SYSK Selects: How Amnesia Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Those movies where someone gets hit on the head and can't remember who they are anymore? They're actually not too far off from the reality of amnesia. Learn everything about this bizarre and life-robbing condition with Josh and Chuck in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.1	Hi friends, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S.K.S. Lex, I've chosen our episode on Amnesia.
0:37.3	I'm not going to make any sort of joke here.
0:39.7	You can just insert your own.
0:41.4	Instead, I will describe this as a great thick episode that is about an astoundingly interesting topic.
0:49.1	It's one of those topics where the movies actually get their depictions of this stuff right
0:55.8	because Amnesia is just that bizarre.
0:58.2	So sit in, buckle up and listen to this.
1:01.7	Possibly again, possibly for the first time.
1:03.6	Who can remember these things?
1:05.6	Sorry.
1:06.6	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff Works.
1:12.0	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:19.2	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry and it's Stuff You Should Know,
1:24.6	The Radio.
1:25.6	Yeah.
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