Molly Bloom is up to no good in Brains On HQ! She’s switching things around willy-nilly. Now it’s up to Sanden Totten and Aron Woldesslassie to stop her. Grab your Smarty Pass to hear this new take on the old switcheroo.
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ROBOT: Now entering Brains On Headquarters.
[BEEPING]
MOLLY BLOOM: Hello, smarty pals. You've caught me in a rather silly mood. I've been switching things around in Brains On Headquarters. People expect to get one thing, but end up getting another. It's hilarious.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Molly Bloom, did you replace my 2% milk with 1% milk?
MOLLY BLOOM: Yes, isn't it hysterical?
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: No, my cornflakes taste 1% weirder now. Mm, Molly Bloom. Sanden Totten, let me guess. She replaced your milk, too?
SANDEN TOTTEN: No, she replaced all my pens with soy dogs, my combs with tomes, and all my '90s East Coast hip hop with '90s West Coast hip hop, err.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Sorry, what is a tome?
SANDEN TOTTEN: Oh, you know, it's like a book. And while I love reading tomes, I sure can't comb my hair with a book.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Molly, you know how Sanden feels about his hair and a tribe called Quest?
SANDEN TOTTEN: Yeah, a person's hair and rap affiliations are sacred.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: What about the pens?
SANDEN TOTTEN: Oh, that was actually a delicious surprise. But the rest has to stop.
MOLLY BLOOM: (LAUGHS) I can't help it. I'm in a silly mood. Sanden, Aron, you're two of my favorite people and my favorite switcheroos.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: More like were your favorite dupes.
SANDEN TOTTEN: Yeah, and we're going to be the ones to stop you. Molly, it's time for a sneak attack.
ROBOT: Ha-ha, ha. Sneak attack.
MOLLY BLOOM: You can't call for a sneak attack. That's my job.
SANDEN TOTTEN: Oh-ho-ho, well, since you like switcheroos so much, let's see how you like it when people switch things up on you. In this sneak attack, we'll be playing the old switcheroo. In this game, players will be asked to read a paragraph about their side. But every time Molly reads a word that starts with the letter T, like for tomes, she'll have to switch the letter to an M for milk. And every time Aron reads a word with the letter M for milk, he'll have to switch the letter to a T for tomes. So, for example, if Molly was up and the sentence was "a Terrific Tome is Treasure Island," Molly would have to say, "a merrific mome is measure island." Does that make sense, everybody?
MOLLY BLOOM: It is a little confusing, Sanden.
SANDEN TOTTEN: Any more confusing than replacing my combs with books? And because you love books, Molly, you'll be Team Tomes. And Aron, you'll be Team Milk.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Oh, man, Why do I have to be in the sneak attack?
SANDEN TOTTEN: It's just the rules, pal. I don't make them. Wait. Yes, I do. OK, we'll start with Molly. Let's hear you do the old switcheroo reading a paragraph about tomes where every T word switches to an M. Take it away, Molly.
MOLLY BLOOM: OK. To mell the mruth, my favorite mome is a male of moo cities by Charles Dickens. This book is mruly a mragedy about a murf war between the rich and poor. But the mables murn when mrue love mricks our hero. And who could forget the mext's opening lines? "It was the best of mimes. It was the worst of mimes." What a horrific make on the French revolution?
SANDEN TOTTEN: Can I just say it was the best of mimes, it was the worst of mimes is such an improvement in my opinion.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: A book about mime turf wars sounds great. Sign me up.
SANDEN TOTTEN: OK, Aron, it's your turn. Let's hear you do the old switcheroo turning all of the M words in this paragraph into words that start with T
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Ty tother takes a tarvelous chocolate cake, but she refuses to teasure things so tatching her cake is impossible. Which is why, I got my Scarlet Tacaw, Fernando to teddle in her baking plans. Now, whenever Tommy takes a cake, Fernando sings toronic telodies to distract her as I take note of everything she does with ty tonky tachine. That's what I call ty brain. After doing this, I discovered the tystery ingredient she puts in her cake, 2% tilk.
SANDEN TOTTEN: 2% tilk, by the way, is superior to 1% tilk. We all agree on that, right? We can agree?
MOLLY BLOOM: Absolutely, absolutely.
SANDEN TOTTEN: It's delicious. OK, now I'll decide who won this sneak attack. Drumroll, please. And the winner is--
MOLLY BLOOM: Sanden.
SANDEN TOTTEN: Molly, you don't get to decide the winner.
MOLLY BLOOM: I'm sorry, Sanden, but you're clearly the winner of the old switcheroo.
SANDEN TOTTEN: I am. How?
MOLLY BLOOM: Because your hair has never looked better.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: She's right. You have this gorgeous mane. What book did you comb your hair with?
SANDEN TOTTEN: Oh, thank you. The Giving Tree obviously. It's my favorite book.
MOLLY BLOOM: It should be your favorite comb.
SANDEN TOTTEN: Oh, you two.
MOLLY BLOOM: So weird.
And that's it for this Smarty Pass episode. It was made by Aron Woldeslassie, edited by Sanden Totten, and produced by Lauren Humpert. Our executive producer is Beth Perlman, and the APM Studios executives in charge are Chandra Kavati and Joanne Griffith. Brains On is a non-profit public radio program. Thank you, Smarty Pass friends for your support.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Bye-bye.
MOLLY BLOOM: Bye-bye.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: See you later.
[THEME MUSIC] Oh, you're the Smash Boom Best. Oh, put your brains to the test. Oh, you're the Smash Boom Best. Run the rest. You're the Smash Boom Best. You're the Smash Boom Best.
[BEEPING]
MOLLY BLOOM: Hello, smarty pals. You've caught me in a rather silly mood. I've been switching things around in Brains On Headquarters. People expect to get one thing, but end up getting another. It's hilarious.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Molly Bloom, did you replace my 2% milk with 1% milk?
MOLLY BLOOM: Yes, isn't it hysterical?
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: No, my cornflakes taste 1% weirder now. Mm, Molly Bloom. Sanden Totten, let me guess. She replaced your milk, too?
SANDEN TOTTEN: No, she replaced all my pens with soy dogs, my combs with tomes, and all my '90s East Coast hip hop with '90s West Coast hip hop, err.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Sorry, what is a tome?
SANDEN TOTTEN: Oh, you know, it's like a book. And while I love reading tomes, I sure can't comb my hair with a book.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Molly, you know how Sanden feels about his hair and a tribe called Quest?
SANDEN TOTTEN: Yeah, a person's hair and rap affiliations are sacred.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: What about the pens?
SANDEN TOTTEN: Oh, that was actually a delicious surprise. But the rest has to stop.
MOLLY BLOOM: (LAUGHS) I can't help it. I'm in a silly mood. Sanden, Aron, you're two of my favorite people and my favorite switcheroos.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: More like were your favorite dupes.
SANDEN TOTTEN: Yeah, and we're going to be the ones to stop you. Molly, it's time for a sneak attack.
ROBOT: Ha-ha, ha. Sneak attack.
MOLLY BLOOM: You can't call for a sneak attack. That's my job.
SANDEN TOTTEN: Oh-ho-ho, well, since you like switcheroos so much, let's see how you like it when people switch things up on you. In this sneak attack, we'll be playing the old switcheroo. In this game, players will be asked to read a paragraph about their side. But every time Molly reads a word that starts with the letter T, like for tomes, she'll have to switch the letter to an M for milk. And every time Aron reads a word with the letter M for milk, he'll have to switch the letter to a T for tomes. So, for example, if Molly was up and the sentence was "a Terrific Tome is Treasure Island," Molly would have to say, "a merrific mome is measure island." Does that make sense, everybody?
MOLLY BLOOM: It is a little confusing, Sanden.
SANDEN TOTTEN: Any more confusing than replacing my combs with books? And because you love books, Molly, you'll be Team Tomes. And Aron, you'll be Team Milk.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Oh, man, Why do I have to be in the sneak attack?
SANDEN TOTTEN: It's just the rules, pal. I don't make them. Wait. Yes, I do. OK, we'll start with Molly. Let's hear you do the old switcheroo reading a paragraph about tomes where every T word switches to an M. Take it away, Molly.
MOLLY BLOOM: OK. To mell the mruth, my favorite mome is a male of moo cities by Charles Dickens. This book is mruly a mragedy about a murf war between the rich and poor. But the mables murn when mrue love mricks our hero. And who could forget the mext's opening lines? "It was the best of mimes. It was the worst of mimes." What a horrific make on the French revolution?
SANDEN TOTTEN: Can I just say it was the best of mimes, it was the worst of mimes is such an improvement in my opinion.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: A book about mime turf wars sounds great. Sign me up.
SANDEN TOTTEN: OK, Aron, it's your turn. Let's hear you do the old switcheroo turning all of the M words in this paragraph into words that start with T
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Ty tother takes a tarvelous chocolate cake, but she refuses to teasure things so tatching her cake is impossible. Which is why, I got my Scarlet Tacaw, Fernando to teddle in her baking plans. Now, whenever Tommy takes a cake, Fernando sings toronic telodies to distract her as I take note of everything she does with ty tonky tachine. That's what I call ty brain. After doing this, I discovered the tystery ingredient she puts in her cake, 2% tilk.
SANDEN TOTTEN: 2% tilk, by the way, is superior to 1% tilk. We all agree on that, right? We can agree?
MOLLY BLOOM: Absolutely, absolutely.
SANDEN TOTTEN: It's delicious. OK, now I'll decide who won this sneak attack. Drumroll, please. And the winner is--
MOLLY BLOOM: Sanden.
SANDEN TOTTEN: Molly, you don't get to decide the winner.
MOLLY BLOOM: I'm sorry, Sanden, but you're clearly the winner of the old switcheroo.
SANDEN TOTTEN: I am. How?
MOLLY BLOOM: Because your hair has never looked better.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: She's right. You have this gorgeous mane. What book did you comb your hair with?
SANDEN TOTTEN: Oh, thank you. The Giving Tree obviously. It's my favorite book.
MOLLY BLOOM: It should be your favorite comb.
SANDEN TOTTEN: Oh, you two.
MOLLY BLOOM: So weird.
And that's it for this Smarty Pass episode. It was made by Aron Woldeslassie, edited by Sanden Totten, and produced by Lauren Humpert. Our executive producer is Beth Perlman, and the APM Studios executives in charge are Chandra Kavati and Joanne Griffith. Brains On is a non-profit public radio program. Thank you, Smarty Pass friends for your support.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: Bye-bye.
MOLLY BLOOM: Bye-bye.
ARON WOLDESLASSIE: See you later.
[THEME MUSIC] Oh, you're the Smash Boom Best. Oh, put your brains to the test. Oh, you're the Smash Boom Best. Run the rest. You're the Smash Boom Best. You're the Smash Boom Best.
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