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Hello this is our first all mail bag episode a feature we are calling curiosity corner.

So for the last few weeks we have been soliciting questions from you on anything you're curious about in the world news analysis philosophy life recommendations and the plan is to turn those questions into curiosity corner episodes once every few weeks.

I've been on vacation the last week plus but the previous week we did what I thought was a really great episode on housing issues with Jerusalem Demsys that episode was inspired by the fact that a huge share of the questions you were asking were about housing so we pulled together an episode with a guest on housing.

This is our first official curiosity corner episode our first all mail bag podcast that means there is no guest or you are the guest.

These are your questions and then you followed by my rambly occasionally coherent answers a couple ground rules here number one I'm only using first names I don't want to get anybody in trouble I don't want to cause embarrassment but in the future I think it'd be cool to say not just Steve but Steve from Portland Sally from Barcelona so maybe include where you're writing from I think that could be fun second these questions are sometimes slightly edited for brevity or clarity you know sometimes the emails have typos they have.

Long introductions what you're hearing here are mildly mildly mildly edited emails and that's it today's curiosity is take us to a new way of looking at America's gun problem why American companies are becoming more political we've got marriage tips questions about how the podcast is put together and then finally a brief comment on our amber herd episode which got quite a lot of feedback and not exactly the nice kind.

As always if you have a question or comment please send a note to plain English at spotify.com I'm Derek Thompson and this is plain English.

All right Devon why don't you kick us off with our first curiosity corner email.

So our first question is from Jay he says Derek I am a 53 year old white Republican from the South just to establish my bonafides I listen to the whole gun podcast without losing my temper so a pretty balanced take by you I think we could shift the focus to the topic that no one wants to talk about absent fathers and the breakdown of the nuclear family.

School shooters invariably come from broken homes or have absentee fathers or at the very least don't have one that is a positive influence in their lives.

It should at least be part of the conversation not just the mental health of the shooter focus less on changing gun culture and more on changing family culture.

It has the added benefits of fixing much much more than just school shootings best Jay.

Jay thank you for this message and also thank you for listening as a Republican from the South I am not a Republican nor am I from the South but one of my goals with this podcast has always been to produce a new show that people across the political aisles can listen to without tearing their hair out.

I know we don't always succeed sometimes Harris turn out but we try when I'm describing a point of view that I don't agree with I really want the people who I don't agree with.

To hear that their position is reflected in my summary of it.

Does that make sense like I want people who disagree with me to at least feel like their perspective was given a fair trial.

And that you know it's really really hard to do there's tens of thousands of people listening to the show it's a lot of you points I'm only one person I can only read into it so much but I want people to know that that is my North star I want people who disagree with my views to listen to the show a lot.

Okay enough filibustering do I agree that we should focus less on gun culture and more on family culture it's a good question the short answer is no the long answer is much longer the short answer is no because I don't know how to change family culture.

I don't know how to do it on mass I'm not saying it's impossible it's just I have no.

Confident ideas about how to change something is murky and widespread is family culture like there's a lot of policy ideas that I would love to sort of throw in the jambalaya I love the tax code.

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