Brain In A Jar
True Weird Stuff
Now! Media
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Brain In A Jar
Phineas Gage was an American railroad foreman who survived a traumatic brain injury. In 1848, an iron rod shot through his skull and destroyed a chunk of his left frontal lobe. Though he survived the accident, the damage to his brain drastically altered his personality. Gage's story became a catalyst for modern neuroscience, which has advanced to the point scientists are now able to develop a brain in a jar.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, true weirdos. We just wanted to take a minute and thank you so much for your support. |
| 0:04.6 | True Weird Stuff has won the best history podcast in the Women in Podcasting Awards, |
| 0:09.8 | and we've also won a Signal Award in the paranormal category. |
| 0:14.2 | And that's only happened because of you, our fellow strange people. |
| 0:18.6 | Thanks. |
| 0:19.2 | Stick around if you want after the episode for a little bonus content and conversation. |
| 0:26.5 | The 1968 TV movie, they saved Hitler's brain, might just be one of the worst movies |
| 0:34.2 | ever made. So here's the premise. Adolf Hitler didn't commit suicide in his |
| 0:40.4 | Berlin bunker on April 30th, 1945. The flagellant monster had other plans and no intention of |
| 0:48.2 | ever dying. So he demanded that the best scientific minds in the world come up with a plan. |
| 0:56.5 | Mr. H was convinced that they could give him perpetual life. |
| 1:01.6 | And so, as the Red Army pounded at Berlin, Hitler took to the lower level of the bunker. |
| 1:06.9 | A quieter spot for the odoriferous dictator to catch a nap as he waited for his Waffen-S-S and the German 9th Army to annihilate the Russians marching on Berlin. |
| 1:18.3 | It didn't work out for the Dolf. |
| 1:20.4 | Hitler flew into a weepy rage and declared that the war was lost and that he intended to shoot himself. |
| 1:27.2 | He would never surrender. He would never, ever be taken alive. |
| 1:31.3 | Not so fast, dear, Fuhr. |
| 1:33.3 | They have figured out a way to remove your head and then store it in a jar. |
| 1:40.3 | You'll be alive, Fyodor. |
| 1:43.3 | They shall take your head to a special hiding place in South America. |
| 1:48.5 | And there we will wait patiently, patiently, until the time is right to revive the third Reich. |
| 1:59.2 | Allied bombs were raining from the skies, |
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