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Tai Asks Why

Tai is back!

Tai Asks Why

CBC

Kids & Family

4.21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Tai Poole is back - and he has no time for small talk. He’d rather discuss why space is so dark, the real reason for deja vu, and the science behind bullying. Join Tai as he boldly goes where no 7th grader has gone before to find you answers you never knew you needed. His conversations with everyone from NASA experts, to award-winning musicians, to his little brother Kien will expand your mind and touch your heart.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a CBC podcast.

0:04.0

Testing, testing.

0:07.0

Hi guys, it's me, Thai Pool, and I'm back and I have way more questions.

0:13.0

Things like, what are animals saying to each other?

0:16.0

Why is space so dark?

0:18.0

What's the signs behind bullying?

0:20.0

This season, I'm willing to go where no seventh grader has ever gone before to find you the answers.

0:29.0

Bullying is probably ubiquitous amongst life itself.

0:33.4

Earworms are musical thoughts.

0:36.1

I think deja vu is caused by like a little glitch, glitch in the memory system.

0:41.0

Hundreds of nuclear warheads being detonated at one time.

0:47.0

Whoa.

0:50.0

There is in principle no reason we shouldn't have a conversation with a humpback whale.

0:54.0

Everything we know about outer space, we've learned by trying to figure out what that light is telling us.

1:01.0

Can I tell you a little bit about that one?

1:02.0

Yes, please. I'm enjoying all the

1:04.6

info so just don't stop. How could we ever have remembered the alphabet if it wasn't

1:09.9

for the song? H I J, L M and O P.

1:14.0

I think it was a shrimp.

1:15.0

The conversation I was having was a sexy one.

1:18.0

It was attracting a mate.

1:20.0

Oh, sorry, that's just kind of

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