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47. Wildfires, Cops, and Keggers

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🗓️ 2 November 2011

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

On Election Day, most people focus on the obvious winners and losers -- that is, the candidates. But we went looking for some of the strange side effects that elections produce.

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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 Dog.

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It is time once again for a little Freakonomics Radio that moment of your lives every couple of weeks,

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

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It is the hidden side of what of yes.

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Everything Dubner, how are you?

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Hey Kyra, I'm great. Listen, I sent you a little something this week.

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You want to open it up?

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Okay, all right, here we go.

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It's... oh my god, it's heavy, first of all.

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It is heavy.

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Oh my god, yes.

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Oh, Jesus, dummy.

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Also in a bag.

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Oh, get out of here.

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Yeah, it's Heineken.

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It's a little mini-cag of Heineken.

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I know I'm going to do it.

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I'm going to put it in the Marketplace refrigerator.

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Don't thank me too much, Kyra.

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I'm actually just trying to save myself a little money, because as you know,

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