Hey everybody I have returned guest Joe Redden joining me today and if you didn't hear our first episode

You might want to go but it doesn't you don't need to have heard it for to listen to this one but just a reminder that there is another episode you can also listen to with Joe where we talked all about the research of behind satiation and boredom which we also talk about in this episode for context.

This was recorded April 30th and and this is the last of the the

time frame we called the new normal or whatever when I was recording a bunch I got a bunch in the bank.

This is the last episode that's like a little dated by a few months. Going forward we're kind of recording them just like a couple weeks ahead of time.

Not that it should matter that much but just to make sure that any references aren't

don't come off too dated in a world that is changing so quickly it used to be I could just bank a ton of these episodes and take a month

off or whatever in the world would be somewhat the same and whatever the guest had to say about their

dung beetle research or new economics finding or what have you.

You know, references wouldn't get dated as quickly as they potentially can now.

So this is a great opportunity to make sure and add comments and things in on YouTube or

write me on social media to add any suggestions for the show as we've kind of

tweaking the last fine tuning.

You'll see this will also be the last one where we had our old method so we

hence going forward we will have improved audio and a bit. and

we will have improved audio and video that we started doing like a month or two ago,

but we've had the stockpile of the old episodes that we've been hanging on to.

And then just, you know, register a vote everybody it's that time a year it's easy to be

discouraged when when you have a couple of decrepit rich dudes roasting each other's cognitive abilities to win access to a

a doomsday device. It's easy to throw up your hands and you're like, what's the point? What's it matter anyway?

But when you do that, that allows corruption to happen more readily, more easily because the most corrupt, if you think everyone's corrupt, everyone will

be corrupt and the most corrupt won't be held accountable if we normalize corruption or any other things that we don't like about politics if we just say they're all like that.

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