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The Gist

Homo Economicus

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.43.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Jamil Zaki is a Stanford researcher and the author of the new book, Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness. He brings us a rare positive view of how our society has evolved, what it's evolved into, and he explains the flawed idea of "homo economicus." What does that mean? Listen. Also on the show, hawk tuah. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, August 29th, 2024, from Peach Fish Productions.

0:09.3

It's the gist, I'm Mike Pesca.

0:11.3

I was listening to a podcast, podcaster his name is uh Bill Maher and he has his main

0:16.0

podcast of his HBO show which I listen to but he also has this one where it's called

0:21.0

Club Random it could be called Bill Maher, an interesting guest,

0:25.8

and the clinking of ice in a glass, because the deal is Bill gets high, and the guest has something

0:30.1

to drink, and I am quite distracted by the clinking of ice in a glass. I don't like it. I don't, I would not opt in for hiring

0:38.4

a Foley artist to recreate that for my interviews. You probably listened to I'm going to say

0:43.7

over 2,000 of my interviews you rarely hear the clinking of ice in a glass but

0:48.2

Marr does he's an interesting guy as a funny guy and I like the fact that I often disagree with him

0:53.6

and he'll disagree with his guests and vice versa but he has as almost all

0:57.4

podcasts try he has good guests on he has guessed that he thinks are interesting, that he thinks his audience will find interesting.

1:06.0

Except the other week, he had on a person named Haley Welch.

1:12.0

Haley Welch works in a spring factory in Tennessee. So this wasn't a

1:17.2

Studs Turkle type play. It was something else because Haley Welch is not known for her spring factory work.

1:24.8

She is known for two words, a neologism if you will.

1:28.5

She was interviewed outside of a bar in Nashville and she said huktuah.

1:35.1

I won't give you the whole context.

1:36.6

But she's known as the huktuah girl and she got kind of famous for a time

1:42.3

and Bill Morris said must have her on. The conversation did not go well.

1:46.7

I do not wish to degrade Haley Welch. She is a 21 year old of possibly above average intelligence, possibly not, it wasn't just the intelligence,

1:56.0

but she's a person who didn't know anything and hasn't accomplished anything.

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