David paladino this american life8/8/2023 ![]() Strangely enough, we all had a little laugh about it. He's like, your dad? And he, like, looks at me, and then he looks at them, and he's like, oh, man! And he left! (LAUGHING) He left! And he's like, your mom? And then my dad is right there. He's like, oh, Davey! Who is your friend?Īnd he's like, who's that? I said, oh, that's my mom. And then, all of a sudden, my mom comes out, and my dad is, like, right behind her. And he's like, your sisters? And I'm like, yeah. And so we walk around the corner, and he stops dead in his tracks, and he's like, what them white girls doing in your house?Īnd I was like, white girls? Those are my sisters. So as we walk around these tall hedges in the backyard, my two sisters are coming out- Lori and Shari. There's these tall hedges, and then there's the sliding glass door. And so we're walking around the back yard area. So we're having a good time, and I was like, yeah, you want to see my place? He's like, yeah, so we walk. You know, so and he's like, yeah, well, I do. He was asking me questions.Īnd he was like, oh, do you curse, you know, and I'm like, no, I don't swear. And you know, he was much more outgoing than I was. He was a young Black kid, and he starts talking to me. Put on your safety goggles and white coats, my friends, and stay with us. In that act, by the way, we have a story by David Sedaris. Our program today in three acts- Act One, Occam's Razor Act Two, The Trajectory and Force of Bodies in Orbit Act Three, Conservation of Energy and Matter. The mediocrity principle prances into the lives of us non-scientists, all provocative with that all-provocative name, and what, we're not supposed to give that a second glance? We're supposed to stop our brains from instantly seeing that and all these other rules as metaphors to apply hither and thither, wherever we will? Today on our radio program, we ignore the pleas of reasonable people like Dave Kestenbaum and the silent screams of every physicist listening to our program right this moment, and bring you several stories, each one about everyday people in everyday situations, each one illuminated by some scientific law. Our feeling is, once a physicist names something the mediocrity principle, or the uncertainty principle, or the grandfather paradox, basically, they're asking for it. But we at This American Life- we just do not care. OK, I have to say, that seems entirely reasonable.
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