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00:00:00| tonight we're gonna be talking about something that's taking the world by storm invading our minds and making us more literate oh we're getting smarter the whole world is getting smarter
00:00:11| something in the eighty percentile all of us are being on a read write and integrate the culture let's listen in and join us so I'm Dan and I'm Nick books for old
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00:01:18| all right so I do have a correction from last time I knew you would I think we're talking about conspiracy theories and footsteps on the moon that you can see you through a let's go yeah telescope I
00:01:38| blanked on going yeah I was like megabyte guys apparently the optics are such that you can only see about a like a football fields width like length sorry length
00:01:48| that makes more sense on the moon so you would never be able to see a footprint or the flag or the lander so the resolution only gets as good as like mind regards ish yes somewhere in that
00:02:01| range I think it was like 238 not gonna don't quote me on that feat and then so we de couldn't really prove you couldn't prove as an individual you were lied on something else called LRO which is like
00:02:12| an optics satellite that nASA has that could show that there was someone had landed someone who walked from here yeah ah trust the government and NASA NASA landed on the moon is NASA that word
00:02:29| only I am I'm glad you fixed that I also had a correction sure I said my quiz weren't real hey I mean they were oh they're not we're gonna fake like they can't get to
00:02:45| your brain inside your house inside I did it read my family all fake go about your daily lives don't mind us and we wouldn't pander so everything's fine everything's
00:02:57| hunky-dory yeah sonic invasion which may have come up in the news I don't know if it comes up again by the time this episode is released do catch that about which which
00:03:10| aspect Chinese diplo diplomats yeah it's just the one where they're getting I mean I heard the one about hubris and headaches yeah and there was one Cuba - there's one in Cuba and possibly one in
00:03:23| like the Chinese diplomat area like Korea yeah that conspiracy experts said it was not possible but someone is also saying it could be radiation related they're
00:03:33| pointing radiation towards them and that's causing this auditory issue it gives them headaches and hear noises inside ology someone get brain damage like someone was seriously brain damaged
00:03:44| I thought like one of the participants anyway it was just a really weird government report I read and I was like this is the government report was like one person had brain damage the other
00:03:53| one had a complaint of nausea and something else and we're looking into it that's it and I was like it's moving on yeah yeah so what were we gonna talk about tonight like I really want to talk
00:04:08| about illiteracy but really this is crazy because my notes tonight on reading episode 66 ish cuz all I have the number but it's all I got I have a little trouble reading it
00:04:27| myself hmm what's the definition of um minor reading literacy yeah whatever is most don't even know under 10 yeah most people believe it has to do with reading writing is reading
00:04:40| that's it Yuri stop sign you're not illiterate right well it's kind of weird because people are judging via surveys whether you can read and then you have to respond to them which means and I
00:04:52| guess in today's age you have to click but in the past you probably had to write something so maybe reading and writing but it also involves other things which are not commonly
00:05:02| talked about like phonemic awareness like how things are connected when you're reading something we're like saying like cat instead I like sat like the C sound like you know how vowels are
00:05:13| connected how consonants are connected and different things look different ways how they sound well you tell me I'm gonna get diphthongs correct how literate are you I don't know if
00:05:27| actually imagine for once in my life I'm a nerd and I think I might be more literate than you potentially potentially we should talk more the test a literacy test third party test
00:05:41| yeah they're reporting testing huh if you got say anything in the comments below please submit it we'll have our lawyers check into it while a lot of people check into it and we will make
00:05:49| sure that it makes me appear more literate yeah English so another thing is that the testing for literacy is done by like four different methods which is like again reading and writing but it's
00:06:02| also like who says like I I'm literate it's like okay you're good or it's like third party like they're asking them are they literate and then there's like the test so it's like I don't know that
00:06:13| these numbers really add up like globally it's like 84 percentage did you know I got two numbers for global oh you hope yeah I got which I thought was fascinating because you know it's cool
00:06:23| which I it's hard to pin down the global literacy rate good lord because it's individual right and and global cultural relations change cultures change like people are getting internet all the time
00:06:35| but we'll say I read it was between 700 and 81 million people on one website and one billion on another that are illiterate correct that ranges from 10 to 25% roughly if you do your math and
00:06:50| not like does like where does the age range count in that like are they testing children 1850s eating 15 years at and older okay that makes reading right in whatever language you are
00:07:03| supposed to read them right well that's kind of interesting also is like is does that cover people who are mentally disabled like or even are you testing the population that have issues other
00:07:13| than just being normal I think so I think it also I wonder if I'm caught up in these calculations let's say someone moves to America from another non-speaking area whether they're legal
00:07:25| or illegal and they have a job and they speak like barely any English but they they get by like you know a menial job I imagine if they get surveyed they're considered illiterate correct yeah I
00:07:39| would think so they know they might be a doctor in Spanish or Chinese or whatever their native tongue is they're here and they're considered illiterate because they don't know how to fill out a survey
00:07:51| Ashley it's how good can you fill out this survey so we're I think so so it's it's mainly old shit I don't think that a literacy number is accurate for the global pop population
00:08:02| no but I think it's it's I was gonna say indicative but it's very I mean it points to a direction I imagine that somewhere between 10 and 25% of the globe is bad at reading and writing
00:08:15| maybe below what the average should be so I don't think it's wrong it's just I don't know that it's accurate does that make sense there's even a sentence I think I just
00:08:24| made that up no I agree with you because I read some stats that one in five people has some sort of mental disease and if it's it might be like one in ten that have like a debilitating to the
00:08:34| debilitating disease that causes them to not be able and 20% right yeah but like that's not that's kind of surprising that like that is 5% of the population globally that can't read or write that
00:08:50| be kind of higher but that has been changing over the years as people don't be more involved in technology I get it I get a global breakdown of the number for men and women uh-huh great port
00:09:02| uh-huh because I saw the United States what we're gonna so global because I guess we can do that more broad and then we'll come to America it was I have a number to that sure so global I had been
00:09:15| um about 18 percent of females are illiterate I'm in the world I have 23 percent so it's close okay right I mean it isn't it isn't but anyway and I also had that nails 10% I have 13 percent
00:09:33| okay your website lakes higher numbers that's fine it was also posted no in so I think it was more recent than yours so there's a couple that makes sense if the numbers going down right yeah and
00:09:50| there's a cult yeah there's cultural aspect as well okay for men versus women for religions that don't believe that the women should do very much outside of the home do they need to be literate a
00:10:00| little interesting because I found that in the my last world stat I got a throat a 75% of all illiterate people it the world this is 75% of them in the world are all located in South Asia West
00:10:14| Asia and sub-saharan Africa and two-thirds of those are women it's an amazing stat because most of the industrialized nations like the UK or United States even Argentina or Russia
00:10:28| all those places have like 99 yeah 99 percent literacy so you pull up a list you say literacy by country now you'll see Argentina he said Algeria Albania I'm running out of age you got
00:10:42| it throw one more I hid around the file give me another a country Turkey Mexico are there other a is Australia thank you oh yeah we got any one anyway you're going through the list and like it's
00:11:02| like ninety-eight ninety-nine point to ninety eight point six ninety seven point nine ninety nine point three and then you're like twenty three percent you're like holy shit yeah imagine doing
00:11:13| a business in a country that doesn't have people that can breathe or receipt they don't they cannot comprehend it well I don't know how you could do business like everything's verbal I
00:11:23| guess it's like of the moment like how you can't write contracts like people could never sign a contract they'd be like I could write them well what I would sign it - it couldn't prove it a
00:11:33| court of law yes yeah this is even crazier so you get poor people sucker and you're like hi you owe me all your money I wrote it in your contract and they're like and then they bring in the
00:11:43| judge he's like oh it happens to me the judge can't read it maybe they're good which shot an illiterate bitch so the the prime reason for bringing up this episode was a story about Shoeless Joe
00:11:58| Jackson he's a baseball player he was really you never heard of him yeah he was hitting I think was like early nineteen hundred's meaning like 1910 ish nineteen and 1918 I can I could imagine
00:12:11| that but yeah right he was hitting like in the 350s his batting average Diggity Dog apparently he was involved in conspiracy which leads back to our previous
00:12:23| that one he didn't get a bonus other people approached him and said we're gonna sink the World Series and he agreed to is involved at the World Series of 1919 I think ties remember was
00:12:35| a knife in white socks eaten I didn't know yeah he was involved in that apparently they were like eight people and well there were several yeah well like I don't know if there was like they
00:12:46| said there was like a contract that he signed and he gained five grand which was like seventy it's like a full year salary it's like seventy thousand dollars this year go boo but he also
00:12:58| said that he was completely illiterate so like if he signed a contract he had no idea what it meant he had no idea what was there and he in the World Series that he was trying to to sink he
00:13:12| had like the best batting average of everybody he had no errors like four or seven yeah he was now he was amazing he was like the MVP of that series yet the they still came after was yeah the MLB
00:13:25| Major League Baseball came after him and still suspended him and the prime of his his life his baseball correct they suspend report did you get that number I was just curious was I think he stopped
00:13:35| here I don't know that he could played again but that was from one story that didn't lead into the like the after-effects of his life it was more about right the conspiracy which
00:13:45| conspiracy theorists they always go off in some weird direction and you lose the reality of the situation doesn't sound like them doesn't sound like them at all yeah but that's another thing is that he
00:13:56| was completely illiterate no one really knew about it he and another guy named Dexter Manley you know Dexter Manley is he was a football player for the Washington Redskins and at 28 he had a
00:14:12| second grade reading level damn so he would fake it so he would say I was I was in the locker room and he was reading the was it it's Wall Street manual for like a helmet oh you have
00:14:27| enough yeah write that up most of the time he had a right-side up and one time his coach saw him he was like that he said his locker was right as he exited so all the players would
00:14:38| walk right by him so he would fake it like he was reading it he'd move his eyes left and right he'd be like you know really into it my man is genius and the coach walked by him one time and
00:14:49| said something's not right there and he walked back in the locker room and then it was upside down so the coach kind of knew but this guy was I mean I washing I watched a video of him talking about his
00:15:00| career and he was so charismatic and he was so into football and he loved so it's just childish oh very eloquently very I mean not eloquent I wouldn't say eloquent we
00:15:10| spoke well enough that you'll be like this guy's a normal guy very endearing he's a man-child this is how they described of him he also said that he couldn't read menus so
00:15:20| he would follow up what people would say like they'd be like oh I like this and they'd be like all I want what he wants like I like that I'm gonna pick that one so he would he would do that to a lot of
00:15:31| his teammates and teammates never even noticed that he would always worry what they ordered because he didn't know how to read the menu and then getting on he just learned to read who wanted the best
00:15:40| stuff like ah dude it's a good stuff yeah we gained head yeah now here tonight what do you usually get I'll have my usual which menu item yeah you know maze no yeah the onus is on you
00:15:56| yeah which is kind of amazing to live that like that if you can't read like street signs like how do you get to a new place it's you can I don't know that you could follow directions so this is
00:16:08| perfect that my kid is his age right now we're trying to teach him all his letters and numbers and sometimes he gets them right sometimes he gets them wrong and I think it's on purpose I
00:16:16| think he is playing with you right but but sometimes you really him like he's gonna we gonna work on focus yeah what's interesting is he essentially is an intelligent ish mind growing learning
00:16:32| he but I mean I'm comparing with someone who might be illiterate but older yeah he he he can find patterns with things that's crazy that I never would realize because he can't read or read or write
00:16:46| obviously so he sees certain signs he knows what they mean not because he can read sto peeps shape of the side and the way it is how you're supposed to react when you see that
00:16:57| shape or that color exactly like I sneezed and my son said god bless you and that's that's the best and you're like he doesn't know how no that means he just knows you say it after someone
00:17:09| sneezes and that's that's a little bit like being a literate in a literate world you just do it because you know that's what people do yeah it's weird it's fascinating
00:17:21| um like he does other things like that like he knows how to turn left and right he knows kind of how to get home like via the streets just the way they look not the street signs I'll he's like oh I
00:17:31| know we have to go west on parole or you know whatever yeah and it's he does it the other thing that's crazy is uh he plays overwatch sometimes now that's his game with toys nice nice and I can set
00:17:47| him up he usually plays against bots because I don't like him to play against real live kids because I don't know what other kids are saying and you know and he he he's bad enough where I think they
00:17:56| it's makam wrong cool so he usually plays against bots with other wives he mates and you know they play around he he understands when his specials full he knows if he pauses the menu he knows how
00:18:14| to pause it and what's started versus what's like an option he knows had a press certain buttons to do other things and I'm like you can't read anything like what do you it's like visual
00:18:24| Roselyn yeah right it's a visual memory combined with visual intuitive nasai happens to a person who might not be able to read or write like I'm not gonna sit here and
00:18:35| read I would never read anything for another person my age yeah I never be like well I'm at work today I was my guitar it says Yamaha like I'm not sitting here reading anyone that we all
00:18:47| just assume we can read so there's this gap in between where as long as you flow with what you're supposed to know I don't think anyone's gonna question you or call you out it's a weird thing so
00:18:57| the question is would you notice if anybody in your daily life was illiterate if you're always sing with verbally and they understand the verbal part of it would you know
00:19:07| that they couldn't read or write it yeah I know a guy who actually I worked with a guy worked with a guy he he would get the first letter of a street and just go with it
00:19:22| this is stopped at one well I think it's a learning issue or like a mental block or it's not out I barely heard some Tina Australia oh god that all the same they're all the same loop at fault one
00:19:36| but if he gets on the first letter of a place right and it's like B and I could have seven customers with B in it but he just says the most popular one that's B and I always just kind of brush it off
00:19:49| like no idiot it was what to a call but like looking back in my track of my brain and I'm like oh and the other thing is like if you get C fold towels or whatever haven't you get the C it's a
00:20:02| big whatever but when it's like an Old Town's well that's single point down yes that is the thing but like I'm trying to take a woody this toilet tissue so toilet
00:20:16| issue you right toilet tissue and then you write the number afterwards he has trouble he gets all confused he's like is this the toilet paper that for so-and-so and I'm like yeah it says a
00:20:27| right there dude and I always yell at him and like I give him a hard time but it's occurred to me after the fact that like he he's literate but barely thank you reckon functional literacy
00:20:38| yeah just just enough like my son's gonna catch you next year it's my thought process and the other thing is his life has changed traps drastically he can uh he's literate enough where he
00:20:54| can type an address into Google so he'll type the address into Google and it will tell him how to get somewhere so as a delivery driver you used to have to know a the name of the place B where it is C
00:21:07| work a map and all this other happening all the time to grab it off and do other things and read signs by you're going you know yeah number signs would ever figure out the address now you
00:21:17| almost don't need to be literate yeah it's kind of weird it's it's almost a cheat code is that a thing I know but nowadays it's like you there's no way you could ignore having
00:21:29| us like if you have a smartphone you want to be literate because that's the entirety of having a smartphone you're reading constantly figuring things out and you would think except that he was
00:21:37| dating a girl who may remain out of it of your own that's insane maybe possibly he would text this individual by speaking text we're sending emojis it was just literally it was just a picture
00:21:50| of himself emojis or speech-to-text and that was it the reason I've never type it out never how didn't even understand what she sent back to him would he have it read it to
00:22:03| him I caught him doing that once now that's not a lot over like a year but maybe he does it for everyone he could let me know I've know but when he goes down on hmm but either way like he's
00:22:18| functional illiterate and there's another guy used to deliver to he's a real good guy and he called everyone baby boy he's like every guy knows and I thought it was weird you said to me but
00:22:31| then like the next guy he sees he's like you give my fireman giving a little clap back and he was a good guy it's always happy always smiling still remember um he got fired from there eventually but
00:22:43| he item almost 100% sure it was illiterate but he was just super charismatic super nice he like I handed him something and said this is a 40 48 whatever he just shrugged he would have
00:22:57| no idea oh I know I know the the boxes that contain forks spoons and knives plastic ware mm-hmm disposable when they come most of the companies that make them print a picture
00:23:10| of a spoon okay a knife makes sense for this one didn't there's one company that just does fork knife spoon and I would hand him to him and he would just throw and I was like no he wants the spoons
00:23:25| over there and he'd be like yeah I hit him the next box I'm watching he's like you just throw it it's the whatever like I got a one-in-three and I was like why are you doing this you
00:23:34| always get it right it occurred to me I guess whose you use the symbols to use the guesswork yeah it's a little bit about being smart in a stupid way like you have to be smarter to be illiterate
00:23:48| like they have to remember the shape of every box the way every sign looks because they can't read I'm not saying they're smarter I'm saying they work harder yeah I'm wondering how much your
00:23:59| brain changes because you don't know language and the structure and the way it's written out so you it probably has to a lot because everyone else has an easy thing I look at a suit can you look
00:24:09| at a sign to not read it if you stare at it I don't I've hear if it's right we front of you front and center and you're like don't read this your stare at this yeah right it's a thing that just
00:24:22| happens it's just you can't turn that off you can't turn reading off in your brain right yeah well maybe those people I mean they the people are completely illiterate must I mean they have to not
00:24:32| read it but the people who are aligned or they learn it like each dirty do they just like maybe they choose maybe they're like oh wait I have to read this like that I focus again reading about it
00:24:43| for a few seconds squint give it a little old sound it out maybe give a couple letters I don't know so the sets are that there are 40 million Americans out there that don't know how to read
00:24:54| really I had 32 million again we're coming up with these weird costs my numbers no similar but different enough where all our other episodes we have like rock-solid numbers are within I
00:25:05| agree one percent this doesn't because there's no real way to test I would imagine yeah probably fluctuates every year depending on how many immigrants move into the United States as well
00:25:16| that's true too do you know how older New Year's was uh mine was 32 million and I think I got this one from 2016 as what mine says I thought mine was from actually 2017 okay so you know I doubt
00:25:29| it I doubt that say that that big of a swing but either way mine might be more update I don't know I'm not trying to claim precedents here I'm just trying to be different yeah difference in
00:25:38| timeframes so yeah mine was 2016 and mine with 32 million they estimate that's 14% of the population mm-hmm actually you might be reading a similar
00:25:49| one there was one that was talked about how they aren't able to read what was the level so mine does start out with 32 million as people illiterate in the United States and then you got the
00:26:02| percentage of adults who can't read below the fifth grade level you have that one coming up yeah I have 30 million adults okay appropriate for 10 year olds so they can't comprehend what
00:26:13| a ten-year-old would normally read it was a vinegar my fifth grade level yeah that's a lot which is I guess in your normal day-to-day life you interact with how many people I mean I probably
00:26:26| interact with maybe 50 people max maybe it's probably less than that well are you in a right do you consider interaction so when you drive next Oh probably not right no probably not the
00:26:36| people that hear about someone you buy something from like yeah that's directions or a crash here so like the cashiers and the people I directly work with they're forced to have probably
00:26:45| some literacy I'd be surprised if some way of us yeah someone my engineering field did not know how to read or write and got into the position they did that would be a shocker so I'm gonna go to
00:26:58| the big the bombshell the books of bombshell it's celebrity thing you can hit it I mean we can go down I mean I'd the people you interact with on a day-to-day basis that probably literate
00:27:11| so that they have a job and that's the reason you're interacting with them you're not going to areas where people are just doing nothing I'm not doing I mean they're living on some other form
00:27:21| of income right um so I was trying to figure out for this episode on famous people celebrities really good gritty stories they want to know if Mark Wahlberg made it as far as he did
00:27:31| without being able to read and all that stuff like I was really expecting these first intelligent Peter Drucker's yeah I found none really I don't know for actors and actresses they have to read
00:27:43| scripts right I how would you say but you have to do the scene and say this line and they're like can you repeat that okay I'm gonna do it my own way boom
00:27:52| they dropped the mic and everyone's like this guy's a genius he changed the whole script it's like well this is a good read my characters gonna fly off the handle right here you believe that it
00:28:04| says here you're sad about your father's death I'm gonna go crazy yeah I got Charlamagne you know King Charlemagne I did read about like the historical figures apparently there are a bunch of
00:28:18| people that ruled up like millions of people and they did not know how to read or write well I'll think about this if you're King from age 14 or whatever do you think yeah and you're King you can
00:28:30| literally do whatever you want read it for me most people you tell me what to do and then the other thing is do you think you gonna waste every day on reading I want to read I wanna learn how
00:28:40| to read instead of plough Cleopatra or whatever the hell they want to do yeah mmm it's like no we're gonna do the second one we're gonna eat bonbons till I burst we're gonna go shooting arrows
00:28:52| into something cool I think I'll be cool the one thing I did read about well there was a king that was illiterate but he loved the idea of knowledge and be aware does not word of mouth by written
00:29:02| word make people uh retail in oh no and this isn't like the Renaissance so he promoted all of the art and literature even though he couldn't read it I mean the visual arts obviously but yeah he
00:29:13| was like he was credited for forwarding like humankind's awareness of for a written word when he couldn't even read in well so so I did a list a list of uneducated and barely literate
00:29:28| celebrities inventors scientists things like that right I should know there's tons of lists they they show up by the thousands I had a list I said Abe Lincoln someone else I've only saw the
00:29:40| people and I was like I got it that's crazy I got a looking more into this so I looked and like all these lists suck yeah but one was like Steve Jobs two years at Harvard okay that's that's not
00:29:50| uneducated then yeah that's two years at Harvard like everyone was like he only spent six weeks at the college technology program of his dreams and then he dropped out and I'm like that
00:30:02| doesn't camp it that's beyond grade school yeah so I came with Thomas Edison he did three weeks of high school I was like but he's still but I mean you probably graduated grade school pretty
00:30:16| well the Wright brothers did not go to high school shout out the Wright brothers nice good job you did something Columbus did graduate high school ish
00:30:25| I think it's like Shady I think it's like some say they have high seagull Magpies isn't the question exactly so then I was like what's with all these other people like Abe Lincoln they keep
00:30:35| showing up everything and it's like apparently the the regulation for school and reading was different back then than it is now I was like yeah that no shit yeah and
00:30:43| they're like they're like well if he took a test now he might only have 5th grade reading level I'm like yeah 700 years later our whole language is different like you're talking about
00:30:52| apples and bananas of course of course King Tut didn't read English that well yeah so this is this is what is frustrating as well as probably but it makes me fearful of the future and teach
00:31:06| I that Floyd Mayweather he's actually one of the more accomplished people who can't read or write according to 50 cent but I believe that the for everything so it was just
00:31:14| balance sheets he couldn't read his own accounts he would spend money frivolously everywhere and again it's part of it I think it also he can't read the the room he can't read or write and
00:31:27| he can't read any police orders that say he may or may not have hit a woman hmm I read that he like would strap money to himself just in case he's gonna spend it because he didn't use a bank account for
00:31:39| most of it and bad guy so dude this brings up a correction boxing for clarification yeah hi how much charity you have to have been delivered on that one no he wouldn't he wouldn't mess up
00:31:52| man he doesn't fight people for us at 50 million so if you guys raise 50 million I'll fight him don't probably fix my nose it's broke-broke it at a concert he can probably punch it back street and I
00:32:03| would tell him he's a bad person right before he did it so well the client will pledge money good the clarification is uh how much money could you possibly carry physically we had an episode on
00:32:16| bank heists if you were carrying a duffel bag full of money how much can you carry like in pounds you can say pounds and I'll convert it for um I mean I can carry that how much is
00:32:27| in a hockey bag could you fill a hockey bag yeah hockey bags probably like 20 or it yeah so anything 50 pounds sounds about average for human male 60 dude I'm pretty gone
00:32:42| I carry stuff for a living okay cops are gonna chase you down at that point you're gonna move you have to get into a van all right give me 50 pounds what's do 50 kappa 50 are so bad if you were to
00:32:57| steal from a bank and had to run with a dog bag with 50 pounds of 20s in it which seems reasonable you'd have about half a million dollars which wouldn't be I mean it'd be a lot relatively than
00:33:08| what you might have right now but in the course of a life probably not that much did you figure it out for lesser amounts at all I mean what a fractional amount the 50 all right so what's half of fifty
00:33:19| and then half of that again so let's say so wrong 25 pounds is too much that's not what 25 pounds and half of that is twelve and a half so what's like 12 pounds like let's say I just put it in a
00:33:29| tiny duffle bag and I was like it's kind of that's a resource about yeah so you get about $125,000 that's not a hundred twenty-five K in a duffle bag we're gonna name a crime and then run it put
00:33:40| you away for years any crimes gonna put you away for years mommy yeah minimum wage job you probably earn that much in a minimum wage minimum wage job no you couldn't for shit you
00:33:51| couldn't minimum wage is screwed up dude federal prison I'm not sure from seeing it minimum wage job or prison oh I could make more I could make more well that's that minimum wait for the record I used
00:34:07| my pen and I put it through an orifice which was my hand and that was the federal prison sign for those of you who have a record deal his hand was tenting that's a term over a previous episode
00:34:19| yeah I was fully and I don't know how to say that so do you know how engorged with blood uh-huh do you know how we were just discussing a literacy in America hinges very much on racial
00:34:34| overtones yeah literacy tests get me know that mm-hm so I'm just gonna go well let's start with the history sure sure um obviously slaves squirt they were actually for a
00:34:47| while you could teach slaves read write you do whatever you want with them there was a slave uprising I believe it was before 1833 I didn't actually get the year I just know in 1833 they passed
00:34:59| a elevated Alabama slave code of 1833 mmm-hmm in that Turner's or lave rebellion and 1931 yeah okay okay yeah yes that make sense so then two years later the Alabama
00:35:11| slave code was released in 1833 they said that um you can't actually teach your slaves to read or write it's hot did you were fined at minimum two hundred and fifty dollars maximum of
00:35:23| five hundred bucks so you have to actively prevent them from reading or writing yeah which I thought was a little crazy like I thought was just they just didn't you know any mean like
00:35:31| why would you why would you do it it sounds kind of weird though I guess you're assuming that they're never gonna integrate with your country and that you're always gonna combine slight class
00:35:39| right I think maybe there was whispers that it was gonna end soon maybe there's whispers I don't know well the Civil War was in nineteen sixty five right so that was like 30 years like
00:35:50| thirty years away so I'm not sure if you can hear a whisper thirty years prior but maybe I haven't I don't know now what's really weird to serve three states that didn't pass it I don't know
00:35:59| if add some little with it like Tennessee border states mason-dixon line yeah so I think that had to do with it anyway a really a little bit of the beginning of how the racial line began I
00:36:13| guess hmm obviously slavery obviously when they were released did you want to give newly released black slaves a job no no they can't read it right it's almost like to keep them away like sure
00:36:26| they're free people guess what they know you can't read or write they can't work for me so it's the physical labor you love the physical labor aspect of it aren't sure those people back then in
00:36:36| the 1800's sit right right there's no slave labor on the impaler's or for the record yeah too expensive unless you call what I do slavery flavor so
00:36:48| hey love the civil wars you know when there's NY huh oh yeah no oh oh say there's another group on women so that you know in 1730 this has gone back a bit of a waste but
00:37:01| this is the crazy big number 50% of women were considered illiterate so some of that's like a religious base it's kind of funky bit yeah I guess whoever has power whoever is the predominant
00:37:15| force gets to decide things and then if they say that you don't need to be doing this you just don't do it because you can't fight the proper dominant power all right that's right that's right
00:37:26| that's understood I wouldn't even know one can argue with that my question becomes then is learning to read or write and that hard or expensive or time-consuming it's a process that I I
00:37:40| was just gifted I I was given it from an early age and I just did it do you think it's could you put a value on it I have no idea hmm so the value my is like the job that you could get if there was no
00:37:53| job available for you which what would you put them the value of it in today's age I mean that's probably sake let's say they outlawed reading and writing for certain people know for like
00:38:05| everybody government did it lets a super big wall no teachers there's knowing that your country could survive because you'd have people in other countries that would totally crush you and hiring
00:38:17| is I know at all that doesn't really help our exercise here though no no but if they did how would they squash it they take away the internet they take away books they take away children's
00:38:31| books hey almost too hard now because of your visa yeah yeah song could you take away you two to all YouTube would be gone yeah internet would be heavily heavily sensor it's kinda like rap music
00:38:47| like that I think some of the people that start out when R&B was like really beginning that like you you would listen to a rap song and learn how to say certain words or people who were more
00:38:59| elegant or more sorry like who is he example hatred a song in LSD and he began every rhyme with hey I or Dynasty LSD LSD liquid say some sock is that okay he said probably
00:39:17| it is yeah not to be confused with ASAP Rocky Aesop Rock most eloquent rappers so there's like a like a rappers dictionary is one of the most interesting things about how educated
00:39:31| people can be so Aesop Rock is in the top count for 7392 unique words used in all of his songs is this um dictionary unique words used obviously yeah unique words used with Ricky's first first
00:39:47| thirty thousand year lyrics char leveled off thirty five thirty minutes give me the top five GZA which I don't know who that is actually okay I know GZA yeah I
00:39:57| thought I listed some of that stuff yeah I got mostly and then kool keith the top three cannabis and cunning linguist I know I'm familiar kinda linguist fan over here yeah it's like so in a way
00:40:16| that you're leading back to like trying to trying to break out of illiteracy it makes sense that rap would come out of that because you're trying to teach other people who may not be reading
00:40:26| books but they're using other forms of media to understand how to be literate how to understand bigger words that might mean bigger things which then you could match later on in life to
00:40:36| something else we're gonna get into some crazy um I think we're going here but so I'm an English major I literally studied the English language love it really good at it
00:40:47| I don't always purvey it because maybe I'm drinking some people say I have an accent that is not North Jersey accent whoever said that just get out it's also not Minnesota whoever said
00:41:02| that get out whoever said it's East Texas and it's incorrect also they like toughen on East Texas so I'm playing I've spent years read countless papers say these stories novels epics plays
00:41:18| everything Shakespeare everybody the interesting thing about the English language is its in some respects its stone it's hard there are rules to it they're participles there are ways
00:41:29| you're supposed to say certain things people are always like Nick you majored in English are you supposed to say is it better than or better than like it and it's better than everyone knows that but
00:41:41| sometimes people ask me I'm like I don't have any frigging idea and it doesn't matter until the whoa whoa you got a degree in English you're supposed to know this there's something about
00:41:51| language that changes it's constantly changing mm-hmm to keep it solid and to keep it unchanging is actually a crime we were just we were touching on racial things and everything yeah like people
00:42:07| say on rap songs or Ebonics is not allowed to be a word people who say ain't is incorrect mmm it's like ah you can't like that not going to I always say gonna even an emails to people I say
00:42:22| gonna I say y'all all the time like that's my favorite one we're just funny I mean but it's it's a turn I don't if you write y'all or an email I'm not gonna blink use I don't
00:42:32| care you say use I don't care not gonna bother me English language is very Florence forming moving fluid thing that's perfect important and I think to say that it's too still
00:42:45| and too structured and to unyielding is almost not racist because I'm not gonna say mostly African Americans change it but but a majority of African Americans do change it and to say that that's not
00:42:59| allowed is like saying there are not allowed yes the vernacular changes with the people and if the majority of people are using a vernacular let it go who cares I stopped capitalizing I four
00:43:14| years ago stupid English language no one cares that I do it but at the same time I don't care that no one cares I as a capital is so weird it's like me isn't capitalized but I ins
00:43:28| there's so many things that unit language that we still do to this day that don't make sense they don't they don't have any bearing half of them are based on old dudes with powdery wigs who
00:43:38| said that it should be a certain way the language is based off from what stuff in the UK they used to do in this 1600s and G old and the language changes I'm not saying we should change it all every day
00:43:50| but hey Webster's got the right idea how many new words so they'd accept every year like for six years words I'm gonna have to look done I deal with words every year or is it just one career day
00:44:00| allowing like selfie was the big word like ten years ago was like people our language is changing we can say selfie and it's a word but who decides what what literacy is it's it's the
00:44:14| gatekeepers so approximately a thousand maybe we put new words every year oh that's a lot of words like 10 to 20 I thought but I guess one some of them were conjugations of words like I'm
00:44:28| selfing selfies is different and selfie yeah yeah if you're gonna do multiples as essentially the same idea different conjugations getcha plus you have other conjugates that once you introduce a new
00:44:40| verb it's like couldn't wouldn't shouldn't all those things are kind of like in the same hole part what there's like 30,000 of them like 30 30 so it's not bad huh actually still at me it's
00:44:54| still a lot it's probably like 150 to words now who do you think is generating most of those new words do you think it's people who are illiterate or people who
00:45:03| are younger or people against you know the establishment you say you thing they're trying to make their own world essentially they're kind of make their own universe well think of we still
00:45:14| don't say touching on what I just said we don't say ye olde alehouse as extremists as it does why don't we because language changes and it usually changes to the greater number of people
00:45:29| so who are the greater number people the elite rich people or poor common folk Colin fuck man for the win Elliot taking over the world what language should true
00:45:41| so which is the beginning I guess who's to judge whether you're literate or not so literacy tests is a real thing that happened in the nineteen or 1850s and actually the 1960s again it was one of
00:45:55| the things that was trying to SB may be derogatory a separatist kind of like racially classification a racial racial classification for people who were voting so people would come up with
00:46:07| these tests and prove that you had to understand English and some level you had to comprehend it in order to vote which was shot down fifteen the men's what year was this
00:46:22| so is 1850s and 1960s I think was right after the Civil War - because there were two World War yeah all right Jim Crow laws the second one nineteen ones 1960s okay so trainable yeah it was focused on
00:46:36| African Americans so like the way you phrased the test would be to exclude writings that they did they didn't they wouldn't use normally in there like Wars right which was against our Constitution
00:46:48| right you didn't have any examples right I was just curious no I didn't have a and some articles that stuff to like what what was it an actual test would the test even make sense to us as sixty
00:47:02| years removed from so that's a good question will language makes sense to us in sixty years from now probably not I guess the other question don't sneeze selfies ninja by the way four nine times
00:47:15| yeah well this search term reveal what you really want to know on the Internet right no I don't know will not but should people be the literate so the question really is like I mean I know
00:47:29| these were used for segregating people and making sure people couldn't vote do people really need to know the subject matter at hand in order to vote like if you don't understand climate change or
00:47:41| you think the whole earth is flat do those people deserve the right to vote in our Constitution it says yes but in our outer police so a little bit what you're getting into is that
00:47:55| is a person who is considered learn it is their opinion worth more I think that you should listen to the person who's most educated and level minded if they're able to analyze something
00:48:11| objectively and give objective evidence and tell you why you should believe it maybe people should buy into that and then vote accordingly but people don't tend to do that what if the trend
00:48:24| happens we're flat earth become super popular like not more than two percent of the population I'm talking like 15 percent 25 percent of the population politicians now have to cater to the
00:48:35| flat earthers and say oh well if the earth was flat what if they did just because it was you know politics has no spine anyway it's not like they were like they stand for anything or
00:48:45| science or anything yeah let me say lynch is popular and everyone knows it's the popular thing with young people whatever and then they went with the majority rule how would you respond
00:48:55| something like that because that's clearly I mean I don't agree with it either but I almost would be like I wouldn't be able to sway the vote anyway because I'm just one vote if he was
00:49:04| looking for Ike a swing area that had like a majority of people that believe they were flat earthers or majority of people that believe from Flat Earth and I guess both like you you I would just
00:49:17| be just made I would be I couldn't believe that the Democratic right voting system would destroy a scientific fact so we get a little bit about um can people rule people because the masses
00:49:32| that they're easily swayed what's the word I'm looking for I would say they're not actually said hey there you go ignorant that's a good way to put it they're ignorant of maybe too many facts
00:49:43| so we've come full circle where we said I'm glad the the common folk can bring language they can bring everything but can the common folk be trusted with let's say deciding on science preserving
00:49:55| the country and things that are good for people in general well the will the general public be able to vote on things that will make it better for the general public
00:50:04| well I don't know I don't think that the general public totally now yeah I don't think they understand the complexity of the situation to understand that you need to
00:50:14| vote a certain way or do a certain thing to fix things it might be painful but it might be better for you so that like anything that involves more than two steps people don't follow a lot of the
00:50:25| time I don't agree at all what's interesting then is that we're running into what LEDs level of education should a person have we all agree they should be literate yeah so are in a perfect
00:50:42| world a perfect world everyone should be literate correct I hope so I hope I could write something down and someone could understand it if I give them the note and say can you do
00:50:49| this right that's perfect and be able to read someone else's writings you know and they'd be able to write their own answers back and be perfect above that do we want everyone to do high school I
00:50:59| guess for voting it's what a teen for commenting on the Internet it's any age goes and people still like yeah you're gonna see all load of comments about random BS they're all Brian abuse mostly
00:51:14| yeah or BOTS and robots you're absolutely correct I just I think talking about literacy I didn't think we're gonna go there but we're almost talking about people in general right
00:51:28| yeah how how people understand is really what we're talking about I guess so here's a question I know to possibly illiterate people for my day-to-day life mm-hmm I know for a fact that they're
00:51:45| not that deep actually no the one the one guy who called our own big boy he can get really deep into football he knew about like which coaches were really good and you say like this coach
00:51:55| is really good but like his team never won you're like well we never had the team and is like the team's important it's like well coach really cause a play and then you talk about which players
00:52:03| you have and you push the players in right - right like city and did he go up against right did you go up against the right team and every year you went up against the 90s bills that was like the
00:52:12| buzz saw at the time like he would have won except for this and he's like well I guess it also depends their defense always so put more onus on the offense and he's talking like it's a very
00:52:20| multifaceted multi very it's very complex so someone who can read or write when you learn to read or write are you gaining any new thought process on complexity of thought do you
00:52:33| think a book are you understand like advanced physics or like how the universe is laid out or programming languages maybe yeah I don't know my level of mathematics I don't know does
00:52:46| it help you become smarter in other areas essentially what you're asking hmm I don't know it's difficult to say because I don't though it must the people I'm guessing
00:52:57| I'm generalizing people that I think are illiterate um they're not actual people because I don't know people that aren't actually illiterate in my day to day life and I don't even even I do but I
00:53:08| can't ask them or figure out something that they you know II mean I also can't just assume from them what does I just can't express it I guess that's the thing you're getting at is if they can
00:53:17| understand that like existentialism like do you do you fear your own existence like do you think he would understand what you were saying he'd just be like X's and then he'd fade off you like it
00:53:27| begins with an e I think I could teach the one about existential thought processes like being that thinking process but he could never regurgitate it back to you in a way that we'd be
00:53:40| like no I guess he wouldn't be able to teach anyone else I don't know I guess learning to read and write kind of helps you organize stuff in your brain so you can convey it and share it
00:53:51| yeah maybe share it in general because you have to do that before you put it the pen and paper anyway right things get information it just hangs out in here or whatever but if you're going to
00:54:01| put something to pen and paper it has to organize turn into a thought turn into a concise actual physical medium that you're gonna put down on pen and paper and give it to someone else so it's
00:54:11| really like giving yourself back which is interesting it's very personal ah it was literacy personal based giving yourself a voice that is not present means my guess whose voice so their time
00:54:28| shifted voice you could write something down someone could read it later you could spread it to more people and are in front of you yeah so you there's I don't know that in today's
00:54:38| world that's powerful but in the past world that must be a source of power that if you didn't have newspapers you had no way of reading learning to be literate you could use literacy against
00:54:49| other people which you know I don't think we've ever heard that in my my education no one ever said they used this against what other people's power or they did Oh after they did if you
00:55:01| could write a note to your friend and send it to him and then he could understand what you're saying and other people just didn't like time travel or something hmm hmm oh this gets to have
00:55:13| you seen the movie arrival no no inside who's that so spoiler alert so a rival is all about an alien coming down to earth and then there are linguists that are in
00:55:24| interacting with it trying to understand what it's saying and it's trying to teach a universal language that gives you I guess powers quote-unquote to understand various aspects of the
00:55:34| universe so you're gonna use this language in the future to talk to other races because it's universal not that partner you going so do they figure it out they there's one language that does
00:55:50| figure it out Amy Adams I believe is the one who figures it out yeah okay yeah yeah I don't for me it was it didn't make sense because of the way that the language is
00:56:03| conveyed because it was mostly visual like for me a language that would be universal movie something as much alien you just watch it yeah a bunch of eggplants no but uh mark
00:56:18| yeah do you think that other other aliens would have different methods of communication that might not be visual they might be like verbal or they could feel them or you could send out pulses
00:56:28| or something right yeah electromagnetic you think that all of those things would be enveloped in this one language so it's like that language was a tool maybe the future is that we have some other
00:56:41| higher learning higher method of communication so if you were to travel in the future you might be a complete idiot because people don't understand it's verbal language hmm which do you
00:56:53| think is harder to learn let's take Jeannie free lunch Jeannie moon teeny porcini she never got for you never paid for a meal so Jake you love dating Jeannie is the wild child I'm
00:57:13| sorry if you haven't watched a previous episode she was raised to age 12 in complete isolation with no social interaction whatsoever she was given food chained to a bed like
00:57:23| no one talked to her no one turned teacher Drita right so people surmise that she's like feral man she's like can we teach someone who's been alive for 12 years to read
00:57:34| can we teach them to write are they inherently good or they inherently evil every psychology class the world loves Jeannie I don't because I'm just I love her but she has never paid for me there
00:57:47| like Joe but um I don't know what is the difference between like visual and audible understanding is there is one that's easier I have no idea I'm just thinking of it out loud right now like
00:58:00| it's almost easier verbal but that's because you're you're talking to people since you're born yeah because you have somebody that comes down and dating with a verbal you're its own TV it's every
00:58:11| other person you meet but if it came down to it and he never spoke one you never heard one you never wrote one down anything and you tried to learn language from day one at age 12 or whatever which
00:58:23| would be easier I'll put it this way a visual fish I I agree with it visually easier it's there it's verbal it's like moving too quick and you're like what the person who's made a noise a mouth
00:58:34| and I gotta figure out what and they're making another noise the visual you can see it it stays there doesn't change also say phonetics so if you're like looking for a new word and you don't
00:58:45| have to say it the phonetics look like they're gibberish they're like an alien language trying to figure out how to say a new word and that does it for like something that's visual it's discreet
00:58:57| it's right in front of you for something that's right moving in a fluid it's one word in a sentence and you have to understand this sentence in like five seven five seconds
00:59:04| all right rupture the sentence and yeah and you can't you can't stare at it once it's out and in your ears like it's kind of going you're like in control over that was I don't know what happened just
00:59:14| sweetheart like cookies I don't think that you could understand language without listening to it for a very long time alright great so lastly I just wanted to talk long and I think you
00:59:30| bring good insight into this hmm I hope you mentioned the beginning of the episode you think we're heading towards a world that's less illiterate sorry just Wednesday let's eliminate more
00:59:42| illiterate I mean all the graphs show that we're becoming more illiterate as a world but we're getting to this weird area where we can express ourselves through it's like video chat like the
00:59:54| video chat we're having right now ten years ago I don't know that we can do it I don't think so so we're maybe we're heading towards another visual like epic where we can talk without speaking maybe
01:00:07| we don't need the verbal part of it we don't mean we don't need to right so there are all these studies out here that talk on um people who have more sex and more emojis more sex yes I said sex
01:00:21| I have said more emojis cuz it's more understandable to a wider base of people which they pull their sex from I think it's more less speaking less fancy terms less whatever it's just like you can
01:00:37| send a smiley face a winged face you're on tinder you don't to write a whole big sentence like someone this is a thing that's happening in language right now literacy everything when I talk to
01:00:47| people online I think people were more apt to use fewer words or main common words and memes they use gifs and memes that's like the new language and it's it's dumber than the language I grew up
01:01:01| on but I will say that the language that came before me was probably way more eloquent than mine there's a comedian that makes a joke about um Civil War letters he found from his grandfather I
01:01:12| was like dearest to Lois I have come to you in means of a mains are you have come to me and I have found myself in a vision that you are more beautiful than any sunshine I have ever
01:01:24| seen on a day and then like he goes on and on it's like so eloquent beautiful but when I send anything to my wife it's like hey babe after acne maybe we can uh maybe we can bone and then the next
01:01:37| generations like it's just sending a fortnight meme and then like a pelvis thrust it's like I plant like a little yeah it's a little eggplant little squirt mochi but like cuz for me to make
01:01:49| fun of a younger generation I would have to make fun of my home and say we were all so dumber than so whatever this is playing out in Hollywood movies where the Halloween movies that are making the
01:01:59| most money are the ones that apply to like the world economy so you can uh you can do like a Transformers where there's just a bunch of explosions and stuff that there's no it's no speech and that
01:02:10| asian community can buy into it which Pacific Rim there's just like robots battling giant aliens I don't need to know this story yes the only backlog and discourse and all that stuff mm-hmm
01:02:23| so I think discourse on the way down but language barely literacy is on the way up is that what you're saying I think so I think I am I think comprehension might be higher but explaining the
01:02:36| comprehension was lower extremely high level complicated thought is on the downswing maybe maybe that's the downfall of the world that we become so visually based that we can't really talk
01:02:53| about issues oh no this is happening this is happening I don't know real typing I think it is I think I just see all the all the Twitter box with all the democratic-republican Trump Clinton just
01:03:07| to having them all go back and forth about like one-offs it's nothing nothing in depth so where do we see the most eloquent speech it's not your tweet it's usually not a Facebook post
01:03:19| you don't write letters to your friends anymore right I see it in like how does she technical drivers actually okay so I have to but their paint was a bio major and an
01:03:31| English major most bio papers and high-level data stuff is very smart and it's it's written fairly well but it's so dry and it's hard all surgery is painful to read hard to read so I'm
01:03:46| actually good writing oh I will say we're like Wikipedia and then Wikipedia the simple English version no way there's a simpler version of Wikipedia and I didn't I didn't know there's a
01:03:57| simple English version that explains it not using any higher level English because I think Wikipedia is fairly it's straightforward Dancy Emily yeah it's not it's not too fancy
01:04:09| now for the episode I know we're about an hour in we're highly educated college-educated individuals right would you say we're literate as well most certainly okay so we can read just about
01:04:23| any paper we pick up it's in English correct I actually at this point yeah yeah I mean there might be a few term that we need to search in to research but oh sure I'm sure we also could
01:04:33| search them really quickly with our smartphones that - yeah almost immediately you could figure it out so to round out we don't know what the hell is going on the language but it's
01:04:47| changing but it's also been changing for years but it's also hyper connected now so wait simple English for Wikipedia's definition yeah it is suggested that articles are simplified using only the
01:04:59| thousand most common and basic words in the English language and fewer complex grammatical structures shorter sentences and conform to a certain skill level no complex sentences thank God I don't want
01:05:11| to see a goddamn semicolon in there come for the book at that guy refer to two subjects of the same sentence no okay yeah I don't think so hmm well um we go nowhere with this episode we're really
01:05:26| it was more of deep and they went elsewhere I'm surprised actually good thing we can speak to each other and understand what we're talking about what a good thing we're both literate good
01:05:37| thing but we didn't have to write it down or read it so while I did but who knows if we're literally you could be a literate I definitely readings quickl this is
01:05:49| tonight circle circle sine-wave reminds me of those bottle caps close your wedding speech oh is that what you did you did a bunch of words you had a bunch of words on the sheet of paper
01:06:07| they weren't words they were fake no really I 15 minutes making fake pages from pandered and I used to like words yeah you like that yeah then I threw them all so I wrote like squiggle
01:06:19| squiggle and then I did a little dot and then I tried to mimic language I don't know why I spent so much time doing it because it was throwaway I got into Zoey and I was like what would a paragraph
01:06:29| look like cause like doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo dot dot and I was a good I did it and then I did paragraph break dude I squiggle and then I did like a wavy sign and then I did a little diddle
01:06:37| diddle and all the best and all for when I gave your speech and I said well this is all things 100 and I do Oh couldn't see them and I throw it off in the air it was it was a good effect
01:06:48| yeah y'all could use that for your best man speech so mad that's uh it was great and it was endearing and I loved it thank you and the most amazing thing is I looked at your girlfriend when you
01:07:01| were doing it and she had this look on her face like this is why I'm with this guy like that's what I that's what I saw in her she was smiling at me like that's your best friend I was like it's a
01:07:12| person you bone and then but so I mean no there was no mixing but Dexter Manley actually married somebody that had a bachelor's degree of science I think is from Arizona State or something so he
01:07:27| married somebody who was far more educated than him who didn't realize that he couldn't read or write and she ended up teaching you know she didn't know and then he told him to read him
01:07:39| right yeah so for the male versus female component if a man is just charismatic and could have express himself without having to read or write it still makes him a viable me it makes him so the hing
01:07:54| go up the line it's interesting we do holo aside of weather intelligence really reflects education that's a whole episode unto itself
01:08:04| yeah yeah I do a little recap we cover sure let's recap here did like percentage global literacy illiteracy we sure did we did yeah all the rape develop content oh yeah that was in
01:08:20| America I don't know the racial and gender lines in other countries because they have their own history but we have a very not pretty history here yeah we touched on what manual labor a little
01:08:32| bit we touched on Dexter Manley and then what Shoeless Joe Jackson talk about notable figures who were illiterate which didn't seem to apply unless you were King no no none and then the slave
01:08:48| rebellion and literacy tests and and the a morphic field of language a morphic blob the other thing flow and transient nature of language phonetic was France
01:09:05| mm-hmm and we are done strange and then we talked on the rappers and there it's dictionaries vocabularies what was that called their unique words word yeah Aesop Rock GZA cool Keith look who's not
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00:01:18| all right so I do have a correction from last time I knew you would I think we're talking about conspiracy theories and footsteps on the moon that you can see you through a let's go yeah telescope I
00:01:38| blanked on going yeah I was like megabyte guys apparently the optics are such that you can only see about a like a football fields width like length sorry length
00:01:48| that makes more sense on the moon so you would never be able to see a footprint or the flag or the lander so the resolution only gets as good as like mind regards ish yes somewhere in that
00:02:01| range I think it was like 238 not gonna don't quote me on that feat and then so we de couldn't really prove you couldn't prove as an individual you were lied on something else called LRO which is like
00:02:12| an optics satellite that nASA has that could show that there was someone had landed someone who walked from here yeah ah trust the government and NASA NASA landed on the moon is NASA that word
00:02:29| only I am I'm glad you fixed that I also had a correction sure I said my quiz weren't real hey I mean they were oh they're not we're gonna fake like they can't get to
00:02:45| your brain inside your house inside I did it read my family all fake go about your daily lives don't mind us and we wouldn't pander so everything's fine everything's
00:02:57| hunky-dory yeah sonic invasion which may have come up in the news I don't know if it comes up again by the time this episode is released do catch that about which which
00:03:10| aspect Chinese diplo diplomats yeah it's just the one where they're getting I mean I heard the one about hubris and headaches yeah and there was one Cuba - there's one in Cuba and possibly one in
00:03:23| like the Chinese diplomat area like Korea yeah that conspiracy experts said it was not possible but someone is also saying it could be radiation related they're
00:03:33| pointing radiation towards them and that's causing this auditory issue it gives them headaches and hear noises inside ology someone get brain damage like someone was seriously brain damaged
00:03:44| I thought like one of the participants anyway it was just a really weird government report I read and I was like this is the government report was like one person had brain damage the other
00:03:53| one had a complaint of nausea and something else and we're looking into it that's it and I was like it's moving on yeah yeah so what were we gonna talk about tonight like I really want to talk
00:04:08| about illiteracy but really this is crazy because my notes tonight on reading episode 66 ish cuz all I have the number but it's all I got I have a little trouble reading it
00:04:27| myself hmm what's the definition of um minor reading literacy yeah whatever is most don't even know under 10 yeah most people believe it has to do with reading writing is reading
00:04:40| that's it Yuri stop sign you're not illiterate right well it's kind of weird because people are judging via surveys whether you can read and then you have to respond to them which means and I
00:04:52| guess in today's age you have to click but in the past you probably had to write something so maybe reading and writing but it also involves other things which are not commonly
00:05:02| talked about like phonemic awareness like how things are connected when you're reading something we're like saying like cat instead I like sat like the C sound like you know how vowels are
00:05:13| connected how consonants are connected and different things look different ways how they sound well you tell me I'm gonna get diphthongs correct how literate are you I don't know if
00:05:27| actually imagine for once in my life I'm a nerd and I think I might be more literate than you potentially potentially we should talk more the test a literacy test third party test
00:05:41| yeah they're reporting testing huh if you got say anything in the comments below please submit it we'll have our lawyers check into it while a lot of people check into it and we will make
00:05:49| sure that it makes me appear more literate yeah English so another thing is that the testing for literacy is done by like four different methods which is like again reading and writing but it's
00:06:02| also like who says like I I'm literate it's like okay you're good or it's like third party like they're asking them are they literate and then there's like the test so it's like I don't know that
00:06:13| these numbers really add up like globally it's like 84 percentage did you know I got two numbers for global oh you hope yeah I got which I thought was fascinating because you know it's cool
00:06:23| which I it's hard to pin down the global literacy rate good lord because it's individual right and and global cultural relations change cultures change like people are getting internet all the time
00:06:35| but we'll say I read it was between 700 and 81 million people on one website and one billion on another that are illiterate correct that ranges from 10 to 25% roughly if you do your math and
00:06:50| not like does like where does the age range count in that like are they testing children 1850s eating 15 years at and older okay that makes reading right in whatever language you are
00:07:03| supposed to read them right well that's kind of interesting also is like is does that cover people who are mentally disabled like or even are you testing the population that have issues other
00:07:13| than just being normal I think so I think it also I wonder if I'm caught up in these calculations let's say someone moves to America from another non-speaking area whether they're legal
00:07:25| or illegal and they have a job and they speak like barely any English but they they get by like you know a menial job I imagine if they get surveyed they're considered illiterate correct yeah I
00:07:39| would think so they know they might be a doctor in Spanish or Chinese or whatever their native tongue is they're here and they're considered illiterate because they don't know how to fill out a survey
00:07:51| Ashley it's how good can you fill out this survey so we're I think so so it's it's mainly old shit I don't think that a literacy number is accurate for the global pop population
00:08:02| no but I think it's it's I was gonna say indicative but it's very I mean it points to a direction I imagine that somewhere between 10 and 25% of the globe is bad at reading and writing
00:08:15| maybe below what the average should be so I don't think it's wrong it's just I don't know that it's accurate does that make sense there's even a sentence I think I just
00:08:24| made that up no I agree with you because I read some stats that one in five people has some sort of mental disease and if it's it might be like one in ten that have like a debilitating to the
00:08:34| debilitating disease that causes them to not be able and 20% right yeah but like that's not that's kind of surprising that like that is 5% of the population globally that can't read or write that
00:08:50| be kind of higher but that has been changing over the years as people don't be more involved in technology I get it I get a global breakdown of the number for men and women uh-huh great port
00:09:02| uh-huh because I saw the United States what we're gonna so global because I guess we can do that more broad and then we'll come to America it was I have a number to that sure so global I had been
00:09:15| um about 18 percent of females are illiterate I'm in the world I have 23 percent so it's close okay right I mean it isn't it isn't but anyway and I also had that nails 10% I have 13 percent
00:09:33| okay your website lakes higher numbers that's fine it was also posted no in so I think it was more recent than yours so there's a couple that makes sense if the numbers going down right yeah and
00:09:50| there's a cult yeah there's cultural aspect as well okay for men versus women for religions that don't believe that the women should do very much outside of the home do they need to be literate a
00:10:00| little interesting because I found that in the my last world stat I got a throat a 75% of all illiterate people it the world this is 75% of them in the world are all located in South Asia West
00:10:14| Asia and sub-saharan Africa and two-thirds of those are women it's an amazing stat because most of the industrialized nations like the UK or United States even Argentina or Russia
00:10:28| all those places have like 99 yeah 99 percent literacy so you pull up a list you say literacy by country now you'll see Argentina he said Algeria Albania I'm running out of age you got
00:10:42| it throw one more I hid around the file give me another a country Turkey Mexico are there other a is Australia thank you oh yeah we got any one anyway you're going through the list and like it's
00:11:02| like ninety-eight ninety-nine point to ninety eight point six ninety seven point nine ninety nine point three and then you're like twenty three percent you're like holy shit yeah imagine doing
00:11:13| a business in a country that doesn't have people that can breathe or receipt they don't they cannot comprehend it well I don't know how you could do business like everything's verbal I
00:11:23| guess it's like of the moment like how you can't write contracts like people could never sign a contract they'd be like I could write them well what I would sign it - it couldn't prove it a
00:11:33| court of law yes yeah this is even crazier so you get poor people sucker and you're like hi you owe me all your money I wrote it in your contract and they're like and then they bring in the
00:11:43| judge he's like oh it happens to me the judge can't read it maybe they're good which shot an illiterate bitch so the the prime reason for bringing up this episode was a story about Shoeless Joe
00:11:58| Jackson he's a baseball player he was really you never heard of him yeah he was hitting I think was like early nineteen hundred's meaning like 1910 ish nineteen and 1918 I can I could imagine
00:12:11| that but yeah right he was hitting like in the 350s his batting average Diggity Dog apparently he was involved in conspiracy which leads back to our previous
00:12:23| that one he didn't get a bonus other people approached him and said we're gonna sink the World Series and he agreed to is involved at the World Series of 1919 I think ties remember was
00:12:35| a knife in white socks eaten I didn't know yeah he was involved in that apparently they were like eight people and well there were several yeah well like I don't know if there was like they
00:12:46| said there was like a contract that he signed and he gained five grand which was like seventy it's like a full year salary it's like seventy thousand dollars this year go boo but he also
00:12:58| said that he was completely illiterate so like if he signed a contract he had no idea what it meant he had no idea what was there and he in the World Series that he was trying to to sink he
00:13:12| had like the best batting average of everybody he had no errors like four or seven yeah he was now he was amazing he was like the MVP of that series yet the they still came after was yeah the MLB
00:13:25| Major League Baseball came after him and still suspended him and the prime of his his life his baseball correct they suspend report did you get that number I was just curious was I think he stopped
00:13:35| here I don't know that he could played again but that was from one story that didn't lead into the like the after-effects of his life it was more about right the conspiracy which
00:13:45| conspiracy theorists they always go off in some weird direction and you lose the reality of the situation doesn't sound like them doesn't sound like them at all yeah but that's another thing is that he
00:13:56| was completely illiterate no one really knew about it he and another guy named Dexter Manley you know Dexter Manley is he was a football player for the Washington Redskins and at 28 he had a
00:14:12| second grade reading level damn so he would fake it so he would say I was I was in the locker room and he was reading the was it it's Wall Street manual for like a helmet oh you have
00:14:27| enough yeah write that up most of the time he had a right-side up and one time his coach saw him he was like that he said his locker was right as he exited so all the players would
00:14:38| walk right by him so he would fake it like he was reading it he'd move his eyes left and right he'd be like you know really into it my man is genius and the coach walked by him one time and
00:14:49| said something's not right there and he walked back in the locker room and then it was upside down so the coach kind of knew but this guy was I mean I washing I watched a video of him talking about his
00:15:00| career and he was so charismatic and he was so into football and he loved so it's just childish oh very eloquently very I mean not eloquent I wouldn't say eloquent we
00:15:10| spoke well enough that you'll be like this guy's a normal guy very endearing he's a man-child this is how they described of him he also said that he couldn't read menus so
00:15:20| he would follow up what people would say like they'd be like oh I like this and they'd be like all I want what he wants like I like that I'm gonna pick that one so he would he would do that to a lot of
00:15:31| his teammates and teammates never even noticed that he would always worry what they ordered because he didn't know how to read the menu and then getting on he just learned to read who wanted the best
00:15:40| stuff like ah dude it's a good stuff yeah we gained head yeah now here tonight what do you usually get I'll have my usual which menu item yeah you know maze no yeah the onus is on you
00:15:56| yeah which is kind of amazing to live that like that if you can't read like street signs like how do you get to a new place it's you can I don't know that you could follow directions so this is
00:16:08| perfect that my kid is his age right now we're trying to teach him all his letters and numbers and sometimes he gets them right sometimes he gets them wrong and I think it's on purpose I
00:16:16| think he is playing with you right but but sometimes you really him like he's gonna we gonna work on focus yeah what's interesting is he essentially is an intelligent ish mind growing learning
00:16:32| he but I mean I'm comparing with someone who might be illiterate but older yeah he he he can find patterns with things that's crazy that I never would realize because he can't read or read or write
00:16:46| obviously so he sees certain signs he knows what they mean not because he can read sto peeps shape of the side and the way it is how you're supposed to react when you see that
00:16:57| shape or that color exactly like I sneezed and my son said god bless you and that's that's the best and you're like he doesn't know how no that means he just knows you say it after someone
00:17:09| sneezes and that's that's a little bit like being a literate in a literate world you just do it because you know that's what people do yeah it's weird it's fascinating
00:17:21| um like he does other things like that like he knows how to turn left and right he knows kind of how to get home like via the streets just the way they look not the street signs I'll he's like oh I
00:17:31| know we have to go west on parole or you know whatever yeah and it's he does it the other thing that's crazy is uh he plays overwatch sometimes now that's his game with toys nice nice and I can set
00:17:47| him up he usually plays against bots because I don't like him to play against real live kids because I don't know what other kids are saying and you know and he he he's bad enough where I think they
00:17:56| it's makam wrong cool so he usually plays against bots with other wives he mates and you know they play around he he understands when his specials full he knows if he pauses the menu he knows how
00:18:14| to pause it and what's started versus what's like an option he knows had a press certain buttons to do other things and I'm like you can't read anything like what do you it's like visual
00:18:24| Roselyn yeah right it's a visual memory combined with visual intuitive nasai happens to a person who might not be able to read or write like I'm not gonna sit here and
00:18:35| read I would never read anything for another person my age yeah I never be like well I'm at work today I was my guitar it says Yamaha like I'm not sitting here reading anyone that we all
00:18:47| just assume we can read so there's this gap in between where as long as you flow with what you're supposed to know I don't think anyone's gonna question you or call you out it's a weird thing so
00:18:57| the question is would you notice if anybody in your daily life was illiterate if you're always sing with verbally and they understand the verbal part of it would you know
00:19:07| that they couldn't read or write it yeah I know a guy who actually I worked with a guy worked with a guy he he would get the first letter of a street and just go with it
00:19:22| this is stopped at one well I think it's a learning issue or like a mental block or it's not out I barely heard some Tina Australia oh god that all the same they're all the same loop at fault one
00:19:36| but if he gets on the first letter of a place right and it's like B and I could have seven customers with B in it but he just says the most popular one that's B and I always just kind of brush it off
00:19:49| like no idiot it was what to a call but like looking back in my track of my brain and I'm like oh and the other thing is like if you get C fold towels or whatever haven't you get the C it's a
00:20:02| big whatever but when it's like an Old Town's well that's single point down yes that is the thing but like I'm trying to take a woody this toilet tissue so toilet
00:20:16| issue you right toilet tissue and then you write the number afterwards he has trouble he gets all confused he's like is this the toilet paper that for so-and-so and I'm like yeah it says a
00:20:27| right there dude and I always yell at him and like I give him a hard time but it's occurred to me after the fact that like he he's literate but barely thank you reckon functional literacy
00:20:38| yeah just just enough like my son's gonna catch you next year it's my thought process and the other thing is his life has changed traps drastically he can uh he's literate enough where he
00:20:54| can type an address into Google so he'll type the address into Google and it will tell him how to get somewhere so as a delivery driver you used to have to know a the name of the place B where it is C
00:21:07| work a map and all this other happening all the time to grab it off and do other things and read signs by you're going you know yeah number signs would ever figure out the address now you
00:21:17| almost don't need to be literate yeah it's kind of weird it's it's almost a cheat code is that a thing I know but nowadays it's like you there's no way you could ignore having
00:21:29| us like if you have a smartphone you want to be literate because that's the entirety of having a smartphone you're reading constantly figuring things out and you would think except that he was
00:21:37| dating a girl who may remain out of it of your own that's insane maybe possibly he would text this individual by speaking text we're sending emojis it was just literally it was just a picture
00:21:50| of himself emojis or speech-to-text and that was it the reason I've never type it out never how didn't even understand what she sent back to him would he have it read it to
00:22:03| him I caught him doing that once now that's not a lot over like a year but maybe he does it for everyone he could let me know I've know but when he goes down on hmm but either way like he's
00:22:18| functional illiterate and there's another guy used to deliver to he's a real good guy and he called everyone baby boy he's like every guy knows and I thought it was weird you said to me but
00:22:31| then like the next guy he sees he's like you give my fireman giving a little clap back and he was a good guy it's always happy always smiling still remember um he got fired from there eventually but
00:22:43| he item almost 100% sure it was illiterate but he was just super charismatic super nice he like I handed him something and said this is a 40 48 whatever he just shrugged he would have
00:22:57| no idea oh I know I know the the boxes that contain forks spoons and knives plastic ware mm-hmm disposable when they come most of the companies that make them print a picture
00:23:10| of a spoon okay a knife makes sense for this one didn't there's one company that just does fork knife spoon and I would hand him to him and he would just throw and I was like no he wants the spoons
00:23:25| over there and he'd be like yeah I hit him the next box I'm watching he's like you just throw it it's the whatever like I got a one-in-three and I was like why are you doing this you
00:23:34| always get it right it occurred to me I guess whose you use the symbols to use the guesswork yeah it's a little bit about being smart in a stupid way like you have to be smarter to be illiterate
00:23:48| like they have to remember the shape of every box the way every sign looks because they can't read I'm not saying they're smarter I'm saying they work harder yeah I'm wondering how much your
00:23:59| brain changes because you don't know language and the structure and the way it's written out so you it probably has to a lot because everyone else has an easy thing I look at a suit can you look
00:24:09| at a sign to not read it if you stare at it I don't I've hear if it's right we front of you front and center and you're like don't read this your stare at this yeah right it's a thing that just
00:24:22| happens it's just you can't turn that off you can't turn reading off in your brain right yeah well maybe those people I mean they the people are completely illiterate must I mean they have to not
00:24:32| read it but the people who are aligned or they learn it like each dirty do they just like maybe they choose maybe they're like oh wait I have to read this like that I focus again reading about it
00:24:43| for a few seconds squint give it a little old sound it out maybe give a couple letters I don't know so the sets are that there are 40 million Americans out there that don't know how to read
00:24:54| really I had 32 million again we're coming up with these weird costs my numbers no similar but different enough where all our other episodes we have like rock-solid numbers are within I
00:25:05| agree one percent this doesn't because there's no real way to test I would imagine yeah probably fluctuates every year depending on how many immigrants move into the United States as well
00:25:16| that's true too do you know how older New Year's was uh mine was 32 million and I think I got this one from 2016 as what mine says I thought mine was from actually 2017 okay so you know I doubt
00:25:29| it I doubt that say that that big of a swing but either way mine might be more update I don't know I'm not trying to claim precedents here I'm just trying to be different yeah difference in
00:25:38| timeframes so yeah mine was 2016 and mine with 32 million they estimate that's 14% of the population mm-hmm actually you might be reading a similar
00:25:49| one there was one that was talked about how they aren't able to read what was the level so mine does start out with 32 million as people illiterate in the United States and then you got the
00:26:02| percentage of adults who can't read below the fifth grade level you have that one coming up yeah I have 30 million adults okay appropriate for 10 year olds so they can't comprehend what
00:26:13| a ten-year-old would normally read it was a vinegar my fifth grade level yeah that's a lot which is I guess in your normal day-to-day life you interact with how many people I mean I probably
00:26:26| interact with maybe 50 people max maybe it's probably less than that well are you in a right do you consider interaction so when you drive next Oh probably not right no probably not the
00:26:36| people that hear about someone you buy something from like yeah that's directions or a crash here so like the cashiers and the people I directly work with they're forced to have probably
00:26:45| some literacy I'd be surprised if some way of us yeah someone my engineering field did not know how to read or write and got into the position they did that would be a shocker so I'm gonna go to
00:26:58| the big the bombshell the books of bombshell it's celebrity thing you can hit it I mean we can go down I mean I'd the people you interact with on a day-to-day basis that probably literate
00:27:11| so that they have a job and that's the reason you're interacting with them you're not going to areas where people are just doing nothing I'm not doing I mean they're living on some other form
00:27:21| of income right um so I was trying to figure out for this episode on famous people celebrities really good gritty stories they want to know if Mark Wahlberg made it as far as he did
00:27:31| without being able to read and all that stuff like I was really expecting these first intelligent Peter Drucker's yeah I found none really I don't know for actors and actresses they have to read
00:27:43| scripts right I how would you say but you have to do the scene and say this line and they're like can you repeat that okay I'm gonna do it my own way boom
00:27:52| they dropped the mic and everyone's like this guy's a genius he changed the whole script it's like well this is a good read my characters gonna fly off the handle right here you believe that it
00:28:04| says here you're sad about your father's death I'm gonna go crazy yeah I got Charlamagne you know King Charlemagne I did read about like the historical figures apparently there are a bunch of
00:28:18| people that ruled up like millions of people and they did not know how to read or write well I'll think about this if you're King from age 14 or whatever do you think yeah and you're King you can
00:28:30| literally do whatever you want read it for me most people you tell me what to do and then the other thing is do you think you gonna waste every day on reading I want to read I wanna learn how
00:28:40| to read instead of plough Cleopatra or whatever the hell they want to do yeah mmm it's like no we're gonna do the second one we're gonna eat bonbons till I burst we're gonna go shooting arrows
00:28:52| into something cool I think I'll be cool the one thing I did read about well there was a king that was illiterate but he loved the idea of knowledge and be aware does not word of mouth by written
00:29:02| word make people uh retail in oh no and this isn't like the Renaissance so he promoted all of the art and literature even though he couldn't read it I mean the visual arts obviously but yeah he
00:29:13| was like he was credited for forwarding like humankind's awareness of for a written word when he couldn't even read in well so so I did a list a list of uneducated and barely literate
00:29:28| celebrities inventors scientists things like that right I should know there's tons of lists they they show up by the thousands I had a list I said Abe Lincoln someone else I've only saw the
00:29:40| people and I was like I got it that's crazy I got a looking more into this so I looked and like all these lists suck yeah but one was like Steve Jobs two years at Harvard okay that's that's not
00:29:50| uneducated then yeah that's two years at Harvard like everyone was like he only spent six weeks at the college technology program of his dreams and then he dropped out and I'm like that
00:30:02| doesn't camp it that's beyond grade school yeah so I came with Thomas Edison he did three weeks of high school I was like but he's still but I mean you probably graduated grade school pretty
00:30:16| well the Wright brothers did not go to high school shout out the Wright brothers nice good job you did something Columbus did graduate high school ish
00:30:25| I think it's like Shady I think it's like some say they have high seagull Magpies isn't the question exactly so then I was like what's with all these other people like Abe Lincoln they keep
00:30:35| showing up everything and it's like apparently the the regulation for school and reading was different back then than it is now I was like yeah that no shit yeah and
00:30:43| they're like they're like well if he took a test now he might only have 5th grade reading level I'm like yeah 700 years later our whole language is different like you're talking about
00:30:52| apples and bananas of course of course King Tut didn't read English that well yeah so this is this is what is frustrating as well as probably but it makes me fearful of the future and teach
00:31:06| I that Floyd Mayweather he's actually one of the more accomplished people who can't read or write according to 50 cent but I believe that the for everything so it was just
00:31:14| balance sheets he couldn't read his own accounts he would spend money frivolously everywhere and again it's part of it I think it also he can't read the the room he can't read or write and
00:31:27| he can't read any police orders that say he may or may not have hit a woman hmm I read that he like would strap money to himself just in case he's gonna spend it because he didn't use a bank account for
00:31:39| most of it and bad guy so dude this brings up a correction boxing for clarification yeah hi how much charity you have to have been delivered on that one no he wouldn't he wouldn't mess up
00:31:52| man he doesn't fight people for us at 50 million so if you guys raise 50 million I'll fight him don't probably fix my nose it's broke-broke it at a concert he can probably punch it back street and I
00:32:03| would tell him he's a bad person right before he did it so well the client will pledge money good the clarification is uh how much money could you possibly carry physically we had an episode on
00:32:16| bank heists if you were carrying a duffel bag full of money how much can you carry like in pounds you can say pounds and I'll convert it for um I mean I can carry that how much is
00:32:27| in a hockey bag could you fill a hockey bag yeah hockey bags probably like 20 or it yeah so anything 50 pounds sounds about average for human male 60 dude I'm pretty gone
00:32:42| I carry stuff for a living okay cops are gonna chase you down at that point you're gonna move you have to get into a van all right give me 50 pounds what's do 50 kappa 50 are so bad if you were to
00:32:57| steal from a bank and had to run with a dog bag with 50 pounds of 20s in it which seems reasonable you'd have about half a million dollars which wouldn't be I mean it'd be a lot relatively than
00:33:08| what you might have right now but in the course of a life probably not that much did you figure it out for lesser amounts at all I mean what a fractional amount the 50 all right so what's half of fifty
00:33:19| and then half of that again so let's say so wrong 25 pounds is too much that's not what 25 pounds and half of that is twelve and a half so what's like 12 pounds like let's say I just put it in a
00:33:29| tiny duffle bag and I was like it's kind of that's a resource about yeah so you get about $125,000 that's not a hundred twenty-five K in a duffle bag we're gonna name a crime and then run it put
00:33:40| you away for years any crimes gonna put you away for years mommy yeah minimum wage job you probably earn that much in a minimum wage minimum wage job no you couldn't for shit you
00:33:51| couldn't minimum wage is screwed up dude federal prison I'm not sure from seeing it minimum wage job or prison oh I could make more I could make more well that's that minimum wait for the record I used
00:34:07| my pen and I put it through an orifice which was my hand and that was the federal prison sign for those of you who have a record deal his hand was tenting that's a term over a previous episode
00:34:19| yeah I was fully and I don't know how to say that so do you know how engorged with blood uh-huh do you know how we were just discussing a literacy in America hinges very much on racial
00:34:34| overtones yeah literacy tests get me know that mm-hm so I'm just gonna go well let's start with the history sure sure um obviously slaves squirt they were actually for a
00:34:47| while you could teach slaves read write you do whatever you want with them there was a slave uprising I believe it was before 1833 I didn't actually get the year I just know in 1833 they passed
00:34:59| a elevated Alabama slave code of 1833 mmm-hmm in that Turner's or lave rebellion and 1931 yeah okay okay yeah yes that make sense so then two years later the Alabama
00:35:11| slave code was released in 1833 they said that um you can't actually teach your slaves to read or write it's hot did you were fined at minimum two hundred and fifty dollars maximum of
00:35:23| five hundred bucks so you have to actively prevent them from reading or writing yeah which I thought was a little crazy like I thought was just they just didn't you know any mean like
00:35:31| why would you why would you do it it sounds kind of weird though I guess you're assuming that they're never gonna integrate with your country and that you're always gonna combine slight class
00:35:39| right I think maybe there was whispers that it was gonna end soon maybe there's whispers I don't know well the Civil War was in nineteen sixty five right so that was like 30 years like
00:35:50| thirty years away so I'm not sure if you can hear a whisper thirty years prior but maybe I haven't I don't know now what's really weird to serve three states that didn't pass it I don't know
00:35:59| if add some little with it like Tennessee border states mason-dixon line yeah so I think that had to do with it anyway a really a little bit of the beginning of how the racial line began I
00:36:13| guess hmm obviously slavery obviously when they were released did you want to give newly released black slaves a job no no they can't read it right it's almost like to keep them away like sure
00:36:26| they're free people guess what they know you can't read or write they can't work for me so it's the physical labor you love the physical labor aspect of it aren't sure those people back then in
00:36:36| the 1800's sit right right there's no slave labor on the impaler's or for the record yeah too expensive unless you call what I do slavery flavor so
00:36:48| hey love the civil wars you know when there's NY huh oh yeah no oh oh say there's another group on women so that you know in 1730 this has gone back a bit of a waste but
00:37:01| this is the crazy big number 50% of women were considered illiterate so some of that's like a religious base it's kind of funky bit yeah I guess whoever has power whoever is the predominant
00:37:15| force gets to decide things and then if they say that you don't need to be doing this you just don't do it because you can't fight the proper dominant power all right that's right that's right
00:37:26| that's understood I wouldn't even know one can argue with that my question becomes then is learning to read or write and that hard or expensive or time-consuming it's a process that I I
00:37:40| was just gifted I I was given it from an early age and I just did it do you think it's could you put a value on it I have no idea hmm so the value my is like the job that you could get if there was no
00:37:53| job available for you which what would you put them the value of it in today's age I mean that's probably sake let's say they outlawed reading and writing for certain people know for like
00:38:05| everybody government did it lets a super big wall no teachers there's knowing that your country could survive because you'd have people in other countries that would totally crush you and hiring
00:38:17| is I know at all that doesn't really help our exercise here though no no but if they did how would they squash it they take away the internet they take away books they take away children's
00:38:31| books hey almost too hard now because of your visa yeah yeah song could you take away you two to all YouTube would be gone yeah internet would be heavily heavily sensor it's kinda like rap music
00:38:47| like that I think some of the people that start out when R&B was like really beginning that like you you would listen to a rap song and learn how to say certain words or people who were more
00:38:59| elegant or more sorry like who is he example hatred a song in LSD and he began every rhyme with hey I or Dynasty LSD LSD liquid say some sock is that okay he said probably
00:39:17| it is yeah not to be confused with ASAP Rocky Aesop Rock most eloquent rappers so there's like a like a rappers dictionary is one of the most interesting things about how educated
00:39:31| people can be so Aesop Rock is in the top count for 7392 unique words used in all of his songs is this um dictionary unique words used obviously yeah unique words used with Ricky's first first
00:39:47| thirty thousand year lyrics char leveled off thirty five thirty minutes give me the top five GZA which I don't know who that is actually okay I know GZA yeah I
00:39:57| thought I listed some of that stuff yeah I got mostly and then kool keith the top three cannabis and cunning linguist I know I'm familiar kinda linguist fan over here yeah it's like so in a way
00:40:16| that you're leading back to like trying to trying to break out of illiteracy it makes sense that rap would come out of that because you're trying to teach other people who may not be reading
00:40:26| books but they're using other forms of media to understand how to be literate how to understand bigger words that might mean bigger things which then you could match later on in life to
00:40:36| something else we're gonna get into some crazy um I think we're going here but so I'm an English major I literally studied the English language love it really good at it
00:40:47| I don't always purvey it because maybe I'm drinking some people say I have an accent that is not North Jersey accent whoever said that just get out it's also not Minnesota whoever said
00:41:02| that get out whoever said it's East Texas and it's incorrect also they like toughen on East Texas so I'm playing I've spent years read countless papers say these stories novels epics plays
00:41:18| everything Shakespeare everybody the interesting thing about the English language is its in some respects its stone it's hard there are rules to it they're participles there are ways
00:41:29| you're supposed to say certain things people are always like Nick you majored in English are you supposed to say is it better than or better than like it and it's better than everyone knows that but
00:41:41| sometimes people ask me I'm like I don't have any frigging idea and it doesn't matter until the whoa whoa you got a degree in English you're supposed to know this there's something about
00:41:51| language that changes it's constantly changing mm-hmm to keep it solid and to keep it unchanging is actually a crime we were just we were touching on racial things and everything yeah like people
00:42:07| say on rap songs or Ebonics is not allowed to be a word people who say ain't is incorrect mmm it's like ah you can't like that not going to I always say gonna even an emails to people I say
00:42:22| gonna I say y'all all the time like that's my favorite one we're just funny I mean but it's it's a turn I don't if you write y'all or an email I'm not gonna blink use I don't
00:42:32| care you say use I don't care not gonna bother me English language is very Florence forming moving fluid thing that's perfect important and I think to say that it's too still
00:42:45| and too structured and to unyielding is almost not racist because I'm not gonna say mostly African Americans change it but but a majority of African Americans do change it and to say that that's not
00:42:59| allowed is like saying there are not allowed yes the vernacular changes with the people and if the majority of people are using a vernacular let it go who cares I stopped capitalizing I four
00:43:14| years ago stupid English language no one cares that I do it but at the same time I don't care that no one cares I as a capital is so weird it's like me isn't capitalized but I ins
00:43:28| there's so many things that unit language that we still do to this day that don't make sense they don't they don't have any bearing half of them are based on old dudes with powdery wigs who
00:43:38| said that it should be a certain way the language is based off from what stuff in the UK they used to do in this 1600s and G old and the language changes I'm not saying we should change it all every day
00:43:50| but hey Webster's got the right idea how many new words so they'd accept every year like for six years words I'm gonna have to look done I deal with words every year or is it just one career day
00:44:00| allowing like selfie was the big word like ten years ago was like people our language is changing we can say selfie and it's a word but who decides what what literacy is it's it's the
00:44:14| gatekeepers so approximately a thousand maybe we put new words every year oh that's a lot of words like 10 to 20 I thought but I guess one some of them were conjugations of words like I'm
00:44:28| selfing selfies is different and selfie yeah yeah if you're gonna do multiples as essentially the same idea different conjugations getcha plus you have other conjugates that once you introduce a new
00:44:40| verb it's like couldn't wouldn't shouldn't all those things are kind of like in the same hole part what there's like 30,000 of them like 30 30 so it's not bad huh actually still at me it's
00:44:54| still a lot it's probably like 150 to words now who do you think is generating most of those new words do you think it's people who are illiterate or people who
00:45:03| are younger or people against you know the establishment you say you thing they're trying to make their own world essentially they're kind of make their own universe well think of we still
00:45:14| don't say touching on what I just said we don't say ye olde alehouse as extremists as it does why don't we because language changes and it usually changes to the greater number of people
00:45:29| so who are the greater number people the elite rich people or poor common folk Colin fuck man for the win Elliot taking over the world what language should true
00:45:41| so which is the beginning I guess who's to judge whether you're literate or not so literacy tests is a real thing that happened in the nineteen or 1850s and actually the 1960s again it was one of
00:45:55| the things that was trying to SB may be derogatory a separatist kind of like racially classification a racial racial classification for people who were voting so people would come up with
00:46:07| these tests and prove that you had to understand English and some level you had to comprehend it in order to vote which was shot down fifteen the men's what year was this
00:46:22| so is 1850s and 1960s I think was right after the Civil War - because there were two World War yeah all right Jim Crow laws the second one nineteen ones 1960s okay so trainable yeah it was focused on
00:46:36| African Americans so like the way you phrased the test would be to exclude writings that they did they didn't they wouldn't use normally in there like Wars right which was against our Constitution
00:46:48| right you didn't have any examples right I was just curious no I didn't have a and some articles that stuff to like what what was it an actual test would the test even make sense to us as sixty
00:47:02| years removed from so that's a good question will language makes sense to us in sixty years from now probably not I guess the other question don't sneeze selfies ninja by the way four nine times
00:47:15| yeah well this search term reveal what you really want to know on the Internet right no I don't know will not but should people be the literate so the question really is like I mean I know
00:47:29| these were used for segregating people and making sure people couldn't vote do people really need to know the subject matter at hand in order to vote like if you don't understand climate change or
00:47:41| you think the whole earth is flat do those people deserve the right to vote in our Constitution it says yes but in our outer police so a little bit what you're getting into is that
00:47:55| is a person who is considered learn it is their opinion worth more I think that you should listen to the person who's most educated and level minded if they're able to analyze something
00:48:11| objectively and give objective evidence and tell you why you should believe it maybe people should buy into that and then vote accordingly but people don't tend to do that what if the trend
00:48:24| happens we're flat earth become super popular like not more than two percent of the population I'm talking like 15 percent 25 percent of the population politicians now have to cater to the
00:48:35| flat earthers and say oh well if the earth was flat what if they did just because it was you know politics has no spine anyway it's not like they were like they stand for anything or
00:48:45| science or anything yeah let me say lynch is popular and everyone knows it's the popular thing with young people whatever and then they went with the majority rule how would you respond
00:48:55| something like that because that's clearly I mean I don't agree with it either but I almost would be like I wouldn't be able to sway the vote anyway because I'm just one vote if he was
00:49:04| looking for Ike a swing area that had like a majority of people that believe they were flat earthers or majority of people that believe from Flat Earth and I guess both like you you I would just
00:49:17| be just made I would be I couldn't believe that the Democratic right voting system would destroy a scientific fact so we get a little bit about um can people rule people because the masses
00:49:32| that they're easily swayed what's the word I'm looking for I would say they're not actually said hey there you go ignorant that's a good way to put it they're ignorant of maybe too many facts
00:49:43| so we've come full circle where we said I'm glad the the common folk can bring language they can bring everything but can the common folk be trusted with let's say deciding on science preserving
00:49:55| the country and things that are good for people in general well the will the general public be able to vote on things that will make it better for the general public
00:50:04| well I don't know I don't think that the general public totally now yeah I don't think they understand the complexity of the situation to understand that you need to
00:50:14| vote a certain way or do a certain thing to fix things it might be painful but it might be better for you so that like anything that involves more than two steps people don't follow a lot of the
00:50:25| time I don't agree at all what's interesting then is that we're running into what LEDs level of education should a person have we all agree they should be literate yeah so are in a perfect
00:50:42| world a perfect world everyone should be literate correct I hope so I hope I could write something down and someone could understand it if I give them the note and say can you do
00:50:49| this right that's perfect and be able to read someone else's writings you know and they'd be able to write their own answers back and be perfect above that do we want everyone to do high school I
00:50:59| guess for voting it's what a teen for commenting on the Internet it's any age goes and people still like yeah you're gonna see all load of comments about random BS they're all Brian abuse mostly
00:51:14| yeah or BOTS and robots you're absolutely correct I just I think talking about literacy I didn't think we're gonna go there but we're almost talking about people in general right
00:51:28| yeah how how people understand is really what we're talking about I guess so here's a question I know to possibly illiterate people for my day-to-day life mm-hmm I know for a fact that they're
00:51:45| not that deep actually no the one the one guy who called our own big boy he can get really deep into football he knew about like which coaches were really good and you say like this coach
00:51:55| is really good but like his team never won you're like well we never had the team and is like the team's important it's like well coach really cause a play and then you talk about which players
00:52:03| you have and you push the players in right - right like city and did he go up against right did you go up against the right team and every year you went up against the 90s bills that was like the
00:52:12| buzz saw at the time like he would have won except for this and he's like well I guess it also depends their defense always so put more onus on the offense and he's talking like it's a very
00:52:20| multifaceted multi very it's very complex so someone who can read or write when you learn to read or write are you gaining any new thought process on complexity of thought do you
00:52:33| think a book are you understand like advanced physics or like how the universe is laid out or programming languages maybe yeah I don't know my level of mathematics I don't know does
00:52:46| it help you become smarter in other areas essentially what you're asking hmm I don't know it's difficult to say because I don't though it must the people I'm guessing
00:52:57| I'm generalizing people that I think are illiterate um they're not actual people because I don't know people that aren't actually illiterate in my day to day life and I don't even even I do but I
00:53:08| can't ask them or figure out something that they you know II mean I also can't just assume from them what does I just can't express it I guess that's the thing you're getting at is if they can
00:53:17| understand that like existentialism like do you do you fear your own existence like do you think he would understand what you were saying he'd just be like X's and then he'd fade off you like it
00:53:27| begins with an e I think I could teach the one about existential thought processes like being that thinking process but he could never regurgitate it back to you in a way that we'd be
00:53:40| like no I guess he wouldn't be able to teach anyone else I don't know I guess learning to read and write kind of helps you organize stuff in your brain so you can convey it and share it
00:53:51| yeah maybe share it in general because you have to do that before you put it the pen and paper anyway right things get information it just hangs out in here or whatever but if you're going to
00:54:01| put something to pen and paper it has to organize turn into a thought turn into a concise actual physical medium that you're gonna put down on pen and paper and give it to someone else so it's
00:54:11| really like giving yourself back which is interesting it's very personal ah it was literacy personal based giving yourself a voice that is not present means my guess whose voice so their time
00:54:28| shifted voice you could write something down someone could read it later you could spread it to more people and are in front of you yeah so you there's I don't know that in today's
00:54:38| world that's powerful but in the past world that must be a source of power that if you didn't have newspapers you had no way of reading learning to be literate you could use literacy against
00:54:49| other people which you know I don't think we've ever heard that in my my education no one ever said they used this against what other people's power or they did Oh after they did if you
00:55:01| could write a note to your friend and send it to him and then he could understand what you're saying and other people just didn't like time travel or something hmm hmm oh this gets to have
00:55:13| you seen the movie arrival no no inside who's that so spoiler alert so a rival is all about an alien coming down to earth and then there are linguists that are in
00:55:24| interacting with it trying to understand what it's saying and it's trying to teach a universal language that gives you I guess powers quote-unquote to understand various aspects of the
00:55:34| universe so you're gonna use this language in the future to talk to other races because it's universal not that partner you going so do they figure it out they there's one language that does
00:55:50| figure it out Amy Adams I believe is the one who figures it out yeah okay yeah yeah I don't for me it was it didn't make sense because of the way that the language is
00:56:03| conveyed because it was mostly visual like for me a language that would be universal movie something as much alien you just watch it yeah a bunch of eggplants no but uh mark
00:56:18| yeah do you think that other other aliens would have different methods of communication that might not be visual they might be like verbal or they could feel them or you could send out pulses
00:56:28| or something right yeah electromagnetic you think that all of those things would be enveloped in this one language so it's like that language was a tool maybe the future is that we have some other
00:56:41| higher learning higher method of communication so if you were to travel in the future you might be a complete idiot because people don't understand it's verbal language hmm which do you
00:56:53| think is harder to learn let's take Jeannie free lunch Jeannie moon teeny porcini she never got for you never paid for a meal so Jake you love dating Jeannie is the wild child I'm
00:57:13| sorry if you haven't watched a previous episode she was raised to age 12 in complete isolation with no social interaction whatsoever she was given food chained to a bed like
00:57:23| no one talked to her no one turned teacher Drita right so people surmise that she's like feral man she's like can we teach someone who's been alive for 12 years to read
00:57:34| can we teach them to write are they inherently good or they inherently evil every psychology class the world loves Jeannie I don't because I'm just I love her but she has never paid for me there
00:57:47| like Joe but um I don't know what is the difference between like visual and audible understanding is there is one that's easier I have no idea I'm just thinking of it out loud right now like
00:58:00| it's almost easier verbal but that's because you're you're talking to people since you're born yeah because you have somebody that comes down and dating with a verbal you're its own TV it's every
00:58:11| other person you meet but if it came down to it and he never spoke one you never heard one you never wrote one down anything and you tried to learn language from day one at age 12 or whatever which
00:58:23| would be easier I'll put it this way a visual fish I I agree with it visually easier it's there it's verbal it's like moving too quick and you're like what the person who's made a noise a mouth
00:58:34| and I gotta figure out what and they're making another noise the visual you can see it it stays there doesn't change also say phonetics so if you're like looking for a new word and you don't
00:58:45| have to say it the phonetics look like they're gibberish they're like an alien language trying to figure out how to say a new word and that does it for like something that's visual it's discreet
00:58:57| it's right in front of you for something that's right moving in a fluid it's one word in a sentence and you have to understand this sentence in like five seven five seconds
00:59:04| all right rupture the sentence and yeah and you can't you can't stare at it once it's out and in your ears like it's kind of going you're like in control over that was I don't know what happened just
00:59:14| sweetheart like cookies I don't think that you could understand language without listening to it for a very long time alright great so lastly I just wanted to talk long and I think you
00:59:30| bring good insight into this hmm I hope you mentioned the beginning of the episode you think we're heading towards a world that's less illiterate sorry just Wednesday let's eliminate more
00:59:42| illiterate I mean all the graphs show that we're becoming more illiterate as a world but we're getting to this weird area where we can express ourselves through it's like video chat like the
00:59:54| video chat we're having right now ten years ago I don't know that we can do it I don't think so so we're maybe we're heading towards another visual like epic where we can talk without speaking maybe
01:00:07| we don't need the verbal part of it we don't mean we don't need to right so there are all these studies out here that talk on um people who have more sex and more emojis more sex yes I said sex
01:00:21| I have said more emojis cuz it's more understandable to a wider base of people which they pull their sex from I think it's more less speaking less fancy terms less whatever it's just like you can
01:00:37| send a smiley face a winged face you're on tinder you don't to write a whole big sentence like someone this is a thing that's happening in language right now literacy everything when I talk to
01:00:47| people online I think people were more apt to use fewer words or main common words and memes they use gifs and memes that's like the new language and it's it's dumber than the language I grew up
01:01:01| on but I will say that the language that came before me was probably way more eloquent than mine there's a comedian that makes a joke about um Civil War letters he found from his grandfather I
01:01:12| was like dearest to Lois I have come to you in means of a mains are you have come to me and I have found myself in a vision that you are more beautiful than any sunshine I have ever
01:01:24| seen on a day and then like he goes on and on it's like so eloquent beautiful but when I send anything to my wife it's like hey babe after acne maybe we can uh maybe we can bone and then the next
01:01:37| generations like it's just sending a fortnight meme and then like a pelvis thrust it's like I plant like a little yeah it's a little eggplant little squirt mochi but like cuz for me to make
01:01:49| fun of a younger generation I would have to make fun of my home and say we were all so dumber than so whatever this is playing out in Hollywood movies where the Halloween movies that are making the
01:01:59| most money are the ones that apply to like the world economy so you can uh you can do like a Transformers where there's just a bunch of explosions and stuff that there's no it's no speech and that
01:02:10| asian community can buy into it which Pacific Rim there's just like robots battling giant aliens I don't need to know this story yes the only backlog and discourse and all that stuff mm-hmm
01:02:23| so I think discourse on the way down but language barely literacy is on the way up is that what you're saying I think so I think I am I think comprehension might be higher but explaining the
01:02:36| comprehension was lower extremely high level complicated thought is on the downswing maybe maybe that's the downfall of the world that we become so visually based that we can't really talk
01:02:53| about issues oh no this is happening this is happening I don't know real typing I think it is I think I just see all the all the Twitter box with all the democratic-republican Trump Clinton just
01:03:07| to having them all go back and forth about like one-offs it's nothing nothing in depth so where do we see the most eloquent speech it's not your tweet it's usually not a Facebook post
01:03:19| you don't write letters to your friends anymore right I see it in like how does she technical drivers actually okay so I have to but their paint was a bio major and an
01:03:31| English major most bio papers and high-level data stuff is very smart and it's it's written fairly well but it's so dry and it's hard all surgery is painful to read hard to read so I'm
01:03:46| actually good writing oh I will say we're like Wikipedia and then Wikipedia the simple English version no way there's a simpler version of Wikipedia and I didn't I didn't know there's a
01:03:57| simple English version that explains it not using any higher level English because I think Wikipedia is fairly it's straightforward Dancy Emily yeah it's not it's not too fancy
01:04:09| now for the episode I know we're about an hour in we're highly educated college-educated individuals right would you say we're literate as well most certainly okay so we can read just about
01:04:23| any paper we pick up it's in English correct I actually at this point yeah yeah I mean there might be a few term that we need to search in to research but oh sure I'm sure we also could
01:04:33| search them really quickly with our smartphones that - yeah almost immediately you could figure it out so to round out we don't know what the hell is going on the language but it's
01:04:47| changing but it's also been changing for years but it's also hyper connected now so wait simple English for Wikipedia's definition yeah it is suggested that articles are simplified using only the
01:04:59| thousand most common and basic words in the English language and fewer complex grammatical structures shorter sentences and conform to a certain skill level no complex sentences thank God I don't want
01:05:11| to see a goddamn semicolon in there come for the book at that guy refer to two subjects of the same sentence no okay yeah I don't think so hmm well um we go nowhere with this episode we're really
01:05:26| it was more of deep and they went elsewhere I'm surprised actually good thing we can speak to each other and understand what we're talking about what a good thing we're both literate good
01:05:37| thing but we didn't have to write it down or read it so while I did but who knows if we're literally you could be a literate I definitely readings quickl this is
01:05:49| tonight circle circle sine-wave reminds me of those bottle caps close your wedding speech oh is that what you did you did a bunch of words you had a bunch of words on the sheet of paper
01:06:07| they weren't words they were fake no really I 15 minutes making fake pages from pandered and I used to like words yeah you like that yeah then I threw them all so I wrote like squiggle
01:06:19| squiggle and then I did a little dot and then I tried to mimic language I don't know why I spent so much time doing it because it was throwaway I got into Zoey and I was like what would a paragraph
01:06:29| look like cause like doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo dot dot and I was a good I did it and then I did paragraph break dude I squiggle and then I did like a wavy sign and then I did a little diddle
01:06:37| diddle and all the best and all for when I gave your speech and I said well this is all things 100 and I do Oh couldn't see them and I throw it off in the air it was it was a good effect
01:06:48| yeah y'all could use that for your best man speech so mad that's uh it was great and it was endearing and I loved it thank you and the most amazing thing is I looked at your girlfriend when you
01:07:01| were doing it and she had this look on her face like this is why I'm with this guy like that's what I that's what I saw in her she was smiling at me like that's your best friend I was like it's a
01:07:12| person you bone and then but so I mean no there was no mixing but Dexter Manley actually married somebody that had a bachelor's degree of science I think is from Arizona State or something so he
01:07:27| married somebody who was far more educated than him who didn't realize that he couldn't read or write and she ended up teaching you know she didn't know and then he told him to read him
01:07:39| right yeah so for the male versus female component if a man is just charismatic and could have express himself without having to read or write it still makes him a viable me it makes him so the hing
01:07:54| go up the line it's interesting we do holo aside of weather intelligence really reflects education that's a whole episode unto itself
01:08:04| yeah yeah I do a little recap we cover sure let's recap here did like percentage global literacy illiteracy we sure did we did yeah all the rape develop content oh yeah that was in
01:08:20| America I don't know the racial and gender lines in other countries because they have their own history but we have a very not pretty history here yeah we touched on what manual labor a little
01:08:32| bit we touched on Dexter Manley and then what Shoeless Joe Jackson talk about notable figures who were illiterate which didn't seem to apply unless you were King no no none and then the slave
01:08:48| rebellion and literacy tests and and the a morphic field of language a morphic blob the other thing flow and transient nature of language phonetic was France
01:09:05| mm-hmm and we are done strange and then we talked on the rappers and there it's dictionaries vocabularies what was that called their unique words word yeah Aesop Rock GZA cool Keith look who's not
01:09:25| Pete okay okay cool okay good say we did a lot certainly did these episodes are great I love him I feel good yeah once I love me I was cool with the audience yes I guess the audience do
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