Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad news? Also: things you never knew you wanted to know about wolves, bananas, pollution, search engines, and the quirks of human behavior. To get every show in our network without ads and a monthly bonus episode of Freakonomics Radio, sign up for SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts at http://app ...
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The Only TV Podcast That Matters™ >> Bill Frost (TV reviewer for Salt Lake City Weekly and X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (amateur mixologist and pro wrestling correspondent for SlamWrestling.net) dispense invaluable TV news and reviews while drinking local booze (sponsored by Sugar House Distillery, Ogden's Own Distillery, Outlaw Distillery, Bohemian Brewery, and Boozetique). New episodes and cocktails weekly on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, YouTube Music, Amazon Podcasts, etc. ...
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Here's what we do: Long History Short - History, in short form! Space and Time - Science, in short form! Podcasting under the Influence - Politics, pop culture, and booze! Ed and Kev Watch - commentary tracks on old pro wrestling shows! Ed and Kev Talk - Ed and Kev talk about pro wrestling!
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Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Bill's Movie Korner (The Substance, The Apprentice, Joker: Folie a Deux), SNL Election Special, Election Night coverage (including The Daily Show), Citadel: Honey Bunny, Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson, Outer Banks, Arcane, the return of Yellowstone, the finale of…
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609. What Does It Take to Run a Cannabis Farm?
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Chris Weld worked for years in emergency rooms, then ditched that career and bought an old farm in Massachusetts. He set up a distillery and started making prize-winning spirits. When cannabis was legalized, he jumped into that too — and the first few years were lucrative. But now? It turns out that growing, processing, and selling weed is more com…
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With abortion on the Nov. 5 ballot, we look back at Steve Levitt’s controversial research about an unintended consequence of Roe v. Wade. SOURCES: John Donohue, professor of law at Stanford Law School. Steve Levitt, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Chicago and host of People I (Mostly) Admire. Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, professor of …
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Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Listener Mailbag: Jeopardy+, American Dad! Season 19(!), Wizards Beyond Waverly Place: Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour, Buy It Now w/ JB Smoove, Martha: The Documentary, The Diplomat, Mistletoe Murders, Doc of Chucky, Music By John Williams, Saturday Night L…
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608. Cannabis Is Booming, So Why Isn’t Anyone Getting Rich?
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There are a lot of reasons, including heavy regulations, high taxes, and competition from illegal weed shops. Most operators are losing money and waiting for Washington to get out of the way. In the meantime, it’s not that easy being green. (Part two of a four-part series.) SOURCES: Jon Caulkins, professor of operations research and public policy a…
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TV Tan 0509: Nuking Satellites From White House
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Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Listener Mailbag, What We Do in the Shadows, Poppa's House, Canary Black, Territory, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Before, Somebody Somewhere, Lioness, Rick Morty: 12 Seasons, Mayfair Witches, Rasslin' News, Shrinking: 3 Seasons, Have I Got News For You, Agatha Al…
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607. Is America Switching From Booze to Weed?
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We have always been a nation of drinkers — but now there are more daily users of cannabis than alcohol. Considering alcohol’s harms, maybe that’s a good thing. But some people worry that the legalization of cannabis has outpaced the research. (Part one of a four-part series.) SOURCES: Jon Caulkins, professor of operations research and public policy…
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TV Tan 0508: Rocktober Slayfest (Some Restrictions Apply)
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Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Listener Mailbag, Family Guy Halloween Special, NCIS: Origins, American Horror Stories, Shrinking, Brothers, Ghosts, Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, Teacup, Hysteria!, Sweetpea, Disclaimer, Happy's Place, Lopez vs. Lopez, It's Florida Man, Saturday Night L…
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Are betting markets more accurate than polls? What kind of chaos would a second Trump term bring? And is U.S. democracy really in danger, or just “sputtering on”? (Part two of a two-part series.) SOURCES: Eric Posner, professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. Koleman Strumpf, professor of economics at Wake Forest University. RESOURC…
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Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship? (Update)
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Sure, we all pay lip service to the Madisonian system of checks and balances. But presidents have been steadily expanding the reach of the job. With an election around the corner, we updated our 2016 conversation with the legal scholar Eric Posner — who has some good news and some not-so-good news about the power of the presidency. (Part one of a t…
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Sixty percent of the jobs that Americans do today didn’t exist in 1940. What happens as our labor becomes more technical and less physical? And what kinds of jobs will exist in the future? SOURCES: David Autor, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Paula Barmaimon, manager of coverage and audience analytics at The New…
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Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk VP Debate: The Coach vs. The Couch, Deadpool & Wolverine VOD, Joan, Salem's Lot, Hold Your Breath, Velma: This Halloween Need to Be More Special!, Scare Tactics 2.0, Saturday Night Live, The Franchise, Whitney Cummings' Fast Friends, Hysteria!, Rasslin' News…
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EXTRA: Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America (Update)
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His research on police brutality and school incentives won him acclaim, but also enemies. He was suspended for two years by Harvard, during which time he took a hard look at corporate diversity programs. As a follow-up to our recent series on the Rooney Rule, we revisit our 2022 conversation with the controversial economist. SOURCE: Roland Fryer, p…
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604. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 2)
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What happened when the Rooney Rule made its way from pro football to corporate America? Some progress, some backsliding, and a lot of controversy. (Second in a two-part series.) SOURCES: Tynesia Boyea-Robinson, president and C.E.O. of CapEQ. N. Jeremi Duru, professor of law at American University. Herm Edwards, former N.F.L. player and head coach. …
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TV Tan 0506: Back, Crack & Sack Wax to the Max
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Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Agatha All Along, The Penguin, Brilliant Minds, Murder in a Small Town, Ellen Degeneres: For Your Approval, Everybody Still Hates Chris, Grotesquerie, Doctor Odyssey, Colin From Accounts, Nobody Wants This, Apartment 7A, Will & Harper, Wolfs, Saturday Night …
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603. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 1)
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The biggest sports league in history had a problem: While most of its players were Black, almost none of its head coaches were. So the N.F.L. launched a hiring policy called the Rooney Rule. In the first episode of a two-part series, we look at how the rule succeeded — until it failed. SOURCES: N. Jeremi Duru, professor of law at American Universit…
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Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk The Old Man, High Potential, Agatha All Along, The Golden Bachelorette, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, The Penguin, Twilight of the Gods, Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story, Have I Got News For You, From, Matlock, Rasslin' News, Tulsa King, Onl…
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We revisit an episode from 2016 that asks: Has our culture’s obsession with innovation led us to neglect the fact that things also need to be taken care of? SOURCES: Martin Casado, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Ruth Schwartz Cowan, professor emerita of history and sociology of science at University of Pennsylvania. Edward Glaeser, profess…
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602. Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think?
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Young people have been reporting a sharp rise in anxiety and depression. This maps neatly onto the global rise of the smartphone. Some researchers are convinced that one is causing the other. But how strong is the evidence? SOURCES: David Blanchflower, professor of economics at Dartmouth College. Lauren Oyler, novelist and cultural critic. Andrew P…
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Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Kaos, the Kamala/Trumpy the Clown Debate, the MTV VMAs (still a thing), The Old Man, How to Die Alone, Three Women, Heels, Uglies, Have I Got News for You, the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards, Tulsa King, Rasslin' News, English Teacher, The Fall Guy, and more. Dr…
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601. Multitasking Doesn’t Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying?
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Only a tiny number of “supertaskers” are capable of doing two things at once. The rest of us are just making ourselves miserable, and less productive. How can we put the — hang on a second, I've just got to get this. Come see Stephen Dubner live! “A Questionable Evening: A strategic interrogation from two people who ask questions for a living,” fea…
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What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men? (Update)
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Educators and economists tell us all the reasons college enrollment has been dropping, especially for men, and how to stop the bleeding. (Part 3 of our series from 2022, “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”) SOURCES: Zachary Bleemer, assistant professor of economics at Princeton University and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of …
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TV Tan 0503: Brings a Lot of Can't to the Table
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Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Labor Day (TV Tan is off next week, BTW), Only Murders in the Building, Longlegs, Sasquatch Sunset, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Kaos, Terminator Zero, English Teacher, Slow Horses, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Weeds, Spooks/MI-5, Rasslin'…
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Stephen Dubner appears as a guest on Fail Better, a new podcast hosted by David Duchovny. The two of them trade stories about failure, and ponder the lessons that success could never teach. SOURCES: David Duchovny, actor, director, writer, and musician. RESOURCES: "Martin Seligman and the Rise of Positive Psychology," by Peter Gibbon (Humanities, 2…
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The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into (Update)
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America’s top colleges are facing record demand. So why don’t they increase supply? (Part 2 of our series from 2022, “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”) SOURCES: Peter Blair, professor of education at Harvard University and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Zachary Bleemer, assistant professor of economics …
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TV Tan 0502: Life on the Street, Homicide in the Sheets
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Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Jackpot!, The Union, Reasonable Doubt, Avoidance, Incoming, The Killer, Deadly DILF, Finally Streaming: The Drew Carey Show and Homicide: Life on the Street, R.I.P. My Lady Jane, Horizon: An America Movie Flop That's Just Gonna Be on Max, Rasslin' News, Emmy…
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We think of them as intellectual enclaves and the surest route to a better life. But U.S. colleges also operate like firms, trying to differentiate their products to win market share and prestige points. In the first episode of a special series originally published in 2022, we ask what our chaotic system gets right — and wrong. (Part 1 of “Freakono…
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Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) talk Bad Monkey, Expedition Bigfoot, Jackpot, Emily in Paris, Rick & Morty: The Anime, Wisting, The Union, The Veil, Evil, Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, Borderlands: Fuck That Movie, Top 10 Anne Hathaway Rom-Coms, Rasslin' News, Whatever Happened to Huey Lewis?, Orphan B…
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EXTRA: Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete (Update)
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There are a lot of factors that go into greatness, many of which are not obvious. As the Olympics come to a close, we revisit a 2018 episode in which top athletes from a variety of sports tell us how they made it, and what they sacrificed. SOURCES: Lance Armstrong, former professional cyclist. David Canton, director of African American studies and …
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600. “If We’re All in It for Ourselves, Who Are We?”
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Tania Tetlow, a former federal prosecutor and now the president of Fordham University, thinks the modern campus could use a dose of old-fashioned values. SOURCE: Tania Tetlow, president of Fordham University. RESOURCES: "Not a Priest, Not a Man, but Ready to Run Fordham," by David Waldstein (The New York Times, 2024). "Tech Glitch Upends Financial …
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TV Tan 0500: Boi-Oi-Oi-Oing! (Live at Black Sheep Bar & Grill)
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Bill Frost (CityWeekly.net, X96 Radio From Hell) and Tommy Milagro (SlamWrestling.net) reflect on 10+ years and 500 episodes of TV Tan Podcast with special guests Rebecca Frost (Geekshow Podcast, The Space Show Show), Melissa Merlot (Realtiki Podcast), Dr. Paul "Zil" White (molder of young minds), Robin Brown (Magda-Vega), Petër Jönes (internationa…
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