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The Economics of Everyday Things

Freakonomics Network & Zachary Crockett

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Who decides which snacks are in your office’s vending machine? How much is a suburban elm tree worth, and to whom? How did Girl Scout Cookies become a billion-dollar business? In bite-sized episodes, journalist Zachary Crockett looks at quotidian things and finds amazing stories. Join the Freakonomics Radio Plus membership program for weekly member-only episodes of Freakonomics Radio. You’ll also get every show in our network without ads. To sign up, visit our show page on Apple Podcasts or ...
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Rejected Central

Brent van Staalduinen

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REJECTED CENTRAL is a podcast that investigates the history, humor, and pain of rejection, without getting dragged through the depressing silliness you can find in a million other places. We don’t care (much) about breakup stories, denied crushes, or the little denials that make up our quotidian existence. We do care about the bigger rejections, the ones that cross boundaries and borders, stories so impactful they demand a response, a laugh, a tear. In short, REJECTED CENTRAL is about elevat ...
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Potentially Catastrophic

Books and reading podcast by Jonesey

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This is a podcast about reading and finding relationships between randomly paired books. The first season's episodes start with a book I'm currently reading, and then add a book that I read two years ago that is determined in a fairly random way, I see what there is to see in the matter between them. Sometimes it's amazing. Sometimes ... well, I get a laugh out of it, at least.
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My guests are Entrepreneurs, Executives, Olympians, Artists, and Creatives. Some famous names and some hidden gems. We discuss what success means to each one of them and decode the best parts of their mindset. It is a search for the common threads, principles, and patterns that we can apply to our own lives to become healthier, wealthier, happier, and wiser.
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By Father Paul D. Scalia"Daily" or "Supersubstantial"? Which word best translates the Greek "epiousios" in the Our Father? Both are legitimate translations. We are more familiar with "daily," which indicates a basic nourishment. "Supersubstantial" points to an extraordinary gift, the precise opposite (it would seem) of daily. Leave it to Benedict X…
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By Michael PakalukCatholicism has survived in every environment and flourished in most because its essentials are lean. Consider even the Mass: in essence, hearing the Gospel; a profession of faith; prayer in common; and the Eucharist. "That's It" (as the fruit bar says).Our religion has been lean since the replacement of the Mosaic Law by the two …
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By David CarlinWhen I was in high school, a school managed and mostly staffed by Christian Brothers, our Latin teacher was a young diocesan priest. I don't believe he taught me much Latin (though I still remember the first line of the Aeneid), but he taught me at least one great sociological truth. One day, leaving Virgil aside for a few minutes, h…
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By Father Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap.Many people, including Catholic bishops and numerous Christians throughout the world, have condemned the blasphemous event that took place during the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Paris. As almost everyone now knows, there was a mocking display of the Last Supper where Jesus was portrayed as an …
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By Anthony Esolen"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord," says the Psalmist (33:12). What can that verse mean for us in the United States, or in any Western nation whose laws are predicated upon either religious neutrality, or irreligion?It will not do to say to the Psalmist, "Every nation has its own gods, just as you have yours." He knows t…
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How did love stories about vampires, cowboys, and wealthy dukes become the highest-grossing fiction genre in the world? Zachary Crockett gets swept away. SOURCES: Delaney Diamond, romance novelist. Danielle Flores, high school math teacher and avid romance novel reader. Brenda Hiatt, romance novelist. Diane Moggy, vice president of editorial at Har…
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By Fr. Raymond J. de SouzaJesus taught, in part, by the company he kept."Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" the Pharisees asked the apostles. (Matthew 9:11)Jesus kept company with those who scandalized others and made clear the nature of the scandal. Not the scandal of approving sinful behavior, as the Pharisees thought, bu…
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By David WarrenI wasn't being entirely serious when I complimented the engineers of nuclear weapons - American, Russian, and Chinese (technology is now quite globalized) - for having solved the fallout problem.Of course, the problem of backward technology still remains, and truth to tell, I cannot trust the atom-bombists of Iran, Pakistan, and even…
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By Stephen P. WhiteThe 10th National Eucharistic Congress was a triumph. Ask anyone who was there in Indianapolis, and I'm confident you will hear much the same from them. Every person I spoke with during and since the Congress said it exceeded their expectations. It certainly exceeded mine.When I say the Congress was a triumph, I do not mean that …
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By Brad MinerOne of the axioms of contemporary publicity, religious as well as secular, is that modern man in general, and intellectuals in particular, have become intolerant of all forms of tradition and are anxious to suppress them and put something else in their place. But, like many other affirmations of our publicity machines, this axiom is fa…
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By Randall SmithWhen I was in college, not yet a Catholic but starting to "hang around" with Catholics, I was taken aback one day when I heard the words, "forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." I heard those words growing up, but their significance had never quite hit me. "Forgive me, God, the way I have forgiven o…
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In the next instalment of our "Bell Curve of Rejection" series, we look at the career and life of Roseanne Barr. Roseanne burst onto the TV and comedy scene in the 1980s riding the success of her schtick as a "Domestic Goddess." However, fame and fortune has brought all sorts of drama into her life and the lives of those around her, and recent poli…
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By Robert RoyalLet's begin with a simple point, so simple that many otherwise intelligent people deny it. Any country - however many and great its virtues - that sacrifices 1 million children yearly to demonic idols (under fashionable euphemisms like "reproductive health"), deserves, if Scripture and right reason are to be believed, chastisement.Or…
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Performing at a strip club can be lucrative, but it requires financial and psychological savvy — and an eye for social trends. Zachary Crockett takes a look. SOURCES: Layla, stripper. Dave Manack, publisher and editor-in-chief of Exotic Dancer. RESOURCES: "A Look at Washington State’s ‘Strippers’ Bill of Rights’," by Aimee Ortiz (The New York Times…
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By Fr. Roger LandryThis week the Church in the United States has been celebrating its tenth National Eucharistic Congress, the first in eighty-three years. And a journey unprecedented in Church history is coming to a close: the 6,500-mile National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, that culminated in Indianapolis for the Congress which ends today.On the Vigil…
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By David G Bonagura, Jr.What sin hath Louisiana committed in mandating the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school? According to the plaintiff in the newly minted suit Roake v. Brumley, Louisiana is harming children by making them think about God.The plaintiff stated, "The Ten Commandments displays required under state law will create …
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By Fr. Raymond J. de SouzaVice-Presidential candidate J.D. Vance is a convert. To Catholicism in 2019. And to Trumpism sometime between his Never Trump position of 2016 and the 2021 launch of his campaign for the Senate. He is happy as a Catholic and tickled red to be Trump's most devout, intelligent, and articulate apologist in the Senate.Much has…
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By Michael PakalukLet's get it out of the way at the start. It is permissible for Catholics to choose the lesser of evils. When they do so, their choice gets accounted for as avoiding the greater evil, not favoring the evil that is lesser. You are driving a runaway trolley. Five men are working on the track ahead; one man only is on the track to th…
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By Francis X. MaierWith age comes wisdom, or so one hopes. It can also come with a menu of weird and vivid dreams. Here's an example. In my school days, I had no interest in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Written in the late 14th century, the tales are a collection of twenty-four earthy and risqué stories told by London pilgrims on their …
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By John M. GrondelskiNo small part of American political discourse currently revolves around "privacy." Clearly, there must be some "private" zone of personal thought and action. But how should a Catholic view privacy?As with everything else, he should start from God's perspective. Once upon a time, every Catholic kid used to hear the maternal admo…
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By Robert Royal"Take care. It is easy to break eggs without making omelets." Thus, the great and wise C. S. Lewis sixty years ago as his Anglican communion was making jarring changes to the liturgy. It's a principle that goes far beyond forms of worship and prayer, though, to most of what constitutes a good life for beings like us who straddle eter…
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Why does treating a venomous snake bite cost as much as a house? Zachary Crockett slithers over to North Carolina to find out. SOURCES: Steve Anderson, emergency medicine business unit leader at BTG Pharmaceuticals. Nick Brandehoff, professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado and executive director of the Asclepius Snakebite Found…
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By Archbishop Salvatore J. CordileoneRooted in the conviction that the Sacred Liturgy, as "an exercise of the priestly office of Jesus Christ," is "the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed" and "the font from which all her power flows," the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council asserted the supremacy of liturgical prayer in th…
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But first a note from Robert Royal: Last week the Vatican issued the Instrumentum laboris, the working document that will guide the Synod on Synodality's October session this Fall. Two of our regular and most perceptive watchers of the "synodal process," Father Gerald Murray and Stephen White, have written quite probing commentaries on a document h…
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By David WarrenFrom my days as a non-yachtsman, I remember a tale of two boats.They were Dutch tjalks or lemsteraaks (but which?) - a cross between a fishing boat and a canal barge - and the maker had an order for two of them. The customer expected them to be identical. The maker had a fairly large facility for their manufacture; he could even have…
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By Brad MinerBut first a note: Be sure to tune in tonight, Thursday, July 11th at 8 PM Eastern, to EWTN for a new episode of the Papal Posse on 'The World Over.' TCT Editor-in-Chief Robert Royal and contributor Fr. Gerald E. Murray will join host Raymond Arroyo to discuss the excommunication of Archbishop Viganò, further Latin Mass restrictions (pr…
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By Randall SmithBut first a note: Be sure to tune in tomorrow, Thursday, July 11th at 8 PM Eastern to EWTN for a new episode of the Papal Posse on 'The World Over.' TCT Editor-in-Chief Robert Royal and contributor Father Gerald E. Murray will join host Raymond Arroyo to discuss Archbishop Vigano's excommunication, further Latin Mass restrictions (p…
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