CLASSIC: Can memories be erased?
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
It sounds like a quandry straight out of science fiction -- given the opportunity, would you erase your own painful or traumatic memories? Join Ben and Matt as they separate science fiction from science fact (along with the fuzzy border in between), delving into the murky mechanics of memory, the treacherous way our brains handle recollections, and the profound implications posed by living in a world where memories can be artificially created, monetized, or erased.
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| 0:00.0 | Folks, as we are traveling through the holidays, taking a little time off for our own |
| 0:04.9 | completely non-sketching, non-misterious adventures, we are presenting to you some of our favorite |
| 0:09.8 | classic episodes. Do you guys remember doing this one? No, because I was men in black mind erased |
| 0:16.5 | about it. Wait, what are we talking about? You know, luckily we wrote this down. |
| 0:22.3 | The past us is helping the present us now. |
| 0:25.3 | Back in 2019, we apparently asked ourselves, can memories be erased? |
| 0:32.3 | What would you do if you had a very troubling, traumatic memory of an experience that was so |
| 0:39.9 | invasive, it messed with your present day life. You know what I mean? This happens since memory is a big |
| 0:46.4 | deal. You know, shout out to every college kid who partied too hard one time and now can't |
| 0:52.1 | see a specific like brand of alcohol or drug without violently |
| 0:56.8 | getting nauseated. |
| 0:58.8 | Is this like Sailor Jerry's shout out? |
| 1:01.8 | Goldslugger. |
| 1:03.3 | Just not as classy as it sounds. |
| 1:06.0 | It was Yeager for me. |
| 1:08.1 | Give me all of those guys. |
| 1:09.7 | I just want to drink up that syrupy delicious. |
| 1:14.0 | Southern comfort. |
| 1:15.1 | Just straight triple sec. |
| 1:16.8 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:18.1 | Guys, is this kind of like the blind eye society's memory gun? |
| 1:22.1 | You know that Gravity Falls thing? |
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