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Alright, so now we've got an episode on predictions that are just hilariously wrong.

Like, we've talked about predictions before and we've done something like this before but these are always fun so I thought we could go over these.

Now, the first one is kind of a two-parter map.

So the first part is cars are just a fad. So in 1903, right?

So in 1903, the president of Michigan Savings Bank warned Henry Ford's lawyer, Horace Rackham, to protect his money.

Quote, the horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty, a fad he advised.

Well, on that note, our brains won't be able to keep up with them.

In 1904, the New York Times reported on a debate in Paris between a brain specialist and a physician about the dangers of driving automobiles at high speeds.

Because the brain can't keep up. Now, quote, it remains to be proved how fast the brain is capable of traveling reads the article.

If it cannot acquire an eight mile per hour speed, then an auto running at the rate of 80 miles per hour is running without the guidance of the brain and the many disastrous results are not to be marveled at.

So why eight miles an hour? Because that's as fast as a fast as human can run.

I guess that's as fast as he thought the brain could go is and what I think is funny is that people think and thought at one time that you're brain traveled eight miles an hour.

I mean, I don't. So how does that even work? Your brain thinks mind does sometimes.

Right, right. But I just think it's funny that then, oh, no, the brain isn't going to be able to keep up with an 80 mile an hour car.

You know, wait. That makes me that makes me think of we were running Indie races at that time.

Oh, that makes me think of the way they talk about it being a fat. That makes me think of a I've probably mentioned this before.

I have a tendency, Amanda can vouch for this to tell the same story multiple times.

And so if I've said this on the show before, I'm going to say it again. There was a Saturday night live skit about years ago about this bank, this real prestigious bank that thought that internet banking was a fat.

We thought this internet, you know, it was just a fat, you know, and they're talking it all these. You know, we never thought it would catch on.

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