AMA | April 2025
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Hello, everyone, welcome to the April twenty twenty five Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. I have to start the AMA by being honest and saying that this is difficult right now. Um most of the Ask Me Anything questions for perfectly good reasons and for reasons I approve of are about science and philosophy and recent podcasts we've had and things like that. That's what they should be about. I'm in favor of that. But that's not really what is mostly on my mind or the mind of many other people right now, because the country and the world are falling apart. That is
Bad. It is hard. It weighs you down in many, many ways. So in the intro here, I just have to get a couple of these things. sad and on the record because those are what are actually on my mind right now. Um R as of this actual moment when I'm speaking, the thing that most people chatting to each other on the internet and on uh news shows and
Opinion pages and things like that are talking about is the economy And in particular the tariffs that uh Donald Trump has put on other countries. And the reason why I want to talk about this a little bit, even though you can find plenty of information about it elsewhere, is I want to drive home and I don't say this lightly But uh I say with complete conviction the fact that so many people
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