The Economics of Everyday Things - 120. An update on the show

Episode Date: December 29, 2025

The Economics of Everyday Things is going on an indefinite hiatus. SOURCES:Zachary Crockett, host of The Economic of Everyday Things. RESOURCES:Zachary Crockett on Substack.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hey, it's Zach. We started the economics of everyday things with a simple premise. Everything in daily life is interesting if you look beneath the surface. It could be a tube of toothpaste, a billboard, or a laundromat. The little things around us are often a lot more complex than they seem. Over the past three years, we've reached millions of listeners on seven continents. We've produced 120 episodes. We've written almost 500,000 words of scripts, and we've interviewed more than 300 people, tow truck drivers, pizza box manufacturers,

cemetery executives, pistachio farmers, elevator mechanics, and Michelin star chefs. Working on this show has been one of the greatest joys of my life, and I really hope our work has taught you some new things about the world. If you missed our announcement in last week's episode, I've got some sad news to share. Starting the new year, we're going on an indefinite hiatus. You'll still be able to listen to all of our old episodes, and we'll be replaying the show here in the feed, starting very soon. It's possible there may be new episodes at some point. But in the meantime, the best place to keep up with what I'm doing is my newsletter. You can find it at zcrockett.com. That's as in Zebra, C-R-O-C-K-E-T-T-T-com.

I put the link in the show notes below. If you'd like to head over there and subscribe, I'd really appreciate your support. All right, thanks for all the love, and I hope to be back at some point with more. Until then, don't stop looking for the extraordinary and the ordinary. It's all around you. The Freakonomics Radio Network, the hidden side of everything.