Episode Details

What happens when government policy, personal experience, history, and human behavior collide?

In this episode of Optimized Entrepreneur with Jeremy Hanson, Jeremy steps outside the typical business conversation to examine the forces that shape the environment entrepreneurs, families, and working Americans have to navigate.

The conversation begins with COVID-19 and the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’s final investigation. The committee’s 2024 report examined pandemic origins, government decision-making, public-health policy, school closures, relief spending, vaccines, economic consequences, and lessons for future pandemics.

Jeremy then turns to crime, property, and the real-world cost of theft, including his own experience having property stolen in Springfield, Missouri. National crime trends are more complicated than the original episode description suggested: FBI data subsequently showed violent crime and property crime declined nationally in 2024, making the discussion about the difference between national statistics and an individual's experience with crime particularly relevant.

Then things get strange.

Jeremy travels back to Strasbourg in 1518, when the infamous Dancing Plague reportedly drove groups of people into an extraordinary dancing frenzy. It's one of history's strangest episodes—and a fascinating window into fear, social pressure, stress, belief, and human behavior.

This is Optimized Entrepreneur beyond spreadsheets and business plans: economics, culture, history, government, risk, personal responsibility, and the unpredictable world in which entrepreneurs have to operate.

Bigger business. Stronger family. Greater freedom.

That's Built Different.

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