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H.I. #9: Kids in a Box

 

00:00:00   That the group of individuals you prefer outperform the group of individuals you do not prefer. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/0">TS</a>]

00:00:06   Shall we commence episode number nine. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/6">TS</a>]

00:00:09   Yes Number nine and let's do this this is this is the last time we were ever to podcast in single digits. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/9">TS</a>]

00:00:16   Yes that is right. Do you remember when you turn ten. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/16">TS</a>]

00:00:19   I don't remember very well but I remember thinking it was a big deal. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/19">TS</a>]

00:00:23   I don't think I have any genuine memories from before high school so no I don't remember turning ten years old I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/23">TS</a>]

00:00:31   remember seeing pictures of when I turned ten but I don't have any memories in my own head of such an event. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/31">TS</a>]

00:00:39   Do you have memories from before you were ten years old. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/39">TS</a>]

00:00:41   Like just in lots of things that happened I don't I don't think so no. I mean not real ones. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/41">TS</a>]

00:00:47   You know you know how did your parents tell you about stuff that happened when you were a little kid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/47">TS</a>]

00:00:51   and so it feels like memory [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/51">TS</a>]

00:00:52   but I'm not sure any of those memories that I think I have are actually real memories I have of you do you are you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/52">TS</a>]

00:01:01   going to other people who tell me you have memories from being in the the cradle you know little tiny baby Brady I have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/61">TS</a>]

00:01:08   to say I have three or four memories and they're mostly pretty big incidents like one when I broke my arm and one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/68">TS</a>]

00:01:14   when not going on a plane and there's a few things I remember [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/74">TS</a>]

00:01:20   but the one thing that's really remember one thing that's really strange I should say is I have two dreams from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/80">TS</a>]

00:01:26   when I was really young I still remember really vividly. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/86">TS</a>]

00:01:31   But I'm not going to talk about them because I just suddenly occurred to me how boring it is to talk about their dreams. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/91">TS</a>]

00:01:36   I think it is very boring hearing people talk about their dreams. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/96">TS</a>]

00:01:41   It's even boring talking about your own dreams when if you tell someone else about your dreams always. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/101">TS</a>]

00:01:46   But halfway through the story you realize your becoming bored by the story. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/106">TS</a>]

00:01:51   Yeah and it's like Gosh how boring must this be for the other person. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/111">TS</a>]

00:01:54   This is this is one of these things where perhaps I shouldn't be so quick to judge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/114">TS</a>]

00:01:57   but I judge people very harshly if they're the kind. People who want to tell you about their dreams. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/117">TS</a>]

00:02:02   I have no patience for this. Absolutely zero. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/122">TS</a>]

00:02:06   And I feel like it is a poor indicator of a person's ability to project themselves into the mind of another human being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/126">TS</a>]

00:02:14   if they think it's interesting to tell you about their dreams but dreams are not interesting to anybody. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/134">TS</a>]

00:02:21   My own dreams aren't even interesting to me they just you know it's like oh I'll do I'll do I lose points for starting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/141">TS</a>]

00:02:28   to talk about it and then gain points for realizing at the last minute [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/148">TS</a>]

00:02:31   and aborting you know if you were really close to losing some points. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/151">TS</a>]

00:02:35   But but you know you were nosediving there but you pulled up at the last possible second. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/155">TS</a>]

00:02:40   So you're still OK in my book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/160">TS</a>]

00:02:42   but now that I've I've known people who I mean it's like it's like hours later you're at work it's lunch time you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/162">TS</a>]

00:02:48   this person's dream occurred hours and hours ago [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/168">TS</a>]

00:02:52   and I had a really interesting dream last night let me tell you about it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/172">TS</a>]

00:02:55   I was out shopping and I was with my brother but he wasn't really my brother you know he was also Robin Williams. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/175">TS</a>]

00:03:03   Stop it like it's not it's not real. Like this means nothing to anybody. It doesn't even mean anything to you. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/183">TS</a>]

00:03:09   Ah God so hard if you wake up if you have like a dream that has made an impression on you temporarily. D. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/189">TS</a>]

00:03:17   Tell your wife about it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/197">TS</a>]

00:03:18   My wife actually thinks is very funny and it actually just happened this morning where right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/198">TS</a>]

00:03:25   when I wake up sometimes I will make a comment about the kind of feeling like Oh God I had just really busy dreams last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/205">TS</a>]

00:03:32   night and that is as far as I will go and she will ask me oh you know what did you dream about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/212">TS</a>]

00:03:37   and I was like I can't I can't even tell you it's just who cares right. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/217">TS</a>]

00:03:41   Just all that matters is I woke up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/221">TS</a>]

00:03:44   and I have still have this kind of not like a great night's rest last night feeling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/224">TS</a>]

00:03:49   but that's that's the end of it you know the details of the dreams I just totally irrelevant. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/229">TS</a>]

00:03:55   Well and let's not talk about the follow up farce new countries I hear. Yes yes we have a bunch of new countries. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/235">TS</a>]

00:04:02   I didn't do it last time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/242">TS</a>]

00:04:04   but just yesterday I tallied up all of the new countries so the countries from which we've had reviews. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/244">TS</a>]

00:04:09   OK So this is so what episode nine so since episode seven we have gotten at least one review in all of the following [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/249">TS</a>]

00:04:20   countries. So here's a list it is Bulgaria. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/260">TS</a>]

00:04:23   Egypt stoning Indonesia Kuwait Macedonia Micronesia Moldova Mongolia in the pol Paraguay Peru and the Philippines. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/263">TS</a>]

00:04:32   So which ones in that list have you actually been to I have been to Stony. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/272">TS</a>]

00:04:41   And that is the only one on the list that I have been to when I do you. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/281">TS</a>]

00:04:48   Yes quite an exclusive list is nothing to Egypt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/288">TS</a>]

00:04:51   and I've obviously been in the polls one of my favorite countries in the world. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/291">TS</a>]

00:04:55   Welcome to people from all of those countries especially in the poll. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/295">TS</a>]

00:04:59   My quite possibly my favorite country in the world and home to half of Mt Everest. My favorite mountain in the world. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/299">TS</a>]

00:05:06   Why is it your favorite country in the world. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/306">TS</a>]

00:05:08   Because it's got like so many huge mountains and like it so I sense a bit cliche [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/308">TS</a>]

00:05:13   when you say that people are really nice but the people are really nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/313">TS</a>]

00:05:17   and it's just like oh come on it's just it's cool looking. It's cool stuff. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/317">TS</a>]

00:05:23   I've had I've had really good times there so I want to go there again I want to I've been to Everest base camp twice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/323">TS</a>]

00:05:30   and I want to go three times so I'm going to do it again. Well I love it. Would you come with me to Everest base camp. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/330">TS</a>]

00:05:38   They would not you wouldn't know it when I want to. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/338">TS</a>]

00:05:41   What didn't the last time or the airplane you took there last time like exploded. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/341">TS</a>]

00:05:46   Months after their planet the first time from Katmandu to look where you start the trek to Everest that same plane a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/346">TS</a>]

00:05:55   while later crash on that same flight and killed everyone. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/355">TS</a>]

00:06:00   Well unfortunately like I was watching on the news and that they had footage of the wreckage it was so terrible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/360">TS</a>]

00:06:06   and the serial number on the plane and I was like hang on and I got out my whole life I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/366">TS</a>]

00:06:11   and there's me standing next to the same plane waving you know the bus can be funny. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/371">TS</a>]

00:06:18   Yes like a ringing endorsement for me to go to the one of that terrifying little plane to member you showed me the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/378">TS</a>]

00:06:26   question well you know you don't get you don't get to you don't get to say and do the cool things in life you know. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/386">TS</a>]

00:06:32   Yeah but I've I've read Into Thin Air. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/392">TS</a>]

00:06:35   But the listeners say Jon Krakauer book it is it's about an expedition to Mount Everest that went terribly terribly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/395">TS</a>]

00:06:44   wrong. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/404">TS</a>]

00:06:45   If they were like Everest I'm not I'm not saying we should go about Everest I'm just saying we'll go to base camp. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/405">TS</a>]

00:06:50   Yeah but you're just inches closer to danger in that kind of situation right. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/410">TS</a>]

00:06:57   Being at base camp you are already so far away from civilization. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/417">TS</a>]

00:07:02   It's just into thin air I thought was an interesting book partly because I think it's an interesting chronicle of how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/422">TS</a>]

00:07:09   things go wrong in that there are not necessarily any major things that need to happen before you have a real problem [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/429">TS</a>]

00:07:16   on your hands it's just the accumulation of a lot of little errors each of which on their own wouldn't necessarily be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/436">TS</a>]

00:07:22   devastating. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/442">TS</a>]

00:07:23   And so I feel like even being at a place like base camp is just the safety margin between you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/443">TS</a>]

00:07:32   and death who waits around every corner to catch you is just so much smaller than being in a more urban area perhaps [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/452">TS</a>]

00:07:42   with a well off on someone else to go. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/462">TS</a>]

00:07:50   I'm sure you will I'm sure there are many people who would love to go but that that is that is not me. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/470">TS</a>]

00:07:55   When I was on the follow up list what I saw in our. Or ever excellence. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/475">TS</a>]

00:08:01   Read a discussion thread somebody made a little info graphic which showed your productive output vs my productive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/481">TS</a>]

00:08:08   output [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/488">TS</a>]

00:08:09   and then it showed that since my previous video the video on jury nullification that since I had published that you had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/489">TS</a>]

00:08:16   published I believe three hundred forty seven videos and also started nine new channels. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/496">TS</a>]

00:08:23   You got that right from the info graphic I think is what you had done so you are quite a beast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/503">TS</a>]

00:08:28   when it comes to you to productivity. You do exaggerate as mock me as always and I am not by much though. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/508">TS</a>]

00:08:36   But I did notice that someone made that that little that little graphic with a little fun I was having a video I had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/516">TS</a>]

00:08:43   uploaded since your previous one and and obviously it was amusing to see so many videos [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/523">TS</a>]

00:08:50   but you know the worst thing was they left out a whole bunch. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/530">TS</a>]

00:08:53   I think I missed to how John there's a whole bunch of it is not on that list. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/533">TS</a>]

00:08:59   So do you know what the actual number was at the time was I wouldn't something maybe I don't I don't know what it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/539">TS</a>]

00:09:05   but whatever it was it has come to an end because Hallelujah. A new video. Yes yes very exciting. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/545">TS</a>]

00:09:16   That's what was on your site I have watched it and know exactly what it is of course. Yeah I put out the video. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/556">TS</a>]

00:09:26   It is our Hong Kong and Macao countries and I think at the time we're recording this on Sunday [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/566">TS</a>]

00:09:33   and I put it up on Wednesday I think. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/573">TS</a>]

00:09:37   But yes there were many funny comments left both on Reddit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/577">TS</a>]

00:09:41   and on You Tube which I did scan over four people remarking about how they look right there's a video [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/581">TS</a>]

00:09:48   and you know gather the children around it's a rare occurrence. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/588">TS</a>]

00:09:52   So people are very funny on the Internet I think there's a there's a great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/592">TS</a>]

00:09:56   but yes the the long the long time of the video is over much too much. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/596">TS</a>]

00:10:00   Great relief that had just been that had been too long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/600">TS</a>]

00:10:02   and I I was getting very anxious about it so I'm happy to have it done. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/602">TS</a>]

00:10:06   Do you want to stay with me here because I remember a few podcasts ago you told us about your whole procedure of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/606">TS</a>]

00:10:13   putting up a new video going after it so you have this kind of video game time. Yeah. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/613">TS</a>]

00:10:19   Computer sorry computer game whatever you whatever the young people call them they can do that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/619">TS</a>]

00:10:24   and for various reasons mostly my folks the recording of this podcast has been delayed a few times [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/624">TS</a>]

00:10:32   and I did have a window to record it in the evening after you put that video out and I messaged you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/632">TS</a>]

00:10:37   and said Do you want to do it Wednesday night or whatever it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/637">TS</a>]

00:10:41   and you were like I can't I have another commitment so I thought you must be going out to dinner or something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/641">TS</a>]

00:10:47   or have some business meeting and then I saw her on Twitter making some comments [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/647">TS</a>]

00:10:51   or showing some picture that you're basically playing your computer game. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/651">TS</a>]

00:10:55   So you're basically fobbed me off and didn't work or record the podcast so you could play computer games. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/655">TS</a>]

00:11:01   OK this is this is a problem following me on Twitter. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/661">TS</a>]

00:11:04   I did I did take my my traditional day off the day after to to basically mess around in open T.T.D. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/664">TS</a>]

00:11:14   For those who care about such things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/674">TS</a>]

00:11:16   but I did have an actual engagement in the evening so I spent most of the day blowing off all work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/676">TS</a>]

00:11:22   but I did not spend the evening just like I don't feel like recording this podcast I had other stuff to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/682">TS</a>]

00:11:28   and you were only available in the evening time so did not work out. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/688">TS</a>]

00:11:32   Sorry I don't I don't feel quite so spare and I thought I might try a bit of an experiment on this point cast. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/692">TS</a>]

00:11:39   Yeah obviously it's only life to you and I So will lose some of its impact. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/699">TS</a>]

00:11:44   I thought it might be a fun thing to do anyway so I might put my next video live right now. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/704">TS</a>]

00:11:50   Oh yeah we're recording this on a Sunday evening which we shot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/710">TS</a>]

00:11:54   and that's an optimal time to put my You Tube video live I would suspect not. I would suspect not as well. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/714">TS</a>]

00:12:00   But you're going to do it anyway but I'm going to do it anyway. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/720">TS</a>]

00:12:02   Part of that reason is I'm a bit worried about this video anyway so I don't mind if it gets kind of a bit lost in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/722">TS</a>]

00:12:08   noise. So because and I'm I'm prepared to be judged by you here because I and I've already been judged by others. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/728">TS</a>]

00:12:15   He mocked my occasional overly long videos like this one is twenty six and a half minutes long that is pretty long. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/735">TS</a>]

00:12:22   Which channel or it's a number five number five it's got it was it's got a bit of a story behind it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/742">TS</a>]

00:12:30   A guy the guy he came around to record it. Simon Pampena he's a mascot he's in a few of my videos. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/750">TS</a>]

00:12:36   Basically he said I've got this really cool idea I'm really excited about doing. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/756">TS</a>]

00:12:40   I actually want to do is I'll put it live and then I'll tell you the story because they go out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/760">TS</a>]

00:12:44   and put it out of shows up on a number file you know the package open now to write this just it was fast so I put it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/764">TS</a>]

00:12:53   live and I said basically he came ran epic circles. I see it. Oh my goodness. That quick that hit refresh. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/773">TS</a>]

00:13:01   It's up epic circles. That's amazing. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/781">TS</a>]

00:13:04   Yeah I have no idea why don't I immediately the thirty three views I wasn't even the first amazing. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/784">TS</a>]

00:13:12   So anyway he came around to come and he said I've got this really good idea and it's really involved [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/792">TS</a>]

00:13:18   and it took all day to film so falling off from holding the camera and I was like Is this going to end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/798">TS</a>]

00:13:26   and he was like Yeah you know it's it's OK trust me and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/806">TS</a>]

00:13:29   and then I was just realizing this film was just getting completely out of control. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/809">TS</a>]

00:13:33   So anyway I've ended up with this video that's truly epic and pensive called Epic circles but it is really interesting. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/813">TS</a>]

00:13:39   And he's kind of half way through to explain what he was doing he had to explain a whole new concept of a clean version [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/819">TS</a>]

00:13:45   and this became this huge mess. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/825">TS</a>]

00:13:47   But the one good thing about it was it did result in the most beautiful final product piece of paper that we've ever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/827">TS</a>]

00:13:55   had in number five. We always write on these scraps of paper and a piece of paper at the end of this. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/835">TS</a>]

00:14:00   There is a master pace because for this video to work he couldn't just explain the concepts he had to actually draw all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/840">TS</a>]

00:14:06   these diagrams in circles like perfectly accurately on the paper with the campuses and rulers and things. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/846">TS</a>]

00:14:13   It's a must to place a piece of paper that the video is a bit long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/853">TS</a>]

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00:27:24   this into a professional living. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1644">TS</a>]

00:27:27   But I always think more competition is better than less competition in all areas like this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1647">TS</a>]

00:27:32   and I think it's pretty fair to say that You Tube has just no comparable competition out there on the Internet there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1652">TS</a>]

00:27:40   been MIA But you know it's such a different creature it's not like it's not like You Tube at all you know just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1660">TS</a>]

00:27:47   different. Yeah it's complete it's completely different no advertising on Vimeo for once like this. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1667">TS</a>]

00:27:53   This whole business model of ours couldn't exist on them you know which makes it a very different kind of creature. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1673">TS</a>]

00:28:00   And in some ways better in some ways worse. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1680">TS</a>]

00:28:02   But yeah so I would I would welcome more competition in the Internet space though is better. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1682">TS</a>]

00:28:08   So I've had a few things going on. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1688">TS</a>]

00:28:10   Oh yeah I was I had a few sort of negative many things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1690">TS</a>]

00:28:14   and a few positive things because you know I'm always mindful of being too much of a staff [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1694">TS</a>]

00:28:18   but this is going to be like we discussed last time where there's going to be Brady's airplane crash corner [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1698">TS</a>]

00:28:24   and then a moaning section is Brady's Papercuts. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1704">TS</a>]

00:28:27   I think we've got it all in Crash going already have a half an hour on the Bradys Papercuts the part where you moan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1707">TS</a>]

00:28:34   about something small. This is because I know you're a fan of kind of Lord Of The Rings poverty type stuff. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1714">TS</a>]

00:28:40   I watched The Desolation of Smaug smell. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1720">TS</a>]

00:28:43   Have you sent your latest film last not because I was pretty unimpressed with the first Hobbit film that I had heard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1723">TS</a>]

00:28:51   this one was better and that was kind of you know pulling it from the fire a bit. I beg to differ. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1731">TS</a>]

00:28:58   Oh yeah I was pretty unimpressed by the film. I nearly turned off. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1738">TS</a>]

00:29:07   Was I just did I just catch at the wrong time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1747">TS</a>]

00:29:09   or is this one also dull as dishwater dishwater repetitive is something wrong with me. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1749">TS</a>]

00:29:16   Well good so I didn't see it and I was sure you would say that you love that stuff. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1756">TS</a>]

00:29:22   Well I was super into the original Lord Of The Rings movies coming out and I still really like those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1762">TS</a>]

00:29:29   but they were great I love them. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1769">TS</a>]

00:29:31   Although I even at the time I thought like me and they were just a couple years too early with the C.G.I. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1771">TS</a>]

00:29:37   Technology they made them when the C.G.I. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1777">TS</a>]

00:29:40   Was was totally passable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1780">TS</a>]

00:29:41   but I even remember thinking at the time like this is not going to look so great in ten years time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1781">TS</a>]

00:29:49   and I think the C.G.I. and These Hobbit films is with us. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1789">TS</a>]

00:29:52   That's impressive then I guess I haven't seen the Hobbit ones I just I feel like I had no interest as soon as I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1792">TS</a>]

00:29:58   discovered that it was I can't even. Two or three movies. Three. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1798">TS</a>]

00:30:03   Yeah I felt that that was the single piece of information that was that just ruled it out in my brain. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1803">TS</a>]

00:30:08   The hobbit could be a good two hour movie. It is not a trilogy. Yeah well I think maybe that is the problem. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1808">TS</a>]

00:30:17   Anyway I was going to have bit of a rant I was hoping that you'd say oh not so great and be really nerdy about Santa [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1817">TS</a>]

00:30:24   but there's nothing to be had there so basically that the sum total of my comment that is a sort of movie Last Not that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1824">TS</a>]

00:30:31   I didn't I tell you that my dream I had out of paper got corner so it was a very good down. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1831">TS</a>]

00:30:43   You've got you know you've got to thrive if you have these things out there in the hope that something catches. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1843">TS</a>]

00:30:49   Let me give you some Let me give you my happy color. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1849">TS</a>]

00:30:55   Today there was some excellent news for Liverpool my preferred football team defeated Manchester City. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1855">TS</a>]

00:31:03   Oh yeah three goes to church in a very important game. This was good good good. Anything you want to ask me about. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1863">TS</a>]

00:31:16   Well three to two. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1876">TS</a>]

00:31:19   I do know that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1879">TS</a>]

00:31:20   when I told you earlier also that I was watching football today you said all that's good did your team get the snitch. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1880">TS</a>]

00:31:26   Yeah this is like my field porn. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1886">TS</a>]

00:31:31   You know as I want to ask a question [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1891">TS</a>]

00:31:33   but I've already forgot Liverpool versus someone else so it slides out of my brain just only your little watch do you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1893">TS</a>]

00:31:39   ever watch a sport do you watch the Super Bowl. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1899">TS</a>]

00:31:42   Now I do not watch the snow melt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1902">TS</a>]

00:31:44   and he's forgetting something about American football American football I think has to be the most boring televised [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1904">TS</a>]

00:31:55   sport in existence. Have have you have you watched an American. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1915">TS</a>]

00:32:00   Yes I know as much to say that I don't usually watch other games [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1920">TS</a>]

00:32:04   but I occasionally Well most if I get I think a player I had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1924">TS</a>]

00:32:08   when I was a kid I had a childhood friend who watched football all the time and so we just sort of on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1928">TS</a>]

00:32:15   and I remember thinking they must spend eighty percent of their time just it seems to me standing around like people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1935">TS</a>]

00:32:24   think they're not doing anything. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1944">TS</a>]

00:32:27   The amount of time they spend actually running on the field seems implausibly short compared to how long it's on T.V. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1947">TS</a>]

00:32:37   and I know if I can if I can find it here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1957">TS</a>]

00:32:39   but a couple weeks ago I found some info graphic where someone actually broke down the amount of time that the Super [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1959">TS</a>]

00:32:45   Bowl takes including advertising and the pauses and whatever was I think something like. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1965">TS</a>]

00:32:53   Correct me if I'm wrong [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1973">TS</a>]

00:32:54   but I think the Super Bowl is broadcast for seven hours in that amount of time there's three minutes of running on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1974">TS</a>]

00:33:01   field and smashing into each other. It's just unbelievable that anyone can sit through can sit through that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1981">TS</a>]

00:33:08   I don't I don't understand this. So I do not watch the Super Bowl and they're right. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1988">TS</a>]

00:33:17   I don't I just don't watch sports I mean I know I sort of tease you about. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/1997">TS</a>]

00:33:21   I don't mean to bemoan people who follow sports like everybody's into their own thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2001">TS</a>]

00:33:25   and I'm into stuff that is just would be shockingly boring for other people. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2005">TS</a>]

00:33:30   Like this is what makes the world interesting places. Different people have different interests. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2010">TS</a>]

00:33:34   But I just I can't say I have a lot of interest in any sports I'm trying to think when I know it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2014">TS</a>]

00:33:44   when I was a very little kid my father is not also a into sports kind of guy but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2024">TS</a>]

00:33:50   when I was a little kid my father took me to Yankee Stadium in New York and we had we go watch a baseball game. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2030">TS</a>]

00:33:58   I'm a big Yankees fan. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2038">TS</a>]

00:34:00   Starting all the time and so so we went and we did the thing you go you get like hotdogging sit in the stadium [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2040">TS</a>]

00:34:07   and you watch it and we left after a couple of innings because we were both just very bored. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2047">TS</a>]

00:34:13   But my father felt that it was his responsibility as a dad in New York to take me to at least one baseball game. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2053">TS</a>]

00:34:20   But we both were just bored to death. So why are we even friends Greg. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2060">TS</a>]

00:34:30   Well that's I think partly I feel like we're friends [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2070">TS</a>]

00:34:36   and OK to have very different friends because you don't you don't want me to watch sports with you I think that would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2076">TS</a>]

00:34:43   be a problem if it sounds like that was huge for anyone to Mount Everest with now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2083">TS</a>]

00:34:49   but you know I'm always happy to talk to you. We're also that we're also work colleagues. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2089">TS</a>]

00:34:53   That's the thing this is like is like Internet water cooler. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2093">TS</a>]

00:34:56   We were doing with the podcast talking about business but I had one other great triumph today. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2096">TS</a>]

00:35:04   I mirror on the wall the great big heavy mirror I am unspeakably that a D.I.Y. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2104">TS</a>]

00:35:13   Around the house and this was the third big mirror that I had to hang [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2113">TS</a>]

00:35:18   and the first I had ended up not straight with him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2118">TS</a>]

00:35:23   and these were light days with high stakes mirrors where like you have to put the screw holes into walls before you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2123">TS</a>]

00:35:29   hang the mirror so there's no like fine tuning afterwards you know leaning side by as on the wire this was like you get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2129">TS</a>]

00:35:36   it wrong or you die and I died twice. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2136">TS</a>]

00:35:41   But today this was this I was at the end of my tether and I was like OK I'll try one more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2141">TS</a>]

00:35:46   and then if it doesn't work I'm never doing it again and I hung up and it's straight and it's a thing of beauty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2146">TS</a>]

00:35:55   and dismay and good luck I hope in the mirror. Just look today. Triumphantly and then sat down to watch the football. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2155">TS</a>]

00:36:05   Watch my tame wind it was a real I had a moment to moment and then I sent you the picture of like the mirror [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2165">TS</a>]

00:36:12   and the T.V. In the same shop to look at my life is and you say that all went after this value. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2172">TS</a>]

00:36:21   No that is not at all what happened that's what happened. I'm going to pull this up here. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2181">TS</a>]

00:36:25   What actually happened here how I actually did sort of said I think I'm just so distracted by the picture. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2185">TS</a>]

00:36:35   You did say watching sport in a house containing objects. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2195">TS</a>]

00:36:38   Bliss smiley face then and then here is a picture that is a very big mirror that you had to hang up. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2198">TS</a>]

00:36:45   But there are there are a lot of things in this picture one of which I have to ask this is a picture of Brady's house [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2205">TS</a>]

00:36:51   by the way next to the T.V. That has the sports game on it you have a phone that is an old style rotary phone. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2211">TS</a>]

00:37:01   Yeah and I am I am suspicious as to whether [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2221">TS</a>]

00:37:04   or not this is a functioning phone because it's an odd place in the house to have a phone. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2224">TS</a>]

00:37:08   Well let me let me put your mind a it is a functioning phone. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2228">TS</a>]

00:37:14   Unfortunately because we don't use a landline and we generally want to land on in the house [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2234">TS</a>]

00:37:19   but just occasionally you need to let people require them back like we were able to get a mortgage without having a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2239">TS</a>]

00:37:26   land ought to have limits. If I complain about this for a minute. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2246">TS</a>]

00:37:32   Yeah yeah I know that I know this exact thing is because we have just moved in and out and I run into the same thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2252">TS</a>]

00:37:38   and I got I get into an argument with BT British Telecom because I was I was trying to get something sorted out with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2258">TS</a>]

00:37:45   our with our Internet connection and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2265">TS</a>]

00:37:48   and they were like oh well we're going to we're going to call you on on your landline phone to continue this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2268">TS</a>]

00:37:54   conversation. So I don't have a landline phone I don't have a phone. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2274">TS</a>]

00:38:00   Only in my house and things that are you know with the BT purse [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2280">TS</a>]

00:38:03   and I felt like what is this one nine hundred fifty that you have my cell phone number in. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2283">TS</a>]

00:38:08   Like that's why your cult like you accepted this phone call you know it's me. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2288">TS</a>]

00:38:12   It just infuriating that that we have to talk on the phone. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2292">TS</a>]

00:38:15   I don't have a landline phone I don't want to land line phone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2295">TS</a>]

00:38:18   and I don't want to machine in my house that just randomly rings that was that was supposed to be a positive corner [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2298">TS</a>]

00:38:27   they were denied you know tended to like another man moan about the companies that exist. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2307">TS</a>]

00:38:34   Oh yeah yeah that's just that just your fundamental personality Bradys are just a winder why I think you like living on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2314">TS</a>]

00:38:40   something you kind of drag that one down the winching on August I just wanted you to say good stuff on the mirror [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2320">TS</a>]

00:38:46   or you could say what I want to ask you you good handy man around the house testimony I have I have just moved house. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2326">TS</a>]

00:38:52   I'm sorry that I did not compliment you on your marriage it's very well hung your mirror so you happy now. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2332">TS</a>]

00:39:00   Yes I don't often find the occasion for D.I.Y. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2340">TS</a>]

00:39:04   Stuff so because I guess you don't hang pictures and things do you just have this on the stack what walls [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2344">TS</a>]

00:39:10   and you had some pictures in our in our old place and there's a couple that come up now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2350">TS</a>]

00:39:14   but I mean I can I can put a tiny nail in the wall. You do pixel know your house. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2354">TS</a>]

00:39:19   We had if we had a few pictures on the wall. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2359">TS</a>]

00:39:22   Printed on photographic paper like yeah yeah there are a couple pictures that we have we got. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2362">TS</a>]

00:39:28   Like Richard my wife took and we printed out and put it on the walls. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2368">TS</a>]

00:39:31   Not not a whole lot but just just some you know I don't I don't require walls to be totally barren. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2371">TS</a>]

00:39:39   I think pics pictures are fine but because I'm renting most of the D.I.Y. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2379">TS</a>]

00:39:44   Stuff the landlord wouldn't even want you to do it on your own. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2384">TS</a>]

00:39:47   Even back at the jail and really make a mess of things like I don't. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2387">TS</a>]

00:39:50   Yeah so so I would say that in my adult life I have not had a great deal of experience in being able to flex my D.I.Y. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2390">TS</a>]

00:39:57   Muscles because I live in places. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2397">TS</a>]

00:40:00   I do not own someone else owns them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2400">TS</a>]

00:40:02   and they want you to call if there's something that needs fixing because the last thing they want is a tenant who has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2402">TS</a>]

00:40:08   to get electrocuted himself to death in their apartment because he was trying to fix something with the wiring [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2408">TS</a>]

00:40:14   or install a new light bulb [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2414">TS</a>]

00:40:15   or something else so yeah I think I think that I feel like you seem to see every activity that you can perform [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2415">TS</a>]

00:40:22   physically as like you just attach a death risk to it like like we come to my Everest. No I could die. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2422">TS</a>]

00:40:29   Well you drill a hole in the wall. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2429">TS</a>]

00:40:31   I know I could die if I also thought maybe I was the morbid one here but I think I'm not so sure. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2431">TS</a>]

00:40:38   Well first of all I would not say that I could die. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2438">TS</a>]

00:40:42   If you listen to your previous discussion I talk about the increasing probability of death [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2442">TS</a>]

00:40:47   and I would help her to keep that small even in activity like sitting in a chair all day [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2447">TS</a>]

00:40:54   and never exercising that increases probability of of death in an insidious non visible way. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2454">TS</a>]

00:41:01   So you counter that by exercise or by walking around so it is not that I think of all physical activities as as. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2461">TS</a>]

00:41:11   Death inducing. No no they think of non-physical activities. Jeff That's right. I think everything is different. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2471">TS</a>]

00:41:17   Well everything comes with some probability of death increase or death decrease [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2477">TS</a>]

00:41:24   and you have to you have to weigh those concerns you know going to the gym. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2484">TS</a>]

00:41:27   You can die of a heart attack on the treadmill [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2487">TS</a>]

00:41:29   but part of it is likely speaking if you're on the if you're in the gym you're exercising that is you're moving death [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2489">TS</a>]

00:41:36   further away than you are bringing him closer if you are in the gym even though you can be the unlucky heart attack [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2496">TS</a>]

00:41:43   lottery winner on the treadmill at the gym. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2503">TS</a>]

00:41:45   So ironic that you chose the treadmill as the for the analogy of making it appear that way. Yes that's a good point. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2505">TS</a>]

00:41:54   So yeah that's changing. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2514">TS</a>]

00:42:00   It's change the topic to the topic of the day we're going to have on a sound effect here or do we just do it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2520">TS</a>]

00:42:07   I guess we can we can just do it I'm still not sure about these topics and running I think you said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2527">TS</a>]

00:42:13   but I guess because we don't really have a topic we just have a topic that if we ran out of stuff to say talk about. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2533">TS</a>]

00:42:18   And last time we'd never even did the topic. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2538">TS</a>]

00:42:21   Yeah that's true but I think this time we need to like you know we need we need we need to move on from our lives [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2541">TS</a>]

00:42:29   and when something on a grander scale. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2549">TS</a>]

00:42:31   So yes I guess you're right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2551">TS</a>]

00:42:33   and so I there was there was something that I did sort of want to talk about which which I guess could be the topic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2553">TS</a>]

00:42:42   and I have some notes here it might be a little a little scatterbrained. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2562">TS</a>]

00:42:45   So as always I will I will rely on you to ask some questions to help you through this but. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2565">TS</a>]

00:42:51   Because in our previous podcasts we kind of touched on the the world of education [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2571">TS</a>]

00:43:00   and listeners will know that I was a teacher [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2580">TS</a>]

00:43:03   and I thought I kept putting off some thoughts about education for for a future episode [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2583">TS</a>]

00:43:09   and so I think this is this is maybe the time to talk about it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2589">TS</a>]

00:43:13   and I want to phrase this this topic as what does schools really do or you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2593">TS</a>]

00:43:24   or what is the purpose that schools serve in society [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2604">TS</a>]

00:43:32   and that that is very distinct from the question of what do we want schools to do you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2612">TS</a>]

00:43:39   or what schools should do so that I feel like I don't want to talk about ideal schools I want to just I want to bring [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2619">TS</a>]

00:43:50   up what I think is perhaps a very grim view of what schools actually do in society. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2630">TS</a>]

00:43:57   So so rather not what are schools for it to be. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2637">TS</a>]

00:44:00   More like what are schools achieving or what are they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2640">TS</a>]

00:44:03   or not achieving achieving that might be an interesting interesting way to put just those contribute to contribute is. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2643">TS</a>]

00:44:10   an overly optimistic word I.K. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2650">TS</a>]

00:44:16   OK so I already have to turn here that this this is going to be something along the lines of you thinking that schools [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2656">TS</a>]

00:44:24   are not doing a brilliant thing for society. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2664">TS</a>]

00:44:30   Well I what I would say is that I think that that schools are not necessarily doing what people say they do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2670">TS</a>]

00:44:40   Where when you have a conversation about schools or people talk about education [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2680">TS</a>]

00:44:44   and education is is one of these topics that I think is it's. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2684">TS</a>]

00:44:49   It's interesting because everybody kind of has this experience right you are a kid and you grew up and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2689">TS</a>]

00:44:55   and you go to school and everybody's experience this sort of in the Western world that school is a huge part of life [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2695">TS</a>]

00:45:04   and and so everyone kind of has a vested interest in this game right you're a parent and you send your kid to school [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2704">TS</a>]

00:45:12   and then you have memories of what it was like when you were at school and I think this is also why education [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2712">TS</a>]

00:45:18   and funding education and teachers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2718">TS</a>]

00:45:22   and teachers unions like there are always very hot political topics because it's the kind of thing that everybody can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2722">TS</a>]

00:45:28   get involved in because everybody has an experience of having gone to school and what what they thought about it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2728">TS</a>]

00:45:35   and they also seem to me like people who are going to schools in the education system etc And that political kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2735">TS</a>]

00:45:42   way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2742">TS</a>]

00:45:43   but they're also a bit of a sacred cow skulls on their life like there's uniform agreement that schools are a good thing. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2743">TS</a>]

00:45:51   Yes yes that's what I mean it's a hot topic because it can be argued about from from both sides. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2751">TS</a>]

00:45:58   Schools can be revered. People can can hate their local school system or whatever it is but it's OK. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2758">TS</a>]

00:46:04   It's impossible I think to to not have contention over schools because everybody experiences it in a very direct way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2764">TS</a>]

00:46:13   where there are tons of topics in politics that people just have no interest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2773">TS</a>]

00:46:17   or caring because they didn't spend you know twelve years of their life involved in this thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2777">TS</a>]

00:46:24   and I know this isn't we're talking about it just reminds me can go line is down to you like for example I don't have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2784">TS</a>]

00:46:31   children but I have a tremendous interest in schools in my area because of how it affects the price of my house. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2791">TS</a>]

00:46:38   Right right. Yeah yeah. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2798">TS</a>]

00:46:40   The ever popular getting into a good school district method of human relocation after child child time yeah it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2800">TS</a>]

00:46:50   that that has huge knock on effect for property market. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2810">TS</a>]

00:46:53   If my local school suddenly takes a dive so does my house prices [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2813">TS</a>]

00:46:57   and then suddenly I care tremendously about what's going on at my local school. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2817">TS</a>]

00:47:01   Right right that you're not even you don't even have a kid in that school but it's not as effective. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2821">TS</a>]

00:47:05   Yeah that's why every everybody gets kind of tangled up tangled up in this in this system. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2825">TS</a>]

00:47:12   So tell me what you're thinking. Yes So here's here's the starting point from that is. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2832">TS</a>]

00:47:20   Schools are a stance of glee about learning I mean I don't know a more fundamental statement than that to say that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2840">TS</a>]

00:47:28   schools are what we think of as where people go to learn. Yeah right. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2848">TS</a>]

00:47:35   It couldn't be couldn't be more basic than that and the rest learn on that kind of academic level [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2855">TS</a>]

00:47:40   or just sort of a socialization type level. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2860">TS</a>]

00:47:43   Yeah learn in the in the broadest sense of the word yet right that's a school where people could learn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2863">TS</a>]

00:47:49   and this is I sort of alluded to it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2869">TS</a>]

00:47:52   I sort of alluded to this in the previous podcast from my own time as a teacher but. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2872">TS</a>]

00:48:00   Something that if you are paying attention if you're sort of deluding yourself as a teacher you can very quickly pick [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2880">TS</a>]

00:48:08   up on the fact that at least from the academic side students are not learning a whole lot in school in terms of actual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2888">TS</a>]

00:48:21   material that you are theoretically teaching so I would do say a year of physics [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2901">TS</a>]

00:48:30   and then I would say even after a single summer vacation if kids come back in the next year [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2910">TS</a>]

00:48:36   and you start asking them a bunch of physics questions almost all of that information is just completely gone. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2916">TS</a>]

00:48:43   I think of summers as almost a time is like children are able to just shake their brain free of all of the things that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2923">TS</a>]

00:48:49   have been trying to stuffed in them over over the course of an academic year [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2929">TS</a>]

00:48:52   and they come back to school right all fresh an empty right you know sometimes the way can kind of feel it as a teacher [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2932">TS</a>]

00:48:59   and we do all of this before. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2939">TS</a>]

00:49:01   Shouldn't you have learned and again I have this is for for all subjects [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2941">TS</a>]

00:49:07   and I don't say it's not because it sounds a bit familiar to your language bashing from a couple of months ago that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2947">TS</a>]

00:49:13   looks like the same thing about all subjects now. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2953">TS</a>]

00:49:16   Yeah I am putting I'm putting this is not language in particular employment for all subjects [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2956">TS</a>]

00:49:22   and I mean I've even seen some some interesting kind like follow up studies. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2962">TS</a>]

00:49:26   Asking post high school graduates a year later in the most basic questions from some of the subjects that they took [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2966">TS</a>]

00:49:32   and you know the answers are just dismal. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2972">TS</a>]

00:49:35   You know it's just no better than than a random member of the population know how how much they actually remember from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2975">TS</a>]

00:49:40   a course that they've been through. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2980">TS</a>]

00:49:42   So I think that's that's kind of an interesting thing to note right that schools are supposedly teaching kids all day [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2982">TS</a>]

00:49:51   long all kinds of stuff about the world and about literature and about art and about science but they do this in. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/2991">TS</a>]

00:50:00   From a Sheehan is just so rapidly lost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3000">TS</a>]

00:50:04   or there's even a question about how much of it did kids ever learn in the first place which again if you are if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3004">TS</a>]

00:50:10   are a teacher you can definitely see that first hand that it might even be optimistic to talk about this knowledge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3010">TS</a>]

00:50:17   having been lost from some students because there's a presumption that it was ever there in the first place so I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3017">TS</a>]

00:50:25   that that's that's a this is kind of like a starting point is there is less learning than I think people kind of talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3025">TS</a>]

00:50:31   about when they talk about schools. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3031">TS</a>]

00:50:34   Yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3034">TS</a>]

00:50:34   but a blind man talk if I if I I don't remember I can't remember if you asked me to tell you I learned SCO I can't remember [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3034">TS</a>]

00:50:45   all these equations I learnt mathematics and I can't remember these language things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3045">TS</a>]

00:50:48   and I can't remember things about Shakespeare. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3048">TS</a>]

00:50:51   But if I didn't go disco for all that time I don't think I'd be the same guy talking to you than I am now I think I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3051">TS</a>]

00:50:59   think you are throwing away a lot of intangible stuff I think you're throwing away a bit is the kind of missed in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3059">TS</a>]

00:51:06   component of SCO where the actual just the process of learning is teaches you a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3066">TS</a>]

00:51:14   and makes you the person you become. So even though I can't remember exactly. I especially I'm still like. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3074">TS</a>]

00:51:25   I still learned how to learn and I learned how to how to become a fully functioning human [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3085">TS</a>]

00:51:33   and I think just applying the simple test of do you remember Newton's equations that I that you were taught last year [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3093">TS</a>]

00:51:40   is I think that's just over simplifying learning in education. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3100">TS</a>]

00:51:47   Right now I will grant that there are there are other things that are going on in school [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3107">TS</a>]

00:51:53   and I would actually do there are things that kids genuinely learn but I think a statement like. Had I not gone. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3113">TS</a>]

00:52:00   Through school I would be a different person. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3120">TS</a>]

00:52:02   Is is a truism but had you spent twelve years of your life doing anything else that statement would also be true. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3122">TS</a>]

00:52:10   Why do you do I get such a big chunk of time. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3130">TS</a>]

00:52:13   I wouldn't write if impression of an inferior I think I would be not as high functioning. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3133">TS</a>]

00:52:18   OK Yes I think that that's a that's a better statement to say again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3138">TS</a>]

00:52:21   and I think I think that there is there is something to that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3141">TS</a>]

00:52:27   But so the question about learning I think kind of leans in to what I wanted to bring up about this which is if we if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3147">TS</a>]

00:52:38   we start from the position that schools maybe can't be about learning objective facts right which is something that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3158">TS</a>]

00:52:45   would agree to it was well it can't be about teaching a whole bunch of kids specific facts that they remember later [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3165">TS</a>]

00:52:51   because they because they don't remember it later it's something else something else is kind of going on here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3171">TS</a>]

00:52:59   and this is this would come up in my own classes I think I mentioned this before but kids would ask me you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3179">TS</a>]

00:53:05   when are we ever going to use this you know we're teaching them physics [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3185">TS</a>]

00:53:09   and I would just I would straight up say you're never going to you're never going to use it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3189">TS</a>]

00:53:14   There is never a butler in Karate Kid. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3194">TS</a>]

00:53:17   DANIEL The very sight it was like when I'm either going to paint the fence [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3197">TS</a>]

00:53:21   and Mr Miyagi was like Don't worry this will come in handy you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3201">TS</a>]

00:53:25   and then it did he had these things ingrained into him that made him like autumn in the final karate tournament skill [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3205">TS</a>]

00:53:31   level. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3211">TS</a>]

00:53:32   It's like what am I going to use Newton's equations we might not use use equations [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3212">TS</a>]

00:53:35   but trust me this this will help you win the big fight at the end of everything. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3215">TS</a>]

00:53:42   What is the big fight in the end of this analogy. I'm not quite sure are a lot of what you got is a Karate Kid. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3222">TS</a>]

00:53:48   Yeah I could see better now. But let me let me follow through on this right here. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3228">TS</a>]

00:53:56   So this it always lead to a little a little bit. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3236">TS</a>]

00:54:00   Discussion sometimes in classes which is kind of happy to have you never get a lesson so they go Well you know well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3240">TS</a>]

00:54:07   what are we doing here. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3247">TS</a>]

00:54:07   Right here are the teachers tell us stories about how we're going to need this in the future [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3247">TS</a>]

00:54:13   or how it's going to help us win the big fight. You know it's eventually going to be useful. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3253">TS</a>]

00:54:17   You know maybe not today but you and I would I would not take that position yet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3257">TS</a>]

00:54:22   and my position is that look the reason the reason you are here you know you're taking this class [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3262">TS</a>]

00:54:29   and your goal is to get good grades because those grades are signaling qualities about you to the outside world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3269">TS</a>]

00:54:46   and that is the core of what schools do from a societal perspective they receive. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3286">TS</a>]

00:54:55   That's exactly it they're they're a kind of sieve [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3295">TS</a>]

00:54:58   and I think this is this is it's like an unhappy way to look at schools [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3298">TS</a>]

00:55:05   but I do think that it is a relatively accurate way to look at schools. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3305">TS</a>]

00:55:12   But but even more so that the simple fact is is very interesting so in. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3312">TS</a>]

00:55:20   If this is comes up in economics sometimes and I want to look at his name. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3320">TS</a>]

00:55:24   I just want to I just want to get it right some of the stuff is based on the some as a mere talk about today is from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3324">TS</a>]

00:55:31   the work of an economist in particular called Bryan Caplan who is talking about what happens to kids in various stages [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3331">TS</a>]

00:55:44   of education. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3344">TS</a>]

00:55:45   And so the the key points here that are interesting is OK so you look at this for America if you look at the earnings [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3345">TS</a>]

00:55:55   for example you know earnings are not everything but we're trying to get some kind of measure how much too high. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3355">TS</a>]

00:56:00   School graduates earn vs non high school graduates [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3360">TS</a>]

00:56:05   and turns out the high school graduates earn about fifty percent more each year than not high school graduates. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3365">TS</a>]

00:56:10   Yeah there's no surprise there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3370">TS</a>]

00:56:12   but it's not like a shocking piece of information I don't think that if you go to high school you can get a better job. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3372">TS</a>]

00:56:19   But the really interesting thing in those statistics is that basically going to a little bit of high school [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3379">TS</a>]

00:56:29   or even going to most of high school is just totally worthless in terms of earnings right so if you go to high school [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3389">TS</a>]

00:56:39   for three and a half years. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3399">TS</a>]

00:56:42   But you know you miss out on some class in the final year you might as well have not gone to high school at all. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3402">TS</a>]

00:56:47   If you don't get that piece of paper if you don't get that degree [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3407">TS</a>]

00:56:51   and Thomason matter that you have done ninety nine percent of the work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3411">TS</a>]

00:56:58   and the interesting thing about that is this is something called you know is called signaling in economics which means [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3418">TS</a>]

00:57:04   that that piece of paper is acting as a stamp that says something about you as a person you you made it through all of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3424">TS</a>]

00:57:14   all of this. This this series of hoops that we have put up for you. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3434">TS</a>]

00:57:20   And that piece of paper is is the thing that lets employers for example know that you have made it through all of these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3440">TS</a>]

00:57:26   these hoops but you would expect that if school was preparing you for the real world [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3446">TS</a>]

00:57:33   and this is again in the broadest possible way social skills interacting with people just learning how to be a good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3453">TS</a>]

00:57:40   person all of which you know also matters for people's lives and their working experiences. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3460">TS</a>]

00:57:46   You would expect to see more of an effect as people go through high school that three years in that should if school is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3466">TS</a>]

00:57:56   teaching you something anything about you. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3476">TS</a>]

00:58:00   Assistance in the real world three years of high school should be much better than one year of high school so the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3480">TS</a>]

00:58:08   stagnant earnings figures would change that I would be to step jump it would they. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3488">TS</a>]

00:58:12   Yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3492">TS</a>]

00:58:12   and so from from the the numbers that I saw blog I think it was something like year one of high school increases your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3492">TS</a>]

00:58:22   earnings ten percent year two is like five percent. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3502">TS</a>]

00:58:25   Year three does nothing and then the remaining chunk of it that gets you up to fifty happens only when you graduate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3505">TS</a>]

00:58:33   and you think there should be more of a linear progression with that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3513">TS</a>]

00:58:36   and it's the same thing for colleges that the earnings difference for going to college was eighty percent versus not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3516">TS</a>]

00:58:46   going to college or people who go to college earn eighty percent or more. And I know I agree with you here. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3526">TS</a>]

00:58:52   I agree that schools have this have the SIV effect in society and that but I do think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3532">TS</a>]

00:58:59   and you acknowledge this yourself. We're talking about money here. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3539">TS</a>]

00:59:03   And when it comes to money and things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3543">TS</a>]

00:59:04   and career opportunities education does have this this role this selective role [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3544">TS</a>]

00:59:11   and I know it gets really political After that we talk about money and exclusive schools [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3551">TS</a>]

00:59:15   and there's a lot there's a lot that we could talk about and that's not what we are talking about. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3555">TS</a>]

00:59:19   But [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3559">TS</a>]

00:59:20   when it comes to some of the other things that can be measured like your ability to make a phone call to the bank to hang [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3560">TS</a>]

00:59:29   a mirror to get along in society to raise children to do a lot of the other things that don't involve putting money in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3569">TS</a>]

00:59:36   your pocket. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3576">TS</a>]

00:59:37   I think they're probably there would be a correlation between how much education you had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3577">TS</a>]

00:59:42   and how well you do those things so I think saying that education is not contributing to people unless they you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3582">TS</a>]

00:59:52   make the next step or get through that next finishing type is unfair and I do think that education in riches people. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3592">TS</a>]

01:00:00   In other ways not just about money and career achievements. Now there is an interesting question in here. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3600">TS</a>]

01:00:10   But let's pick a pick the worst example probably from the bunch that that you just that raising children you know go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3610">TS</a>]

01:00:15   going to college makes you a better parent. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3615">TS</a>]

01:00:19   Neither of which you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3619">TS</a>]

01:00:20   and you're not done we should acknowledge that we're going to I do not have children you do not have children. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3620">TS</a>]

01:00:26   So let's let's talk about children job correctly and that list done to protect some of the parents out there. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3626">TS</a>]

01:00:31   Well yeah I've been to college so I'm going to be a better parent. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3631">TS</a>]

01:00:34   But first let's take that that that statement that question [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3634">TS</a>]

01:00:37   or yeah yeah right that that going to college makes you a better parent. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3637">TS</a>]

01:00:42   I don't think going to college make sure that a parent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3642">TS</a>]

01:00:44   or don't you have more years educated well what you're saying is that school is the thing that makes you educated so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3644">TS</a>]

01:00:51   it's the schooling that makes you a better parent. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3651">TS</a>]

01:00:54   That's that's sort of the position that saying they're OK well let's era is what they call it you go with it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3654">TS</a>]

01:01:00   and I think there are other things that can also contribute to have a parent you probably will behave like like your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3660">TS</a>]

01:01:07   parents or other things that happen in your life but there are many things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3667">TS</a>]

01:01:10   but do you think that more years of schooling would make you a better parent. Oh oh. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3670">TS</a>]

01:01:20   Things all other things being all other things being equal. Yeah I think probably you learn. Yeah OK I was OK with yes. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3680">TS</a>]

01:01:28   OK so so that the very interesting thing there is is your comment about all other things being equal. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3688">TS</a>]

01:01:35   Yeah I guess I'm not. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3695">TS</a>]

01:01:37   Neither of us are saying that that this this effect is true [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3697">TS</a>]

01:01:40   but we're just using this discussion point the question is do you people who go to college have a better chance of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3700">TS</a>]

01:01:52   being better parents. Or is it the college that makes them in this example better parents. Can I just be clear. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3712">TS</a>]

01:02:00   College means I'm sorry I'm being you know I just wrote in here just after high school like university level. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3720">TS</a>]

01:02:07   OK Well I think I'm not really thinking about say I only went to college for one year myself so then I got a job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3727">TS</a>]

01:02:15   and left. But so you mean like sixth form college. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3735">TS</a>]

01:02:21   None and I started doing a degree and then I got offered a job at a newspaper [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3741">TS</a>]

01:02:24   and I said we don't want you to have a degree I would rather train yourselves. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3744">TS</a>]

01:02:27   So there are a lot of save me a few years. Oh I said I'd go back and do a part time job. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3747">TS</a>]

01:02:38   OK OK Well I think why why why would you ever go back. Because I don't need a piece of paper right. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3758">TS</a>]

01:02:47   See this is exactly right that is the only reason you won't go back because there's nothing in your life right now with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3767">TS</a>]

01:02:53   the kind of career that you have that that piece of paper speaks to right that that piece of paper improves you don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3773">TS</a>]

01:03:01   need that signal to any employer you know or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3781">TS</a>]

01:03:06   or any any person in that kind of position to prove that you're a certain kind of yelps courtesy because I've done the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3786">TS</a>]

01:03:13   jobs and I now can you leave a lot of things and I'm not disagreeing that. There is this exclusive A T C of function. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3793">TS</a>]

01:03:21   This is an elective ity function to education but to take it to the other extreme. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3801">TS</a>]

01:03:26   If [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3806">TS</a>]

01:03:26   when I was five years old my parents said we're not going to send you to school Grady we're just going to let you play [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3806">TS</a>]

01:03:31   cricket in the backyard and swim in the pool. I definitely would not have got that job at the newspaper. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3811">TS</a>]

01:03:36   So my education is is what gave me that luxury of towards the end they have to decide whether [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3816">TS</a>]

01:03:45   or not to finish my degree because I was already you know a person of you know I had abilities and I had knowledge [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3825">TS</a>]

01:03:53   and you know I had social skills that I had developed through my time at school and art. Some other. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3833">TS</a>]

01:04:02   If you think Major sping sitting around at home [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3842">TS</a>]

01:04:04   and not being schooled author of a school homeschooled would have made no difference. I probably would take issue with. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3844">TS</a>]

01:04:14   Well this is alt and also just totally anecdotally but I I know people who are homeschooled [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3854">TS</a>]

01:04:21   and basically left to their own devices who basically became educated people on their own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3861">TS</a>]

01:04:28   and that's of course a non-standard anecdotes of anecdotes not a not a good argument [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3868">TS</a>]

01:04:33   but I think there's a there's a question of like what kind of person are you certain kinds of people are inclined [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3873">TS</a>]

01:04:37   towards educating themselves so it's not entirely impossible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3877">TS</a>]

01:04:41   but to go back to what you're saying I would say that my view of what you learn in school. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3881">TS</a>]

01:04:48   The earlier school starts the more important it is. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3888">TS</a>]

01:04:53   So I can see kids in primary school [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3893">TS</a>]

01:04:55   and I think maybe per hour those are some of the best times people ever spend in schools. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3895">TS</a>]

01:05:00   Yeah because first of all you're learning how to tie your shoes right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3900">TS</a>]

01:05:05   when it is genuinely like I use that every day I don't know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3905">TS</a>]

01:05:08   and yeah I don't know what teacher taught me to tie my shoes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3908">TS</a>]

01:05:11   but that's been great yes the reading one I think is the best bang for the buck ever. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3911">TS</a>]

01:05:16   Humans don't want to learn to read that's not a very natural thing you have to put them especially tiny humans in it in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3916">TS</a>]

01:05:21   a constrained environment where you're just going to learn this is not going to like it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3921">TS</a>]

01:05:26   but we know we know we know better for you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3926">TS</a>]

01:05:28   and also I think in primary school I think it is very obvious if you are hanging out with primary school kids they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3928">TS</a>]

01:05:35   learning how to not be animals. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3935">TS</a>]

01:05:41   They're learning you can't bite someone when you're angry you know they're they're learning. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3941">TS</a>]

01:05:46   You can't just pee on the floor you know or like if you're going to throw up you have to go to the bathroom. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3946">TS</a>]

01:05:52   They're learning just not to be tiny tiny animals. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3952">TS</a>]

01:05:55   I'm just thank you for nothing and one time and you can watch where everyone has a. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3955">TS</a>]

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01:06:07   Yes but that's I think that that is what primary school is doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3967">TS</a>]

01:06:11   and it's you know we're putting these little kids under all these constraints where their brains have to learn like you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3971">TS</a>]

01:06:17   I mean so unnatural for a little kid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3977">TS</a>]

01:06:19   but well you know welcome to the world you're going to have to sit indoors in a room for long periods of time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3979">TS</a>]

01:06:25   and you're not going to want to do it but we're going to get this started right away [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3985">TS</a>]

01:06:28   and that's that's kind of what primary school is and by the time you get to say a secondary school [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3988">TS</a>]

01:06:35   or high school kids have gotten used to that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3995">TS</a>]

01:06:37   They're there they're familiar with this and they're kind of like the statements of the kind of changes. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/3997">TS</a>]

01:06:45   Yeah but you still looting other things you're learning how to. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4005">TS</a>]

01:06:50   Talk to Girls [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4010">TS</a>]

01:06:51   or you're learning how to interact with adults because at that point you start having a different dynamic with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4011">TS</a>]

01:06:56   teachers and you know you start learning more subtle things about human interaction that's a bit less biased [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4016">TS</a>]

01:07:04   and don't bite people. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4024">TS</a>]

01:07:05   Yeah don't pee on the floor but I think through school that stuff's always going on that socialization [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4025">TS</a>]

01:07:11   but I'll bet also probably at the education level that things starts happening you learn how to rather than learning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4031">TS</a>]

01:07:17   how to read and write. You learn how to persuade or to make an argument. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4037">TS</a>]

01:07:22   So even though you don't remember the argument you made about Hamlet you were learning how to make an argument in that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4042">TS</a>]

01:07:28   essay that you were writing for your teacher that's what I mean about learning to learn and learning to do things. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4048">TS</a>]

01:07:34   So even though you don't remember facts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4054">TS</a>]

01:07:35   and figures that those things that you picked up at that time I think stick with you make you what you are later on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4055">TS</a>]

01:07:43   whether or not there's an alternative to school. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4063">TS</a>]

01:07:45   Well you go ahead and put one to me but I think school does serve that purpose. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4065">TS</a>]

01:07:49   Here here is here's again like my counter feeling to this which is what the learning to learn. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4069">TS</a>]

01:08:00   Argument I would say that when I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4080">TS</a>]

01:08:03   when I have this discussion with people which obviously can get heated discussion this is this is not you know this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4083">TS</a>]

01:08:11   not for you particular [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4091">TS</a>]

01:08:12   but in general the people who are you learning to learn are people who generally had positive experiences in school. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4092">TS</a>]

01:08:22   They are the people who were academically successful they are the people who applied to and got into universities. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4102">TS</a>]

01:08:31   It's an argument that comes from a particular section of the school age population or the educated population. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4111">TS</a>]

01:08:42   I'm not convinced necessarily that schools teach kids how to learn how to learn. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4122">TS</a>]

01:08:51   I think that's that's it's a kind of personality trait in certain kinds of kids which can be brought out by schools. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4131">TS</a>]

01:09:02   It could be brought out by all kinds of other things as well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4142">TS</a>]

01:09:05   but I think that it's it's it's wrong to say that the school is the thing that teaches that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4145">TS</a>]

01:09:14   And part of this is just looking at you know dropout rates from schools. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4154">TS</a>]

01:09:20   Yeah I know it's a high school dropout rates you know roughly it's ten percent of kids go to high school in America [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4160">TS</a>]

01:09:26   drop out. It's relatively low. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4166">TS</a>]

01:09:29   But then when you look at kids who go to kids who apply to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4169">TS</a>]

01:09:34   and are accepted to college you know forty percent of them don't make it out with a bachelor's degree within six years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4174">TS</a>]

01:09:42   or if they withdraw [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4182">TS</a>]

01:09:44   and you're already talking about a relatively small portion of the population who goes to college anyway which is in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4184">TS</a>]

01:09:50   the U.S. In the U.K. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4190">TS</a>]

01:09:51   It's about thirty percent of the population twenty five to thirty percent has college degrees [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4191">TS</a>]

01:09:57   and so I just I feel like. The learning to learn argument I just don't think it is convincing. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4197">TS</a>]

01:10:03   I think you mean like a personality trait [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4203">TS</a>]

01:10:06   and it has made us sort of fit into you know you some scotched any argument before I could make it by saying that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4206">TS</a>]

01:10:13   think laced [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4213">TS</a>]

01:10:14   but I think maybe the best way for you to persuade me of what you're trying to get across here is give me an alternative [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4214">TS</a>]

01:10:22   give me an alternative that will give society all the things it needs that doesn't involve schools. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4222">TS</a>]

01:10:29   Well done [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4229">TS</a>]

01:10:29   and I'm here this is this is why I want to bound this argument in the beginning I am trying to make a sort of value [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4229">TS</a>]

01:10:38   neutral argument that this this is what schools do. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4238">TS</a>]

01:10:43   I don't even necessarily think it's bad because in some sense right that like so. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4243">TS</a>]

01:10:50   So flip it around with students and things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4250">TS</a>]

01:10:52   but if you talk about employers employers need some kind of way to filter out people who who apply for jobs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4252">TS</a>]

01:11:01   or anything I want to find a way to discriminate. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4261">TS</a>]

01:11:04   That's exactly it and you know like that's that's the harsh reality of life. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4264">TS</a>]

01:11:08   If you post a job and you get two hundred job applications you need some way to filter those things down [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4268">TS</a>]

01:11:13   and if you're applying for. If you're. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4273">TS</a>]

01:11:17   If you want a relatively that let's OK let's say you're you you're you have a job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4277">TS</a>]

01:11:23   and you're looking for a smart person. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4283">TS</a>]

01:11:26   Now you get a whole bunch of applications more likely than not the people who went to college [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4286">TS</a>]

01:11:33   and graduated college are probably smarter than the people who failed out of high school. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4293">TS</a>]

01:11:39   Now that's not to say that everybody who failed out of high school isn't smart. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4299">TS</a>]

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01:15:27   You know he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4527">TS</a>]

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01:18:31   but I also think this is the kind of thing where again thinking about my time as a teacher I would say that I was I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4711">TS</a>]

01:18:42   sometimes relatively unpopular in conversations with other teachers in the staff room because. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4722">TS</a>]

01:18:50   As a teacher you want to have this feeling of like oh I am I'm Cheech I'm shaping the next generation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4730">TS</a>]

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01:19:26   that institutions and or employers can discriminate later on. That's that's a really good question. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4766">TS</a>]

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01:19:57   is is kind of. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4797">TS</a>]

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01:20:41   It will upset a lot of changes. Yeah it probably will but I will say again like I was a teacher. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4841">TS</a>]

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01:20:56   We're talking about the benefits of school is there is there's a term which is called warehousing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4856">TS</a>]

01:21:03   and in this case schools are warehousing students at their warehouse in kids and what's the benefit you get from that. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4863">TS</a>]

01:21:14   Again from a societal perspective it's not like almost It doesn't have anything to do with what's happening to the kids [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4874">TS</a>]

01:21:20   in the box that you put them the anonymous benefit to society is like. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4880">TS</a>]

01:21:25   State provided daycare for all children and what does that mean. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4885">TS</a>]

01:21:29   Parents like their their labor is freed up or I think they can go to work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4889">TS</a>]

01:21:34   and their kids are taken care of for a huge portion of the year [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4894">TS</a>]

01:21:40   and this is like another kind of benefit that that school provides. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4900">TS</a>]

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01:22:00   You need to have them go somewhere [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4920">TS</a>]

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01:22:22   or you know in like a little prison which would be even a worse way to put it. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4942">TS</a>]

01:22:26   But schools have remarkably similar to prison sometimes. Can I say to my sister who is a schoolteacher. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4946">TS</a>]

01:22:33   Yeah I think she's brilliant. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4953">TS</a>]

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01:23:12   This doesn't this doesn't stem from disliking being a teacher. I really enjoyed the classroom time. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/4992">TS</a>]

01:23:21   I thought that was great. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/5001">TS</a>]

01:23:22   I tried to have lessons that were relatively fun of course you have these horrible constraints as a teacher about what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/5002">TS</a>]

01:23:27   you can and can't do but. Like that that part of being in the classroom and teaching. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/5007">TS</a>]

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01:24:09   when I was talking to Mrs number five and I said Gray wants to talk about what's the purpose of schools. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/5049">TS</a>]

01:24:15   She said Well I think it's learning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/5055">TS</a>]

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01:24:25   this selectivity process yeah. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/5065">TS</a>]

01:24:27   So I do agree I do agree that schools serve this purpose of separating the wheat from the chaff. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/5067">TS</a>]

01:24:33   However family you think they do that or not which is a whole lot of subject matter. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/5073">TS</a>]

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01:25:14   or a bad school just leaving those terms undefined for the moment. [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/5114">TS</a>]

01:25:17   Teachers definitely contribute to that in terms of like the emotional environment of the school [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+BgMU1iRt4/5117">TS</a>]

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