WEBVTT - Solutions for 2022 0:00:15.076 --> 0:00:25.676 Pushkin, This is solvable. I'm Ronald Young Jr. I'm San Fragoso, 0:00:26.196 --> 0:00:29.436 host of Talk Easy with San Fragoso. What if we 0:00:29.516 --> 0:00:34.436 called our parents more, our friends, had better, more fullhearted conversations, 0:00:34.836 --> 0:00:37.036 the kinds we always say we don't have time for 0:00:37.876 --> 0:00:43.756 or just too busy to have listeners. Tis the season 0:00:43.796 --> 0:00:47.196 for problem solving. I mean, that's solvable. We're always steeped 0:00:47.196 --> 0:00:49.076 in it. But this is the time of year that 0:00:49.156 --> 0:00:51.356 the rest of America takes a few extra minutes to 0:00:51.396 --> 0:00:55.236 look carefully at their lives, then set goals, carve out resolutions, 0:00:55.636 --> 0:01:00.036 make fresh intentions for a better life. Hi. I'm Tim Hoffitt. 0:01:00.156 --> 0:01:04.116 I'm the host of Cautionary Tales. The problem I'd like 0:01:04.196 --> 0:01:11.356 to see solved is creating more beautiful, lie walkable neighborhoods. 0:01:12.476 --> 0:01:14.756 If we could solve this problem, that would be good 0:01:14.796 --> 0:01:17.236 from mental health, it'd be good for the economy, good 0:01:17.236 --> 0:01:21.756 for jobs, good for the planet. There's so many ways 0:01:21.836 --> 0:01:24.196 in which this is a problem worth solving, and it 0:01:24.356 --> 0:01:27.396 seems like it shouldn't be such a hard problem. We 0:01:27.556 --> 0:01:30.596 think some problems really should not be too hard to solve. 0:01:31.036 --> 0:01:33.276 And I usually bring someone with the wealth of knowledge 0:01:33.316 --> 0:01:35.796 and a roadmap to tell us how. But we have 0:01:35.836 --> 0:01:38.276 a special episode today, a chance to peer behind the 0:01:38.316 --> 0:01:40.876 curtain with the team that makes Solvable possible. Each week, 0:01:41.316 --> 0:01:43.356 I've invited my colleagues to sit down and talk about 0:01:43.356 --> 0:01:45.836 the things we'd like to see solved. We'll also hear 0:01:45.916 --> 0:01:49.316 from some other pushkin podcast hosts about problems they'd like 0:01:49.356 --> 0:01:52.676 to see solved. And as you're listening, if you think 0:01:52.716 --> 0:01:55.636 of something you'd like us to solve, tweet us at 0:01:55.676 --> 0:02:05.916 Pushkin Pods using the hashtag solvable. Here we go, Hello, team, 0:02:06.076 --> 0:02:09.116 Why don't we go around the table and introduce ourselves 0:02:09.236 --> 0:02:12.076 so that everyone knows what voice matches to what role. 0:02:12.356 --> 0:02:15.796 I'm Sasha, I am the managing producer of Solvaball, and 0:02:15.876 --> 0:02:19.636 I'm coming at you hot from Brooklyn, New York. I'm Joscelyn, 0:02:19.876 --> 0:02:23.636 senior producer of Solva Ball, and I'm joining this chat 0:02:23.676 --> 0:02:26.636 from Minneapolis. I'm David. I do research for the show, 0:02:27.516 --> 0:02:31.236 and I'm at my parents' house in Connecticut for the holiday. 0:02:31.556 --> 0:02:34.396 Look at us. I guess I didn't say I'm in Alexandria, Virginia, 0:02:34.476 --> 0:02:36.756 but here we all are, and I'm so glad that 0:02:36.796 --> 0:02:39.156 you guys get to join me on Mike Today. Welcome, 0:02:41.156 --> 0:02:43.876 happy to me here. All right, So I assembled you 0:02:43.996 --> 0:02:47.756 all because I wanted to talk a little bit about 0:02:48.156 --> 0:02:52.076 problems that we want to see solved next year. I know, 0:02:52.156 --> 0:02:54.156 we guys, we work on this show and we talked 0:02:54.156 --> 0:02:56.276 to a lot of luminaries, but we don't never really 0:02:56.276 --> 0:02:58.596 get to talk to each other about problems. And I 0:02:58.636 --> 0:03:00.676 don't know about y'all, but do you guys feel like 0:03:00.676 --> 0:03:04.036 you guys think more about problems differently since working on 0:03:04.076 --> 0:03:08.036 the show. For sure, I totally do, Yeah, definitely more optimistically. 0:03:08.516 --> 0:03:10.796 I feel I hear about a problem and I'm like, oh, 0:03:10.836 --> 0:03:13.876 someone's probably going to figure this one out. It's no biggie, 0:03:14.236 --> 0:03:16.796 and then we'll have about the show right right exactly. 0:03:17.356 --> 0:03:19.596 I think it just makes me, like forces me to 0:03:19.636 --> 0:03:22.556 think more specifically, like you have to do something, you know. 0:03:23.116 --> 0:03:25.516 So I like that our researchers bringing it back to 0:03:25.556 --> 0:03:27.676 the ground for us, where like, yeah, it all gets done, 0:03:27.676 --> 0:03:29.676 and he's like, actually have to work hard to find 0:03:29.716 --> 0:03:33.196 the people in a practical way. You guys take it 0:03:33.236 --> 0:03:35.636 for granted, like this takes some effort. So what we 0:03:35.636 --> 0:03:37.356 did was we each of us. I asked you to 0:03:37.356 --> 0:03:39.676 come with a problem that you'd like to see solved 0:03:39.676 --> 0:03:42.196 in the next year or in any time in the future. 0:03:42.516 --> 0:03:45.196 Big or small, doesn't matter. David, Let's start with you. 0:03:45.356 --> 0:03:47.596 What problem would you like to see solved? We talk 0:03:47.636 --> 0:03:50.796 a lot about like serious issues, so I figured i'd 0:03:50.876 --> 0:03:54.276 talk about something with lower stakes. I guess right now, 0:03:54.396 --> 0:03:59.436 there's a global graphics card shortage. Oh wow. It's mainly 0:03:59.476 --> 0:04:03.996 driven by COVID. But like personal computer PC part components 0:04:04.516 --> 0:04:06.076 all around the world are really hard to come by 0:04:06.196 --> 0:04:08.876 right now. And as you guys know, I love video 0:04:08.916 --> 0:04:11.276 game and I play a lot of PC games, and 0:04:11.316 --> 0:04:14.556 I like building computers when I need to know every 0:04:14.556 --> 0:04:17.436 few years. But I've been saving up money for a 0:04:17.436 --> 0:04:19.236 long time and I was really looking forward to my 0:04:19.316 --> 0:04:24.196 next build. But when the pandemic started, it became almost 0:04:24.276 --> 0:04:27.756 impossible to buy graphics cards, which is the most important 0:04:27.756 --> 0:04:31.716 part of your computer if you like gaming, because I mean, 0:04:31.716 --> 0:04:34.356 that's what renders everything, that's what makes everything look beautiful, 0:04:34.516 --> 0:04:37.716 that's where a lot of its visual processing power comes from. 0:04:38.276 --> 0:04:40.716 And there's just a huge global shortage right now, and 0:04:40.756 --> 0:04:43.156 there's a lot of reasons for that. I mean, it's 0:04:43.196 --> 0:04:45.556 sort of just like a classic supply chain issue. And 0:04:45.636 --> 0:04:49.876 manufacturing issue. But it's also a little more complicated. There 0:04:49.876 --> 0:04:52.236 are a lot of bots that people have made because 0:04:52.476 --> 0:04:54.316 everyone knows that these things are in demand and hard 0:04:54.356 --> 0:04:57.836 to get, so like all these like you know, ingenious 0:04:57.876 --> 0:05:01.116 teenage trolls have like set up these automated bots that 0:05:01.556 --> 0:05:04.516 will buy up all of Nvidia's cards in like seconds 0:05:04.516 --> 0:05:07.756 and nobody can get them. And then there's this whole 0:05:07.836 --> 0:05:11.636 push during the pandemic of crypto mining, So a lot 0:05:11.636 --> 0:05:14.276 of people have been mining bitcoin during the pandemic, and 0:05:14.316 --> 0:05:17.436 that's when that's where graphics cars are super useful. And 0:05:17.476 --> 0:05:19.316 so those people, I think are botting as well to 0:05:19.356 --> 0:05:22.036 buy everything. And so if you're just like a normal dude, 0:05:22.116 --> 0:05:24.956 like what else am I supposed to do during lockdown? 0:05:24.996 --> 0:05:26.796 Like I need to play my video games, all right, 0:05:26.876 --> 0:05:30.036 So it's hard. It's just hard to buy graphics cars 0:05:30.116 --> 0:05:33.796 right now, and I wish someone would fix that. David, 0:05:33.796 --> 0:05:36.956 are you optimistic that they'll fix the supply chain issues 0:05:37.436 --> 0:05:39.276 or do you think that somebody will come up with 0:05:39.316 --> 0:05:42.236 some other method to replace the video card as we 0:05:42.276 --> 0:05:44.076 know it now? Like, how do you think what direction 0:05:44.076 --> 0:05:46.836 do you think they'll take it to solve it? I 0:05:46.836 --> 0:05:49.116 think in twenty twenty two. I think they've had a 0:05:49.156 --> 0:05:52.716 whole year twenty twenty one to kind of wrap their 0:05:52.716 --> 0:05:54.676 heads around with the logistical problems are. I think in 0:05:54.716 --> 0:05:58.556 twenty twenty two they will fix like the supply chain 0:05:58.756 --> 0:06:00.996 problem that they're having, like they've been. I think a 0:06:00.996 --> 0:06:04.316 lot of companies that make graphics cards are like investing 0:06:04.356 --> 0:06:06.556 in I don't in their plants and ways that make 0:06:06.556 --> 0:06:09.956 it more that they can meet demand. I wish they 0:06:09.956 --> 0:06:12.556 would solve more like the boding problem, and some of 0:06:12.596 --> 0:06:15.316 them haven't tried. Some of them have, you know, in 0:06:15.436 --> 0:06:17.956 video released a new graphics card or whatever, they'll only 0:06:17.956 --> 0:06:19.916 sell it at best Buy in like the brick and 0:06:19.956 --> 0:06:22.956 mortar retail store, and people will like camp out or whatever. 0:06:23.436 --> 0:06:26.756 But that doesn't really work because you can only provide 0:06:26.796 --> 0:06:30.156 like X number of graphics cards. And I don't have 0:06:30.196 --> 0:06:32.796 a tent, so and I'm not going to sleep out 0:06:32.836 --> 0:06:35.116 for a freaking you know, computer card whatever. I'm not 0:06:35.156 --> 0:06:37.596 like one of these crazy bitcoin people, So so I 0:06:37.636 --> 0:06:40.476 don't know, there's there are challenges, like I I'm not 0:06:40.716 --> 0:06:44.436 entirely sure like what their supply chain fixed would look like, 0:06:44.916 --> 0:06:46.716 and I don't even know what the demand is going 0:06:46.756 --> 0:06:49.196 to look like this year, because I wonder if it's 0:06:49.236 --> 0:06:52.156 gonna it's gonna remain that high, if things will change, 0:06:52.156 --> 0:06:54.076 if people are coming out of lockdown and stuff like that. 0:06:54.556 --> 0:06:58.076 I love how much you've thought about that, talking about 0:06:58.116 --> 0:07:02.036 it a little too much. Resale market. Oh yeah, there 0:07:02.156 --> 0:07:04.956 is what I mean, I think they're teenagers. But what 0:07:05.076 --> 0:07:08.156 these like scalpers do, they're scalpers. What they do is 0:07:08.636 --> 0:07:11.476 they they buy up these cards with their bots, you know, 0:07:11.556 --> 0:07:14.236 for six hundred dollars, five hundred dollars a piece, real fast, 0:07:14.596 --> 0:07:16.196 and you know, a couple months later they'll selve for 0:07:16.196 --> 0:07:19.236 like twelve hundred or like twenty four hundred, you know, 0:07:19.396 --> 0:07:21.956 like multiple thousand dollars, and they just make, you know, 0:07:22.036 --> 0:07:24.916 make easy money that way. So it's a it's prime 0:07:24.956 --> 0:07:27.796 for scalping. It's like somebody's going to college off of 0:07:28.396 --> 0:07:34.196 video cards video card fund, Yeah, for school, David, that's 0:07:34.196 --> 0:07:37.396 a great problem. I think it's I like that it's 0:07:37.436 --> 0:07:40.356 like it personally affects you, but it actually is something 0:07:40.396 --> 0:07:43.236 that's probably affecting lots of people. And I think the 0:07:43.316 --> 0:07:46.556 bot problem being solved is probably something that would fix 0:07:46.596 --> 0:07:49.316 a lot more than just video cards shortages. I know personally, 0:07:49.396 --> 0:07:52.836 I like Jordan's sneakers and Nike's generally, and there's a 0:07:52.836 --> 0:07:56.556 boding problem with people buying the shoes as soon as 0:07:56.596 --> 0:07:59.396 they come out, like almost like they're they're gone immediately. 0:07:59.796 --> 0:08:02.636 So I would love to see the boding problem solved 0:08:02.796 --> 0:08:05.596 as well. You know. That's things because I was thinking 0:08:05.636 --> 0:08:07.836 maybe we just need some version of like three D 0:08:07.956 --> 0:08:11.636 glasses where if the you know, video card is really weak, 0:08:11.676 --> 0:08:14.356 they just send everyone, you know, a special pair of 0:08:14.396 --> 0:08:21.316 like high Death Beautiful, real cheap and easy just quick 0:08:21.796 --> 0:08:24.276 quick fix for twenty twenty two. But those would get 0:08:24.276 --> 0:08:36.076 botted too, yeah, real low Fi Consolation Prize. We also 0:08:36.116 --> 0:08:39.156 reached out to hosts of our fellow push gim shows 0:08:39.236 --> 0:08:42.076 for their ideas on problems they'd like to see solved 0:08:42.316 --> 0:08:44.996 in whatever frame of time they chose. Here's our first one. 0:08:45.796 --> 0:08:48.996 I'm Michael Lewis, host of Against the Rules, and the 0:08:49.116 --> 0:08:51.196 major problem in the world that I would like to 0:08:51.236 --> 0:08:55.796 see solved is baseball. How do you make it less boring? 0:08:56.676 --> 0:09:02.516 It's got an aging fan base, declining ratings, and the 0:09:02.596 --> 0:09:06.756 games keep getting longer and longer. I have thoughts about 0:09:06.756 --> 0:09:10.236 how to solve it. I mean, you could do it 0:09:10.236 --> 0:09:12.316 in a stroke by say, like putting a lion on 0:09:12.356 --> 0:09:15.276 the field, like not one of those lazy zoo lions, 0:09:15.356 --> 0:09:19.396 but a line from the savannah. It would get interesting instantly. 0:09:19.436 --> 0:09:21.996 Everybody would watch that, and it's very Roman. It would 0:09:22.036 --> 0:09:25.796 be a very Roman solution to the problem. You could 0:09:25.796 --> 0:09:30.636 turn the stadium into a casino where the fans it's 0:09:30.676 --> 0:09:33.316 ideally suited as a game to bet on everything that 0:09:33.356 --> 0:09:35.556 happens because there's so little action and there's so much 0:09:35.556 --> 0:09:38.596 time between the action, So that'd be another way to 0:09:38.636 --> 0:09:41.676 solve it. I don't think that the little things that 0:09:41.756 --> 0:09:43.996 baseball is thinking about doing around the edge is making 0:09:43.996 --> 0:09:46.396 the bases a little bigger so they're easier to steal, 0:09:46.476 --> 0:09:48.476 and moving the picture back and all that stuff. I 0:09:48.476 --> 0:09:50.396 don't think that's going to address the fundamental problem. I 0:09:50.396 --> 0:09:52.476 think that the game is out of step with the 0:09:52.516 --> 0:09:56.356 age we live in, and so figuring out how to 0:09:56.476 --> 0:10:00.276 change it in a way that preserves it but interest 0:10:00.356 --> 0:10:03.116 people is going to be very hard. And if you 0:10:03.116 --> 0:10:06.916 can figure that out, climate change is a breeze. That 0:10:07.036 --> 0:10:09.476 was Michael Lewis, host of Against the Rules Are Sister 0:10:09.516 --> 0:10:12.076 podcast here at Pushkin. What do you guys think is 0:10:12.116 --> 0:10:17.476 baseball too boring. I mean, baseball is definitely boring. I 0:10:17.516 --> 0:10:21.276 don't think it's too boring. The how boring they slid? 0:10:21.276 --> 0:10:22.996 This is what I love about it. It is such 0:10:23.036 --> 0:10:27.636 an intensely psychological sport because there's just so much standing 0:10:27.676 --> 0:10:32.316 around and so much that happens when you know you're 0:10:32.356 --> 0:10:35.556 standing at the base and your opponent is standing right 0:10:35.596 --> 0:10:38.076 next to you and they like joke around but also 0:10:38.316 --> 0:10:42.556 or adversarial. I don't know. I think baseball is just 0:10:42.876 --> 0:10:48.036 boring enough. There's a lot of passive, aggressive chumminess, Oh yeah, 0:10:48.076 --> 0:10:49.756 I feel like in baseball. And then and then there's 0:10:49.756 --> 0:10:53.116 also outright like brawls I guess when like they cleared 0:10:53.196 --> 0:10:56.116 the dugouts or whatever, But that's rare. Being there live 0:10:56.316 --> 0:10:58.236 makes it a lot less boring, But watching it on 0:10:58.276 --> 0:11:02.436 television there's little entertainment value. And then most of the 0:11:02.476 --> 0:11:06.396 fights happen all when there's unwritten rules that are broken, 0:11:06.596 --> 0:11:09.716 and I am not a fan of rule, and baseball 0:11:09.796 --> 0:11:15.436 leans heavily into unwritten rules, which there's a big debate 0:11:15.476 --> 0:11:17.556 about that as well. John, what do you think. I mean, 0:11:18.116 --> 0:11:21.036 I'm with you in terms of like watching it versus 0:11:21.236 --> 0:11:23.916 watching it in person. Versus watching it on TV. I 0:11:24.156 --> 0:11:27.196 don't think I've ever watched a whole baseball game on TV. 0:11:28.196 --> 0:11:30.556 The psychological challenge is not just for the players on 0:11:30.596 --> 0:11:33.396 the field, as for the audience too. We have, like, 0:11:33.716 --> 0:11:37.596 you know, how how much consumerism will we fall prey to, 0:11:38.316 --> 0:11:41.756 how much unnecessary snacking? How many times will we get 0:11:41.796 --> 0:11:46.636 up and stretch? Will we accidentally clap just because something happened, 0:11:46.836 --> 0:11:49.436 not because it's a team we're looking for to win. 0:11:50.036 --> 0:11:53.236 But I actually think I love organized sports. I think 0:11:53.236 --> 0:11:55.996 they're really fun. I love team sports especially. It makes 0:11:55.996 --> 0:11:58.636 me and it makes me think about like how much 0:11:58.636 --> 0:12:00.436 fun I had playing them when I was a kid 0:12:00.556 --> 0:12:04.716 and still when I play them now. And but I 0:12:05.396 --> 0:12:07.116 do think it's boring, and I do think that they 0:12:07.116 --> 0:12:09.396 could probably pick it up, Like doesn't need to be 0:12:09.436 --> 0:12:11.716 that many innings. I think that's the easy fix, Like 0:12:11.836 --> 0:12:14.516 just make it fewer innings like little. I think it 0:12:14.516 --> 0:12:18.316 should just it should just make it one inning, one inning, 0:12:18.356 --> 0:12:21.116 That's it. I think the only pushback I have to you, Jocelyn, 0:12:21.196 --> 0:12:26.516 is that unnecessary snacking is an oxymoron all snacking. So 0:12:26.676 --> 0:12:28.676 I don't like the way you put that at all. 0:12:28.716 --> 0:12:32.076 It feels very just that's fair. That's fair. It's funny 0:12:32.236 --> 0:12:35.236 to hear. Michael Lewis, the author of one of my 0:12:35.356 --> 0:12:39.356 favorite books of all time, Moneyball, called Baseball Boring. Yeah, 0:12:39.396 --> 0:12:44.396 Moneyball totally blew my mind. It's incredible. Yeah, Like chess 0:12:44.476 --> 0:12:49.756 is theoretically satisfying, but the action of chess moments moment 0:12:50.116 --> 0:12:52.916 can be very slow. That's why speed chess is awesome, 0:12:52.956 --> 0:12:55.076 and that's why people see that, because it forces you 0:12:55.156 --> 0:12:58.236 to fight. Michael suggests putting a lion in the field. 0:12:58.316 --> 0:13:01.756 So I think I think changing the rules of baseball 0:13:01.796 --> 0:13:03.676 to make it a little more fast paced, maybe a 0:13:03.716 --> 0:13:06.916 little more like score heavy, like basketball or hockey or 0:13:06.956 --> 0:13:11.316 something or such. It on double speed. Yeah, maybe that's 0:13:11.396 --> 0:13:14.516 the that's the answer. I don't know. You need to 0:13:14.716 --> 0:13:16.676 You might need to change the rules. I feel like 0:13:16.676 --> 0:13:19.196 you guys stumbled onto something that about baseball, though, which 0:13:19.236 --> 0:13:21.156 is that like, the more you know about baseball, the 0:13:21.196 --> 0:13:24.116 more interesting it is. It's fun if I know what's happening, 0:13:24.116 --> 0:13:26.236 But when I don't, I'm like, I don't care. So 0:13:26.356 --> 0:13:27.916 I hear the crack of the bat, So I think 0:13:27.916 --> 0:13:29.316 if they can find a way to solve that the 0:13:29.396 --> 0:13:41.956 line on the field, I think would solve that. So Joslyn, 0:13:42.236 --> 0:13:44.116 tell me what problem did you bring to us today. 0:13:44.516 --> 0:13:46.276 I feel like Michael Lewis kind of threw it down 0:13:46.356 --> 0:13:48.396 when he said, like, if we can solve baseball, then 0:13:48.396 --> 0:13:52.436 climate change is easy. Climate change is so huge, And 0:13:52.476 --> 0:13:55.476 we talked about this several different ways on the show, 0:13:55.596 --> 0:13:58.556 like there's ways we can break it down into smaller parts. 0:13:58.796 --> 0:14:00.916 So one of the small parts that I feel like 0:14:00.916 --> 0:14:04.516 I would love to see solved is emissions from planes. 0:14:05.036 --> 0:14:08.156 Why can't planes be electric if we're putting all this 0:14:08.276 --> 0:14:11.796 energy into electric cars, but we know that planes gobble 0:14:11.876 --> 0:14:14.596 up way more fuel than cars, although there are more 0:14:14.636 --> 0:14:17.876 cars on the road and cumulatively cars are more responsible 0:14:17.916 --> 0:14:21.516 for overall co two. I'd still really love to see planes. 0:14:22.356 --> 0:14:25.036 Maybe it's just personal interests because I love flying and 0:14:25.196 --> 0:14:27.476 visiting people and exploring the world and I don't want 0:14:27.476 --> 0:14:29.756 to feel terrible about that all the time. So I 0:14:29.796 --> 0:14:33.356 admit that it's self interest, but it's also global interest. 0:14:33.476 --> 0:14:35.916 I feel like electric planes, I'd love to see that happen. 0:14:36.556 --> 0:14:40.476 I feel hesitant about electric planes because I feel like 0:14:40.516 --> 0:14:43.236 the potential for them to drop out of the sky. 0:14:43.316 --> 0:14:45.556 It's just I don't know why I just in my head, 0:14:45.556 --> 0:14:46.916 I'm like, well, what if it runs out. I can't 0:14:46.916 --> 0:14:49.236 even keep my phone charged, so the idea of it 0:14:49.236 --> 0:14:51.076 falling out of the sky bombs me. But I will 0:14:51.116 --> 0:14:52.956 say while you were talking, I was like, well, maybe 0:14:52.996 --> 0:14:56.516 a hybrid plane then that would definitely cut down some emissions, 0:14:56.516 --> 0:15:00.276 like using both electrical elements and fuel elements. Yeah. Yeah, 0:15:00.396 --> 0:15:02.756 or like if things get bad, you could all everyone 0:15:02.756 --> 0:15:05.836 could just plug their own phone into their individual charger 0:15:05.876 --> 0:15:11.276 and give a plane like a little extra boots on 0:15:11.436 --> 0:15:16.516 an electric plane in no uncertain term. I am never 0:15:16.636 --> 0:15:20.036 boarding an electric plane, oh man, or maybe when I'm 0:15:20.076 --> 0:15:22.476 like one hundred years old. But I do see the 0:15:22.556 --> 0:15:25.556 seriousness that you see in the issue. Yeah. I think 0:15:25.556 --> 0:15:28.556 the safety issue is definitely legit, and it's going to 0:15:28.596 --> 0:15:32.116 take some time before that's a norm and people feel 0:15:32.116 --> 0:15:34.636 comfortable doing that. But I think, like Joscelyn, I think 0:15:34.636 --> 0:15:37.476 you touch on something that's like really true and resident 0:15:37.516 --> 0:15:40.156 in that, like people are more willing to like sacrifice 0:15:40.156 --> 0:15:42.196 their car on day to day because it's like, oh, 0:15:42.236 --> 0:15:44.236 that's that's like whatever. I can find ways around that. 0:15:44.356 --> 0:15:46.556 But when it comes to like visiting family or going 0:15:46.596 --> 0:15:50.716 to see something far away or see a wonder you've 0:15:50.716 --> 0:15:53.356 always wanted to see, Like paying for that fuel is 0:15:53.396 --> 0:15:56.396 like almost always worth it psychologically, and it's like people 0:15:56.396 --> 0:15:59.596 are more willing to get on that gas guzzling plane, 0:15:59.756 --> 0:16:03.916 you know, versus like maybe cutting out a couple commute 0:16:03.956 --> 0:16:06.516 trips in their car every week. So I think there 0:16:06.516 --> 0:16:08.276 should be more touch and paid to that. And I 0:16:08.316 --> 0:16:10.636 think you have a good point. Thanks. I mean planes. 0:16:10.676 --> 0:16:14.236 I think it's estimated they're responsible for about three percent 0:16:14.356 --> 0:16:17.436 of the CO two, so you know, we're not fixing 0:16:17.516 --> 0:16:21.156 climate change with this one. But they're more efficient per 0:16:21.196 --> 0:16:24.756 person I think than cars because you can put a 0:16:24.836 --> 0:16:28.636 lot of people on one plane, so we could all 0:16:28.876 --> 0:16:33.516 work from home and then save up our carbon carbon 0:16:33.556 --> 0:16:37.556 credits for seven wonders of the world and our family, 0:16:38.036 --> 0:16:42.356 not in that order. I think carbon credits is I 0:16:42.396 --> 0:16:44.596 think somebody heard that their ears perked up in terms 0:16:44.636 --> 0:16:48.316 of a solution good they're for us building up. So 0:16:48.516 --> 0:16:50.476 let that Let's hear from another one of our pushkin 0:16:50.556 --> 0:16:53.516 hosts about one of the problems they'd like to see solved. Hi. 0:16:53.676 --> 0:16:56.196 I'm doctor Laurie Santos. I'm the host of the Happiness 0:16:56.276 --> 0:16:59.116 Lab podcast, and what I would like to see solved. 0:16:59.436 --> 0:17:02.476 Is behavior change. So many of the big problems that 0:17:02.516 --> 0:17:05.396 face us right now, things like climate change and the 0:17:05.476 --> 0:17:09.956 addiction crisis, and even political polarization, their problem of human behavior. 0:17:10.476 --> 0:17:12.396 This is true for lots of the tiny problems we 0:17:12.476 --> 0:17:14.716 face too, like the fact that it's tricky for me 0:17:14.756 --> 0:17:16.556 to get up and exercise in the morning, or the 0:17:16.556 --> 0:17:18.956 fact that I don't get enough sleep. What we know 0:17:19.036 --> 0:17:21.676 from the social science is that behavior change is hard. 0:17:22.076 --> 0:17:24.476 We need great solutions to figure out how it works. 0:17:24.876 --> 0:17:28.356 And so that's a big problem I'd love to see solved. Sasha, 0:17:28.436 --> 0:17:38.596 do you struggle with changing your behavior? Um? Calling out 0:17:32.716 --> 0:17:42.876 the question, I do and I don't. I'm like very 0:17:43.796 --> 0:17:47.636 structured and formulaic. Once I have a behavior in place, 0:17:47.796 --> 0:17:50.916 pretty sure of habit, but I am open to new habits. Um, 0:17:51.156 --> 0:17:53.236 you got any anything I need to course correct on. 0:17:53.356 --> 0:17:56.036 This is the same space. What if that was a 0:17:56.116 --> 0:18:03.276 leaded for me? Actually it's more I think the challenge 0:18:03.316 --> 0:18:06.676 is more building positive habits, like when I get like 0:18:06.996 --> 0:18:10.236 when it's been a few months since I seriously exercised 0:18:10.316 --> 0:18:13.236 or whatever, and like trying to just just jog a 0:18:13.236 --> 0:18:16.916 little bit every day. That's hard, and I can read 0:18:16.916 --> 0:18:19.876 all like the self help and watch all the motivational 0:18:19.956 --> 0:18:22.036 videos I want, but I feel like, at the end 0:18:22.036 --> 0:18:23.996 of the day, it's just like this, you have to 0:18:23.996 --> 0:18:26.716 flip the switch inside yourself and like go and do it, 0:18:26.876 --> 0:18:30.116 And I think that's really hard. Lauri's talking about like 0:18:30.196 --> 0:18:33.396 fixing human behavior. There's a lot of bad behavior out 0:18:33.436 --> 0:18:39.996 there that I wonder if as external regulators we can 0:18:40.076 --> 0:18:43.836 really fix, and if there are if those people even 0:18:43.876 --> 0:18:46.396 want to fix their own bad behavior. I just wonder 0:18:46.516 --> 0:18:50.076 to what extent we can actually modify how people act 0:18:50.636 --> 0:18:52.716 at all. It makes me think of that episode we 0:18:52.756 --> 0:18:54.916 did with pre Compost. Actually I think about that episode 0:18:54.916 --> 0:18:58.316 a lot. She was talking about health at every size 0:18:58.396 --> 0:19:02.316 and the ways that we decide what's good and bad, 0:19:02.596 --> 0:19:06.316 and thinking about how scarcity plays into it. She was 0:19:06.356 --> 0:19:09.476 talking about, you know, foods that we say we can 0:19:09.476 --> 0:19:11.316 only have a little bit, or we can have a 0:19:11.316 --> 0:19:13.636 lot of this, but only a little of that. But 0:19:13.676 --> 0:19:16.156 I think the same thing could go for all sorts 0:19:16.196 --> 0:19:18.956 of behaviors that we qualify as good and bad. Of course, 0:19:18.996 --> 0:19:21.516 there are some that are like clearly bad, you know, 0:19:21.596 --> 0:19:25.876 like murder a little bit, it's not okay, but you 0:19:25.916 --> 0:19:29.036 know how desperately we have to buy a present, and 0:19:29.076 --> 0:19:30.996 then we put all this pressure on ourselves to like 0:19:31.116 --> 0:19:33.196 have a certain job and work a certain lifestyle and 0:19:33.236 --> 0:19:35.436 da da da da, and it becomes this negative cycle. 0:19:35.836 --> 0:19:38.676 Whereas like, if we could frame it as like I'll 0:19:38.716 --> 0:19:41.036 give her a hug and that will be really meaningful, 0:19:41.516 --> 0:19:43.876 then we remove all those other layers of pressure that 0:19:43.956 --> 0:19:47.076 lead us to do something stupid and bad. Quote unquote 0:19:47.476 --> 0:19:52.156 thank you for absolving me of finishing my Christmas shopping, Jocelyn. 0:19:52.396 --> 0:19:54.836 I am going to take your lead on this and 0:19:54.876 --> 0:20:00.156 just give everyone a hug. Sasha, while I have you, 0:20:00.276 --> 0:20:02.836 why don't you tell me what your problem is. My 0:20:03.076 --> 0:20:07.556 problem is everyone's problem. And I think that we are 0:20:07.636 --> 0:20:12.836 behaving badly in America as a democratic nation, and specifically 0:20:12.916 --> 0:20:15.916 the one that touts itself as the most democratic nation. 0:20:16.876 --> 0:20:22.556 I think we're really failing to uphold that promise. So 0:20:23.076 --> 0:20:26.316 what I would like to see is a really concerted 0:20:26.396 --> 0:20:30.956 effort to save voting rights in this country, to really 0:20:31.516 --> 0:20:35.596 re establish us as an actual functional democracy in the 0:20:35.636 --> 0:20:39.156 truest sense of the word. So, I know, like voting 0:20:39.196 --> 0:20:43.596 doesn't solve everything, but it is, you know, one of 0:20:43.636 --> 0:20:46.236 the best tools that we have to at least try 0:20:46.276 --> 0:20:48.516 and solve things. So I would like to see the 0:20:48.556 --> 0:20:51.236 Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights 0:20:51.276 --> 0:20:55.916 Advancement Act past by Congress, who we voted for and 0:20:55.956 --> 0:21:00.156 who in some ways seem to have forgotten that. Yeah, 0:21:00.156 --> 0:21:02.316 I think you're right. I think voting is the basic 0:21:02.356 --> 0:21:05.316 building block of democracy, and it seems like people in 0:21:05.356 --> 0:21:08.796 power are really taking steps in order to retain power, 0:21:09.156 --> 0:21:12.916 which erodes the basic building blocks of democracy. And I 0:21:12.956 --> 0:21:15.876 think if we don't fix that, I don't know what 0:21:15.996 --> 0:21:18.356 shape we're going to be in in the years to come, 0:21:18.556 --> 0:21:21.316 because we already see changes that are happening now as 0:21:21.356 --> 0:21:24.276 a result of that erosion of the basic building blocks. 0:21:24.756 --> 0:21:27.916 I mean, I think we can all imagine what sort 0:21:27.916 --> 0:21:30.156 of shape we're going to be in. We were very 0:21:30.196 --> 0:21:34.916 close to being in this shape earlier this year, even, 0:21:35.076 --> 0:21:40.196 And I just hope that everyone takes as seriously as 0:21:40.236 --> 0:21:43.396 they need to the threat that we saw this year 0:21:43.436 --> 0:21:50.156 around the conversation of stolen elections. And you know, yeah, 0:21:50.196 --> 0:21:53.516 I'm not super confident that this is going to solve 0:21:53.556 --> 0:21:57.836 itself without a concerted effort on behalf of the people 0:21:57.876 --> 0:22:00.836 who believe that we need to fix this. By the 0:22:00.876 --> 0:22:05.636 next election. Now, our next post has something that's I 0:22:05.676 --> 0:22:08.476 would say that is rites adjacent or if not right, 0:22:08.516 --> 0:22:11.996 aligned with rights. So let's hear from him about the 0:22:11.996 --> 0:22:15.236 problem he'd like to see solved. I'm justin Richmond, host 0:22:15.276 --> 0:22:18.436 of Broken Record from Pushing in Industries. I would love 0:22:18.436 --> 0:22:21.196 to see the policing problems solved. And I know this 0:22:21.276 --> 0:22:25.756