Stephen Dubner
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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.
Both Lev and I don't take ourselves too seriously.
We reported and researched and fact-checked and dotted every I.I.,
So I wasn't concerned about that.
We did have one thing shortly after publication that we found out had been wrong, which was a kind of terrible thing.
This guy that we wrote about as having heroically gone undercover in the Ku Klux Klan and exposed them.
And he did do a lot of that type of work, but he kind of conflated his own identity with that of another guy who did the undercover stuff.
And he wrote books about it.