Stephen Dubner

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.

And my show, Freak Radio, we're not a news show at all.

We have a series coming out this winter that I had an idea for two years ago.

I'm slow.

But I'm always looking for ways as a writer to respond to the world we're in, but not to the moment, because that's a whole different conversation.

It's just not me.

There are a lot of people who are great at it, who thrive at it, who love it.

I hate it.

I'm bad at it.