It's
time for spill the
tea.
We're going to be testing the limits of your
mind your memory your ability
to learn to recall
and to retell.
The contestants are going to hear a story
and then take turns sharing
it with the next person.
They're going to be waiting in another room so you don't hear
with your original story was
a Boeing 747
had just taken off from Miami International
Airport for Los Angeles
when a passenger near the
rear of the aircraft announced
that the plane was being taken over
by the People's Revolutionary
Army for the liberation
of the oppressed.
The hijacker held
a .357 Magnum to the head
of Jack Swanson a flight
attendant and forced him to
open the cockpit door there
the hijacker confronted the pilot
Jane Randall
and ordered her to change course for Cuba.
The pilot radioed the Miami
air traffic control center to report
the situation
but then suddenly hurled the microphone at
the hijacker the hijacker fell backward
through the open cockpit door
and onto the floor where angry
passengers took over from there
the plane landed in Miami.
A few minutes later
and the hijacker was arrested a
Boeing 747
was traveling from
Miami International Airport
to LAX in Los Angeles
when a hijacker
towards the rear of the plane
from the People's
terrorist group that's
the name of the terrorist group the People's terrorist.
It's the one I remember he
took a 7 no
a what kind of magnum was it a 451 magnum.
He took a big gun
it's like a magnum handgun
to a steward.
a flight attendant's
head. His name was Jack Swanson.
He brought him from the back of the plane
to the front of the plane
and demanded that the pilot
open up the cockpit door
so the pilot does.
And then the terrorist demands
that the flight be rerouted
to Cuba.
But as that's happening somebody
takes a microphone
and throws it at the terrorist.
He falls backwards
and then the crew
of the flight regains control
of the airplane
and they land safely back
in Miami International Airport.
A Boeing 747
is flying from Miami international
airport to LAX
on the flight in the
air in
midflight terrorists
from the people's terrorist
group
pulls out
a Magnum some kind
of number we don't remember
but it's a big gun he
takes hostage a flight attendant
a male flight attendant named Jack
Swanson which I only remember
because a Ron Swanson from Park
and Recreation.
So he takes him
hostage
and pulls him from the back
of the plane to the front of the
plane to get into the cockpit
using the stewardess well flight attendant to
tell the pilot to open the door to the cockpit so he can go
in. The pilot lets them in because he doesn't
want his flight attendant to die.
As he's pointed the gun at the stewardess
flight attendant he wants
them to redirect the flight to
Cuba who want to redirect the flight the terrorist wants to redirect. No
the flight attendant just really wants to go to Cuba he might as well
use it as a last wish.
The
terrorist wants to go to Cuba
in mid conversation.
Somebody takes them between
the three of them.
I don't know.
Somebody throws a microphone
at the terrorists
and it hits the terrorists.
I guess either the pilot
or the flight attendant was able to get
control of that gun
So control of the plane got back to them.
So they relanded into
Miami International Airport.
There is a
flight going from Miami
to BEEP
to LAX on the flight.
There is a terrorist from the People's terrorist group..
That name he made up. The worst name.
That's one of the things I remember the most because it's a ridiculous
thing.
And so the terrorist is
on this flight
and captures the
one of the flight attendants as his
hostage named Ron Swanson
and he has a magnum
he drags
the flight attendant from
the back of the plane to the front of the plane to get into
the cockpit
and between
the flight attendant the terrorist
and the
pilot
they're in this cockpit
and the terrorist says
I want to redirect the flight to Cuba.
OK.
Judging the people's terrorist group are you.
Somehow this microphone
gets in the way and they are
able to avoid
being diverted to Cuba
and the pilot lands the plane
in Miami. So let me read the
actual story to all of you
that the plane was being taken over
by the People's Revolutionary
Army for liberation of the oppressed. So the opposite of the
people's terrorist group.
the hijacker held a 357
Magnum there the hijacker
confronted the pilot Jane Randall
and ordered her to
change course for Cuba.
I forgot the Pilot's name
and
the people's revolution
arm for the liberation of the
oppressed as a group
we did well
but we failed because
Colin failed us and not because of
anyone else.
I probably had to remember
15 key things I think you only had to remember
about
10 or 11.
Each time as each person had to remember the next thing we
had to remember fewer number of things.
So what you all are describing here is
leveling.
Each time we
remember a memory
certain details drop off
and it's kind of simplified.
So a lot of the details about the Boeing plane
TWA the pilot
who the person is some of these details
get leveled off
and they get simplified
but at the same time certain things
carried
Throughout everyone's. Like the
people's terrorist group.
The word terrorist was never
mentioned in the original
script.
Think it's like an anecdotal
association right like
a hijacker on a plane.
We tend to associate that
with a terrorist.
Yeah that's assimilation
that's where we take information
and we combine it
with stuff we already know to sort of fill
in the blanks there.
So the word terrorist wasn't mentioned
but it's something that often comes up
in this story because it's a part of these ideas
that we have about hijackers.
There's a lot of stuff like Cuba
that there was a hijacking the
flight attendant
a lot of that stuff really stuck
out and we call that sharpening
where certain details really stick out
in a story and carry it through
and that sort of did happen here.
Yes it did.
We think that memory is this
perfect recollection
this perfect record like we're passing
this paper back
and forth but it's not.
Every time we think
of something we recreate that memory
just like we did between each person
and each time we do new information
is added certain details get
sharpened
and some things get leveled off
and sometimes we add in our own stuff.
Here's how you can play at home.
Find a friend
and ask them to recall
a memory, an important event that you both
experienced.
Write down the details
and then compare your notes
see how similar they are.
What's been leveled what's been sharpened
and what's been assimilated. All of our memories will be different. Yes
they will.
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