Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Audio clips taken from Mark Sargent's call-in show where Tristan, a 2nd grader shares a story about confounding his teacher by asking her to show him an experiment that proves water curves.

"I'm a flat earther".

TRISTAN: "Hi, my name is Tristan and I'm in Second Grade and I asked my teacher to show me an experiment where water CURVES and she couldn't do it 'cause it doesn't curve.. and water ALWAYS FINDS ITS LEVEL... "

MARK: "What'd your teacher do?"

TRISTAN: "Um.. she.. she just didn't talk to me anymore.. she just.. all she did was walk away... "

MARK: *laughes*

TRISTAN: "..but What is this about?.. what?"

MARK: "That's ok, though. For being so young, you're very, very smart."

TRISTAN: "Yeah.."

MARK: "That's fantastic. So, keep up.. keep up the good work and stay flat, ok?"

TRISTAN: "OK.. I'm a FLAT EARTHER."

MARK: "(unintelligable) can you rip this up for sound bites..? This is awesome."