Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid Podcast. I was born more than 15,000 days ago. I've

experienced a lot in all that time, but there is very little I remember from my childhood.

I'll share one story with you from when I was around Olivia's age. I wanted to be in the

band in school. One day, they gathered all the kids in the school auditorium and they handed each of us

index cards. Then they asked a few questions about music basics to see if we understood some of the

basic concepts of music. We wrote our answers down on the index cards. After they

were done testing our music knowledge, they asked us to list three instruments on the other side

of the index card. The list was supposed to have the three instruments we wanted to play the most,

with our favorite instruments at number one and our backup options at two and three.

My top choice was the slide trombone.

What an awesome instrument!

It looked like so much fun to play.

It turns out that I had a great score on the music test, so they welcomed me into the band.

The only problem was this.

The music instructor told me that my arms were too short to play the slide trombone.

For that reason, they gave me my second choice the clarinet.

Even though this happens to me way back in the 1980s, I still remember it pretty clearly.

What is it about that event that still sticks out in my mind?

Why do we remember some things and not others? Let's learn more.

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Hello, new listeners and thanks for all that you do. We are from Florida and Brooke, age eight,

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