30. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?
No Stupid Questions
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🗓️ 6 December 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh wait, someone had a question about something. |
| 0:03.3 | Surely I have the answer to it. |
| 0:05.2 | Hey! |
| 0:06.2 | I'm Antilla Duckworth. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Stephen Dovner. |
| 0:08.4 | And you're listening to no stupid questions. |
| 0:11.7 | Today on the show, how much is your mood driven by the media you consume? |
| 0:16.8 | You've never seen love actually? |
| 0:18.4 | I've heard of it. |
| 0:19.5 | You've never seen love actually? |
| 0:21.6 | Also, is a little knowledge worse than complete ignorance? |
| 0:25.6 | I told them to turn right and it should have been left. |
| 0:28.2 | Oh God, you are going to hell. |
| 0:30.4 | Angela, I've got a question for you here from a listener today. |
| 0:37.1 | Her name is Masha Yoveva and she writes to say, I, like most people these days, have been |
| 0:42.3 | feeling a bit down-tired. |
| 0:43.8 | I don't mean to laugh at you. |
| 0:45.9 | Masha, demotivated and easily depleted, though not depressed. |
| 0:50.0 | So first of all, before we get into Masha's question, Angie, do you think most people |
| 0:54.0 | are feeling a bit down-tired, demotivated and depleted? |
| 0:57.2 | I think there's actually pretty good data on the fact that, yes, absolutely. |
| 1:02.0 | Now that we're grinding into month nine of the pandemic, at least the United States, |
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