Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Dubner, live on stage, mixes it up with outbound mayor London Breed, and asks economists whether A.I. can be “human-centered” and if Tang is a gateway drug.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner. Every once in a while, we get out of our recording studio
0:08.4	and take Freakonomics Radio on the road. We recently put on a live show in San Francisco at the
0:14.0	historic Sydney Goldstein Theater. If you were in the audience that night, thank you. We had a blast.
0:20.6	Hope you did too. If you were not
0:22.6	there, this bonus episode is for you. It is a recording of that show edited down to podcast
0:28.4	length. We have got another live show coming up in Los Angeles on February 13th. L.A. has been
0:35.0	through so much with the wildfires, so much destruction and death and fear.
0:40.6	All of us who love that place are eager for its recovery, and we are hoping to do our tiny part just by showing up.
0:48.0	A portion of our ticket sales will go to relief efforts.
0:51.4	I hope you'll join us if you can.
0:53.0	You can get tickets at freethonomics.com
0:55.9	slash live shows, one word. That's Thursday, February 13th in Los Angeles. One of our guests will be
1:02.8	the inimitable Ari Emanuel. Okay, here now is what happened in San Francisco. As always, thanks for listening. There are so many of you.
1:38.3	There are so many of you.
1:42.3	This does not seem like a fair fight.
1:44.8	There's one of me and all of you.
1:47.4	I'm sure it'll work out okay, but...
1:50.2	You're smart.
1:51.3	Okay, yeah.
1:52.9	The hecklers begin.
1:54.5	Okay.
1:55.3	So, in case it's not clear, this is not what we typically do.
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