BSP: Believer Skeptic Podcast

BSP: Believer Skeptic Podcast


Episode 51 – Gift of Gab

August 19, 2019

In this episode, Cody and Chris discuss the strange phenomenon commonly known as speaking in tongues. To you science nerds, it’s glossolalia, xenolalia, and Foreign Accent Syndrome (listen in to learn what they are). In Cody’s first story, he discusses glossolalia as it relates to Megan Fox and Katy Perry (you read that right). Chris then turns to Reddit and reads someone’s personal experience with speaking in tongues. Cody’s next story has some supernatural aspects and deals with a woman who mysteriously starts speaking German. Chris’s last story comes from a science journal and tells of a Belgian woman who, one day, started sounding like she was from another country. They then discuss scientists in Glasgow, who have created an artificial whiskey-tasting tongue. This week’s drinks: Whispering Angel rosé and Sideshow the Charmer shiraz.


Advisory: 0:00s-0:12s
Intro Music: 0:12s-0:36s
Topic: 0:36s-4:39m
Drinks: 4:39m-6:52m
History: 6:52m-12:00m
Megan Fox/Katy Perry: 12:00m-17:50m
Growing Up In Church: 17:50m-
Podcoin: 22:18m-23:15m
Dolores Jay: 23:15m-30:35m
Belgian Story: 30:35m-35:33m
Promo: 35:33m-36:13m
Skeptic: 36:13m-41:39m
Believer: 41:39m-45:10m
Artificial Tongue: 45:10m-46:30m
Sign Off: 46:30m-47:30m
Outro Music: 47:30m-47:47m

Links-

Glossolalia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Glossolalia

FAS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_accent_syndrome
https://www.utdallas.edu/research/FAS/

The experience of speaking in tongues:
https://www.reddit.com/r/exchristian/comments/7pyoso/the_experience_of_speaking_in_tongues/

Belgian FAS:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00143/full#B47

Creep of the Week:
https://www.slashgear.com/artificial-tongue-is-meant-to-taste-whiskey-08586684/