A Tale of Two Brains
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Listen to the clip and answer the following questions
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by Mark Gongor
What’s a man’s brain made of?
Where do men put the box for their mother-in-law?
What is the source of energy for women’s brains?
Why do women tend to remember everything?
Who has the “nothing box”?
Listen to the clip and fill in the blanks.
Okay, so now...We're gonna start discussing men's brains, women's brains and how they're very different
from each other. Now, I wanna start with men's brains. All right. Now men's brains are very
_(1)_____________. Men's brains are made up of little boxes. And we have a box for everything. We've got
a box for the car, we got a box for the money, we got a box for the job, we got a box for you, we got a box
for the kids, we got a box for your mother somewhere in the_(2)_____________.
We got boxes everywhere. And the rule is: the boxes don't _(3)_____________. When a man discusses a
particular subject, we go to that particular box, we pull that box out, we open the box. We discuss
_(4)_____________ what is in that box, all right? And then we close the box and put it away. Being very,
very careful not to touch any other boxes.
(Sorry, my Catholic upbringing got in there for a minute. But, I'm....I'm not a Catholic but I went to Catholic
school when I was little. I had a nun who taught on hell like she was born and raised there. I mean, I'll never
forget it, but uh... It did me good, actually. It was a good thing.)
Now women's brains are very, very different from men's brains. Women's brains are made of a big ball of
_(5)_________________. And everything is connected to EVERYTHING. buzzz.... the money is connected
to the car. The car is connected to your job and your kids are connected to your mother and everything is
connected to everything... It's like bzzzzz. It's like the _(6)_________________ superhighway. OK? And it's
all driven by energy that we call '_(7)____________________'. It's this bzzzzzzzzz. It's one of the reasons
why women tend to remember everything. Because... if you take an event and you connect it to an emotion,
it _(8)_________________ in your memory and you can remember it forever. The same thing happens for
men, it just doesn't happen very often because quite frankly, we don't care. Women _(9)______________ to
care about EVERTHING...And she just loves it, bzzzzzzzz ha ha ha ha
Now, men we have a box in our brain that most women are not aware of. This particular box has NOTHING
in it. It's true. In _(10)_________________, we call it the Nothing Box. And of all the boxes a man has in
his brain, the Nothing Box is our favorite box. If a man has a chance he'll go to his Nothing Box every time.
That's why a man can do something seemingly _(11)_________________ brain-dead for hours on end. You
know, like fishing...
And we love it, that's why a guy can sit in front of the TV and go... haaa, it glows haaa... Of course, this
_(12)___________________ our wives nuts because they'll come up and say 'STOP IT!' "You can't possibly
be watching ANYTHING!" "I'm not!" "Go away!"
Now, they've actually measured(測量) this. The University of Pennsylvania a couple of years ago did a
study and _(13)________________ that men have the ability to think about absolutely nothing and still
_(14)____________________. You know, they connected all the wires and stuff like that. watched the brain
activity, then [all of a sudden] Hee heeeeeeeeeeeeeeee "I think he's dead!" "Huh? "
Women can't do it, they can't do it, their minds never stop 'zee zeecke teeee' and they don't understand the
Nothing Box! And it drives them crazy, because nothing drives a woman more crazy, and makes her feel
more irritated than to _(15)_________________ a man doing NOTHING!
Now, one of the biggest revelations I get out of women is this whole Nothing Box issue. They'd "Aah aah,"
"everything's starting to make sense!" And I've had women say: "Oh, this nothing..." "Can I go in this
nothing box with him?" NO! Why not? Because then it's _(16)___________________! Besides, you walk in
there and go: "You know, this place could really use some pictures." "A nice little table over here, some
flowers..." NO! Nothing! Get out! We don't want nothing.
Now, this handles the way men and women handle _(17)_________________ OK? When a man is stressed
out, all he wants to do is run to his Nothing Box. This is how we unwind(心情輕鬆). The last thing we
wanna do when we're stressed out is talk about it. We don't want to talk about it, we just wanna...'Cause this
drives her nuts, you know? A woman will see a man in this vegetative(無所作為的) state, she'll come up
and go "What you thinking about?" "Nothing." "You gotta be thinking about something!" "Nothing about
nothing" That house on the rows that you should have. Go away! All right? 'Cause that's how he handles
stress, he just... Now, when a woman is stressed out she has to talk about it. If she doesn't talk about it, her
brain will literally(真的) _(18)____________________.