Kai Risdahl
speaker
13,689 appearances
89 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 3d ago
Kai Risdahl’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, thank you for having me.
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Just to be really clear here, the common perception is that the loneliness thing is a male thing.
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But in reality, you're the guy who crunched the data.
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It's not gender so much as it is socioeconomic status, right?
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That socio economic status i is um you know, we all sort of know
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empirically what that means, but it it literally drives the choices that people make to be alone.
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I want you to tell me about this guy Dan that you talk about in this piece.
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right.
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Um, you mentioned college.
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College also is a is a supercharger of relationships and those who in this economy who uh cannot or don't go to college, they then suffer accordingly.
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You know, you um you mentioned this in the piece.
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Uh we are twenty, what, five, six years out now.
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from Robert Putnam and that that book he wrote, Bowling Alone, um, which i it it doesn't seem like it's gotten any better.
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is economic mobility the only answer here, right?
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That that the those at the top end of the income spectrum are are okay.
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Those at the lower end aren't and and we have to we have to get them up somehow to make this s social challenge
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Get better.
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Nick Kepler, his piece in Slate, um
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It's a good one.
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It's depressing, but it's a good one.
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