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🗓️ 25 October 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is M.P.R.S. in Visibilia. I'm Elise Spiegel. |
0:02.9 | And today we have a new episode for our fall season. |
0:06.6 | This one is from my co-host, Hannah Rosen. Here's Hannah. |
0:12.2 | A friend of mine once told me a story about how when she was very little, |
0:16.1 | she was sitting in the backseat of a car and an old song came on the radio and she started singing it. |
0:21.4 | Like she knew all the words, which really freaked out her parents. |
0:25.2 | Because they were pretty sure she'd never heard the song before. |
0:27.7 | And they definitely couldn't remember her listening to the song enough times to memorize it from start to finish. |
0:35.6 | It's a weird thing when something pops into our brains and we have no idea how it got there. |
0:41.3 | Even weirder when it happens in a kid. |
0:43.9 | In the weirdest maybe when it's your kid. |
0:46.8 | Because as a parent you have this idea that most things in your little kid's head were put there by you. |
0:55.8 | The talking about the girl made. |
0:58.8 | Who is Grammy? |
1:00.8 | Which brings us to our story today about a four year old boy named Van. |
1:05.8 | According to Van's parents who prefer to remain anonymous. |
1:08.8 | This spring, Van started talking nonstop about memories that couldn't possibly be his own. |
1:14.8 | Like the time he told them he used to work at a hardware store and he drove a pickup truck. |
1:18.8 | A white Chevy pickup truck. |
1:20.8 | Who said Chevy and that was like, I don't think you know. |
1:22.8 | There's no idea what that is at all. |
1:24.8 | Or the time they were walking out of pre-K and passed a skateboard. |
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