Maddie Levine-Wolf
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125 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard Aug 2025
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We drove an hour and a half outside the city of Chicago. And it was beautiful, you know. So, I mean, that's not the same as going to Paris, obviously. But, you know, you don't necessarily have to break the bank just to get outside your comfort zone and things like that. So, yeah, those are some of my thoughts.
Not really. I mean, just underscoring what everyone else has said. I have a trip to Europe coming up in like six weeks. So these are great tips and great things to think about. So the timing is, is good for me. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, to me, I've always just grown up with... I feel like wanting to travel is a value in some ways. It doesn't interest everyone, and that's totally okay.
I think for me, my parents always instilled in us that traveling... is a really important way to, like we were saying earlier, to expand your worldview so you're not stuck in your own, you know, echo chamber of thoughts and experiences and perspectives. So I think that that's something that motivates me to continue traveling either, you know, relatively locally or to a totally different culture.
Okay.
Yeah. And I have to believe that there is some type of traveling for everyone. You know, some people prefer national parks and connecting with nature. Some people prefer, you know, the Fifth Avenue trip to New York. Some people prefer going international. Some people prefer a little bit of a a little bit of everything, but I, I think there's so many different options.
Travel can mean so many different things that, you know, I think there is a piece of it that, that couldn't, could resonate with any type of person.
I can pop in quick and then Maddie, if you want to pop in too. I did the research for this episode, so I definitely have a lot more understanding about safety than I did previously. I think as a society in the U.S.,
compared to other places we are um not as risk averse as maybe other countries um other places that pay that have public health care um it is of their financial interest to make sure that you're safe and healthy um so they don't want to pay for you to have an accident later down the road so i think us all being responsible for our own health insurance pushes the onus onto individuals in the US.
And that's something that we do with a lot of things is our individualistic society in general. It always falls on the individual. And I also think that safety, it really depends upon the family, the person, the household that you're talking about. Everybody has different jobs, different natures of jobs.
Making a home safe for a 90-year-old is going to be different than making a home safe for a three-year-old. And so it really depends on what age group we're talking about and even like cultural things really play into this too. So I think, I think it really depends on where you are in the world, who you are and what you want to keep safe.
Yeah, I definitely agree with you, Barry. The cars themselves, it's really impressive how much the lengths to which they are going for safety now. And it probably does make sense to have a course to even learn about all of these new features. But the roads themselves, not the cars. It's in the research if somebody has it pulled up.
But I think since like 2020, 2021, obviously people were not on the road as much in 2020, but following the pandemic, it actually, the roads have gotten more dangerous in terms of people speeding, not following proper normal safety protocols, like using your blinker. And I don't currently drive right now. I don't have a car. I do drive for work university vehicles. And it,
Being a pedestrian, I feel exposed in a lot of ways. I've been hit by a car twice this year alone. And that's just in intersections where people should be stopping and looking, but they're not. I have the right of way and they still give me love taps. I also bike a lot and I've been hit by a car biking too.
And so me as somebody that's making the decision to travel in a more eco-friendly way that is better for my health and my community's health, I'm actually just risking my life in a lot of ways.
And we need to have better systems in place so that people can travel whatever way makes sense to them safely, whether that be public transit, making public transit more safe, even pedestrians, bikers, all of the above, cars, all of it.
I love that, Maddie. That was so good. I think I echo to surround yourself by people that make you feel safe and agree with you in terms of safety. I think as an individual, you can go through life every day, every setting that you're in, whether you're at work, at home, on the road.
and be mindful and have awareness it's really easy to accidentally shut our brains off and go through life on autopilot but that's when mistakes are made so really being mindful about everything that you're doing in terms of your own safety but if you're worried about your safety you can also make other people's lives safer by being a safer driver by following proper protocols in apartments and housing and
Making sure your family is safe will also keep you safe in turn. So caring about these things and being mindful is the number one way to go through your life with safety at the forefront of your mind.
Clarence. I want to tell you, Dr. Michael, how much I appreciate your opening comments, first of all. And I really wish I would have been able to, I wish I would have read your 2017 book as we were going through this.
You have futurists in your titles.
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