Hello and welcome to the podcast and Lotus Eater's episode 1,332.

I'm your host, Harry, joined today by Stelios and Josh.

Hello.

Do I need to announce the goth mug?

I think so.

Right now. Do I need to do it now? We've got a got a goth mug on the website right now.

Don't ask how it ties into the brand. Just buy it. You want a mug with a goth on it, don't you?

Yes, you do.

Anyway, today we're going to be talking about how they cannot control us,

which is going to be talking about nudge theory,

and how apparently it's not quite as effective as we were led to believe.

Ironically enough, we have nudged into it.

I'm going to be talking to everybody about the pointlessness of working and how Gen Z are opting out.

And Stelios is going to be finally confessing to AI Jesus.

It's not the conversion that we expected, but it's welcome, that's for sure.

And with that, let's get into the

news also buy an islander do it just do it just do it so I'm gonna be talking

about how actually we're a little bit more difficult to control than people might make out

and this is a good thing. This is a

reassuring segment. It's going to be in my niche of behavioral decision making. This is where I

specialized in psychology. And so I know all of the literature involved in all of this stuff.

And I found this development very interesting. But to fill you in to make sure you know everything, because I think it's important to understand

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