Best Of: What's Our Problem? (Tim Urban)

Labyrinths with Amanda Knox

Knox Robinson Productions

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, True Crime, Mental Health

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In honor of election night in less than a week, we present one of our favorite episodes from the archives. Author, blogger, and cartoonist Tim Urban of WaitButWhy.com helps us dissect what's causing the political, social, and tribal dysfunction in our society with the help of golems, genies, the thought ladder, and the speech curve. Check out Tim's new book, What's Our Problem? Get early access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more by supporting Labyrinths on patreon. www.patreon.com/knoxrobinson https://www.amandaknox.com/ Twitter: @amandaknox | @manunderbridge IG: @amamaknox | @emceecarbon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Labyrinths is brought to you by Knox Robinson Productions.
0:04.3	Please consider becoming a patron.
0:06.6	For as little as $5 a month, you can listen to Labyrinth's ad-free.
0:11.4	Visit patreon.com slash Knox Robinson to learn more.
0:16.4	I was on this podcast before it was cool.
0:19.7	That's right.
0:20.4	That was like the beginning. That was like right at the beginning, I think. And back before it was cool. That's right. That was like the beginning.
0:21.5	That was like right at the beginning, I think.
0:23.3	And back then, this new book of yours was a humble blog post.
0:27.5	I feel like I remember we were walking around lower Manhattan.
0:32.1	And you were sort of like telling us, oh, man, I think I'm going to start writing about something that I'm feeling
0:37.9	really nervous about. Okay. And since then, lots of plans changed and it became a book and then
0:43.7	I had to finish the book. I have not figured out how to do the elevator pitch, but it basically
0:49.3	is me spending six years thinking about what's wrong with my society and why societies go wrong
0:56.5	and what specifically is happening here and what we need to do to not have it happen and then
1:02.7	trying to figure out what the big story is there and write it is one big story with one big framework.
1:13.4	Feeling lost?
1:14.9	Then you're in the right place.
1:16.7	I'm Amanda Knox.
1:18.0	And I'm Christopher Robinson.
1:19.9	And this is Labyrinths.
1:24.4	That was author Tim Urban.
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