Video Script:

My girlfriend
and I are … let's wait again.

I'm going to
whisper one thing to my friend and my friend is going to do his best to pass
the same message forward one by one to reach everyone in this human chain but
by the end of it, something crazy happens. My original whisper changes.

Oh my gosh
your girlfriend cheated on you.

This is the
telephone game. It's a game that shows you exactly how gossip works. Where
anything you say to anyone will be modified. You say something to a friend but
your friend will say it differently because of human error. I'm about to break
up really human bias or because of human lives.

And in no
time, the fake message will spread around like wildfire and will lose its
accuracy. The telephone game is just a game for kids but the idea behind it is
very important. For example at work in the NAS Daily team, Aegon wants
something Aleem understands something else and as a sprinkle for something
entirely different and before you know it, nobody knows who does what.

At home,
traditions are passed from one generation to another verbally. How to cook, how
to marry, how to live but with each passing generation, we forget that things
get distorted. So our grandparents might not have said exactly what we think
they said. And even religion. If you look at this objectively, religious texts
were passed around from generation to generation for thousands of years and
were translated to 200 different languages to billions of people. If these guys
couldn't keep one sentence accurate in a 10-minute game, then how can religion?
This isn't to say religion is false. This isn't to say your friends are liars.
This is to say that humans are humans and they make mistakes. We can't live our
lives based on a he-said she-said based on gossip or based on two
thousand-year-old worlds because more often than not the original words can't.

Your
girlfriend cheated on you.

And the
closer we get to the original source the closer we get to the truth.

 Comprehension Questions:

1.   
What was the game
mentioned in the video? The telephone game.

2.    How does the
game work? We whisper one thing to one person and he/she is going to do his
best to pass the same message forward one by one to reach everyone in this
human chain.

3.    What are
examples of tradition that are passed from one generation to another verbally? How
to cook, how to marry, how to live

4.    Into how many
languages were religious texts religious texts translated? 200 different
languages.

5.   
Why are messages
different at the end of the telephone game? Because of human error.

Free Talking Questions:

1.     
 Why do you think people like to listen to
gossip?

2.     
Why do people like to
gossip about the rich and famous?

3.     
What are the most common
themes for gossip?

4.     
What are some of the things
you like to gossip about?

5.     
What are some ways which
gossip can be harmful?

6.     
Do you think gossip can
be used for something good?

7.     
Why is it considered that
women gossip more than men?

8.     
Do you read gossip
columns in magazines? Why are these so popular?

9.     
Do you think it’s right
that gossip columnists can make a lot of money writing bad things about people
that may not be true?

10.   Eleanor
Roosevelt said: “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small
minds discuss people.” Is this true?