If you are not so smart podcast directly and keep it alive and thriving, you can do that at

Patreon.com slash you are not so smart. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, episode 44 in between a

so, 11. This is the You Are Not So Smart Podcast. I am David McCraney, your host, and we have some really great episodes coming up one with John

Ronson yes the author of the psychopath test and the minister at Goats he has a new book

all about public shaming in the age of social media. We've talked about that a lot on the show and I'm so

happy that we have John Ronson coming on to tell us about what he's discovered in a two-year

investigation and I love his work I love his

writing I love his presentations he's just the best so that's going to be a great

episode we'll also have an episode with Talley Sharo the psychologist who studies

and wrote a book about the optimism bias.

Also, Gia Jong who spent 100 days getting rejected in more and more insane situations to try

and rid himself of the fear of rejection and see if it gave

him superpowers.

He has a blog and a book coming out that is based on all of that.

So lots and lots of great stuff on the way.

This, however, is not a new episode I'm working on two things right now a lecture I'm giving it South by Southwest in a few weeks

So if you're going to that find me and let's hang out. And I'm also working on this huge project.

I've just spent about a month on this, doing nothing but interviews every couple of days.

And I'm trying to put together two very special episodes of this

podcast and it's requiring me to do a lot of travel to gather these interviews

because I want them to all be in person if I can do it. Because of all of that this

episode is a rebroadcast of two interviews I did for

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