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Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.09,0:00:49.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's talk about the facts of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.21,0:00:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You remember that conversation you had when you were a kid
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.17,0:00:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about sex
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.38,0:00:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or drugs
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.74,0:00:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with your parents or some trusted adult?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.34,0:01:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably not
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.04,0:01:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's a myth.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.40,0:01:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't talk to kids about that stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.23,0:01:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just so embarrassing.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.36,0:01:11.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, hey, maybe that's OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.31,0:01:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've been outsourcing the facts of life for decades.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.29,0:01:15.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We spend billions of dollars on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.32,0:01:18.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, why talk to kids when you can just turn on the TV?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.39,0:01:22.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned about drugs from an egg and a frying pan:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.21,0:01:23.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This is drugs,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.55,0:01:25.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is your brain on drugs.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.03,0:01:26.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pssssssss.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.18,0:01:27.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any questions?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.62,0:01:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, actually, I did.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.70,0:01:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not about questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.55,0:01:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about data.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.15,0:01:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 1980's when I was growing up,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.64,0:01:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those data were terrifying parents:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.50,0:01:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1% of high school seniors had try heroin,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.72,0:01:47.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12% hallucinogens,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.89,0:01:49.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12% tranquilizers,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.11,0:01:50.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,17% cocaine,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.83,0:01:52.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,26% stimulants,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.55,0:01:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and over 50% of us had tried marijuana.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.76,0:01:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was an epidemic!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.52,0:01:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least, that's what they told us.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.20,0:02:02.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And marijuana was the gateway drug, leading to all the harder stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.59,0:02:06.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, 92% of us were drinking alcohol,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.70,0:02:10.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was killing more of us than all drugs combined.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.09,0:02:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, nevermind, it's legal.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.90,0:02:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we declared war on drugs!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.16,0:02:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nancy Reagan was our general.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.44,0:02:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All drugs will kill you, so just say, "No!"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.72,0:02:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just say, "No!" to pot.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.33,0:02:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just say, "No!" to cocaine.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.02,0:02:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just say, "No!" to everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.09,0:02:29.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So simple!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.23,0:02:30.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to save kids,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.81,0:02:32.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to scare the hell out of them!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.67,0:02:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we spent ridiculous amounts of money doing that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.90,0:02:39.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Soon that war on drugs spread to become a war on sex.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.100,0:02:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were pushing abstinence on kids to fight AIDS.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.68,0:02:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when all the data finally came home,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.69,0:02:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,guess what:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.85,0:02:51.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,completely ineffective.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.29,0:02:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We love big solutions to big problems, don't we?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.79,0:02:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if the facts of life don't work that way?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.62,0:03:03.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if the experience of having that conversation can't be mass-produced?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.86,0:03:05.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if it can't be scaled up?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.62,0:03:09.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, that would be very frustrating for everyone in this industry, wouldn't it?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.36,0:03:11.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, many of them are really trying to help.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.77,0:03:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who, then?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.50,0:03:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Us.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.10,0:03:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to talk to kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.76,0:03:18.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Openly and honestly.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.89,0:03:20.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But are we ready to be honest?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.69,0:03:23.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think so.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.74,0:03:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We mythologize childhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.14,0:03:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mine was in Stone Mountain, Georgia,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.88,0:03:33.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a completely typical 1980's American suburb.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.50,0:03:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the parents, a wholesome paradise of bridge parties and tennis games.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.96,0:03:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For us kids, we were all working on a secret research project,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.78,0:03:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our laboratory was in the woods after school,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.67,0:03:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the covers during sleep-overs,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.14,0:03:49.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really, any opportunity we could take
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.83,0:03:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to peel off our clothes and investigate.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.10,0:03:54.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What were these things,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.72,0:03:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bodies?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.45,0:03:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do they do?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.53,0:03:58.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We had to figure them out
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.21,0:03:59.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's childhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.74,0:04:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just fun and games,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.54,0:04:04.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's actually a Manhattan project of nakedness.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.92,0:04:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you walk into your first class in middle school,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.87,0:04:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the bomb goes off.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.55,0:04:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are not just a body any more.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.54,0:04:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh no, now you are grotesque.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.94,0:04:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's when the suffering really starts.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.68,0:04:24.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, yeah, talk to kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.03,0:04:26.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if you are not honest about your own experiences first,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.81,0:04:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything you say smells like bullshit.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.21,0:04:33.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't worry, you can practice
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.58,0:04:37.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you should start by talking to the one kid you definitely know:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.45,0:04:38.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.81,0:04:41.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What kind of kid were you?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.92,0:04:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What troubled you?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.01,0:04:47.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, it was age 13.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.79,0:04:50.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was the worst year.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.23,0:04:53.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was obsessively curious about sex
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.22,0:04:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also deeply ashamed by it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.76,0:04:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't my only problem, of course, not by a long shot,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.82,0:05:02.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it was the beginning of a downward spiral.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.15,0:05:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my bad luck was to hit bottom
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.65,0:05:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while watching "The Wall" by Pink Floyd,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.52,0:05:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a bad idea for a miserable 13-year old high on weed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.42,0:05:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, that night, for whatever reason,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.00,0:05:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it seemed like good idea to shave off my eyebrows,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.26,0:05:22.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then try to kill myself by swallowing all the pills in the bathroom,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.44,0:05:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was not at all fatal,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.56,0:05:27.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but everyone noticed the eyebrows.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.48,0:05:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that made middle school extra fun.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.30,0:05:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, what was your low point?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.72,0:05:36.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you could build a time machine to travel back and talk to that kid,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.83,0:05:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what would you say to yourself?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.46,0:05:40.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, it was easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.76,0:05:43.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All I really needed was someone to reassure me
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.22,0:05:46.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that somehow I was a normal part of the universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.48,0:05:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I didn't feel like I could talk to anyone.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.94,0:05:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet weirdly, I fully expected a time traveler
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.60,0:05:52.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to materialize at any time
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.79,0:05:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I was a geek.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.74,0:05:57.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know if it would be my unborn son
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.15,0:05:59.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a T-101 cyborg.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.75,0:06:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But either one would be awesome!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.82,0:06:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey, it's me, yourself from the future, in the year 2012.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.60,0:06:26.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have crucial information for you, but not about the future, about the past,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.59,0:06:29.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a billion years in the past, when this planet was covered with nothing but cells
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.91,0:06:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all they did was fight, eat, and divide;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.28,0:06:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fight, eat, and divide.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.40,0:06:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Except for one.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.04,0:06:39.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's your ancestor.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.10,0:06:40.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This cell enslaved other ones,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.82,0:06:43.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but master and slave became one.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.59,0:06:46.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then those cells invented sex,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.43,0:06:47.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then they invented the first bodies
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.89,0:06:49.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with each cell doing a different job,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.72,0:06:50.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some smelling,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.25,0:06:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some moving,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.52,0:06:53.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some eating.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.63,0:06:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the job of sex went to a special cell called the gamete.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.74,0:07:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those bodies became giant.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.77,0:07:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The distance to the next body was vast so they had to swim.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.93,0:07:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most would be lost and die so they were mass-produced.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.72,0:07:19.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Soon the oceans were a non-stop riot of sex and death
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.43,0:07:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until 500 million years ago, when the first beast crawled onto land.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.44,0:07:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Land is hard
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.44,0:07:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because bodies are heavy.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.59,0:07:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the sun kills gametes.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.58,0:07:41.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To keep them safe,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.64,0:07:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so deep inside of a body,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.72,0:07:51.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mother builds a tiny ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.08,0:07:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Outside are events of unimaginable violence.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.94,0:08:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whole new forms of life are being created
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.20,0:08:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only to be wiped away.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.42,0:08:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Millions of years are flashing by.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.57,0:08:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in here, it's always the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.18,0:08:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.55,0:08:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.26,0:08:20.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe we will never know why,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.75,0:08:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but of all the possible bodies that have appeared on this planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.50,0:08:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was this one,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.40,0:08:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bilaterally symmetric,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.10,0:08:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,warm-blooded,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.72,0:08:30.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bigger than a mouse,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.92,0:08:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,smaller than a horse,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.60,0:08:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2 legs, 10 toes,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.40,0:08:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no tail,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.07,0:08:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big brain,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.01,0:08:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,language,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.33,0:08:42.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,technology,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.02,0:08:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and civilization
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.84,0:08:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rising and falling for thousands of years.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.30,0:08:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here you are,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.53,0:08:53.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a 13-year old human
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.38,0:08:56.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perplexed and embarrassed about sex.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.27,0:08:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I came here to tell you:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.68,0:09:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't know why sex evolved nor why it persists.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.65,0:09:06.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why don't we just clone ourselves like all life did a billion years ago?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.85,0:09:08.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's so much more efficient.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.33,0:09:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We would all have babies, no mates.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.34,0:09:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It could be that children who are genetically different from each other are protected from disease.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.48,0:09:21.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is still our best guess.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.02,0:09:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So be comforted to know that even in the distant future,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.84,0:09:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the year 2012,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.29,0:09:30.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we still don't know what sex is for.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.09,0:09:31.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is perplexing.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.82,0:09:35.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You shouldn't be embarrassed by it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.29,0:09:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sex is a beautiful puzzle.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.86,0:09:43.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And without it, you simply would not be here.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.26,0:10:05.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the way,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.31,0:10:07.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be nice to your little sister.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.78,0:10:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's your best friend. You'll see.