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Hey there, it's Steve Levit. I'm economist at the University of Chicago,

a co-author of the book Freakonomics, and also the host of the podcast,

People I Mostly Admire from the Freakonomics Radio Network.

I interview guests that range from Nobel laureates to magicians,

from bestselling authors to NBA referees.

People who are smart, reflective, and sometimes a little bit weird.

My guests include bestselling author John Green,

conservationist Jane Goodall, psychologist Danny Coniman,

and Jennifer Daoudna, the scientist behind the gene editing technology

CRISPR. I even interviewed my own daughters.

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I'm alone, but I feel alright.

When you're in the sun, we're time, when you're fallin'.

This is Wintertime. A song off North Jones's album that came out this past spring,

Begin the Gain. Malcolm Gladwell and Bruce Hadlam have absolutely fallen in love with this tune.

Wilcoe's frontman Jeff Tweedy started writing it some time ago before

discarding it somewhere along the way. During a recording session with North Jones,

the two of them picked it back up and brushed it off together to make this.

In case you don't remember, North Jones had a massive hit 17 years ago with her debut single

Don't Know Live, which has basically become a standard in the American songbook

thanks to her minimalist performance. After that, she did a run of solo albums,

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