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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
Got anything good?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Hey, this is.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
The Christian O'Connell show podcast. Just want to look about
this forgetting and learning curve theory. Patsy was just talking
about this earlier from the Parents Teacher Evening yesterday shit
on zoom.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
The forgetting and learning.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Curve theory shows that we get better with practice, but
quickly forget without review when we learn something new. Performance
improves with practice without practice, what we learn fades over time,
memory drops quickly soon after learning, then levels out. There
is a plateauing. It's amazing now what you can still
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remember all these years later and you've done no reviewing
or revising in decades like I can still remember I
am fifty two. So this has gone back to the
eighties when I was doing geography. Oxbo lake is called
a billabong in Australia.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It's a horseshoe bend in a river. What what is it?
We call them oxpos? But here in Australia it's.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
A bill boh Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
If something campus will flow river and it gets like
a little horseshoe or or a U curve, And yeah,
this country calls them a billabong. Right now, I remember
that from the eighties. I have not reviewed that quite
a few years.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
What can you still remember right now from school? The
first one that Polcy is not as long ago as
it was like for me and Patsy for you.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Yes, but I'm still shocked at how little I remember
from school.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So what's stood in the now?
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I before E except after C is the first.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
One that in my mind? What language is that? That's
for bridge?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
That spelling, Like when you're spilling a word, it's always
eye before unless there's a scene in front of it.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Except there are some exceptions, like that's all.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, the English language is full of exceptions, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
This is the rule except for all the other y.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, it's like the AFL rule book. Yes, this
is what it was, the rule, and then we're thinking
about changing it. And it's what can you still remember
from school? What is still in there now? Probably the
times tables, hopeless times tables.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I think the twelve times table is the easiest, wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Twelve and elevens are the easiest.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, we're about tens and tens.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
And eleven yause elevens are just like twenty two.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Which one did you struggle with? I struggle with the
sevens and eight.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
I reckon. I'm still very good at them.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
I had an eight times eight sixty eight, sixty four
six seven forty two.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh no, really, yeah, Patsy, what do you still remember?
Speaker 6 (02:57):
I remember Mount jung Frau and our geography teacher going
on about it.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
He I thought that was a teacher.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
Well he used to go on about this Mount jung
Fraw and you hyped up there, our geography teacher, and
so we started calling him mister Gilfrow.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Lesson every single lesson and comedy ensues.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, every lesson.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Give us the latitude and what there is there?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
And so we do.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Where is Mount Ilfraw?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
I'd actually have to look it up, so I haven't
been made that. No, no, no, it's not Chapan. Is
it Himalayas or somewhere. I'm going to have a look
a look.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Do you guys remember what is latitude?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
In?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Which is longitude? Definitely forgotten that one?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yes, which one's which I read a book about the
history of it and I've forgotten.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
One's vertical, one's hor and that is not an answer.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
It's in Switzerland. There you go.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Mount ilfrows Inwitz. All right, call us up. Then what
can you still remember from school? So we want to
know when did you go to school? What decade? And
what is still in there right now?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Christian O'Connell shar podcast, I'll ask you this morning.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Then what can you still remember or all those years
and decades later? What stool is in there from school?
You just someone else has dropped in?
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Yes, and this has burned into my brain. I wouldn't
have done this in what fifteen years? I still remember
how to draw the cool s?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
You remember this? Oh wow, nothing to do with the curriculum.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
What is it? What is that? Even caled I don't know.
It's just the cool the cool.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
S and you had to draw it in the front
of all your folders, on every page.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Nothing to do with school. But everyone knew how to
do it. I don't know why we did it, but
it was just.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Cool kids like Audrey's still doing that still a thing?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, amazing, jackass is going to go. Do you think
this modern crazy ai going world? You wonder how many
more decades. Is that going to be a thing years
and years ago? Was it the same for you? Patsy
go to school in the eighties netwhere you could write
your favorite band names on your school bag.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You're not allowed to do that now or your pencil case.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yes, you would spend like an entire lesson when you're
meant to be learning just drawing at the Van Hayman
logo span outba or your wooden ruler yes, ruler, yes,
And then I still remember the lovely, very pleasing sound
that the non shatterproof rulers, that sort of plastic ones
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used to make when you used to put them. There
was a sweet spot on the table where it's got
Can we have a look on the office in the
station car, it's stilling a non shatterproof ruler. Im pleased
to do that again. It only works in an exact
spot where it goes. And that's why I don't end
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up doing this job actually anything.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
We always said that it is apostrophe I t apostrophe. Yes,
it is I t apostrophe. Yes it is as opposed
to if you got mad.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
No, just checking your right in there, stand up and
say that I remember that.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
It just came back to me cults more than a school.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
It was weird all this last week.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
If he doesn't boys well as a special that Sheddy
went to in that farm in the middle of nowhere
in New South Wales, Rio.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What can you still remember them? Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
The cool less Yes, sorry, it's the repetition. I didn't
review it, Christian. I went to school in the eighties.
I remembered the rhyme to remember the planets. They really
want us to know the order of the planets. They
were the colors of the rainbow. What unless you're going
to go and work for NASA and drive around and
go bloody, I'm lost, sang on a minute.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I know. If I'm Matt.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Venus, that means Mars is behind me. Take a right
at Mercury now, Bobbs your uncle. Now I'm backup planet Earth.
Thank god I paid attention, you know.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Maybe obsess with learning the order of the colors of
the rainbow. Richard of York gave battle in Vain. Oh wow, yeah,
yeah this one though.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
If you ever lost guys in space, my very earnest
mother just sits up near a pop and of course
the pe for pop Plo. Now not a planet general,
They threw it out. Yes, but unplanetary behavior. I think
it did an appeal. Yeah, he used snoop dogg rule.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Christian.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I'm fifty nine. I also still remember the order of
the planets, but a different one. More visitors eat more
jam since using new plums.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
How are you going to remember that?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
More visitors eating more jam since using new plums? It
makes it hard annoying Christian. In the eighties, we learned
how to spell because Betty eats cake and uses six
eggs Christian on forty seven. Every time I need to
write it, I can say it out loud. If I
ever take your team on a spelling bee, I will
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take you down with because I like to think we
could spell, because I might get true to other words,
but not because I don't think that's the trickiest word languish.
Let's take some calls here you can join us. Thirteen
fifty five twenty two. What can you still remember from school?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Met?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Good morning, morning, Christian and team.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
How are we?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, we're good met, thanks for calling the show. Welcome
And what can you still remember from school?
Speaker 7 (08:22):
I can still remember the bod mass equation for maths.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That's the brackets?
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Of the vision, multiplication, edition and subtraction. So if you've
got a big equation with the times and brackets and all,
admit that's the sequence that you do it in.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Is impressive. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
And I'm fifty six as well, so that's been in
my head for a bit forore.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Is incredible, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
And yet you remember these things and yet like your
partners or your kids' date of birth job blank Richard
of your gay battle in Vain, Colors of the Rainbow
in the order meck, thank you very much for calling
the show mate.
Speaker 7 (08:59):
Have a good day, my pleasure.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Thanks, have a great day, Daniel.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Good morning, Daniel, Yes, good morning Christian and team. About
twenty years ago, when I was in primary school, I
was a bit of a menus and I have to
go see the principle often. And after a while he said,
you know what, I'm going to get you to write
this out and if you have to come back and
see me, I'm going to get you to write out
seven times now, if you come back seventy seven times,
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if you come back again, seven hundred and seventy seven times.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
What I had to write out was my responsibility is
to complete my work to the best of my ability.
I do not have the right to interrupt the work
of others. After seventy seven times, that was a bit much,
and I think you've felt sorry for He was like,
you know, let's think up another punishment. Seven hundred and
seventy seventy too much.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Works?
Speaker 4 (09:46):
You still remember?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Yeah, oh yeah, pinful And.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Are you still interrupting people these days?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Daniel?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Oh yeah, then start line one up to seventy seven. Daniel,
that's a great one. Thanks for calling mate. Have a
good day you too, both.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Chris, Good morning, welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
According toom, there were going.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, we're good, Chris, hope be having a good week. So, Chris,
what can you still remember from school?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
When I was in primary school, the times tables up
to twelve were laminated and posted on the wall and
we would sing them all the way through from one
to twelve every day. That is only now I'm fifty two,
and back in the day you thought this is just
useless and a waste of my time. But I was
at the thirteenth birthday last week. I gave her forty
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dollars in a card because I'm not going to buying
presents and quite lazy. She already had twenty and she said, Mum,
how much is this? And I was absolutely flawed. These
kids in high school, I.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Know they need your son.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I'm singing, yeah, no, no, all right, sing us to seven
times table.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Then seven one time seventy seven, two times seventies fourteen
three times seven is twenty one for time sevent is
twenty damad. I'm going to go because I don't have
the best thing in voice.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Snoop Dog's doing this one.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, I think we found the next. Are you really grand? Final?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Or doing the entertainment with this timestable act is very
good since.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
I'll probably have a few expletives in between the.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Chris, thank you very much. You cool. I have a
good day.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
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