I've never done this live before. Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast.

Thank you so much for coming live from the commie saw where the village underground is so

glad you all came up with our special guest today we have Ricky Schlotz who is a

columnist with the New York Post and a fellow at fire we have Jonathan Hites who's

a professor at Stern and co-author with Greg Wukiano who is president and CEO of

fire organization who looks super cool tonight. These are our special guests and

the topic on the table today is a no big deal very very easy top simple the

topic you will sort out tonight. Why the last 10 years I've been so fucked up what

is going on? I mean is anyone not asking that question right now? Like let's be

honest that is the question of the day in so many different ways and we have

such great perspectives on the table for this topic so let me open it up and

let me just open up that broadly right now and there's so many things that

can fall into the umbrella. Do you think we just want to have any sort of opening

statements on what you think might be happening before we get into the nitty-gritty

is this? But first I just want to say because a lot of people don't know this is

actually not a comedy act like if you came here to see comedy I'm sorry because

we're we're like gonna talk about the things we've been writing about and it's

like really heavy and dark but you came to last so we'll try to make it funny

but there's only so much we can do. Well we can't make the dark funny right I

just agree to be you said if I didn't laugh I would cry and I feel that's

that summarizes this 10 years ago. Gallows humor tonight. Yeah that's my opening.

That's your opening moment. There are various topics to older there bro I think a

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