Hey everybody. Welcome once again to the weekly show podcast with John Stewart. My name is John Stewart and we're going to be talking. You know, this has been, I feel like the news of the world has so matched the climate here in the northeast, which is dark and gray and

apocalyptic and this feeling that we are hurtling towards something just truly unimaginable

and inexplicable. And it's why today, I just don't even want to fucking deal with it right now i you know

in in all these different ways today's show is going to be uh slightly different where once again

every now and again we'd love to bring on uh experts uh people of such regard and and note uh to come

and play with me uh like uh let's say a person with a cat and like a little string toy,

me being, of course, the cat, those individuals being the person. And today we want to talk about,

you know, our ability as a country to fix the seemingly intractable systemic problems, more economic.

And who better to do that with than an economist?

And an economist that has in some ways changed the way that economists talk about the incentives

that go into our economy. He is a behavioral economist,

which is something I didn't even know that there was. But a brilliant thinker and another

in our continuing series of brilliant thinkers, we obviously had Jeffrey Hinton on who explained to me

in childlike terms what AI actually is, and I'm sure this guest will be no different. So I'm

excited to get to it. Let's jump in now. Richard Thaler. So ladies and gentlemen, in our ongoing efforts to entertain and educate, we once again are going to welcome somebody to the program who is so accomplished and smart that it'll be entertaining to watch him play with me like a monkey with a small grape.

That's right.

Our guest today, a professor from the University of Chicago, an American economist, the founding father, one of the founding fathers, a behavioral economics,

and awarded a Nobel Prize in Econ in 2017,

which I assume he will be giving to Donald Trump

because that's where everybody has to give their Nobel Prizes.

But please, Richard Thaler,

thank you for joining us today.

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