"Government is dealing with big complicated problems...but have not been good at actually seeing if the stuff they are doing is working."
David Halpern explains how the Government’s Nudge Unit uses behavioural science to get us to do things.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/VcKQ8yXnnxs
Links to full episode - https://linktr.ee/mrobnoxiouspod
TLDR: Yes.
This is random, Pete, but I really think you should change the name of your new podcast from “Mr. Obnoxious” to simply “McCormack.” The latter has a much better feel to it.
Regardless, best of luck to your ongoing and future endeavors… and happy New Year’s Eve! 🎉
I quite like Mr Obnoxious although I do agree, just "McCormack" works well. Like nostr:npub16le69k9hwapnjfhz89wnzkvf96z8n6r34qqwgq0sglas3tgh7v4sp9ffxj is doing with WBD episode titles. I like it.
Regardless, the new show is great. I love the focus on UK politics, and seeing nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx's political views evolve from interviewing people from all across the political spectrum. It's a learning journey for me and many others, too.
Have to agree with nostr:npub1k7vkcxp7qdkly7qzj3dcpw7u3v9lt9cmvcs6s6ln26wrxggh7p7su3c04l
Nah, name is Mr Obnoxious 😉
Obnoxious is a good name.
It’s all good.
At least I tried. 🍻
Best wishes to you and yours, Pete. It’s fun watching your career change and progress over time.
or just, “Obnoxious” 
More gravitas with your own name.
Btw this Liz Truss podcast is full of truth bombs about what's really broken - the state and money. 20x worse than USA, shit!
And it is a grim prognosis for change for the better - a brilliant PM, cabinet and 350 MPs ... all harried into place by the general population demanding the system from politics to economy, transport, health, education is dismantled and rebuilt.
This single conversation explains why everything in the UK and most other countries, is underperforming and special interests will continue to propel most nations and normies on a painful road to nowhere,
Stack sats and leave the rest to doom scroll til it gets so dire there is no option but to get into full swamp drain mode.
Nudge Unit sounds like a great insult. “You bloody nudge unit!”.
what an unpleasant guy, Mr. Halpern, Mr. Rumble Strip.
He has never examined his own behavior though.
He apparently really thinks that the government at large really has our best interests at heart when it comes to guiding our behavior.
Or he thinks we don't realize he's leaving out this purpose question of all things completely.
hard to bear.
he is one example, why we need drastic change.
this fits perfectly:
Seriously, you’d never heard of the nudge unit before?! And not one question about the role of this unit during Covid etc? You can do much better than this, Pete.
Read Laura Dodsworth’s ‘A State of Fear’, we were all nudged massively.
the 77th Brigade are the ones that terrify me
