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🗓️ 14 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Good Morning Brewed Daily Show. I'm Neil Fryman. |
0:04.0 | And I'm Toby Howell. |
0:05.0 | Today, France has got champagne problems after Trump floated a 200% tariff on European alcohol. |
0:11.0 | Then Mehta secured a key legal victory against a whistleblower, leaving the future of her memoir in doubt. |
0:17.0 | It's Friday, March 14th. Let's ride. Good morning, happy Friday and happy |
0:27.0 | Pi Day 314, the day we celebrate the most elegant of all irrational numbers. Pi |
0:33.0 | defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter has been key to the development |
0:38.1 | of math because it's used to understand anything that involves a circle, sphere, or a curve. |
0:43.0 | And at 22 trillion known digits and counting, it's also been excellent material for memorization |
0:49.1 | contests. The person who holds the unofficial world record for reciting the most digits of pie |
0:54.0 | from memory is a Japanese guy named Akira Haraguchi, who in 2006 counted more than 100,000 digits over 16 hours. |
1:03.8 | That's a lot. |
1:04.8 | That is a lot. |
1:06.1 | And I was thinking about my own training with pie in the past because I think a lot of people have, |
1:11.6 | you know, gone through a pie phase. Maybe that's just me. But this one technique that I recommend |
1:16.3 | using is called the Memory Palace. You've probably seen it in Sherlock Holmes Show from a few |
1:21.6 | years back. But it involves creating an imaginary place in your mind where you sort of store |
1:26.0 | these mnemonic images that represent strings |
1:29.0 | of numbers. So, for instance, you might take a stroll through that location. For me, it's like my |
1:33.0 | childhood bedroom is what I use in order to, you know, do a pie recitation contest. And it worked |
1:38.2 | pretty well for me. I got up to like 50 to 100 digits. I still got, you know, 50 in the memory |
1:42.3 | palace locked in today. I will spare you |
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