Stephen Dubner

And then she said, but we could talk about it as if there is a lot new.

And I said, no, that would really be wrong.

I'm first and foremost a writer.

That's what I started as.

It's what I am.

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.