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 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.

And by the end, I didn't have any good ideas.

And it was so useful for me to pivot into a role

of being someone who was a consumer of ideas.

If I tallied up the number of books I read over a 20-year period before I started this podcast, maybe I read 30 books in 20 years.

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