Never have I ever

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The world of economics has these two different sides. One one side, there are the economists in their cozy armchairs and dusty libraries, high up in their ivory towers. On the other, there's the messy world we're all living in, where those economics are actually playing out.

Sometimes, researchers will write about something that they themselves have never actually experienced. Sure, they've thought about it, theorized, come up with smart analyses...but that's not the same as getting out of that armchair and into the real world.

So, in this episode, we play our own version of Never Have I Ever. We dare two researchers to go places and do things they have never done before, in hopes of learning something new about the economic world around us.

(Okay, fine, it's maybe more like Truth or Dare...but go with us here.)

Today's episode was hosted by Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi and produced by Emma Peaslee with help from Willa Rubin. It was edited by Sally Helm, fact checked by Sierra Juarez and engineered by Maggie Luthar. Alex Goldmark is our executive producer.

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0:25.0	A few weeks ago, I found myself standing around the storied office water cooler,
0:30.0	chatting with my colleague Darien Woods from our sister show The Indicator.
0:34.0	You're telling me about this kind of fun new economics paper he just come across.
0:38.0	The researchers had used cell phone tracking data to map out socioeconomic diversity in America.
0:45.0	And they identified the place where the widest array of people from across the socioeconomic
0:50.0	spectrum were most likely to actually rub shoulders in the same physical location.
0:56.6	And that place was pretty surprising.
0:59.8	It turns out that according to this cell phone data, rich and poor and middle class people are most likely to mingle not in public parks or in the pews of a church, but inside of moderately expensive chain restaurants, places like Applebee's or Olive Garden,
1:18.0	or the Australian themed Outback Steakhouse. Now, I happen to know that Darien is part Australian.
1:26.2	So when he then told me that never had he ever been to an outback steakhouse that got my
1:31.6	attention and when he reminded me that he was also a vegetarian, I knew
1:36.9	we didn't really have a choice. I had to take Darien the Australian
1:41.6	Vegetarian on an adventure.
1:43.6	Darien Woods-Gazzy.
1:46.4	Good to see you.
1:47.4	Fancy seeing you here outside the Outback Steakhouse.
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