Stanky & The Straw Man - #1 in our Fallacies for Kids Series

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4.1 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

After this story, we're thrilled to be joined by Stephanie Simoes from Critikid.com! She'll help us understand logical fallacies, and specifically, the Straw Man Argument – just like what happened between Granny and Stanky! 🤔 Stanky and the Straw Man! 🧹🥕 Panic is in the air at Granny Gigglesnort's cottage! 🧙‍♀️ Her magical vegetable patch is destroyed by cheeky birds, and her new Potion of Flatulence is ruined! 😤 Granny scolds her patchwork assistant, Stanky, and builds a terrifying scarecrow...

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0:00.0	Hello kids, coming up in this episode of BKFK Storytime.
0:07.0	Stanky has a problem protecting the veggie pets from birds, so Granny makes a scarecrow.
0:14.0	He's magnificent! The birds are terrified!
0:19.0	He's better at this job than you'll ever be.
0:23.2	Where Stanky completely misunderstands, Granny.
0:26.4	So you think I'm totally useless now?
0:28.8	You think I'm no good at anything?
0:31.2	You think the scarecrow is better than me at everything?
0:34.9	Stanky made a straw man argument. It's a logical fallacy. What in
0:41.2	Magimaturra is that? Logical fallacies are thinking mistakes or bad arguments. They often look
0:48.0	like good arguments at first, but then they fall apart if you look a little closer.
0:52.5	That's Stephanie Samos from Criticid.
0:55.0	She joins us after the story and helps make a complicated idea easy to understand.
1:01.0	But first, let's hear who the superstars are in this episode.
1:06.0	Hello, I'm Edda, I'm 10 and I love my dog.
1:10.0	And I'm from Korea. Hi, my name is Kaya, I'm Edda, I'm 10, and I love my dog. And I'm from Korea.
1:11.8	Hi, my name is Kaya.
1:13.0	I'm eight years old.
1:14.3	I come from Kavita, Philippines.
1:17.0	What I like to do is making people where she's swimming and hanging out with my friends.
1:22.1	Well done, kids.
1:23.6	Such talented performers.
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