Stephen Dubner

Why not?

I think it's cute.

For me, coming to L.A.

is like, oh, my God, this is live anthropology.

I love...

Everything is different.

Every telephone wire is different here.

Every building, the angle of the sun, it's being in a museum.

So anyway, over there, what was really interesting is I met a lot of different people from all different kinds of realms.

There is a plain spokenness in Scotland that just doesn't exist among the people that I usually hang out with here.

Because here we're usually like, you're just describing, well, if so-and-so does this, then they're aligned with that.

And if they're aligned with that, that means that.

And over there, a lot of conversations were much more like, that's a rock, don't trip over it.

This is what I think about when I'm making a show.

I always think, I don't want to make an about episode.

I want to make an of episode.

I feel like way too many of us are spending way too much time doing about thinking.

What do I think about this as opposed to what am I?

What am I doing?

What am I accomplishing?