[Boomer]

This thread seems like it might be a good place to make a suggestion to my fellow TOTVers. Here goes:

I have only recently taken up listening to podcasts. (I can get a lot of stuff done around the house and yard with my AirPods and my podcast app.)

My favorite podcast is Freakonimics: The Hidden Side of Everything. The topics discussed are varied and almost always interesting to me.

Ironically, the one that popped up this morning while I was doing lots of laundry was an interview with Arthur Brooks, an economist, who for 10 years ran one of the most influential, conservative think tanks in the world.

Even though this podcast is a couple of years old, it still widely applies to what is happening to us, the American people — and why — and what we need to try to do about it. He addresses this big divide in a calm, realistic, thought-provoking manner. He gives stats on how a lot of people truly feel about the way we are.

He delves a little bit into brain science — which is what I have long thought has to be the root-cause of the way we are acting.

The title of the podcast is “How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt?” If you search Freakonomics podcasts, you will find it. It is Episode 478 from October 13, 2021.

If only a few of you look for this podcast and listen to it and maybe even pass it along to someone else, it will have been worth taking the time to write this post. There is something in it for allllllll of us to think about and maybe actually act upon.

The podcast takes 46:39 to listen to……not only could it give you something to consider that could be important in your own life’s relationships but important to our country, too.

I hope some of you will give this podcast a listen. I bet you could find a few things to agree with or think further about…….or, at least, you could get some boring housework done while you listen.

Optimistic Boomer