Phineas Gage

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🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable^[B1]:19 survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life‍—‌effects sufficiently profound (for a time at least) that friends saw him as "no longer Gage." ^[H]:14

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0:00.0	It's the Michael Jackson documentary.
0:05.0	Uh, what's it called?
0:07.0	No, I can't remember.
0:08.0	Your body is a neverland?
0:10.0	Okay, that can't be it.
0:12.0	And it can.
0:14.0	Just pull the stand, guys.
0:17.0	I'm not touching the stand.
0:19.0	It's too close to the rest of it.
0:20.0	Guys, what the hell now?
0:23.0	Oh, hey, Noah, Tom, thank God somebody else is here.
0:26.0	Now I'm not sworn to see.
0:27.0	You are still looking to see percent.
0:28.0	What is that?
0:30.0	A microphone stand in Eli's ass?
0:33.0	I gotta look at this.
0:34.0	Uh, nope.
0:35.0	Well, sort of it's got a microphone on it.
0:38.0	Um, Zee Sills microphone.
0:40.0	Oh, for fuck's sake, Eli, did you do this?
0:42.0	Cause today's topic is Phineas Gate.
0:44.0	No, I did it because Heath leaves very slick candy wrappers on the table.
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