Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I'm Joe McCormick and it's Saturday. We're going into the vault for a classic episode

from September 13th, 2016. What was this episode about, Robert?

Oh, well, this one was titled Scalp Hunters and the Cobra Effect. And it basically dealt

with the unintended consequences of putting value on certain things. What we're referencing

with the title, of course, is what happens if you say, all right, we want to deal with

the Cobra problem. So we're going to put a price on bringing in Cobra's. Or in the, one

of the more horrific stories of American colonialism, putting a price on the scalps of native

people. But then what happens when you do that? What kind of, how does that shift the

quota of violence? What do people start doing then to cheat the system? And in both of

these cases, you see people doing things to cheat the system.

Well, it's sort of in this episode, we explore the nature of incentives. Yes. And what,

what incentives do to address problems? People think they're trying to address and then

to create other problems. People don't predict. Yeah, I can't remember if I've discussed

this example in the episode, but it reminds me of when we were trying to, to potty train

our child. And we enter you give this thing. Did I give this thing the explanation?

Yeah, right. Save it for the episode. Okay. All right. But it involves, I'll just say

it involves peeping nuts and poop candy. And everyone can enjoy the, either enjoy it

a second time or you can enjoy it for the first time.

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In this episode, we're going to be talking about some darker content towards the end as

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