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For America’s 250th, we whipped up a show that highlights America’s competitive advantages with three stories:#1. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup: How a Frogsaleseman created the country’s best-selling candy.#2. Super Soaker: Why our legal system was the co-founder of summer's most-pop ...  Show more

Why are Kim Kardashian, Will Ferrell, and Netflix hooking up?... Golf underwear TV.Vespa scooter just had its 80th birthday… we explain how Vespa beat Harley and Honda.NBCUniversal and Comcast are splitting up… it’s the art of the Divorce Deal.Plus, the hot new real estate for Ge ...  Show more

Memecoins are having a moment. Everyone from Hawk Tuah to President Donald Trump to animal influencers like Moo Deng the pygmy hippo have been turned into cryptocurrency. But what are the costs of all the hype?On today's show — a modern parable. How an orphaned baby rodent became ...  Show more

In the past couple years, demand has gone wild for drugs like Ozempic – and its cousins, Zepbound, Wegovy, and Mounjaro. For people who had never been able to lose weight before, suddenly the numbers on the scale were plummeting. And everybody wanted to get their hands on them. N ...  Show more

Ever wondered why you can buy fresh Peruvian blueberries in the dead of winter? The answer, surprisingly, is tied to cocaine. Today on the show, we look at how the War on Drugs led to an American trade policy and a foreign aid initiative that won us blueberries all year round. An ...  Show more

Note: This episode originally ran in 2015.German families in the 60s loved tasty, cheap American-raised chicken that was suddenly coming in after the war. And Americans were loving fun, cheap Volkswagen Beetles. This arrangement was too good to last.Today on the show, how a trade ...  Show more