Steve Levitt
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962 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 Jul
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And so when I do an interview and it turns into an amazing episode, that feels good.
But I'm also almost equally as intrigued when I do an interview and it's bad because
I feel awful when it's me.
I feel such a tremendous obligation to my guests.
And if I do a bad job, it's very hard for me to shake.
It really haunts me.
A bunch of times I missed the boat.
I'll tell you one where I didn't miss the boat, but it would eventually cause me to miss a boat on a later occasion.
It was with Richard Dawkins.
Richard Dawkins was an interesting interview for me, first because he's legendary and he's such a huge thinker.
The other problem is that he has written, what, 20 books?
It was really hard to try to tackle his whole canon of knowledge that he had created.
And the easiest and the best interview is always one.
were with Freakonomics fans.
There's this power dynamic that happens in interviews where the interviewer is way below the interviewee.
And it's really hard to have a normal conversation because of that power dynamic.
But because so many of the guests knew Freakonomics and liked it, we could have different kinds of conversations.
Well, Richard Dawkins was not one of those people.
He had no idea who I was or why he was talking to me.
But over the course of 60 or 70 minutes,
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