187. The Man Who Would Be Everything

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🗓️ 20 November 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Boris Johnson -- mayor of London, biographer of Churchill, cheese-box painter and tennis-racket collector -- answers our FREAK-quently Asked Questions.

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0:00.0	On this week's episode, Boris Johnson drops by to chat about being mayor of London, a writer,
0:11.1	a great admirer of and now biographer of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, a potential
0:16.0	future Prime Minister himself, and most singularly, he chats about just being Boris Johnson.
0:23.1	I love old, wooden tennis records.
0:27.0	There are other old things he loves.
0:28.8	I collect old cheese boxes.
0:36.1	At one point in the conversation, the need arose to remove his shoes.
0:40.8	No, yeah, I'm going to take it off.
0:42.3	I'm just going to see if I can see what's in there.
0:44.4	These are so warm that you can't hang on.
0:48.7	Oh, god.
0:51.7	Welcome to Freak Quently Asked Questions, the Boris Johnson edition.
1:06.0	From WNYC, this is Freakonomics Radio, the podcast that explores the hidden side of everything.
1:13.8	Here's your host, Stephen Dupner.
1:28.8	So let's begin, please tell our listeners exactly who you are and what you do.
1:32.0	Yeah, I'm Boris Johnson, I'm the mayor of London, and that means I manage most things
1:36.4	in the city that require a strategic view, so the transport, the police, the fire, a huge
1:44.2	number of stuff like that.
1:45.2	A lot of building of new homes, I'm responsible for planning the strategic direction of the
1:51.2	greatest city on earth.
1:53.2	We have now in London 72 billionaires, which is more than New York.
1:59.6	New York has only 43 billionaires.
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