Hello and welcome to the board podcast I'm your host Tim Miller. I am delighted to bring back. It's been a while Atlantic writer Derek Thompson. He writes about big trends in tech culture and

politics. I'm a huge fan of his Plain English podcast with The Ringer and

he's here with us today. What's going on man?

How's it going man? It's great to be here.

All right, here's my plan for the pod. I'm fanboying for playing English.

So hopefully you get some new listeners out of this.

What I want to do is you have these deep dive conversations on your show,

you know about cultural trends, things going on in our, you know, political, you know,

sociological overlapping areas and I want to like do like a clip show remember the 90s like where we do like a sitcom clip show we do a little bit of each topic and if people's whistle is wet and they want more, they can go back to the longer convos or articles.

Does that sound good?

I love it.

That sounds fantastic.

Thank you.

Let's do it.

The first one actually might be against my trend, because I don't know if you have you done this

this was responsive to a tweet of years not at one of the shows but the question of

the economic perception versus the reality it's obviously something that we're talking about a lot here because of its impact on the

presidential election in 2024.

Many people have seen the Harris poll.

56% say US is in recession, actually seven straight quarters of positive growth.

49% say stocks are down year to date, we're having stock markets at record highs.

49% say unemployment is at a 50 year high, actually we're at a 50 year low.

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