446. “We Get All Our Great Stuff from Europe — Including Witch Hunting.”

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🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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We’ve collected some of our favorite moments from People I (Mostly) Admire, the latest show from the Freakonomics Radio Network. Host Steve Levitt seeks advice from scientists and inventors, memory wizards and basketball champions — even his fellow economists. He also asks about quitting, witch trials, and whether we need a Manhattan Project for climate change.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Steven Doughner.
0:04.8	We've been using this holiday break to play you some of the new shows that we've been
0:08.3	making for the Frekenomics Radio Network.
0:10.5	Today, a sampler of Steve Levitt's new show, People I Mostly Admire.
0:15.7	You'll hear Levitt in conversation with the vaccine researcher, Monsef Slaui, who's
0:20.2	been running Operation Warp Speed, and Susan Wajiski, the CEO of YouTube.
0:25.3	People here levitt talk mindfulness with Sam Harris and Caverley Morgan, and how to stretch
0:31.0	the mind with Ken Jennings and Nelson Delas, four time USA memory champion.
0:36.9	He will discuss clutch performance with Sue Bird, one of the most decorated basketball
0:41.3	players in history, and the art of quitting with serial quitter and Nobel laureate Paul
0:48.3	Romer.
0:49.5	Some of the clips you'll hear are from shows we've already released, but many are from
0:54.0	upcoming episodes.
0:55.5	To make sure you don't miss any of them, go subscribe right now to People I Mostly Admire.
1:01.4	You can get it on any podcast app.
1:03.8	It is quite a different show from Frekenomics Radio.
1:06.9	Levitt is weirder than me for starters in a good way, and a lot of people I mostly admire
1:13.6	is dedicated to advice giving and advice seeking, as you'll hear starting right now.
1:22.8	So whenever young people ask my advice about giving a PhD, I almost always try to talk
1:27.8	them out of it.
1:29.3	Getting a PhD sounds fun and romantic.
1:32.0	It's not fun.
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