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Freakonomics Radio

7. Two Book Authors and a Microphone

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🗓️ 30 September 2010

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The next chapter in the adventures of Dubner and Levitt has begun. Listen to a preview of what's to come for the fall season of Freakonomics Radio.

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0:00.0

You had the present, you had the past.

0:02.4

The past had its past, okay?

0:05.2

The present had its future, the past had its future,

0:07.3

namely the present.

0:08.8

They learned that we had a past, a past past, a past future.

0:13.0

They learned the relationship between them,

0:14.8

but they don't extrapolate to relation between today's past

0:18.0

and today's future.

0:19.4

All right, raise your hand if you followed

0:21.2

what Nassim Nicholas Talib just said.

0:25.1

Yeah, me too.

0:26.4

But I do know this.

0:28.2

For Freakonomics Radio, the future is now.

0:32.2

MUSIC

0:40.6

From WNYC, American Public Media,

0:43.3

this is Freakonomics Radio,

0:45.0

a new podcast about the hidden side of everything.

0:47.8

Here's your host, Stephen Dubner.

0:49.8

MUSIC

0:56.3

In the beginning, it was just me, a microphone,

0:59.8

and my Freakonomics friend and co-authored Steve Levit.

1:02.6

We started a podcast, threw it up on iTunes.

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