Freakonomics Radio Live: “The World’s a Mess. But Oysters, They Hold it Down.”

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🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Celebrity chef Alex Guarnaschelli joins us to co-host an evening of delicious fact-finding: where a trillion oysters went, whether a soda tax can work, and how beer helped build an empire. Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri is our real-time fact-checker.

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm Steven Dubner, and this is a bonus episode of Freakonomics Radio Live.
0:18.1	It's the nonfiction game show we call Tell Me Something I Don't Know.
0:22.1	This was recently recorded in New York.
0:24.2	If you'd like to attend a future show or beyond a future show, visit Freakonomics.com-slash-live.
0:30.9	We'll be back in New York on March 8th and 9th at City Winery, and in May we are coming to
0:36.4	California in San Francisco on May 16th at the Norse Theatre in partnership with KQED,
0:43.2	and in Los Angeles on May 18th at the Ace Hotel Theatre in partnership with KCRW.
0:48.6	Again, for tickets, go to Freakonomics.com-slash-live, and now on with our show.
1:00.0	Good evening, I'm Steven Dubner, and this is Freakonomics Radio Live.
1:04.0	Tonight, we're at Joe's Pub in New York City, and joining me as co-host is the chef, cookbook author,
1:09.9	and beloved judge on the Food Network Show Chop.
1:12.7	Would you please welcome Alex Gordishelli. Alex, very happy to have you here.
1:21.5	I'd like to tell everybody what we know about you so far.
1:24.4	We know that you currently host the web series Fix Me A Plate.
1:27.7	Yes. We know that your website has a section called Foraging about the foods you love to forage for,
1:34.2	and that you listed their fiddlehead ferns, fresh ginger, and cheeseburgers.
1:40.4	They're highly affordable.
1:41.7	They're mostly found in wooded areas. Where did the cheeseburger go?
1:45.4	You just have to eat a lot of cheeseburgers to find the good ones.
1:48.0	Sometimes if you're digging through grass and rocks and trees to find edible things in
1:52.2	Central Park, that's one type of foraging.
1:54.4	The other is when you eat a series of disappointing cheeseburgers and you have to
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