Now I Get It, with Dr. Andy

Episode 53: CardSmart: The Free App That Finds Your Best Credit Card and Pays You to Share It

I've been experimenting with AI tools lately, and my newest project came out of that: CardSmart, a free app that solves a problem I kept running into myself. Credit cards

Why AI Creates a Monopoly, Not a Democracy: Runaway Growth and Pandemic Lessons

I've been thinking a lot lately about AI, a subject I explored back in grad school and postdoc. In this episode, I walk through a hackathon project to democratize AI by d

From Child Prodigy to Language Obsessive: How Literature Shapes Theory of Mind

I'm taking you through my own origin story this episode, from getting swept into a Johns Hopkins study on intellectual talent as a sixth grader to skipping straight into

Why AI Is a Wave You Can Either Surf or Get Crushed By

I open this episode with a story from my childhood: a dam that broke above my uncle's farm, and two California kids who survived the flash flood only because they knew ho

Why I Built an AI Reading Tool for Ancient Languages (And What Six Months of AI Progress Taught Me)

I'm digging into something that's genuinely changed how I spend my free time: using AI to build the tool I've wished existed for decades, one that helps me read the world

Pride and Prejudice, Personality Feedback Loops, and AI-Powered Reading Tools

Today I'm talking about something that's been on my mind as I've been writing Love Quotient: the two feedback loops that quietly corrode almost every relationship we have

Why Tax Software Is Broken (And What Vectors Really Are)

Today I'm tackling something a little different: taxes. After spending years writing my book Love Quotient and other projects in physics and math, I funded that work thro

Why Your Relationships Are Slowly Falling Apart — And How Your Love Quotient Can Save Them

In today's episode, I'm sharing the core insights from my new book, Love Quotient: Stop Dying of Thirst in an Ocean of Love — and my goal is to give you everything you ne

How AI Really Works: Large Language Models, Human Intelligence, and the Math Behind the Magic

What if artificial intelligence doesn't replace human intelligence — it amplifies it? And what if the quality of what you bring to AI is exactly what determines what you

Why Mud, Logs, and Bugs Beat Plastic Toys: The Science of Proprioception and Nature-Based Play

Welcome back to Now I Get It with Dr. Andy. I'm sitting down once again with Angela McEwen, our resident expert in early childhood development, to dig into one of the mos

Why Every Child Feels Loved Differently — And How to Use That Knowledge

In this episode, I sit down with early childhood education expert Angela McEwen to explore one of the most transformative ideas I've encountered in how my work on love la

Why Giving Kids Control Is the Secret to Calming Them Down

Every parent has been there — the meltdown, the screaming, the feeling that nothing you say or do is going to get through. This week, I sat down again with early childhoo

How Children's Love Languages Can Transform Your Parenting and Classroom — with Angela MacEwen

In this episode of Now I Get It with Dr. Andy, I'm joined by Angela MacEwen, a veteran child development expert who helped design San Francisco's citywide childcare plan

Are Screens Rewiring Our Children's Brains? The Child Development Crisis Every Parent Needs to Hear

Welcome to Now I Get It with Dr. Andy. In this episode, I sit down with Angela MacEwen, a lifelong child development expert and former site supervisor at Friends of St. F

Why Police Accountability Protects Every Officer: Understanding Brandishing and the Danger of Normalizing Violence

Today, I tackle one of the most critical and challenging conversations we need to have in America right now—the intersection of law enforcement heroism and accountability

Uncovering Border Patrol Shooting Patterns: What a 2012 Government Report Reveals About Deadly Force

In this episode of Now I Get It, I'm diving into a 2012 government report that's been sitting on the Customs and Border Patrol website, and what it reveals is deeply dist

Love Lost — and Found Again: How to Stop the Relationship Death Spiral Before It’s Too Late

In this episode of Now I Get It, I take a hard, compassionate look at one of the most tragic patterns I see in relationships: what I call the death spiral. It’s the painf

When Military Power Crosses a Line: What “Harm’s Way” Really Means in Modern Warfare

Welcome back to Now I Get It. In this episode, I break down a term we hear all the time in national security conversations but rarely slow down to understand: harm’s way.

How a Government Shutdown Reveals the Dark Reality of U.S. Healthcare Politics

In this episode, I break down what really happened during the recent government shutdown—and why it matters far beyond the headlines. I walk you through how the standoff

The Hidden Power of “Paltry”: How Half-Truths Shape What We Believe

In this episode of Now I Get It, I take you into the subtle—but dangerous—world of paltry: the art of lying by telling nothing but the truth. Through stories pulled from