Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic answers.

Lies, our parents sat on a throne of lies and they deceived us,

but they probably had honest intentions in doing so because they had been deceived as well.

But today, the lies stop. Welcome to the Council of Trent Podcast.

I'm your host, Cathayanser's Apologist and speaker Trent Horn.

On Mondays and Wednesdays we refute the lies

about the Catholic faith, but on Friday we have Free for All Friday we talk about whatever I want to talk

about. And today I want to talk about these fictions, these falsehoods that we were told as children usually to get us to stop doing something

annoying or to get us at least in one case to do something healthy.

So that's why we're going to talk about things

that we were told, things that we might be

regurgitating to our own children unknowingly

and getting at the truth of the matter.

All right, here's the first one.

Who didn't hear this as a kid?

When I was a kid, you know, when you're in your parents,

1985 Dodge Caravan, and you slide into the middle seat that was really a row it was like a long row it was like a bus seat

not one of these fancy bucket seats you have nowadays you just had that one long row you

slid into in the caravan with the sliding door you had to pull and

throw with all your might to get it to close. So who remembers this? You're driving at

night in the caravan and you drop your Lego night on the floor. This is back before no Lego Batman, no

Lego Spider-Man. You either got Lego Knight, Lego Castle, Lego Cowboy, or Lego Pirates,

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