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Freakonomics Radio

109. How to Live Longer

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🗓️ 9 January 2013

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Why do Hall of Fame inductees, Oscar winners, and Nobel laureates outlive their peers?

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From APM, American Public Media, and WNYC,

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this is Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace.

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Here's the host of Marketplace, Kyra's Doll.

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Time now for a little bit of Freakonomics Radio that moment in the broadcast every couple of weeks

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where we talk to Steven Dubner, the co-author of the books and the blog of the same name.

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It is the hidden side of everything, Dubner. How are you?

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Ky, I'm great. Thank you. Happy New Year.

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Happy New Year.

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Happy New Year.

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Thank you to you as well.

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Today, big news, the baseball Hall of Fame voting was announced.

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I don't know if you caught that.

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Of course I did.

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And a grand total of zero people were elected to the whole thing.

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Now, were you surprised?

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I was a little bit surprised.

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It's the first time since 1996.

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In fact, you know, all the talk was about the fact that because the steroid age is happening now,

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and guys like Clemens and Bons who deserve to be in but won't be elected because of the fight.

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Oh, wait a minute.

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Are we going to have to have that conversation you think they deserve to be in?

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All right. That's all another set.

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