245 - The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind - Tim Harford
You Are Not So Smart
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Why Is It So Hard to Talk About Movies?
There are real reasons why this is hard to do. One reason is that we're not very good at it. There's a massive amount of identity defense going on. People listening to comedy podcasts can't wait for their podcast to end so they can tell that guy in front of them on the bus about it, even if he is the driver. And people listening to true crime podcasts don't want to seem weird to their office crush because they already got odd looks when they looked up cases on their work computer.
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