Trust Me (Ep. 266 Rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Societies where people trust one another are healthier and wealthier. In the U.S. (and the U.K. and elsewhere), social trust has been falling for decades — in part because our populations are more diverse. What can we do to fix it?

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0:00.0	Hey there, Steven Dubner. First of all, Happy New Year. I think we can all agree that 2020
0:10.7	is the kind of year that belongs in the rearview mirror. I'd like to take a minute to thank
0:15.8	some people. Let's start with you, our listeners. You are objectively speaking the best. You
0:24.5	are loyal, you're receptive to new ideas and formats, you are enthusiastic and clever, even kind. So,
0:33.0	thank you. I'd also like to thank the people who every week help create this show. There is our
0:40.6	core staff, Alison Creglo, Greg Ripon, Zach Wipinsky, Daphne Chen, Mary Deduc, Matt Hickey, and Emma
0:49.4	Terrell, and the latest edition, Mark McCluskey. They've all done great work this year, especially,
0:56.6	when a certain pandemic made it much harder to do great work. We also get a lot of help from James
1:02.6	Foster, who stays up late on weekends doing our rough mixes, and Dan Zula, who remixes our podcasts
1:09.9	through public radio. Most of the music you hear on our show was composed by Luis Guerra. Every week,
1:17.5	when I listen to the rough mix of an episode without music, it sounds naked, a little bit sad.
1:24.3	Once Luis's music is added, now we have something. We've also got wonderful producers on the new
1:31.9	shows we've been adding to the Freakonomics Radio Network, including Rebecca Lee Douglas and Brent
1:37.4	Katz, and they occasionally pitch in with this show too. Speaking of those new shows in our network,
1:44.2	thank you to the amazing Angela Duckworth, my co-host on No Stupid Questions, and to Steve Levit,
1:51.1	host of People I Mostly Admire. 2021 will be an even bigger year for the Freakonomics Radio
1:57.4	Network with even more new shows, so keep your ears open for that. We also have plans to open up
2:03.4	the entire Freakonomics Radio Archive, making all 400-plus episodes available to pretty much
2:10.4	everyone anytime free. If you are subscribed to our show, which of course you should be,
2:17.6	you'll see we've already given you a little holiday gift of some extra episodes, more to come soon.
2:23.8	For today's episode, we have pulled a 2016 show out of the archive. It's called Trust Me. It's
2:30.2	about how social trusts and cohesion are good for a society and how to get more of them.
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