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This is Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace.

Here's the host of Marketplace, High Rizdoff.

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

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

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

I've been worse.

You have?

All right.

I'm doing all right.

You're doing all right.

You know why you're doing all right though?

Because super Tuesday is behind you, man.

You don't have to worry about politics.

That is a big part of it.

You know how I feel about the presidency.

That's where I was going.

Because generally, you think it's overrated, right?

I do.

I believe that the office of the president of the United States, it just matters a lot less than most people think.

Now, I will say, when I make this argument, I get hate mail from both sides of the aisle.

So conservatives will accuse me of covering for President Obama and liberals accuse me of kind of preempting criticism of some future Republican nominee.

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