Derek Thompson

I just want to throw that out there.

But you took a healthy paternity leave.

But maybe that's the solution to this other problem, which is the fertility crisis.

I was most fascinated by the podcast because when JBL wrote his book about it, the view was basically this was kind of like a first world college educated problem, right?

Where people who are having economic success and women who are going to the workforce weren't having kids.

Right.

And I didn't really realize the degree to which that's almost reversed now.

And places where you think they're having a lot of kids, like working class Latin America, for example, are also having really declining birth rates while college educated whites in America are increasing their birth rates slightly.

But anyway, did you have any thoughts on the fertility crisis?

It was a great pod.

You also do good science stuff.

We're out of time, and I don't want to lose time for my final, most Derek-y topic.

So, yay, great progress on pancreatic cancer, et cetera.

And people should go read Derek's work on the various science breakthroughs.

So, we both are big NBA pod consumers.

You did a recent pod with my friend Tim Alberto on all the problems that the NBA has.

And a lot of them seem kind of intractable.

And I just had this little light bulb go off that connected our interests when Wemby won on Saturday night against the awful Thunder who are unwatchable and unbearable.

And I'm thinking we have this Knicks-San Antonio Spurs final.

And it is such a gift to Adam Silver who had all these problems about injury and the length of the season and foul bait.