There are many educational programs dedicated to delivering well-researched, carefully verified information to curious audiences.
This is not one of them.
Send Corrections is an upcoming spoken-word comedy series in which Dr. Stevens and Dr. Redding — two self-appointed scholars with an admirable disregard for conventional expertise — take on an ever-changing collection of subjects and attempt to explain them with unwavering confidence, limited preparation, and deeply suspect conclusions.
Structured as a mock academic broadcast, each installment challenges the hosts to prepare impromptu “doctoral theses” on unfamiliar topics, present their findings before an imaginary board of scholarly review, and defend assertions that may range from mildly inaccurate to catastrophically fabricated.
The program draws inspiration from Cunningham’s Law, the longstanding internet observation that the most efficient way to arrive at a correct answer is to publicly state an incorrect one and wait for someone to object. In that spirit, listeners are not only invited but enthusiastically encouraged to send in factual corrections, historical clarifications, scientific objections, grammatical grievances, and general expressions of concern.
Along the way, audiences can expect:
- deadpan academic posturing,
- unnecessarily formal scientific language,
- dubious educational tangents,
- fabricated sponsor advertisements,
- and the recurring spectacle of two men sounding far more qualified than they have any right to sound.
At its core, Send Corrections is less about being right than it is about sounding right long enough for someone else to notice.
Which, in today’s information economy, may be the highest form of education available.