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

And so That's a good point. voice-verified

And these contracts are not guaranteed. voice-verified

And they're not guaranteed. voice-verified

If you're hurt, you're done. voice-verified

Okay, let's say a hundred people in America, what share of them would you say probably like math? voice-verified

That's uh okay, so that's a shockingly low and voice-verified

Well, back up a minute. voice-verified

You said it depends what you think of math as. voice-verified

So why don't we voice-verified

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Last semester at MIT, John taught matrix analysis and computations. voice-verified

I thought it might be fun to have a private math lesson with him, so we picked a bunch of problems from a textbook and we used a big spinning wheel, the kind you'd use on a game show, to let gravity decide which one to solve. voice-verified

So I thought maybe if you could walk us through a proof of some kind, is that what you would call it typically? voice-verified

Yep. voice-verified

So it's a beautiful spinning wheel with a lot of math problems that I'm told are not that hard. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Okay, I guess it isn't fair to give John a problem that has never been solved, but can't blame me for trying. voice-verified

We'll give the wheel another spin. voice-verified

Uh okay, let's see what we get. voice-verified

I do happen to like math, but I have a sense that John Urschel math is well beyond my comprehension. voice-verified

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