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00:00:00have you seen the retro codex really really cool website so it's a website that teaches you things
00:00:06that you learned in school that are now disproven so you can go in and look at what year you
00:00:12graduated high school and it'll tell you what you learned in school and have now been disproven
00:00:18jared can you pull this up for me so um i put this in as 2000s which would be for me and george
00:00:24uh lightning never strikes the same place twice uh lightning has struck several places multiple
00:00:28times empire state building is struck approximately 25 times a year uh wearing red near a bull will
00:00:34cause it to charge bulls may not be able to distinguish the color red from other colors
00:00:37what triggers the bull is movement and physical provocation not color the red cape is to conceal
00:00:42blood stains uh goldfish have a three second memory goldfish retain memories for weeks months and
00:00:47possibly years george washington had wooden teeth he did wear dentures but they were made of other
00:00:51materials such as tin gold and lead human teeth from enslaved individuals it's a bit gnarly
00:00:56need to wait 20 to 30 minutes after you eat to swim or you'll get stomach cramps and drown there's no
00:01:01clinical evidence for that there's another one go a bit further down oh i see oh if you roll your
00:01:05eyes and folk wisdom checked on the top left i was like i don't recall getting uh if you roll your
00:01:12eyes if you pee in the pool everyone will know because it'll turn water green hot water washing
00:01:16hands is not good in cold water yeah right there interesting i'm learning a few things water temperature
00:01:21has not been found to impact the antibacterial efficacy of hand washing i didn't even know that
00:01:26after a person dies their hair or fingernails can keep growing who who who thinks earth is the only
00:01:32planet with water i don't know i don't know about that but in the 2000s might you have thought that
00:01:36because pluto being a planet would have been true when we went to high school yeah yeah yeah true
00:01:40brown sugar is healthier than white sugar yeah i just thought it's it's nice to find then obviously
00:01:45all of this stuff with the food pyramid that's got turned literally upside down so some of these will
00:01:50end up being overturned too but yeah um oh for sure i think when i was thinking about you know the way
00:01:55kids are educated i think that schools do something that i think in some cases it likes they at least
00:02:00they traditionally that is that is maybe the right thing to do which is you teach the wrong story
00:02:04the simple wrong story first just to like let the concepts and then later you start to build the
00:02:11nuance and you realize that but that's kind of like like thanksgiving i think it's i i think it's i
00:02:16learned early on that thanksgiving was this like wonderful thing and the pilgrims came and the
00:02:20the indians at the time the indians were like and everyone was happy and they had this nice feast
00:02:25and uh or you know just like columbus discovered the new world but like no he didn't but like and just
00:02:31like keep it um let let the basic story sink seep in and then later you can be like actually like
00:02:36this is like an allegory kind of for uh that that represents like a much larger more complicated much
00:02:42nastier story often and i think sometimes right now what they're doing is they're you know out of kind
00:02:47of i don't know you know kind of political reasons or whatever they're they're teaching kind of very
00:02:52very like you know um kind of a hardcore first story to really young kids right away that um
00:02:59but they're front loading the nollie version yeah exactly and maybe going too far even in that
00:03:03direction um when uh like i think i mean this is a whole other can of worms but i think that maybe i
00:03:10want to put the disguise but like i i know i think that um
00:03:16i do think american children should be taught first all these good great things about america
00:03:21they should learn that they're in this great country that's has complicated that has not been perfect but
00:03:25they've done a lot of great things um and it's this wonderful thing and patriotism and be really proud
00:03:30and then later later then you can learn a lot more nuance or it's the same reason that i think you
00:03:35shouldn't be teaching your kid you know that like you think your dad's a good person but actually you
00:03:39know he cheated when in his 20s like you know that he like did you know he got fired like you
00:03:44don't do that you start with that that's great of course then later in life and the kid's an adult
00:03:47you start i don't know this is partisan controversy anymore you start to then say uh you know dad uh
00:03:53you know dad can say to you you know yeah i'm not perfect i did this and this but like
00:03:57yeah you don't need to front load kids are kids and like it's a very different kind of person to teach
00:04:01well also because i mean i remember talking to a very close friend of mine who's got a bunch of
00:04:06kids wonderful guy very successful in what he does and i asked him what his parenting advice would be
00:04:12and his first rule was you need to teach your kids to be optimists because action flows from optimism
00:04:20and agency flows from optimism right and so what you're describing sort of creates a picture that
00:04:26you don't want to aspire to engage with and seems antithetical to that they're like two you know
00:04:31second third fourth graders just hang climate change climate change your future is destroyed
00:04:34like what why who thinks this is a good idea right little little kids well and then the older
00:04:39generations are like oh my god these younger generations so apathetic i'm like yeah you're
00:04:42getting waterboarded with existential threat all day yeah you would be too i guess it makes sense that
00:04:48the younger you are the more neuroplastic you are right and even like statements like that are
00:04:53quite reflexive so if if you go on if i go on the news tomorrow and say it's it's going to be a sunny
00:05:00day i have no impact on whether it's going to be a sunny day but a reflexive system is if i go on
00:05:05the news tomorrow and say there's going to be a bank run i have an impact on whether there's going
00:05:10to be a bank run and if you go in thinking america's a terrible country that's going to be quite
00:05:15a reflexive thing for your entire youth i mean it's quite funny listening to an not that you were
00:05:19complaining to him but an american talk about the lack of patriotism in their country it's two brits
00:05:25yeah it's kind of like chris talking to me about like how he's frustrated with the size of his
00:05:28forearms right now you know what i mean like i'm like okay okay i understand but uh yeah i think it's
00:05:33interesting for america to be going through that when you're still by far the tallest midget in the
00:05:38room right totally and and by the way there's so much british history to be proud of oh don't
00:05:43get me started this negative lens don't get me started tim i i declare i i said this to chris
00:05:48previously like we are the most insecure in terms of internal reputation versus external so if you
00:05:56travel anywhere else in the world apart from a few places they often like love the uk um but internally
00:06:02they often criticize themselves the most i'll never forget a friend of mine um uh came uh his sister
00:06:08came home one day and she said you know what she goes britain is the racist country on earth
00:06:15and he paused for a second and he just said compared to where you couldn't answer
00:06:22it's that line about capitalism it's the worst system apart from all of the other ones
00:06:26it's just a crazy distortion lens and it's so self-defeating and it's like this crazy
00:06:30yeah jack butch has got this great line he says unlearning is a hundred times harder than learning
00:06:36and if you're laying down those myelin sheets and some kids who's five years old six seven i don't
00:06:43know when you start to understand what climate is and what power structures look like but yeah you're
00:06:50probably best starting off with generalized optimism and getting into specific pessimism or specific
00:06:55scrutiny as opposed to general high school maybe you know like maybe elementary school is just it's just
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