Some smart people say we should be doing more to protect the Earth from asteroids. The technical issues are relatively easy. The economics — figuring out who's going to pay — are much harder.

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Episode 645: How To Stop An Asteroid

Patty McCord helped create a workplace at Netflix that runs more like a professional sports team than a family. If you're not up to scratch, you're off the team. Is this the future of work?

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Episode 647: Hard Work Is Irrelevant

We travel to Warm Springs to find out if the rumors are true: Did FDR really buy moonshine during Prohibition? Did he violate the Constitution he had sworn to protect?

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Episode 200: The Moonshine Stimulus

When Roddey Player’s business started heading south, he he did everything he could to avoid the big failure: Bankruptcy. But, what’s painful for Roddey might just be the secret weapon of the U.S. economy.

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Episode 648: The Benefits of Bankruptcy

What’s going on in China? Is the second largest economy in the world about to come crashing down?

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Episode 649: China, China, China

One Hollywood director leaves the world of big budget blockbusters for something even more lucrative: low budget Hollywood.

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Episode 650: The Scariest Thing In Hollywood

In Japan, they've eaten cooked salmon forever. And they've been been eating raw fish for hundreds of years. But not all fish. Raw salmon, no way. Then, 30 years ago, a few people halfway around the world launched a plan to change that.

Today on the show: How hard could it be to get a nation of sushi lovers to eat raw salmon?

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Episode 651: The Salmon Taboo

Hidden in the trash heap of commerce there is buried treasure. Abandoned brands, even beloved, trusted brands, are waiting to be claimed and reborn. Today on the show: a cookie comeback. 

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Episode 652: The Hydrox Challenge

Everybody likes free. But free can be dangerous. On today's show, what happens when you take something that was free and give it a price. That’s a highly risky move and the damage can be enormous.

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Episode 386: The Power of Free

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