R.P. Eddy

That's What She Said with Sarah Spain

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3.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Sarah talks to businessman and author R.P. Eddy about the work he's done in public service- he created the first White House pandemic response, was a UN diplomat, and was the architect of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Eddy also discusses how the pandemic was predictable (he wrote as much in 2017), how to discern the glut of information out there to find the most accurate stuff, and how to become aware of the ways that our minds trick us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, it's Sarah reminding you to check out the Mina Kheim show featuring Lenny.
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0:18.2	That's what she said. That's what she said. That's what she said. That's what she said.
0:22.9	Well, that's what she said.
0:29.4	Welcome to That's what she said. Conversations with interesting people from the world
0:33.5	of sports, music, comedy and more. Talking about their lives, careers, successes and failures.
0:39.6	My name is RPETI and my dilemma is there is a bankruptcy of trust between us and between us
0:46.4	and our governments. Man, this is a hell of a dilemma. And it's one I'm just slightly beginning
0:52.2	to understand better after watching the documentary, the social dilemma, sort of understanding that
0:57.3	our internet searches and likes and our choices on the internet influence what we're going to see next
1:01.8	and what opinions and quote unquote facts we're going to be exposed to. I now get that we all sort of
1:07.2	live in different realities and what I see and read in here and trust isn't what someone else
1:11.7	scrolling through their Facebook or even Google searching might get. And because of that,
1:16.1	we're more distant, we're more prone to think the other side is crazy and uninformed, we're more
1:20.5	likely to settle things with anger and violence than coming together trying to connect. And that
1:25.8	obviously goes up to the governmental level too, where misinformation is sort of at an all-time
1:30.8	high and we can't find that trust we're looking for. So, you know, if a politician says something
1:35.3	assertively and with conviction people who are, you know, quote unquote on their side are going to
1:40.3	believe it. Facts be damned. It's kind of terrifying. I wish I had a solution for you. The best and
1:45.7	simplest answer though it may be painfully slow is probably to educate ourselves, right, become
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