Steve Levitt

One was on the rainforest and the other was on math and education.

And the impact that especially the math and education went at, it was just really surprising how much people cared.

So then I think you were going to interview Rahm Emanuel.

That's right.

And you said, well, why don't you just do it?

And God, I don't know why.

I think I was still on the high of having done those other two ones that everyone cared about.

So I did the Rahm Emanuel interview.

And all I remember from that is it was incredibly stressful because

And Rahm is a tough guy and he was in the worst mood that day.

And I just remember feeling bad.

I was bad at what I was doing.

I was nervous.

Anyway, that was hard, but it couldn't have been that bad because it was... It couldn't have been that bad for you to say yes.

Yeah.

I guess I figured if I could interview Rahm Emanuel on a bad day, I could probably interview other people.

And what's been great about the podcast is...

is it facilitated a really important change in my own life.

For so many years as an academic, I was laser focused on the creation of knowledge and trying to come up with ideas.

And I was tired of that.