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This is Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace.

Here's the host of Marketplace, Kyra's Doll.

Time now for a little Freakonomics Radio.

It's that moment every couple of weeks.

We talked to Stephen Dumbner, the co-author of the books

and the blog of the same name.

It is the hidden side of everything.

And Dumbner, you are in New York,

and I'm going to guess that since you're on the radio today,

you're warm and safe and dry, yes, from this storm?

I, I and mine are fine.

We got very lucky.

A lot of people obviously hurting in a lot of ways here.

And all kinds of chaos in New York.

Not surprisingly, the famous village Halloween parade tonight

has been canceled.

It'll probably be a pretty muted Halloween everywhere on these coasts.

But we're still hearing from other parts of the country looking for answers.

A listener in St. Louis named Vishal Dosange wrote to us with a Halloween dilemma.

He has got an eight-year-old daughter named Sophia.

She of course wants to go out trick or treating.

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