Stephen Dubner
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so I take all that stuff seriously.
But you're right.
We are publishing a new edition, which has a new forward, which did take me like six months to write three pages.
Jesus Christ.
You're a little rusty, huh?
No, it's not rusty.
It was a forced occasion to replay this 20-year movie, which has been amazing, but also it was tied to, I mean, this is not what you asked, so you may not want to know this, but I'll tell you until you shut me up.
I'm having a problem in my home office of getting rid of all my archives.
I have archives from when I was a musician.
I have set lists from my band, like all of them, but I can't throw them away.
I was staring down those boxes one day in my office, faced with paralyzed dread.
And then I got a text from Steve Levitt, my co-author on Freakonomics.
And he said, happy 20th anniversary of publication.
It was the day.
And I didn't even remember the day.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know how he remembered, because he's not a sentimental guy.
So this is what I ended up writing the foreword about.
But honestly, what I'm feeling...
around this 20-year anniversary is what anybody feels as they get older.