Stephen Dubner

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14,303 appearances 95 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 5d ago

Stephen Dubner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Freakonomics Radio · How to Be a Double Unicorn, with John Urschel | Better in Person · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

My wife would say so. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

You're succeeding in the NFL. voice-verified

You're getting a PhD in math from MIT at the same time. voice-verified

And then there's a variable that comes in, which is a huge amount of attention paid to CTE. voice-verified

It's brain trauma, let's call it. voice-verified

From repeated blows to the head. voice-verified

And this for several years was really the headline in the NFL, which is brain damage far and wide. voice-verified

Although, to be fair, the evidence for this is very difficult to assess. voice-verified

Exactly. voice-verified

It's a difficult thing to exactly nail down, but you can't diagnose it while someone's living. voice-verified

Exactly. voice-verified

The brains that are donated for research predominantly come from people who died young or tragically. voice-verified

assume, right? voice-verified

So this is the last year of my rookie contra and your next contract, had you gotten one, which you probably would have, you were on a trajectory to get one, that would have been a lot more money. voice-verified

So this is similar to when you committed to Penn State and even Stanford might have been a nice choice for you. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

But when you were talking about having committed to Penn State, you said at the time I had a lot of moral whatever about it. voice-verified

Yeah, so at the time again, voice-verified

struggling. voice-verified

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