Hey there, Steven Dubner, a quick announcement before today's episode on Saturday, October 18th.
I will be doing an event as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival to celebrate 20 years of Freakonomics.
If you are also in Chicago, I hope you'll come.
For tickets,
go to freakonomics.com slash live shows and check out some of the other festival programming.
Thank you much, Lee, and now on to today's show.
Okay, I have an idea that I'd like to run past you today,
and I'm pretty sure you're going to hate it, but that's okay.
I still think it's worth getting into.
It is an idea for a sort of business merger.
I'm not suggesting that the US merge with Mexico.
We already proposed that.
Episode 185 called Should the U.S.
Merge with Mexico.
We even interviewed former Mexican President Vicente Fox, who was not quite in favor of that idea.
I am also not suggesting that Koch merge with Pepsi or that the Republicans merge with the Democrats,
although we've talked about that before also in an episode called America's Hidden Duopoly.
I am also not talking about a merger between the world's Christians and Muslims and Jews,
although I agree that would be Pretty interesting conversation.
The merger I am proposing does have a religious feeling to it, at least for some people.