Unjerked Podcast
We are Unjerked - the podcast aimed at fighting echo chambers in a fun way. We are affiliated with jabde.com - a purposely fake satire website which publishes fake academic journal articles. We thought it would be a great idea to create an inverse platform, which focuses on finding the truth behind ”common knowledge” found on websites like Reddit or Twitter. We will do the best we can to focus on academic research as the basis for our podcast, along with other reputable sources. We’ll probably start out as a semi-monthly podcast, and see how things go. Stay tuned for more!
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Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
William Henderson and B. McGraw talk about housing costs and zoning. Why is the cost of housing continuing to rise? Is it because of investors buying up all the housing? Or are there bigger issues involved? What policies would help fix the problem? This is Part 1 of 3 episodes.
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3:49 International housing affordability comparison
4:15 OECD housing affordability comparison
6:39 International home ownership (Please check notes & references section of wikipedia page)
7:56 70 year leases in China
11:19 Price to income ratio
12:11 Inflation, square footage
13:26 Household wages income adjusted
15:39 Home ownership by generation
17:27 Millennials more savings
19:10 History of zoning codes
22:26 Increase in investor ownership
23:15 Corporate ownership
28:07 Rental vacancy rates
30:23 Why many new build apartments are luxury apartments
31:26 Luxury apartments help lower overall rents in a city (Link 2) (Link 3)
36:07 Strong towns
36:55 Upzoning increases housing supply
37:16 Parking minimums
39:49 Effect of lot size minimums
40:17 Density regulations and housing prices
40:50 Lot minimum size and number of new building permits
41:40 30 year mortgage
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
William Henderson and B. McGraw talk about Research and Development. Who funds it, and who does R&D? How do different countries approach it differently? Does it have any benefits for the greater economy? What about issues like corporate influence, P-hacking, and manipulated results?
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3:58 Global R&D by region
6:04 R&D as percent of GDP by country
10:35 funding vs performing entites by country
14:53 NIH definition of basic research
22:35 Percent of government spending by category by country
27:22 Academic research source of funds by Country
30:30 History of R&D funding in USA
34:03 US funding performer categories
36:44 US funding source categories
37:30 US R&D by industry
37:57 R&D intensity by industry
39:00 Basic vs applied vs development trends
40:45 Agencies within the federal government
42:18 Subjects funded by the government
43:40 National endowments of arts and humanities
55:55 DARPA created the internet
56:01 NASA spinoffs
58:35 Correlation between R&D and growth
1:00:15 Negative result bias
1:01:34 Tobacco industry funding research
1:01:40 Sugar industry funding research
1:03:23 Alzheimer’s research fraud
1:0543 Journal article paywalls
1:08:34 History of peer review
1:10:17 Accuracy peer review vs preprint
1:10:53 Public peer review
1:13:04 Stanford fired
1:18:14 Extent of p-hacking
1:24:11 Amazon 2022 expenses
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
Tuesday Dec 05, 2023
William Henderson and B. McGraw talk about homelessness. What causes this problem, and why is it such an issue even in wealthy countries? How can it be mitigated?
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2:49 world perspective on homelessness
6:30 US homeless history
9:37 1980s deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill
11:35 housing affordability, appreciation
12:31 homeless worse off than in the 1950s
13:08 demographics of the homeless (2nd link) (3rd link)
14:53 acute causes of homelessness (2nd link) (3rd link) (4th link)
19:55 dificulty in climbing out of homelessness (2nd link)
22:10 Rates of homelessness by state
25:00 right to shelter in New York and Massachusetts (2nd link)
28:20 influence of housing costs vs inequality vs per capita GDP on homelessness (2nd link) (3rd link) (4th link)
29:33 local inequality
36:00 lack of alternative cheaper housing options (2nd link) (3rd link)
41:00 Tokyo housing
43:10 parking minimums (2nd link)
44:10 higher price points more profitable
49:20 housing vs treatment first (2nd link) (3rd link)
54:05 supervised consumption (2nd link)
58:35 bussing in homeless
1:00:43 cheaper to help homeless (2nd link)
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Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
Tuesday Nov 21, 2023
William Henderson and B. McGraw talk about the US National Debt. Why is it so high, and what do we spend the money on? What are the most realistic ways to reduce the national debt?
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3:03 US spend on healthcare
9:30 treasuries as safe assets
11:49 spending history
12:20 tax history
15:20 stable tax rate across all categories?
15:50 deficit history
17:54 national budget categories (2nd link)
22:40 who owns our debt?
27:30 source of revenue (2nd link)
32:14 social security tax cap
32:58 medicare source of revenue
39:17 drug price negotiations
42:00 CBO DoD reduction (2nd link)
42:40 Defense as % of GDP over time
44:24 Ukraine spending
45:31 Iraq/Afghanistan
46:10 Ukraine aid by category?
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
William Henderson and B McGraw talk about their new podcast - affiliated with jabde.com