Stephen Dubner
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
In some ways, there's inevitable sadness because death is this thing that I've always tried to just really ignore it.
Even though my father died when I was a kid.
I'm 62 and I'm the youngest of eight.
And I've always been like the protected baby boy.
And they're starting to go.
I'm the youngest.
My oldest is 17 years old.
That's big.
He's very healthy.
He's a former Air Force pilot.
I think he could beat us all up.
I probably...
So I will say that what Malcolm said is pretty close to a lot of the things that I feel about Freakonomics in that.
You're a much younger person, but also, like he said, the time was different.
So I did go back and read the book.
I liked it.
I was very pleasantly surprised.
Our main incentive was to be truthful and be interesting.
It was really simple as that, and to have fun.