Derek Thompson

and you you worked with somebody and they did research they did Gallup research and they they isolated like Quebec versus the English-speaking part of Ontario and people and that and particularly younger people and the rest of Ontario were sadder than the people of Quebec and I like I my friend over who's from Spain yesterday and I said I was gonna have you on and I was just like batting around like what that's such an interesting conundrum like what could that possibly be I'm wondering what you think

We're an incredible exporting culture.

Lollapalooza, Sao Paulo, I went to a couple of years ago.

It was like an unbelievable experience because it's like mostly Brazilian music with like American pop stars and like American brand installations.

And the kids dressed like kids in America were two years before, you know?

Like the world of 1950s were

Not talking about anxiety was bad.

Maybe talking about anxiety in every conversation also bad, sort of.

Thank you.

You did it faster than I was going to.

I had two theories.

That one is my more right-coded theory, which you took, which is maybe therapy culture is a little out of control.

The left-coded theory that I think intersects what I was talking with my friend last night was in kind of a similar way that therapy culture got out of control, maybe like American consumerism got out of control.

We're like, I like consumerism and consumer culture.

When it's in your face all the time on social media, that creates a jealousy culture.

She was like,

i moved to america you know she's like i bought a steamer and the steamer broke a couple months in and i called my mother and my mother told me you know go to the repair shop whatever and then you know she she said that then my my friend who introduced us they're now married came up came home from work and she's like where's the repair shop for the steamer and he's like just throw the steamer away and go back to walmart right it's a silly story kind of but it's like

There is just this, I don't know, like this kind of unending desire to want more and more that like intersects maybe with like Instagram culture in a way that's unhealthy everywhere, but like particularly unhealthy here.

I'm going to move to the bulwark pet issues section.

You have two podcasts recently that go over things that my TNL colleagues, Sarah Longwell and JVL care about.