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73. A Rose By Any Other Distance

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🗓️ 2 May 2012

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

At a time when people worry about every mile their food must travel, why is it okay to import most of our cut flowers from thousands of miles away?

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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

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every couple of weeks where we talk to Stephen Dumbner,

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the co-author of the books and the blogs of the same name.

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It is the hidden side of everything. Dumbner, as always, it's good to talk to you.

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Great to be here, Ky.

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You know, it seems like you talk about your mom on the show quite a bit.

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Am I right?

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I don't know, maybe.

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And it sounds from what I hear that you two have a fairly loving relationship.

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I'm also right on that.

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Number one, she's listening, so watch yourself.

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And number two, yeah, you know, we get along. Me and mom.

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I'm just thinking with Mother's Day coming up, you know, two Sundays from now.

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I'm guessing you're thinking about maybe sending your mom some flowers, yeah?

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Okay, two things. One is that it's all I can do to remember to get my wife flowers on Mother's Day

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to let her own my own mother. And two, the dirty secret, which I will deny if you repeat it,

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my wife actually does the flowers for my mother.

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Ah, but mom does get some stuff.

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But she gets some stuff. Yeah, she gets them.

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