. It's better. So, here we go. On October 3, 1992, Sinait O'Connor appeared on Saturday Night Live as a musical guest,

where she infamously tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II during her performance. What song was she singing? It wasn't nothing compares to you. I don't think it was. I think that's what we've put before. See, this is where we get, this is where we like start. Oh, wait, was it the right answer? or the wrong answer.

Does she have any other songs? Well, I mean, it would have been, yeah, at the time. This is, like, actually a really good reenactment. Yeah, this is really how we talk about. I'm just, you know, blanking on, I mean, she had a lot of songs off that album, but let's just go with the safe answer. Is it nothing in comparison? Which is what we've always said. Yeah, let's go with that.

You're incorrect again. What is her song? Here's a hint. It was a cover, a cover of a Bob Marley song. Oh. One love? Was it redemption song? No, no.

It was war. The song was war. See, this is why we don't remember. War. All right. War. Not nothing compares to you. Okay.

Here's the next question. What NFL National Football League team was the first to lose two Super Bowls? Oh, we just had this. We just had this. It was the Vikings. Yes. I feel confident. I feel confident that it was the Minnesota Vikings.

Correct. Okay. Because it was like V and then that's two, like you have two fingers up. I was remembering also the horns, like they've got two horns. We come up with these dumb mnemonics. Before we put down Buffalo Bills every time and every time we get wrong and we can't remember what it is. Now we have these mnemonics. Well, we should be careful with the horns because Buffalo also have horns.

Oh, yeah, you're right. That's true. That's a good point. V not for victory. That's better. That's better. And when it's really stupid, we'll be like, oh, yeah, we had a stupid thing for it. Was it? And then he's like...

Trying to remember the nom on it. That helps. All right. He was the first president to have been born a United States citizen. Oh, gosh. We all... All right. I think...

I think it's Van Buren. Isn't this the one? Oh. He was either the first born as a citizen or the last not born as a citizen. I think that's what it was. Wait, was it... How early was he was kind of... He was...

I feel like he was. was eight maybe would that be about right about long enough to have been born sure i'm so unsure of myself van buren final answer yeah yeah mckinley you are correct it is martin van buren but you're doubting yourself i'm so doubting myself was he the last or i knew he was like on one side of that divider yeah next question what nation governs the island of Cyprus. Is that Greece? Is it Greece or is it Turkey?

Is it... Greece. I think it's Greece. Yeah. Okay. Greece. Incorrect. Oh, wait, wait.

Is it 50-50? Incorrect. It is actually Cyprus. Cyprus is its own nation. That's a tricky trick, Karen. What companies considered the first fast food restaurant in America and it began franchising in 1921? Oh, 1921. We have talked about it.

Was it A and W? Was that the one? I thought it might be. It was like, because I think all the, like, all the, the classic, like, McDonald's and Carl, those were all from like the 40s, 50s, yeah. I don't know. Not Wendy's. Let's go with A&W. Yeah, sure.

All right, is it A&W? Correct. It is A&W. Guys remembered. All right. Last question. The Thistle has been the national emblem of what country. Isn't it, Scotland?

I think that's right. I think that's what it was. Is it Scotland? Final answer? Scotland? Yeah, I agree, Dana. Correct. It is Scotland.

It's like either Scotland or Wales. Yeah. I think whales is daffodil. I remember, yeah. Because we got burned by that once, too. I'm never going to forget that. Like, yeah, we get a lot of country flower questions and emblems. I mean, that's a very good, you know, source of trivia fodder.

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