Should You Correct Someone Who's Wrong? | Supergirl, AI Cheating & The Worst Flight Instructor

Should You Correct Someone Who's Wrong? | Supergirl, AI Cheating & The Worst Flight Instructor

From The Treehouse Show Podcast by Dan O'Malley

July 16, 2026 · 46 min · Episode 505

About this episode

The episode discusses whether to correct confidently wrong statements, explores AI's impact on education, and features humorous celebrity debates and bizarre news stories.

What do you do when someone confidently says something that's completely wrong? Do you correct them... or just smile and walk away? That's where this episode of The Treehouse Show begins after Dan hears someone butcher a simple Supergirl fact and has to decide whether it's worth starting an argument. That leads us into one of the funniest education stories we've heard in a while: a Brown University professor discovered just how dependent students have become on AI and online resources by springing an old-fashioned, in-person final exam on them—with hilarious results. As always, celebrity birthdays send us down another unexpected rabbit hole. Dan explains why Corey Haim was always better than Corey Feldman, while Trey hands out some very unpopular opinions on Will Ferrell movies... including why he thinks Elf is wildly overrated. Then we wrap things up with two stories that prove reality is always stranger than fiction: a woman who allegedly went on a biting spree inside a bar, and a flight instructor who bailed out of an airplane—leaving everyone wondering whether it was an accident or the world's worst teaching method. If you enjoy funny news, bizarre true stories, pop culture…

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