It's Election Season and we gather to make some SPOOOKY predictions about the general election. How many people will vote? How many of those votes matter? And Legal Correspondent Patrick Hao tells us, how many people still watch DVD's? Joey, Mavi and Ham bring you state-by-state results, before the precincts even report them in.

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Senior Estonian enumerator (based in Pennsylvania) Viktoria makes the case for 300 animal versus human fights a year. Then the rest of the gang struggles to determine how many Americans watched DVD's last year. We work EVEN HARDER to count how many people have made a net profit off of Claw Machines.

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Virginia Correspondent Jonah Hurvitz joins Joey to explain the NJE (New Jersey Energy) metric for finding TV shows with NJ Burns. Then the duo tabulate the number of Crash Bandicoot fans alive in the US today.

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The team reviews past weeks and argues over what (and how many) pests Estonians spar with. For the lightning round, we discuss how many 21st century TV shows have New Jersey Jokes.

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Ham, Mavi and Joey get reacquainted over some small talk and big questions. Mavi asks the team how much weight is carried at a given moment in India AND Indiana. Then Ham turns the "Lightning Round" around and asks how much Lightning there was in Brooklyn the past month. 

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According to Careerexplorer there are 170 locksmiths in Rhode Island BUT this is twice as high as the standard US wide rate.

https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/locksmith/job-market/

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes499094.htm

AND according to Ipsos polling, a majority of Americans believe in Aliens or intelligent life (tends to be between 33-50% of all age groups, and its been growing over the years)

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/americans-believe-in-ufos-aliens

People with less formal education tend to believe more in conspiracy theories

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/30708244.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5248629/

Spanking stats are hard to find...this depressed me too much

https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fa0036370

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2014/04/22/parents-still-spank-their-kids-for-trivial-reasons-even-when-researchers-are-listening-in/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5766273/#:~:text=The%20prevalence%20of%20school%20corporal,%2C%20%26%20Holas%2C%202015).&text=School%20corporal%20punishment%20has%20received%20scant%20attention%20from%20the%20federal%20government

Tej and Joey go one-on-one for a Census review. They discuss previous the previous weeks statistics on Italian scooters and Estimates listeners. Then they debate the number of 'Smacks' Americans doled out in August and the total Locksmiths in Rhode Island who believe in Aliens.

According to a Xinhuanet article from late June, there were 50k electric scooters in Italy.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-06/24/c_139162081.htm

According to Grandview research the skin lightening market is about $8 billion and less than ten percent is in the US:

https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/skin-lightening-products-market (legal)

According to CDC, 5.6 percent of Americans used indoor tanning:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6118a2.htm

And AmericanSpa says ‘Sunless tanning’ is just under a billion

https://www.americanspa.com/skincare/sunless-tanning-continues-soar-wellness-industry

Mavi and Joey review population numbers and Italian babies named Daniel after the Danny Phantom Baby bounce. They then stay in Italy to discuss electric scooter usage as of 2020 and they discuss how many ACTIVE census employees will listen to the 'Estimates' podcast by 2025. The lack of answers will shock you.

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Italian baby names from Babynames.It

http://www.babynames.it/top100/1/year-2005.html

Population from the worldometer clock

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

Legal Correspondent Patrick H joins the show to review the popularity of Cop Movies in the wake of George Floyd protests and Black Lives matter. Joey and Patrick move on to to Bike ridership in New York City during Covid-19.

Team Estimates discusses previous episode data points (of which everyone teams up on Joey). Tej gets listener mail asking about American Spray Tans and Whitening Cream. 

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Jonah rejoins!