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

Well, it was such a coup to get Schwarzenegger and it was so exciting.

I did finally have one moment where I got him off of his stump speech, which was really fantastic.

I brought up something that happened when he was running for governor of California and someone had thrown eggs at him.

and his suit was covered in eggs.

And I'd seen the video of it, and it was really fascinating to watch because he got slammed with eggs, and he didn't even change the expression on his face.

He just kept on walking as if it hadn't happened.

And then he went to a press conference,

And he gave maybe the best press conference I've ever heard in my life because he said, well, what about, you know, this person who threw eggs at you?

And he said something like, well, I hope next time he'll throw some bacon too so I have a whole breakfast.

Who says something like that?

It was awesome.

And somehow in reliving that story, he changed his tone completely.

So if nothing else, for that one minute of the podcast, I felt like I would not throw it away because that felt like such a triumph.

Well, I have to say one of the frustrations

with people I mostly admire, is that podcasting is such a competitive world.

There's so much great content out there that it's hard to get a really big audience.

And it has a big audience, but nothing like your Freakonomics radio podcast.

And so you've been kind enough to say that I might have the opportunity to guest host.

Oh, it wasn't kindness, it's exhaustion.

I'd more like to keep the secret, actually.

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