this american life kid logic transcript

He nodded. Maybe because she believed it herself so completely. Nick is a planner. They came to the conclusion that he would have to die. "No problem," I said. [COUGHING]. Like, oh, my god, you're the tooth fairy. We Won a Peabody Award for Our Coverage of the Fall of Roe v. Wade. She still hadn't looked at Timothy. I knew this because the Stokes's lived next door to us, and I was privy to all kinds of secrets about Timothy that I had absolutely no desire to know. "Because I'm not anybody. He was in a room full of kids who had all prepared for this moment, a room full of band kids who knew each other very well. As I followed the secretary out of the office, I looked back and saw Mr. Buterbaugh and Mrs. Gladfelter and poor old Mrs. Stokes standing in a hopeless circle around Timothy. And then, of course, I didn't know any of this. I thought I was just responsible for tormenting you. (16 minutes) Like a peck or a make-out kiss? Mrs. Gladfelter gave me a gentle push toward him in the small of my back. It was great. And it was mid-January, and her preschool celebrates the same holidays as the local schools, so Martin Luther King Day was off. "Are you going to make him go to special school?" I communicated. Howie Chackowicz is the creator, writer, and artist behind Howie Action Comics. Now, when that happened, did I seem cool, like a bad boy? Yeah, actually, he was. : r/Frisson I know this is a super long post but its an incredible story. And somehow, a discussion of endangered species came up, in which I posed the question "Is the unicorn endangered or extinct?" I remember it so perfectly, but then after all, it was my crush. "Why did you go see him," Timothy said. Like, oh my god, you're the tooth fairy. And you [LAUGHS] opening up your desk, and the paper kind of overflowing out of that desk, and you rummaging frantically through the desk trying to find what homework we were asked to take out, and not being able to find it. Act 1, baby scientists with faulty data. Here we've collected a few more. He's pretending he's a werewolf today, and even though that's fine and we all know how Timothy is sometimes, we have serious things to discuss with him, and we'd like him to stop pretending for just a little while. And she looked like maybe she was going to cry, but then she put on a big smile. Ira talks with Rebecca who, using perfectly valid evidence, arrived at the perfectly incorrect conclusion that her neighbor, Ronnie Loeberfeld, was the tooth fairy. I was probably listening to some adults talk. A light flashed twice on the secretary's phone, then held steady. Robin had to concede the point. I just thought we all looked alike, we all had common ancestries. I tried to act cool. Who would take care of me until they got here?". Oh no!". 783: Kids These Days - This American Life I knew that someone ought to do something to calm him down, but I was the only one in our school who could have any reason to want to save Timothy Stokes from expulsion. Everybody laughed but Timothy Stokes. You try not to mention it, but you definitely check them out twice and look at them when they walk away. Stay with us. We wanted an hour filled with stories in which kids employ kid thinking, especially the kid thinking that is perfectly logical but completely wrongheaded. I didn't realize that there was a crush involved. "He had to go to jail," Timothy said, "your dad." Timothy said. Every morning she made Timothy pancakes for his breakfast, which sounded OK until you found out that she put things in them like carrots and leftover pieces of corn. And then one night, she found herself in a conversation at a party. "Thanks for calling back, Dr. Schachter," I heard Mr. Buterbaugh say, "Yes, I'm afraid so." Hosted by Sabrina Tavernise. Since no celebrity has this disease, there's very little money devoted for research, and so I'm doing this story for Nick. Now, in his day job, what did Ronnie Loeberfeld do? And I tackled you really hard. Like that live in the forest, with the pointy toes?" And think about the fact that there isn't any obvious explanation about why your father can use a Visa card, for instance, which is something that you can't do. This is the day we celebrate his life." They said, no, they were just imagining it. Then I looked at Mr. Buterbaugh and found that he was watching me with an air of earnest expectancy, as though he honestly thought there might be an eternal black magical curse on Timothy and was more than willing to listen to anything I might have to say on the subject. So we read a lot about his birth and about his teaching, and she would ask constantly what that phrase was. I'd roll into a fetal ball like a kitten and scrunch my head into my pillow, hand under my head. Now, if you come right this minute and get up out of that dirt, then I'll forget that you didn't come in from recess. "I was in the ditch." Archive - This American Life I said, "oh my god, who was it? And she said, oh, well, who is the tooth fairy? No, everyone felt very, very sad for you. We went out for two more months. It was common knowledge around school that Virginia's parents had since written a letter to the principal, and that the next time Timothy Stokes hurt somebody he was going to be expelled. If you are able, we strongly encourage you to listen to the audio, which includes emotion and emphasis that's not on the page. I need your help. And because I had never seen white people, I assumed that they were ghosts. At first, I could hear the girls shouting for Mrs. Gladfelter. I waved, they waved. ", "Of course," said Mrs. Stokes. I could hear Mrs. Gladfelter and Mr. Buterbaugh talking softly in his office. (16 minutes) I took the farthest and showed him my back, so that anyone passing by the windows of the office would not be able to conclude that he and I were engaged in any sort of conversation at all. She drew back behind her girlfriends, and their screaming now grew less melodious, less purely formal. He is the tooth fairy, but you can't let anyone else know." And two years later, when her son Nick was just six years old, he began trying to make sense of what was happening to his dad. Like Rachel, a second grader who lost a tooth and caught her dad putting money under her pillow. There's a wonderful experiment about this, actually, that Paul Harris in England did, where he got children to imagine that something was in a box. Jun 13, 2019 - Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions. [LAUGHS] No. He shook himself all over. So there was no such thing as walking out and seeing a stranger. 627: Suitable for Children - This American Life So I had this sort of "Yeah, oh, well, that's Jesus. Ira Glass. Hosted by Ira Glass Dec. 17, 2016. I didn't hear the scrape of footsteps until they were just above my head. I even worked for him for a while. A group of young environmentalists argue that Montana's embrace of fossil fuels is robbing them of their future. Kid Logic (2016) - This American Life Up to six or seven years old, for instance, it's not exactly clear to anyone what is imaginary and what is not, or if wishing for something can make it come true. So I waved, like, I wonder if I wave what kind of people are they? "It's been kind of a long afternoon for Timothy, I'm afraid. Well, it all began at Christmas two years ago, when my daughter was four years old. I talked to three people, including my own father, who used to pronounce it "my-zulled." The moon's not even full today.". For example, last Mother's Day weekend, Nick and I had a session with Cory, his therapist. "No." And we were sitting in there, and right on the table where we happened to plop down was the art section of the local newspaper, and there, big-as-life, was a huge drawing by a 10-year-old kid in the local schools of Martin Luther King. I tried to act cool. "He had too much to drink," I said. And not long after the day that Jodi Mace's coworker set her straight about the word "xing," she found herself on the opposite side of the exact same situation. And I looked, and I saw this couple sitting there, these two people, but there were people that I had never seen before. 188: Kid Logic (2001) Note: This American Life is produced for the ear and designed to be heard. I wanted to know what she remembered, whether she knew I even had a crush on her at all. First, I thought that if they can see me sleeping, they would immediately fall for me. By age 6, I was already an uncle, and I felt this lent me a certain maturity. The kids who were told to imagine a puppy in the box would go over and peek inside the box, just to check. And then everybody laughed. I remember wondering what it was like for Rachel to know that her dad was the tooth fairy, and definitely being a little envious that her dad had this special job and this special power, and that he had this whole other interesting life, where my dad just came home from work, and that was it. said Mrs. Stokes. And because I had never seen white people, I assumed that they were ghosts. And she said, "who's that?" This month, Nick graduated from kindergarten and he got his first bike without training wheels. They just asked a small percentage of people and then extrapolated. Even though it was so far in the past, that crush is still such an awkward thing to talk about. Are my parents going to pick me up? It was toward Virginia that Timothy now advanced a rattling growl in his throat. Why wouldn't she just make the house out of bricks like everyone else? Act Three, Werewolves in Their Youth. I shrugged. ", "Paul, Timothy is in trouble. "Because I'm not anybody. Coming up, kids talking kid talk, adults not understanding, but you will, as our special "Kids say the Darndest Things" edition of our program continues in a minute from Chicago Public Radio when our program continues. "Well, now, Timothy," Mrs. Gladfelter took me by the shoulders and maneuvered me around her. Our program was produced today by Jonathan Goldstein and myself, with Alex Blumberg, Wendy Dorr and Starlee Kine. You're on the ground and you're holding your leg. We all had common ancestries. And then he said, "I know why you stopped crying. So when you play "drop the spoon," you get two for the price of one. And we would talk about those old words and what that all meant. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. What was a grade seven doing in our--. Native American tribes say Supreme Court challenge was never just about She said, "What was his message?" So I sat down on the floor of Susan's bedroom to read this composition. And then that laughter was followed by more silence when they realized I wasn't laughing. "Why did you go see him?" But then I would remember the confused look in his eyes as I had abandoned him to his fate, to all the unimaginable things that would be done to him in the fabulous corridors of the special school. And so I took her hand and let her pull me out of the ravine and across the deserted playground, aware that in doing so I was merely proving the unspoken corollary that my mother had left hanging the other morning in the air between her and Mrs. Stokes. The big one. Production help from Emmanuel Dzotsi. Werewolves in Their Youth - This American Life The only problem with this was, the girls in class ended up treating me like their uncle. Fatso, fatso man. OK. OK, bye. This is what I've learned. And from that day on, Ronnie Loeberfeld was the tooth fairy, and all of my notes under my pillow were signed "Love, Ronnie Loeberfeld.". He rolled his wild white eyes and took a last look around him. I would not like to be a fatso man. Our technical director is Matt Tierney. So I waved, and I remember hearing the man going [COUGHING] And I thought, wow, that must be the way they talk. And I would explain to her that it was "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." I guess he's just very wound up right now. "They're identical twins. Now let's imagine that there's a puppy in this box, or else let's imagine that there's a monster in the box. Get This American Life a Day Early in New York Times Audio. I jerked my hands twice and went fup, fup! "Did you visit him in jail?" It was very bad advice. I wanted her to think that this was the real me. Well, kids think with the same logic that adults use and apply that logic just as rigorously. She was a tall, thin woman, much older than my mother, with long, gray hair and red, veiny hands. I said hello, and they said hello in their language. Timothy said this, or something like it, every time he turned into a werewolf, and I would not have been too concerned if, in the course of his last transformation, he hadn't actually gone and bitten Virginia Pease on the neck. "Mrs. Stokes," said Mrs. Gladfelter, coming out of the principal's office. "I'm not Paul," I said. Yeah, but a lot of times the way young kids react, or show affection, is through physical-- like I was telling you before, that I wrestled with Barry, because--, This is not how she felt about it at the time, because I felt the harder I tackled her, the more popular I'd be. The girls peeled away from him as though sprayed with a hose, bumped shoulders, clung, shrieking, to each other's sleeves. And she ate the exact same thing for dinner every night of her life-- baked chicken. And he goes-- you know he couldn't pronounce his "Rs"-- he goes, "you tackle her, Howie. Harriet was seven, and she wanted a bike. I don't think I was making out in grade six. They called it The Scientist in the Crib, meaning that babies are like little scientists. The box became Harriet's prized possession. We're going to close it. When Harriet Lerner was a girl, her family was going through some lean years. I stood there a while above my little city, watching Timothy pursue a snarling, lupine course along the hopscotch crosses. "All right, Paul, thank you," said Mrs. Gladfelter, "you may go back to class now." I mean, think about all the things that your parents can do that you can't do, and think about the fact that there isn't any obvious explanation about why your father can use a Visa card, for instance. She kindly told me that she only liked me as a friend, but she was flattered. "Paul," said Mrs. Gladfelter, leaning over the lip of the ravine, hands against her thighs. Now let's imagine that there's a puppy in this box, or else let's imagine that there's a monster in the box. "Sit down." And then she told me that the boxes were painted by trained monkeys. His conclusions are perfectly logical. It's This American Life. "See you later, Timothy," I said. Nick thought if there were no babies, then maybe his dad wouldn't die. And then I heard Mrs. Gladfelter herself, sounding very angry. ", And you're trying to say this to a four-year-old. But the funny thing she wrote in her composition is that she just rushed upstairs and started crying all over her pillow. It was like a scientific discovery-- like, I discovered the first ghost people and they talked to me. "I've been cursed for 300 years," he declaimed. And guess who the tooth fairy was? "Paul," said Mrs. Gladfelter, leaning over the lip of the ravine, hands against her thighs. Nick was quiet a while, and then he asked me if babies replace dying people. 588: Mind Games - This American Life Timothy was, in our teacher Mrs. Gladfelter's words, "one strike away from an out." "I heard you talking to them before. "Ant-Man wears a helmet.". I told her that I liked her and asked her if she'd like to officially go out with me. But instead of painting fatso or whatever on my window as planned, their collective hearts would melt as they saw me sleeping like a babe, an angel, buried snugly under my blankets. And then I heard Mrs. Gladfelter herself sounding very angry. He missed his dad. And so I explained to her that this was celebrating the birth of Jesus. he must also be the Tooth Fairy. "It's filled with darts of my special antidote. Timothy was, in our teacher Mrs. Gladfelter's words, one strike away from an out. "Maybe he is, Paul, but if you would just come inside and talk to him for a little bit, I think we might be able to persuade him to change back into Timothy. She wanted a set of encyclopedias. You see, in The Lion King, the hero's father dies, and the big lesson of the film is that it's one big cycle. Tell me about Daddy, when daddy had to move. "With the ants?" Ah! Hi. And sometimes the only way to address his fears is to use the same logic he does, with the same assumptions. Its progression is similar to that of a baby's development, only backward. Across the street from us, all aunts and uncles. "I was in the ditch." And then one day, we were driving past a big church, and out front was an enormous crucifix. She paused, and then she said, "Yeah, of course they are.". I asked him if he'd like to talk to you and he said yes." We have this excerpt in this act from a short story by Michael Chabon. And she pulled me aside and said, "last night I lost a tooth, and I woke up while the tooth fairy was putting the money under my pillow. ", Karen doesn't remember any of this. I'm sleepy. And she said, "what was his message?" She kindly told me that she only liked me as a friend but she was flattered. Skip to main content Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Full episode Transcript That is not how Michael imagined this moment going. The telephone rang. 317: Unconditional Love - This American Life She passed me over to her twin, who I made the same offer to, and Elizabeth said, sure. Mrs. Gladfelter took me by the shoulders and maneuvered me around her. Because I felt the harder I tackled her, the more popular I'd be. 188: Kid Logic (2001) - This American Life All three believed it was the past tense of a nonexistent verb "misle," which means "to deceive" or "to mislead." Mrs. Stokes entered the office. You don't want a kid to walk slowly across the crossing. And I made it stronger than it used to be, and it's going to work this time. So they weren't going to take any chances, just in case wishing actually could make monsters happen. But instead of painting "fatso" or whatever on my window as planned, their collective hearts would melt as they saw me sleeping like a babe, an angel buried snugly under my blankets. What was that mystery meat? There's a way you can love a girl in grade six that you'll never have again. This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ . She didn't even remember the biggest story of them all, our sixth grade graduation dance. I didn't even know that. Timothy's head snapped back and his eyelids fluttered. And I thought that he was thinking, "You know, that really is a good idea." Unicorns aren't real? And we've arrived at Act 3 of our program. This American Life. Inflation Is Way Down. Is It by Design or Just Luck? Up until that moment, I had never thought to question my sister's story. I knew that someone ought to do something to calm him down. Turns out that science does not have a name for these stories, which is surprising, given how common they are and how they are recognized around the world for their sheer entertainment value. I'd roll into a fetal ball a kitten and scrunch my head into my pillow, hands under my head. Podcast Series This American Life Kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions. The doctor said Doug, my 38-year-old husband who ran marathons and insisted on organic vegetables, had two to 10 years to live. They would edge away from the box. One night, after deciding I wanted to have a real girlfriend, I called up identical twin sisters that I liked-- Darlene and Elizabeth. She became my most serious crush. Tackle her, tackle her hard and you'll be popular, and then everyone will like you." And she said, "So who was he?" I was talking with a friend of mine, who was telling me about her friend, who had been selected to be a Nielsen family. But at some point it was just too much-- especially too much for Nick to see. It could be a toxin, it could be a long-forgotten head injury, it could be genetics. Share a clip. And when the sheriff's office went hunting for the killer, they and a mob lynched practically every other black man in their path. It was great. I said, "yeah, I guess it is. I'm Ira Glass. Virginia had blond hair, and she was the only girl in the fifth grade with pierced ears and painted fingernails. And she wasn't really sad about the gift, really, is what she said in the composition. And I definitely had images of his driving his Volvo around the Boston area and delivering the tooth fairy treats. He's a snoop. Now in his day job, what did Ronnie Loberfeld do? Darlene answered. "I love you," Doug repeated. And you get a psychology tutorial. Prologue - This American Life It's an excerpt of a short story by Michael Chabon. She loved them, wanted to know everything about Jesus. And she wanted to know more about that. You can't let anyone else know. "Did your mother make you?" Her friends asked her about it and she'd say, "Oh yeah. She lived together with her sister and her parents in a nice house in the suburbs. There were three chairs next to Timothy's. "Here comes your mother," I said. The duplexes directly to the left and the right of us were aunts and uncles. Transcript. Had dark hair. I knew this wasn't the way they measured public opinion now, but it seemed like the Nielsen surveys had been around for a while, and I figured they were just a holdover from a more primitive, less statistically rigorous time. Having a plan seems to help him. I hope they make you eat special food and wear a special helmet or something. We sent her home early. Darlene answered. We'd gone through the whole story of what Christmas meant, and it was mid-January. I had a few ideas about how you get someone to love you that, in retrospect, weren't particularly helpful to me. He was wearing his standard uniform of white dungarees and a plain white undershirt, even though it was a chilly afternoon in October, and all the rest of us had long since been bundled up for autumn in corduroy and down. The saddest person in the whole wide world. "How is Virginia?" I said. There's a wonderful experiment about this, actually, that Paul Harris in England did, where he got children to imagine that something was in a box. "He had Micronauts and the Fembots." Do they talk? I would not like to be a fatso!" By age six, I was already an uncle, and I felt this lent me a certain maturity. Notice who she doesn't mention. In that act we hear one boy's explanation of how love works. I'm in the bathtub listening to my radio. [LAUGHS]. I have to know. "Maybe he is, Paul, but if you would just come inside and talk to him for a little bit, I think we might be able to persuade him to change back into Timothy. "If you'd like to place a call, please hang up." This fall, our friend's three-year-old little boy named Chance joined Nick's class. Not that he really ever made money at it. Since then, Nick has tried to make logical sense of this mostly illogical disease, and he does this by looking for patterns to help sort it all out. [text] Jack Hitt - Did they kill him, too? - Reddit The power to be a tooth fairy isn't all that much more impressive. It's called "Moonglow." He's a big, fat, hippo jell-o. I wanted to think it was the real me. And while none of them knew any Christmas jokes, it turns out that all of them were willing on the spot-- apparently any third grader will do this-- they were willing to make up Christmas jokes. As Christy Kruger grew up, she says that if she ever thought about unicorns, they were on a grassy plain, somewhere in Africa, drinking from a watering hole with the wildebeest and the impala. I'd say by grade six standards, you got laid. ", And she thought about that for a minute. ", Fast forward 20 years. Kid Logic (2001) - This American Life - Pinterest She doesn't remember how she then jumped up, got four or five of her girlfriends in the huddle, and miraculously choreographed an impromptu kicking chorus line of "Fatso Men" to the tune of the Village People's "Macho Men."

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