Freakonomics Radio Live: “Where Does Fear Live in the Brain?”

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🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Our co-host is comedian Christian Finnegan, and we learn: the difference between danger and fear; the role of clouds in climate change; and why (and when) politicians are bad at math. Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri is our real-time fact-checker.

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm Stephen Dubner and this is a bonus episode of Freakonomics Radio
0:17.8	Live.
0:18.8	It's the nonfiction game show we call Tell Me Something I Don't Know.
0:22.4	This was recently recorded in New York.
0:24.4	If you'd like to attend a future show or be on a future show, visit Freakonomics.com-live.
0:31.2	We'll be back in New York on March 8th and 9th at City Winery and in May we are coming
0:36.5	to California in San Francisco on May 16th at the Norse Theatre in partnership with KQED
0:43.4	and in Los Angeles on May 18th at the Ace Hotel Theatre in partnership with KCRW.
0:48.8	Again for tickets go to Freakonomics.com-live and now on with our show.
1:00.4	Good evening, I'm Stephen 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 comedian
1:08.9	writer and actor Christian Finnegan.
1:14.7	Thank you.
1:15.7	Hello there, certainly nice to have you here.
1:17.5	Lovely to be here.
1:18.5	Thank you for having me.
1:19.5	Christian, here's what we know about you so far.
1:22.1	We know that you grew up in Massachusetts.
1:24.4	Yes, I did.
1:25.5	That you became a comedian because you had no quote, marketable skills.
1:30.0	Still true.
1:31.3	We know you've performed all over TV and the world.
	...

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