127. Can You Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? And Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions

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🗓️ 23 May 2013

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Dubner and Levitt talk about circadian rhythms, gay marriage, autism, and whether "pay what you want" is everything it's cracked up to be.

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0:00.0	Hey, Levit, of all the things that are in your power to do at this very moment in time,
0:10.0	what would be your very most favorite thing to do?
0:14.6	If I could be doing anything right now, would I be doing?
0:17.4	Yeah.
0:18.4	Probably playing golf.
0:20.6	Right, if, let's say you can't play golf, what comes next?
0:26.2	Probably sleeping.
0:27.2	If you can't be playing golf or sleeping, what's third?
0:31.8	Probably being here talking to you.
0:36.8	From WNYC and APM, American Public Media, this is Freakonomics Radio, the podcast that
0:53.0	explores the hidden side of everything.
0:55.9	Here's your host, Steven Dupner.
1:11.6	Every now and then, Steve Levit and I ask you, our listeners and readers, to send us
1:16.2	your questions.
1:17.2	Then, we try to answer them on this podcast.
1:19.6	We call it Freakwintly Asked Questions.
1:22.2	I like this question.
1:26.4	He says, is modern life more specifically the fact that we no longer follow our circadian
1:32.4	rhythm killing us?
1:33.8	There are all these rises and diseases, cancer, autoimmune, etc. and developed countries
1:37.4	that do not exist in numbers anywhere close to what they have elsewhere in the world.
1:42.2	And no one really knows what's going on.
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