Did Carl really see a UFO?

Short & Curly

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Philosophy

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Carl is excited because he saw a UFO last night. He can't believe it! (And neither can Molly, but for different reasons). But should we believe Carl and if not, why not? How do we decide if something is true or not? What sort of evidence do we need?

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0:00.0	This is an ABC podcast.
0:04.0	Welcome to another classic episode of Short and Curly,
0:09.0	your favorite ethics podcast.
0:11.0	I'm one of your hosts Molly and Carl isn't here yet but luckily I'm in need of a new
0:17.5	catchphrase so I'm just gonna try out a bunch of stuff and see if anything works.
0:22.0	Ahem!
0:24.0	Happy birthday to me!
0:27.0	Well, that's gonna hurt later on.
0:30.0	You got's to be Josh and friend. Molly, Molly, I'm sorry I'm late, but you're not going to believe what's happened.
0:40.0	Carl, my gosh, you look so pale, what's going on?
0:43.0	I saw a UFO.
0:46.1	What do you mean you saw a UFO?
0:52.1	As in an unidentified flying object alien spacecraft
0:56.4	from another planet UFO okay you know how I just bought that new telescope and put it on the roof of Shorten Curly HQ?
1:05.6	Whoa you bought that Carl you were supposed to use that money to pay us you, for food and life?
1:13.3	Food, schmood, Molly.
1:14.8	There are bigger things afoot.
1:16.4	I was just looking through the telescope
1:18.1	for supermassive black holes
1:20.1	when I saw something really strange.
1:29.0	It was a bunch of randomly blinking lights getting closer, then it whooshed over my head and made this weird sound,
1:32.0	kind of like
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