Episode 851: The Rest Of The Story Summer 2018

By Karen Duffin,

Dan Charles, Sally Helm, Paddy Hirsch, Aviva DeKornfeld, Alex Goldmark

Published June 29, 2018 at 8:48 PM EDT

Every time we air an episode, we get a bunch of tweets and emails from our listeners. And then time passes, and... new stuff happens.

Today on the show, we revisit some of our favorite episodes and bring you updates.

We'll hear from the great-great-grand-nephew of Reed Smoot, one of the central characters in our episode, "Worst. Tariffs. Ever." We find out what happened when pesticide manufacturers tried to fix a pesticide wreaking havoc in Arkansas. And The Indicator's Paddy Hirsch will evaluate some of the many dozens of suggestions we got about what goods qualify as Giffen Goods.

Also, we'll find out if Alex Goldmark's face really turns red when he drinks cheap vodka--and why.

In case you missed them, here are the original episodes featured in today's episode:

Episode 826: The Vodka Proof

Episode 775: The Pigweed Killer

Episode 833: Worst. Tariffs. Ever.

Episode 828: You Asked For More

Episode 816: Bitcoin Losers

Music: "Cadillac Attack," "Get Ya Outta Them Boots," "Butterfly Boots," "Rebel Rider," "Tiddly Winks" and "Nothing Like That."

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Karen Duffin

Karen Duffin (she/her) is a co-host and reporter for Planet Money, NPR's award-winning podcast that finds creative, entertaining ways to make sense of the big, complicated forces that move our economy. She joined the team in March 2018.

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Dan Charles

Dan Charles is NPR's food and agriculture correspondent.

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Sally Helm

Sally Helm reports and produces for Planet Money. She has covered wildfire investigation in California, Islamic Finance in Michigan, the mystery of declining productivity growth, and holograms. Helm is a graduate of the Transom Story Workshop and of Yale University. Before coming to work at NPR, she helped start an after-school creative writing program in Sitka, Alaska. She is originally from Los Angeles, California.

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Paddy Hirsch

Aviva DeKornfeld

Alex Goldmark

Alex Goldmark is the senior supervising producer of Planet Money and The Indicator from Planet Money. His reporting has appeared on shows including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Radiolab, On The Media, APM's Marketplace, and in magazines such as GOOD and Fast Company. Previously, he was a senior producer at WNYC–New York Public Radio where he piloted new programming and helped grow young shows to the point where they now have their own coffee mug pledge gifts. Long ago, he was the executive producer of two shows at Air America Radio, a very short term consultant for the World Bank, a volunteer trying to fight gun violence in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and also a poor excuse for a bartender in Washington, DC. He lives next to the Brooklyn Bridge and owns an orange velvet couch.

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