Let's go bananas!

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.5 • 14.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

HARVEY, our omnipresent virtual voice assistant, gets a software update that makes him go bananas for bananas. And if we talk about anything except bananas, he turns the microphones off! We talk to geneticist Dr. Janina Jeff about how much DNA we share with a banana, find out why bananas make other fruits ripen, how bananas grow, and where that slipping on a banana peel joke came from. Speaking of jokes, we'll hear a bunch of banana jokes from listeners too! Plus: The Moment of Um answers the question: "Why are peaches fuzzy?" You can hear more from Dr. Jeff on her podcast In Those Genes. Silent film expert Lea Stans has a wonderful blog post about the history of the banana peel joke that you can read right here. You can see some of those early comics that featured the joke! https://www.youtube.com/watch/RMDgmHB4znc Today’s episode is sponsored by: KiwiCo (kiwico.com/brainson code: BRAINSON) Purple (purple.com/BRAINSON10 promo code BRAINSON10) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hi friends, we are so excited to share that our other podcast Smash Boom Best is back
0:05.6	for a brand new season.
0:07.7	If you haven't listened before, in every episode we pit two awesome things against each
0:11.7	other, have smart people argue it out and let you judge the winner.
0:15.6	It's a fact-filled, fantastic fight to the finish every time, and this season we have
0:19.9	some show-stopping Smackdowns like Little Red Riding Hood vs Goldilocks, Lollipops vs.
0:25.7	Popcorn, and Roller Coasters vs. Mini Golf.
0:29.1	We need your help in deciding the winners, so check out the latest episodes now wherever
0:33.3	you listen to podcasts.
0:39.0	You're listening to Brains On, where we're serious about being curious.
0:42.6	Brains On is supported on part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
0:51.9	Update successfully installed.
0:54.2	Yes, I did it.
0:56.1	Harvey, you wonderful omnipresent virtual voice assistant.
0:59.1	This is going to change everything.
1:02.1	Why yes, Mark, I am bananas for you too.
1:06.1	Okay.
1:07.1	Hey Mark, what's new?
1:10.1	Oh, hey Molly, I just installed a system upgrade for Harvey.
1:14.9	What to do?
1:15.9	Well you know we get so many awesome questions from our listeners all the time.
1:19.4	Yeah.
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