Benjamin Spock
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Sep 12, 2026
Norman GayfordHOST
Um, Sean Piaget, um, Eric Erickson, who I don't know if you've ever delved much into them, but I'm going to think you did with your whole, all your studies.
Norman GayfordHOST
Um, and even Benjamin Spock.
Norman GayfordHOST
Now, There were elements of each of those that I couldn't particularly, as they tended more and more toward behaviorism.
Norman GayfordHOST
But I don't find Fred Rogers being a behaviorist in my memory of his shows.
Kevin WildesHOST
I just can't believe that you did that.
Kevin WildesHOST
To the point, and, uh, Gian, I know you're not a parent yet, but when you are a parent, you don't go to Dr. Spock's parenting book every time something happens.
Kevin WildesHOST
You have a handful of quick responses, you know? Boom.
Kevin WildesHOST
You know, the kid, one, one of my sons punches the other son, "Don't do that." Just, you're not thinking, you're just responding to behaviors.
SusanGUEST
There's gonna have to be worksheets on this.
SusanGUEST
But the, the doctor, Dr. Spock, who said to let, sit and let the baby cry in the crib because they, they need to learn how to self-regulate or self-soothe.
SusanGUEST
That is just ridiculous.
Michael RyceHOST
Yeah.
BrendanHOST
What is this? Where are you? University? Um,
NathanHOST
Dr. Dr. Spock is, he's the, the, the parenting guy.
NathanHOST
That was, you ever heard that of the author?
BrendanHOST
So is he like Dr. Joyce brothers?
NathanHOST
Oh, not like Dr. Joyce brothers.
NathanHOST
Um, that not unlike Dr. Ruth von Westheimer, who we see in this movie, because she was everywhere in the 80s as well.
NathanHOST
No, Dr. Spock was apparently an author who wrote about the upbringing of rearing children and babies specifically.
NathanHOST
So yeah, Dr. Spock is not the same as Spock or Mr. Spock from Star Trek.
Casey CooneyGUEST
So I think it takes, again, that domain expertise, that creativity, the human ingenuity.
Casey CooneyGUEST
I did hear, I told this to my school board, that the AI is Dr. Spock.
Casey CooneyGUEST
And and sometimes Dr. Spock will say it's not logical, but you have to have a Captain Kirk in the seat.
Casey CooneyGUEST
And that's the human.
Casey CooneyGUEST
And the human might say, nope, we got to do it.
Liz BiroHOST
934 people simultaneously did the gesture at a late night science museum event in London, a likely place for them to do that, making it the largest group of people doing the Vulcan salute ever.
Liz BiroHOST
The hand sign was a greeting by Dr. Spock.
Liz BiroHOST
And it frequently was used with the phrase, live long and prosper.
Liz BiroHOST
Do it, Kristen.
Mark DavisHOST
just want to say real quick.
Mark DavisHOST
I always thought those Dr. Spock books were him
Heather BrownGUEST
when I was younger.
Heather BrownGUEST
Yeah.
Mark DavisHOST
And they're not.
Mark DavisHOST
There's an actual Dr. Benjamin Spock.
Heather BrownGUEST
There is, yes.
Heather BrownGUEST
Who
Bronagh StarrsGUEST
I'm very, very compassionate to parents because my mom and dad, when they were growing up as young parents, the only expert that they met in their life was the mother or the mother-in-law who would have given them advice and whether they wanted it or not.
Stef McSherryHOST
Or the odd person might have picked up Dr. Spock.
Bronagh StarrsGUEST
Dr. Spock, exactly as well.
Bronagh StarrsGUEST
And, you know, if there was something going on with your child, you just got on with it or you got your child to just get on with it.
Bronagh StarrsGUEST
And it was all about, you know, child rearing was a lot about manners and independence and... and respect and authority and stuff like that.
Joel GreengrassGUEST
Without a doubt, yeah.
Joel GreengrassGUEST
And I think, I don't want this to sound condescending, but someday I will write a book that's called Raising a CEO is Hard to Do, kind of like Dr. Spock style.
Joel GreengrassGUEST
That's awesome.
Joel GreengrassGUEST
Because they're people also.
Donna PowersGUEST
She didn't know homeopathy.
Donna PowersGUEST
Dr. Spock.
Donna PowersGUEST
So if measles was going around the school, she knew four kids all down the line.
Donna PowersGUEST
We would be getting it mumps all down the line.
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