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🗓️ 30 May 2012
⏱️ 5 minutes
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0:00.0 | From APM, American Public Media, and WNYC. |
0:07.0 | This is Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace. |
0:11.0 | Here's the host of Marketplace, Kyra's Doll. |
0:16.0 | Time now for a little Freakonomics radio that moment every couple of weeks where we talk to Stephen Dubner. |
0:20.0 | He is the co-author of the books and the blog of the same name. |
0:23.0 | It is the hidden side of everything Dubner good to have you back. |
0:27.0 | Great to be here, Ky. I don't know with the LA teams out of the NBA playoffs now. |
0:32.0 | I don't know if you're still paying attention. |
0:33.0 | I am so done with the Lakers. |
0:34.0 | I was, and people are like, this is where the hate mail from LA comes in. |
0:37.0 | But I mean, come on, really get over yourself. |
0:39.0 | Well, there is a trend besides the demise of the Lakers that is unmistakable, |
0:44.0 | but it's a trend off the court. It's something you see during the post-game press conferences. |
0:48.0 | And that is that just about every star player, LeBron James and Duane Wade, Kevin Garnett and Kevin Durant, |
0:55.0 | they're all wearing these big chunky black eyeglasses. |
0:58.0 | You know, the kind of the Erkle used to wear. |
1:00.0 | Depending on your time frame, you know, buddy Holly. |
1:02.0 | But that's right. I saw, who was? I guess it was LeBron. |
1:05.0 | I saw the press conference from Miami, yeah. |
1:07.0 | There you go. Now, in the old days, it was pretty uncommon to see many athletes wear any kind of glasses. |
1:13.0 | So my first thought was simply, hey, you know, maybe poor eyesight is on the rise. |
1:18.0 | So we reached out to Susan Vitale. She's a researcher at the National Eye Institute. |
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