Steve Levitt

It's a horrible feeling to be sitting in an auditorium knowing that everybody is really angry at you because you're doing such a terrible job.

Oh my God, that was hard work.

It was difficult because he wouldn't put on headphones.

Because he didn't want to mess up his hair because he was going on TV afterwards.

So he couldn't hear me talking and I couldn't get him off his script.

He has a script.

He has a life story.

Well, it was such a coup to get Schwarzenegger and it was so exciting.

I did finally have one moment where I got him off of his stump speech, which was really fantastic.

I brought up something that happened when he was running for governor of California and someone had thrown eggs at him.

and his suit was covered in eggs.

And I'd seen the video of it, and it was really fascinating to watch because he got slammed with eggs, and he didn't even change the expression on his face.

He just kept on walking as if it hadn't happened.

And then he went to a press conference,

And he gave maybe the best press conference I've ever heard in my life because he said, well, what about, you know, this person who threw eggs at you?

And he said something like, well, I hope next time he'll throw some bacon too so I have a whole breakfast.

Who says something like that?

It was awesome.

And somehow in reliving that story, he changed his tone completely.

So if nothing else, for that one minute of the podcast, I felt like I would not throw it away because that felt like such a triumph.