The one about living a hundred years in the future or the past, the sunk cost fallacy, ill-advised total commitment to a public figure, and goat testicles.

On the podcast we start out by discussing time travel, and whether we’d rather travel back in time, or forward in time. We somehow migrate to discussing lost Bitcoin, the role of luck in life, a Michael Lewis speech at Princeton, the myth of American meritocracy, commitment to incendiary political figures, the sunk cost fallacy, political tribalism, refusing to believe obvious facts, John R. Brinkley, and the rise of “Quack Doctors” and “Border Blaster” radio.

Burton Holmes

Dorthea Lange

Edward S. Curtis

Planet Money – Episode 816: Bitcoin Losers

The Big Short

Princeton Baccalaureate 2012: Michael LewisMyth of Meritocracy

Sunk Cost Fallacy

Cult of Personality

Self-fulfilling prophecy

QAnon

John R. Brinkley

Border Blaster Radio

Man on the Moon cancer scene