136: Raise Your Voice

Good Job, Brain!

Karen Chu

Hobbies, Leisure, Education

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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La la la laaaaaaaaaa~ We explore the world of voice and speech. Learn about the history of "the robot voice" and the crazy machines that made synthesized speech possible, we turn into Munchkins and find out why helium makes your voice squeaky, famous speeches every pub trivia team needs to know, and how to speak Australian! ALSO: Congrats Rob! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast. Hello, delicious, dextrous dukes and duchesses of the Digital Den.
0:21.2	Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly Quiz Show and Offbeat Trivia
0:24.4	podcast. This is episode 136. And of course, I'm your humble host, Karen, and we are your verifiably vivacious Vavacious V vavavum Vickers and Vixens voracious for vocabulary and vuzailas.
0:39.0	Wow. Oh man, I'm Colin, I'm Dana.
0:41.0	And I'm Chris.
0:42.0	Before we start the show show I have this really interesting
0:45.0	listener email and two episodes ago we talked about safety
0:50.0	and Colin you dropped the truth bomb on lightning traveling through.
0:55.0	Yes.
0:57.0	Phone cords, phone wires.
0:59.0	Yep, up to your face.
1:00.0	I've quoted this to people and they're like yeah we know or like really
1:04.3	I'm from a place with lightning yeah and here I have an email from Daniel and Daniel
1:10.7	says I just listen to the safety episode and want to share with you that
1:14.8	Circa 1992 my sister was struck by lightning during a summer thunderstorm in
1:20.5	Columbia, South Carolina. She was in our parents kitchen talking on a courted kitchen phone.
1:26.0	I arrived home shortly after it happened and found her unconscious
1:31.0	on the floor of the kitchen.
1:33.5	The receiver on the wall phone was next to her dangling from its court off the wall.
1:38.2	She wasn't unconscious for very long at all and escaped without any injury.
1:42.6	Oh, wow.
1:44.6	Wow.
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