Why Is It So Hardwired That Weak?

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"We're running on 50,000 year old biological hardware. Like we evolutionary evolution sample, like it hasn't caught up," he says. "If you think about tribes and let's say I have a tribe ... well, that means that we can go over there and we can just fucking kill you." He asks: Why is it that when one side is winning and the leader's health is shitty? It's not talked about. The people who want a certain outcome also start kind of pointing to physiological changes to make a case.

Today Josh speaks with Sam McNerney on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Some of the topics we dive into are:

The geopolitical reactions and support of Ukraine.
Putin’s mental health and motivations behind the invasion.
Russia's political and economic future.
The prospects of WW3.
How Russia and Ukraine are both using propaganda as part of information warfare.
The differences between Russian and American oligarchs.
And much more.

Sam McNerney is an applied behavioral scientist, market researcher, and brand strategist based in Brooklyn, New York. He has worked with brands such as Walmart, Procter & Gamble, and CitiBank.

As a writer, he has interviewed business and academic leaders including Arianna Huffington, Andrew Yang, Jonathan Haidt, and Charles Murray – and his essays have been featured in publications like The Washington Post, Psychology Today, and Scientific American.

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