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4. Faking It

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4.532.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2010

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Do you "fake it"? If so, you're hardly alone. In this episode, you'll hear how everyone from the President of the United States to a kosher-keeping bacon lover lives in a state of fallen grace. All the time. And gets by.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You keep kosher. How kosher do you keep?

0:05.2

Extremely kosher. We allow no non-coaster foods into our kitchen, our refrigerator.

0:13.0

We have three different sets of plates plus another one for Passover.

0:19.0

But the whole mine yard.

0:21.0

What's your relationship with Bacon?

0:23.0

It's secret and illicit.

0:26.0

And I think it was probably the first thing that I started cheating with.

0:31.0

You cheat with Bacon?

0:33.0

Again, not in my own kitchen, but I'll go out and order a bacon and pancakes.

0:40.0

But at home it would be simply pancakes.

0:42.0

Now does your husband know about this?

0:45.0

He knows. He knows he's very forgiving.

0:48.0

He knows because you tell him or because you come home with the scent of your lover on your list.

0:54.0

A little of both, I have to admit.

0:57.0

So you're not really faking it with him, correct?

1:00.0

Correct. We don't tell my mother-in-law.

1:03.0

This is Freakinomics Radio, a new podcast about the hidden side of everything.

1:15.0

In this episode, Bacon It.

1:17.0

How everyone from the President of the United States to a kosher keeping Bacon lover

1:22.0

lives in a state of falling grace.

1:25.0

Hold the time and get's by.

1:27.0

Here's your host, Stephen Dupner.

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