In this episode of Talk Trippy to Me, Hannah and Mykalise are getting into the messy relationship between money and your brain.

We’re talking impulse spending, financial anxiety, avoidance, dopamine, scarcity mindset, lifestyle creep, and the deeply sophisticated financial strategy known as “I’ll deal with it later.”

Turns out, being “bad with money” isn’t always about being irresponsible. Stress changes the way we make decisions, our brains LOVE immediate rewards, and sometimes buying something you absolutely did not need feels significantly easier than opening the credit card app.

So no, we’re not here to yell at you about your $7 coffee.

We’re digging into the psychology and neuroscience behind why we do weird shit with money, and how understanding your brain might actually help you make better financial decisions.

Come for the behavioral economics. Stay because apparently your DoorDash order has a psychological backstory.

Two neighborhoods can have similar poverty rates, similar demographics, and completely different levels of violence.

So what makes the difference?

In this episode of Talk Trippy to Me, Hannah and Mykalise dig into the research behind crime, community, trauma, trust, and human connection.

We explore collective efficacy—the idea that communities become safer when neighbors trust one another and are willing to step in when something goes wrong. We look at adverse childhood experiences and how trauma can increase certain long-term risks without determining someone’s future. And we ask what happens when loneliness, isolation, addiction, opportunity, environment, and personal choice all collide.

Then we flip the conversation: instead of only asking why crime happens, what does the research tell us about preventing it?

The answers aren’t particularly dramatic: stable homes, strong schools, supportive adults, employment opportunities, treatment, mental-health resources, and communities where people actually know and look out for one another.

We also get into our cultural obsession with true crime, negativity bias, and why our brains seem unable to look away from danger.

Crime is complicated. There isn’t one cause—and there isn’t one solution.

But one idea kept surfacing throughout the research:

Communities matter. Relationships matter. Trust matters. Belonging matters.

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In this episode of

We look at how infrastructure helped build the American economy, why manufacturing today looks so different from the 1950s, how congestion and freight delays quietly raise the cost of goods, and why spending more doesn’t always mean building more efficiently.

We also dive into John Bassett’s

This isn’t a left-versus-right conversation. It’s a bigger question:

What are we building now—and what will our generation leave behind?

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