668. Do Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny Have Blood on Their Hands?
The episode explores a surprising link between major music album release days and spikes in traffic fatalities in the U.S., using a recent working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The study, led by physician-researchers Bapu Jena, Vishal Patel, Chris Worsham
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