Steve Levitt
speaker
962 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 31 Jul
Steve Levitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I surprised him enough times that by the end, he said, wait, who are you again?
Didn't he then invite you to do a live event with him?
He did.
So that felt really good to me because at the end, he said, will you be the interviewer for a live event that I'm doing in Washington, D.C.?
And that felt really great that he bestowed that honor on me.
And then I totally blew it because when we went to the live event, I really thought of it
as being an extension of people I mostly admire.
And my interview with him had been almost all about the science, because what's interesting to me is what he's done in science.
But it turns out that the kind of people who will pay $75 to come see Richard Dawkins talk are not interested in his science.
They're interested in his social ideas about science.
atheism and whatnot.
And I totally missed the boat, and the entire session fell totally flat until Richard managed to successfully steer the conversation towards atheism.
People started clapping and cheering.
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.
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