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

Another episode that has really stuck with me was an interview I did with a doctor who focuses on end of life care.

B.J.

Miller.

B.J.

had a terrible accident when he was at Princeton, and he lost his legs and arm.

He was trying to jump on a train or something?

They have this electric train, the little putt-putt train that goes from the Amtrak train to the campus, and he touched the electrified wire in a terrible accident.

And so I've seen a lot of interviews with BJ.

And when people see him, they can see that he's had limbs amputated.

And he always explains to people how that happened.

And I had a thought of, well, this is radio.

This is podcast.

So people can't see him.

So...

I want to have a conversation with BJ in which nobody who doesn't know him is going to understand that he's had this accident.

And if you re-listen to the episode, at first he's kind of stuttering and stammering around a little bit.

I think because he just so expected me to start by it.

Could you tell me by it?

And then only towards the end of the interview do we get into it.

And he tells his story in such a heartfelt way with so much more emotion and detail than he does in his typical public setting.

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