Stephen Dubner

I don't like that at all.

And then she made me take the retest and I got a 98, one better, which didn't surprise me because I had seen the test before.

And you know what she did after?

Nothing.

Because she was now embarrassed.

Nothing.

Then I was so pissed because it felt like an injustice.

So I feel like now...

The world is full of people who have some version of that feeling.

Something is being done to them, taken from them, said about them, or done to, taken from, said about people that they know and love.

It's a strange mix of reactions.

I am in the give a stranger a hug mode.

Any more of that type of emotion, argument, anger, frustration, all of which are legitimate,

Contempt.

I want to get rid of the contempt.

Do you know Arthur Brooks?

He's a scholar trained as an economist and he's written a bunch of books.

And we did an episode with him on a book he wrote about contempt a few years ago.

And I was just re-listening to it.

I think I want to replay it for our show because you're always searching for like what to say about the moment.