Derek Thompson

The first one is the debt crisis.

Federal debt in 2001, back when we were all good Republicans concerned about tightening our belts, was 31% of GDP back then.

It's 101% now.

You did a podcast.

Oh, fuck, I'm forgetting on who you did it with.

Justin Wolfers.

Justin Wolfers, yeah.

You guys explored like both being kind of on the center left and not not caring about balancing the budget, but kind of dismissing some of the more alarmist takes from the right on this topic, you know, 10, 20 years ago.

And now both of you kind of coming towards maybe starting to maybe not be alarmist, but be more worried about the problem.

Why don't you summarize that journey a little bit?

I was also intrigued with the podcast about the fertility crisis.

The other complaint I had aforementioned was you took off way too long for paternity leave.

Yes, sir.

The right coded issue.

I'm like, dads are needed for like a week, really.

I mean, you know, you can get another bonus.

I feel like you should get like another bonus week of paternity leave.

Like when the kid is like six months, you should get another bonus couple of weeks maybe.

Yeah.

You're doing a lot of sitting around the first three months as the dad.