On today's podcast, perhaps for the first time in audio history, I will teach you how to juggle three balls.

But before I can do that, I need to teach you how to ride a bicycle. Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.

But first, here's a message from our featured nonprofit, The Innocence Project. Find out more at innocence project.org.

The mission of the innocence project is to free wrongly convicted people through DNA testing

and reform the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment

anywhere in the world. Martin Luther King said an injustice anywhere is

an injustice everywhere.

So many things in our lives. injustice everywhere.

So many things in our lives aren't taught properly.

They're taught with a mixture of status as an inducement, shame as a threat if we don't opt in and fear, the fear of getting hurt,

the fear of doing it wrong, a fear to overcome. So when we think about learning to ride a bike, it's a fraught exercise.

Little kid wants to ride a bike because big brother and big sister have a bike, because having a bike represents freedom and

a right of passage on a form of growing up. But it's also filled with fear, the

fear that you will fall and hurt yourself. Parents also are afraid, afraid they won't teach the kid properly.

Afraid the kid will fall and break his wrist. Afraid that they're bad parents and will be unable to teach their kid how to ride a bike,

their kid will be ostracized and never recover.

Enter the Strider bike.

Two million bikes later, the Strider company has figured out how to teach kids to ride a bike and they do it by not teaching kids to ride a bike.

They do it by teaching kids to balance. Because of course, training wheels

are foolish. Training wheels sort of make it look like you're riding a bike, but the hardest part of riding a bike isn't pedaling.

The hardest part of riding a bike is learning to balance.

Once you learn to balance, once you get over that fear,

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