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Planet Money
NPR
4.6 • 30.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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We have been crisscrossing America doing live shows to help promote the new Planet Money book. In each city, we’ve been doing interviews with special guests. And since we won’t be able to make it to every city in America (or most cities) we wanted to bring the tour to you!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey everyone, for the past couple weeks, the Planet Money team has been on the road on book tour. |
| 0:13.0 | Tonight, live from New York, the Planet Money book launch. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm in San Francisco. What's going on? |
| 0:19.0 | So excited to be in Boston. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:21.1 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:22.3 | We say hello Seattle. |
| 0:23.2 | Is that a thing we get to do on book tour? |
| 0:26.8 | We have been crisp crossing America doing live shows to help promote the new Planet Money Book. |
| 0:33.5 | We've been in New York, D.C., Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles. |
| 0:38.8 | And this is a rare thing that we don't get to do very often. |
| 0:41.7 | We don't get to meet and talk with so many of you. |
| 0:45.5 | In D.C., we played this game with the audience to demonstrate a concept known as the wisdom of the crowds. |
| 0:51.8 | This is the idea that if you ask a large group of people to guess the price |
| 0:55.3 | of something like a piece of art, the average will actually be pretty close to correct. |
| 1:00.8 | You all guessed that this piece of art is worth, oh, come on, guys, $693 trillion? I don't think |
| 1:08.7 | that's right. It wasn't a perfect study. |
| 1:12.1 | In New York, our host Amanda Aronchick and Mary Childs answered audience questions about how |
| 1:17.5 | we choose what stories to report or not report. |
| 1:21.3 | It was weird to look at the list of episodes that I thought I was going to make, and one of them |
| 1:24.2 | was just cocaine. |
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