2021-08-26
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Hey there, Steven Dubner.
Hope you've been having a great summer today.
I'd like to update you on what we've been doing this summer and to give you a preview of the fall.
As you may know, free economics radio was our one and only podcast for a long time.
But last year, right in the teeth of the pandemic, we decided to create the Freakonomics radio network.
Our first spinoff show was called no Stupid Questions, which I co host with Angela Duckworth, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who is incredibly dynamic and insightful.
If you have not heard it yet, here's what no stupid question sounds like.
We've talked, actually, Stephen, about the spotlight effect, right?
Tom Gilovich, everybody's paying attention to what I'm doing.
Yes.
And what I'm wearing and my hairstyle.
I just think we so often overestimate.
We get self conscious and we get insecure.
Now, with you, we actually do pay attention to all those things, but with most people, we don't.
So thats no stupid questions.
The next show we launched was people I mostly admire.
The host of that show is my freakonomics friend and co author, Steve Levitt, who is an economist at the University of Chicago.
But as you may know, Leavitt is not your typical economist.
Hes not your typical anything.
This fact is reflected in the amazing conversations that Levitt has been having on people I mostly admire, with guests like Danny Kahneman and Mayim Bialik, Sam Harris and Susan Wojcicki talking everything from metaphysics to autonomous vehicles, and even economics, including the economics of women's professional basketball.