Episode 100: The Good Old Days Weren’t All That Good
Words & Numbers
English - January 09, 2019 16:30 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 336 ratingsEducation Business education policy current economics events government libertarian liberty news politics Homepage Download IPFS Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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People like to talk about the “good old days” where everything used to be so much better than it is today. Everybody feels nostalgic on occasion, and it’s perfectly normal to misremember the past, but were the good old days really all that great? Join Antony Davies and James Harrigan as they compare then and now on the 100th episode of Words and Numbers.
Quick Hits:
Cat parasite
Elizabeth Warren
Foolishness of the Week:
NY Times crossword
Topic of the week: Comparing Life Today to Life 100 Years Ago
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