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🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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The cornerstone of scientific thinking is updating your beliefs based on the available evidence. Unfortunately this conflicts with the cornerstone of being a cult of personality guru leader, which requires doubling down and never admitting fault or when you’re wrong. In this episode we break the fourth wall, coming down off the top of the pyramid to have a non-canon discussion about all the times we’ve changed our minds and updated our beliefs. Not only is each instance an opportunity to discuss how specific evidence has changed over time and the nuances of a given topic, but the entire episode serves as a meta-discussion on continually learning. Make sure to tune into this one to hear all the times we’ve been wrong, but then quickly forget about it because Omar and I are never wrong.
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0:00.0 | Eric, we have never done this before, but I think it's important. |
0:04.0 | We're going to have a trigger warning before this episode begins. |
0:08.4 | Yes. |
0:09.2 | So for those who are invested in the canon narratives, I would even call them side stories |
0:15.8 | because they feature so prominently at the beginning of every episode. |
0:18.9 | But, you know, things like the deals we've made with Pymont and also Dave Draper, |
0:25.9 | things like our fight against not only countries that have appropriated the use of pyramid-like structures, |
0:32.8 | but also the intergalactic threat that we've had to face. |
0:37.0 | Of course, the legal intergalactic threat, |
0:39.2 | to be to be sure. A Delaware team. Absolutely, with our Delaware legal team. Really, |
0:44.8 | the Aaron Brockovich story of an anonymous legal team in Delaware. So if you're invested in those |
0:53.0 | canon stories, this episode is going to be potentially triggering in that the topic is specifically, and okay, you've had the trigger warning, so I'm allowed to say it. |
1:03.2 | I think that's the way it works, about things we've changed our mind on and times we reflect on when we were wrong previously. |
1:09.8 | So obviously that does conflict with the canon, iron culture, understanding that everything we say, as soon as it leaves our mouth is fact and is unimpeachable. |
1:19.3 | And if you remember something different, it is actually on you. |
1:22.9 | So we are going to step outside of canon. |
1:25.1 | We're going to break the third wall, fourth wall. What is, I don't know. Fourth wall. We're going to break the third wall fourth wall what is what's |
1:28.2 | we're going to break some walls pro verbivial proverbial fourth wall perverial fourth wall eric i will |
1:36.0 | say something into it you're like pronouncing things wrong and everything we're just we're going |
1:39.8 | right into flaws here bro this this is i don't know which wall to break. You can't speak English. |
1:45.6 | We're hurting people. |
1:47.3 | Eric, I'm wrecked Ralph today. |
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