episode 41 was when you were last on the show. And this will be 910 or something maybe. So,

you've been busy. Yeah, it was so of you. But you've barbelled two ends of a half decade of

lots of content. So I was thinking, I just, I just got back from a walk and I was thinking

about your new book. And I had this sort of consideration in my mind, whether it would be

useful for us to still have hunter gatherers living amongst us today, just to remind all of the

modern humans about how good we've got it across human history, this sort of

weird inequality reminder that would sort of be lingering there in the back of our minds.

Yeah, that would be awesome. I mean, we, not long ago, I remember ordering a pizza and it came

with barbecue sauce instead of tomato sauce on my meatloads pizza. And I was just devastated.

I was like, how could this happen to me?

And a couple of hunter-gatherers in our existence, and I would go, oh, who cares about my pizza,

right?

Yeah.

So why, given the fact that, obviously, the joke that everybody hates to hear, I hate to hear it.

I hate to be reminded of my opulent bourgeois,

luxurious, you know, 21st century life. But given the fact that living standards are objectively the best that they've ever been, why is it that so many people are struggling to lead

happy lives despite being relatively blessed? Yeah, that's the sort of shocking fact that got me

started on this book. And I always thought it was everybody else. You know, I read this literature.

I know it very well. Being wealthy doesn't make you happy. And I kind of admit, I felt a little

superior to wealthy people. And I thought, well, you know, here I am, just middle class guy.

If I were wealthy, I would be happier because I would appreciate what I have.

I even remember visiting an old friend and just marveling at his inability to appreciate this extraordinary wealthity to accumulate it since we were kids.

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