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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A sneak peek at an upcoming series — and a call for would-be radio reporters.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner breaking in to your Freakonomics Radio feed with a special
0:06.5	request for your help.
0:08.2	Let me explain.
0:10.2	Whoa.
0:12.2	So there is a suitcase on the road.
0:18.2	What do you have there?
0:19.2	All right, we'll give you a little bit of adventure here.
0:22.0	That's me and Matt Sparks, a senior VP with Delta Airlines.
0:26.6	That was driving us across the absolutely massive tarmac at the Atlanta airport when we came
0:31.6	upon that suitcase in the middle of the road.
0:34.8	It had apparently fallen off a luggage cart.
0:37.4	Matt got right on it.
0:38.4	Hey Phil, it's going to Salt Lake City at 556 so it's got about three hours to connect.
0:44.2	Will you grab it?
0:45.2	I can grab it.
0:46.2	Thank you, sir.
0:47.2	All right, so listen, I'm glad you picked up the bag but it makes me a little nervous
0:51.4	if there was just a suitcase sitting in the middle of it.
0:53.7	Oh, it makes me nervous too.
0:55.6	That's obviously not the way you want to see the process.
0:58.8	The suitcase plainly didn't belong on the tarmac.
1:02.3	What about us?
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