Steve Levitt

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962 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 31 Jul

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Freakonomics Radio · Steve Levitt Quits His Podcast, Joins Ours · 21 Jan 2026 podcast

And I didn't really believe it.

But as I got older and older, I've seen enough evidence.

No, the power of placebo.

I think some of the nicest and best and most interesting people I know just have a faith in the universe and believe in stuff that's a little bit out there.

When Suzanne and I, we went to India for a month.

I talked about it on the Sam Harris episode of this podcast, but I went so grudgingly.

I really only went because she doesn't have a lot of common sense.

And I thought if she was alone in India for a month, she probably wouldn't come back alive.

And so I...

I went in.

Part of the deal was she said we couldn't use our phones, which I don't know why I ever gave into that.

I guess that when you're first dating people, you do things that you wouldn't do later.

But the first two weeks of that trip, I was miserable and I was angry and I was frustrated.

And eventually, I did have something like a spiritual awakening.

And it came because she would say, well, what do you want to do in India?

And I would...

rack my brain, and I'd say, actually, there's not a single thing that I would like to do here.

I'm indifferent to everything.

And suddenly, everything was as good as anything else.

I'd be on a crowded bus, stinky and rattling around, stuck in traffic.

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