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119. Is Being Too Efficient At Your Job Bad? And How to Have Health Work Habits

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118. Shrinkflation; Skimpflation & The Downfall of Subway

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117. Black Swans - What Are They? What Do They Mean? Can You Prepare for Them?

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116. Short Selling & Squeezing - Billionaire Feuds; Meme Stocks & Movies
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115. Catching Up & The State of Podcasts - Why Your Favorite Podcast MAY Be In Trouble

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114. Why You Can't Get a Restaurant Reservation - Bots May Have Something to Do With It
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113. The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy & Confirmation Bias - Facts to Suit Theories Instead of Theories to Suit Facts
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112. Sell in May & Go Away -- Chicken or the Egg?

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111. Recruiting Games: Companies Are Recruiting Earlier; Why Game Play Can Help Find Talent
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110. Pizza Meter - How Pizza Orders Predict War & Waffle House Index - They Unofficial FEMA Designation

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109. Spotify's Stream Farm Problem & Amazon's Fake Walk-Out Stores
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108. AI-Generated Content: Sports Illustrated's Scandal; Gothika Cover; The Library of Babel
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107. John Von Neumann - Father of Game Theory, Nuclear Scientist, Super Genius
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THROWBACK: Medical Match Day, The Stable Marriage Problem, and a Special Guest

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106. Blue Dot Effect & Negative Journalism; 'Insh*tification'; Why Everything Seems So Bad

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105. Secretary Problem & Optimal Stop Theory: How to Choose One from Many
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104. TikTok v Universal Music Group & How Licensing Deals Impact All Parties

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103. Raven Paradox: What Constitutes Evidence & Why Logical Arguments Matter

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102. Fraudster IV - Paolo Macchiarini: The Bad Surgeon, Fake Lover

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101. Stanley Cups: Conspicuous Consumption; Marketing to Women & Fads
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EPISODE 100 REVIEW AND CONTEST

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THROWBACK: 39. Quiet Quitting & Laying Flat - Game Theory of The American (And Chinese) Worker

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99. Occam's Razor, Newton's Flaming Laser Sword, and the 9 Philosophical Razors

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98. Math Confirms Santa is Real; What the Nash Equilibrium Teaches Us About Gift Giving

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97. Conspiracy Theories & Hoaxes - Why They Last So Long, How They Start, Our Favorites

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96. Rank Choice Voting; American Primary Elections; College Football Playoff Conundrum

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95. Marchetti's Constant: Why All Commute Times Are the Same; the Rise of 15 Minute Cities

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94. Weber-Fechner Law: Why You Suddenly Notice Change and How We Observe Our World

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93. Keith Lee's ATL Drama; Dave Portnoy's Pizza Scores; the Art of Criticism & the Power of Reviews

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92. Inductive vs Deductive Reasoning - Eating Lambs and Popping Quizzes

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91. Diderot Effect - How Buying Something Nice Can Make You Hate Your Stuff

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90. Delta's Meltdown & Starbucks Stars: How Company's Turned Loyalty Into a Bank

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89. Social Contagion: TikTok Tourrette's; Salem Witch Trials; & The Great June Bug Hysteria

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88. The Pink Tax - Oil Changes, Calculators, & Laxatives: Why Business Charge More for Products Marketed to Women

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87. Benford's Law: How is This a Real Thing; Using Naturally Occurring Numbers to Fight Fraud
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86. The Bad-Vibes Economy: Why Do We Feel This Way?
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85. The Great Ice Cream Lie, Learning Styles Are Fake, & How Conventional Wisdom Can Hurt You

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84. Tipping Wars: The Dictator Game, Supply & Demand, and That Awkward Moment at the Register

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83. Random Walks & Markov Chains: How To Lose All of Your Money Gambling & Predict the Future

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82. Data Torture: Harvard Dishonesty Scandal; Purdue Pharma Chart; Men Lying About Height

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81. Assassin's Mace: How an Ancient Saying Explains China's Current Military Strategy

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80. Taylor's Version: Her Battle With Scooter, Eras Tour, History

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79. How a Terrible BBQ List Teaches Us About Content Analysis - Feat. Cally Alessi

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THROWBACK - The Good Assassination: McKinley & Roosevelt and How JP Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Screwed Up

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78. Wagner Group Revolution, Putin's Power, & Social Media's Roll in Revolt

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College Admissions Scandal - Fraudster Files IIII William Rick Singer

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Is America Nearing the End? - The Great Divide and the Life Cycle of Empires

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Bottlenecks: Bridal Parties, Chinese Bureaucracy, and Going Around Your Boss

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Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship; Implications, Strategy; Fallout From the Debt Ceiling Policy

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Fake Job Postings (Ghost Jobs); Job Opening Scammers; Careers vs Jobs; & The Godfather

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Why Video Games Create In-Game Purchases: Zelda, Freemium Games, and the Billion Dollar Skin Industry

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Writer's Guild of America on Strike; Skilled Labor vs Non-Skilled Labor; & What's Next in Hollywood?

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"Just One More" Paradox - Why You Shouldn't Take the Bet Also, Pittsburgh Potties, Guns, Germs & Steel, and Nick Eats Balls

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The Centipede Game: How Co-opetition and Cooperation Clash & How It Cured a Plague

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Optimal Poker: How to Play, Basic Strategies & the Debates Going on in Texas Hold 'em

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How the Government Guilts You Into Paying Taxes: The Inspector Game

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TikTok Brinksmanship: Banning the App, Learning China, and Understanding Big Tech Lobbying

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Moore's Law: How Physical Space is Ending Computer Advancement; Love is Blind Recap

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Perverse Incentives, Unintended Consequences, and How You Make Policy: The Cobra Effect, Horseshoe Theory, & Barbera Streisand

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Silicon Valley Bank Collapse: Bank Runs, Diamond-Dybvig, and Getting Your Money Out Early

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Ukraine, Putin & the US: The Prisoner's Dilemma of War

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How the Government Lies to Us: History, Uses, & Future of the Glomar Response
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Four-Day Work Week: Why It Works and Why It Doesn't

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Half-Life of Knowledge: How Science Moves, Knowledge Decays, and What We Know Improves

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Netflix's Password Sharing Decision and How It Could Be Its Undoing; Customer Retention Vs Acquisition; State of Streaming

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The End of Disruption (not really); Ig Nobel Prizes, Patient Rights, Consolidation-Disruption and the Slog of Science

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Dunning-Kruger Effect: We're the Best Podcasters in the World; Dr. Death; Movie Review - Banshees of Inisherin

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Dating Game II: Sister Wives, Love is Blind, The Bachelor/Bachelorette, 90-Day Fiancé

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Southwest Airlines' Utter Meltdown and Our Best and Worst Parts of Airports

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George Washington's Biggest Battlefield Decision

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Game Theory First Annual Holiday Party!!!; Hanukkah History; Teach Your Kids Dreidel!!

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Hosting the Olympcs & World Cup: Business, Distraction, and Sportwashing

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Rankings are Dumb: Why Michelin Stars are Double-Edged Sword and You Shouldn't Be All-In on Lists

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EMERGENCY THROWBACK: FTX, BlockFi Put Cypto on Life Support: How a Game Theory Concept Explains the Failures of FTX, BlockFi and Maybe the Whole System

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THROWBACK: Black Friday Prisoner's Dilemma - How a clever idea screwed everyone and how it's changing + Thanksgiving food hot takes

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Mathisode - Simpsons Paradox: What You Need to Know About Correlation vs Causation and Per-Capita Stats

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Elon Gets the Bird: What Elon Musk's Twitter Take Over and What's the Point of Verification?

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AirBNB Bust: How Cities are Cracking Down, Demand is Falling Off a Cliff, and Users are Returning to Hotels

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Fraudster III: How One Wine Genius Named Rudy Made Rich Wine Collectors His Patsies

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Your Friends Are, In Fact, More Popular Than You - The Friendship Paradox

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The 2022 Cheating Epidemic: Chess, Poker, Fishing Make Headlines With (Alleged) Cheating Scandals

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Pumpkin, Spice, and Monetizing Fall: Why PSLs Taste Different This Year, Pumpkin Beer Review, Leaf Peeping, and the Fall Top 3

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Monarchy & The State of Nature: Remembering England's Queen Elizabeth II; Modern Monarchies; Game Theory of Why Monarchies Work

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State of Sports in America; How the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and NCAA Football Are Doing in 2022
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Elizabeth Holmes: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss - Ranking The Theranos Founder in our Fraudster Files

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How Do you See Yourself? Society, Filters, AI, and Influencers and Their Impact on Your Self-Image

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BONUS ROUND: Show Update; Chess Cast III - World Open in Philly, Candidates, and NFL Blitz Tournament

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Bobby Bonilla, Bernie Madoff, and Why the Mets are Idiots with Christian Borkey of the Busted Business Bureau Podcast

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Hunt a Deer to Together: The Stag Hunt Problem

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WTF #3: Speech and Debate: Origins, Events, Strategy, and Culture of America's Debaters

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The Bystander Effect: Cases, Facts, and Myths About Bystanders Watching Crimes and Doing Nothing

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Proximity Paradox: Why Businesses Open Across the Street; Supporting Local Business vs National Chains

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The Traffic Game: Phantom Traffic Jams; Google Maps Conundrum; Paradoxical Solutions

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Fraudster Files: Billy McFarland, Fyre Fest, and Fallout
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The Monty Hall Problem And The Fights It Starts

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Chicago Black Sox - Truth, Myth, Game Theory, and Legend of the 1919 Team that Lost On Purpose

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War in Ukraine: The Stability / Instability Paradox and The Future of Nuclear War

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The Dating Game - How the Apps have Changed Everything and How to Swipe

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WTF #2: Cryptocurrency, NFTs, Centralized Banking

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The Vaccination Game: vaccines, fear, eradication, and freedom

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