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The James Altucher Show

Ep. 110 - Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics: When to Rob a Bank

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

I'm a freak. I'm a freak for a lot of things: comic books, podcasts, my wife. But none of that matters today (sorry Claudia). I had the pleasure, no, the honor, of interviewing my good friend Stephen Dubner today. This is like being the best man at...

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.4

This is the James Alteter Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.

0:19.2

So Stephen Dumbner, I have you with me.

0:21.7

You're the co-author of Freakonomics, Super Freakonomics.

0:26.8

Think like a freak.

0:27.8

I smell a theme.

0:29.7

And now a collection of, well, I'm not going to say the collection yet, but you and Stephen

0:35.5

Levit, your other co-author on Freakonomics, you have a book coming out today called When

0:41.4

to Rob a Bank.

0:43.2

And so it's basically another Freakonomics book because you have, it's a collection of

0:48.1

thoughts and essays and blog posts and so on that you've done on the Freakonomics site

0:54.0

over the past eight or nine years, ten years, ten year anniversary.

0:58.4

So that's incredible.

0:59.4

So normally a lot of people say, oh, it's just a collection of blog posts I can read for

1:03.2

free.

1:04.2

So I'm going to just deal with that objection right up front.

1:06.6

It's a good objection.

1:07.8

It's a good objection, but the reality is you would never get it curated, edited, whatever

1:14.3

else you did with it in this format that we're about to look at right now.

1:17.3

Like I really appreciate, first of all, I'm not going to go back and read ten years of your

1:20.9

blog post.

1:21.9

That would, you know, because I had to do that in order to do the book and believe me, you

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