You're listening to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host, Walter Kunkite.

And today I'm going to inject a little bit of optimism into your life with the help of my friend Remy who's going to join me in a moment.

Remy, if you're unfamiliar with him, is a brilliantly funny comedian and a funny funny comedian to boot who I'm bringing on to the

podcast for the first time and we're going to talk about some of the good

statistics that just came out about how abundant everything is because we're hearing

a lot of doom and gloom and I think that's an interesting position to look at the current

political landscape from in that I don't think the the old way of framing things between left

wing and right wing is ultimately very useful. I think it's very useful for

galvanizing people into fighting each other. If that's your goal, left-ring right-wing rhetoric does a great job for that.

But I don't think it's actually that accurate in terms of figuring out how people think and what they think and that kind of thing.

One model that I wouldn't use all the time, but one model which is interesting to look at is,

let's divide people into the category of when they hear news,

do they take a deep breath or are they apocalyptic about it?

And you can see this across the political spectrum,

where there's a bunch of people that always go,

we're gonna die, we're all going to die.

And then there are other people that kind of take a deep breath and start reading the data,

right?

I'm more in the deep breathing camp.

I think Remy probably is as well.

And so we're going to be exploring some of the kinder gentler statistics

which are marking the world right now and perhaps give you a reprieve from all of the nasty things

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