What is it about the bowling versus bowling alone that the data told you?

And what were people reporting that you thought was important to get into?

Well, first of all, bowling is big in America.

You may not know this, but more Americans bowl than vote, for example.

Wow.

So we've got to put polls at the bowling booth.

When you put your fingers in, you should get the little dye and then you vote

straight off. That's what we should be doing.

Agreed.

This is What Now?

With Trevor Noah.

Thank you. with Trevor Noah.

I cannot tell you how excited I am to have you on the podcast.

And I think everyone will be because Robert Putnam is one of those names that is surprisingly unknown, but then surprisingly very well known, depending on who you ask.

So if you ask a lot of people in the streets, if you said, do you know Robert Putnam,

they would probably maybe say no.

But if the person in the street that you asked was somebody like Barack Obama, then he'd be

like, yeah, I know Robert and I know him well.

And you'd be like, wow.

Actually, he would say, Bob. I've been over this.

There's a really funny in New York Times interview in which the New York Times interview was trying to say,

I'm New York Times reporter pretty well connected.

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