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The Dr. Drew Podcast

Michael Easter

The Dr. Drew Podcast

PodcastOne / Carolla Digital

Talk Radio, Comedy, Science, Health & Fitness

4.43K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week Dr. Drew talks to Michael Easer, New York Times bestselling author of 'The Comfort Crisis' and 'Scarcity Brain.' They discuss the concept of humans as super consumers driven by an ancient desire for more, which is now backfiring on us. Michael shares insights on how his exploration of slot machines revealed humanity's tendency to operate in a scarcity loop and offers recommendations on breaking free from this cycle. Please support the show by checking out our sponsors! CookUnity: Go to cookunity.com/DREW or enter code DREW before checkout for 50% off your first week.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you all being here, support people to support us do so we appreciate it and as always we take

0:16.8

Suggestions for interesting guests today is a very interesting guest it is Easter, he is a professor at UNLV, am I getting that right and an

0:26.7

investigative health journalist? Are you, I would I had trouble figuring out well is he,

0:30.4

are you a professor of journalism or science or what is your

0:34.6

professorship in? Well I actually I just barely left that role last semester

0:39.7

but I was a professor in the journalism department.

0:42.6

Yeah, so to media studies.

0:44.7

And you've got some science training to be able to do some of this?

0:49.8

I went to a graduate program that was focused on health and science journalism.

0:56.0

So yeah, background is covering science basically.

1:00.3

It's what I've done most of my career.

1:01.7

I didn't expect necessarily to talk about this,

1:03.8

but the last four years must have been a very interesting ride

1:06.6

for you watching the craziness.

1:08.6

I was complaining to a friend of mine this morning

1:10.7

that there is so much nonsense now in the public discourse. I cannot

1:16.1

tell what is real, what I can trust, what is an appropriate conclusion.

1:23.5

Are you as confused as I am?

1:26.0

Yeah, I think that if a person is not confused

1:29.8

and they're certain on something,

1:32.2

that's a good indication they're totally wrong.

1:34.1

Yeah, you know it's funny it's funny the guy named Joseph Freiman who did some

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