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You're the only one with Star Trek notebook paper.

I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita.

And from W. Be Easy in Chicago, this is Nurdette.

This week Stephen Dubner, host of Freakonomics radio

and co-author of The Freakonomics books.

The newest book by the duo, Think Like a Freak,

just came out.

Dubner tells us about how he and University of Chicago economist Steve Leavitt made

freakonomics, which kind of sounds a lot like our origin story too, Tricia.

Wait, what?

He's brilliant and fun to work with and I'm of average intelligence and relatively fun to work with.

Wait, which of us are you saying is brilliant and which of us is of average intelligence?

Obviously you're the brilliant one. No, I disagree on both.

Actually I would have disagreed either way.

In any case, Stumner also gives some pretty excellent homework.

The whole idea of this book is like thinking like a kid.

And part of things like a kid is just like what you

like yes you know don't think about what's classy or sophisticated like what you

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