Stephen Dubner

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Stephen Dubner is an author, journalist, and podcast/radio host. He is co-author of the Freakonomics book series and host of Freakonomics Radio. Stephen sits down with the Armchair Expert to discuss being drawn to counterintuitive thinking, his journey to Judaism and looking at politics through an objective lens. Dax asks about Stephen's childhood and Stephen talks about popular Freakonomics pieces. The two weave in and out of many topics including the prevalence of artificial insemination in turkeys, the uptick in pedestrian deaths and the potential of eating humans. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert. I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by Emmy-nominated
0:06.7	Monster Mouse. Hi! Hi! How are you? I'm good. Are you good? I'm so grateful to be quarantined with you. It's fun. Yeah, we really
0:16.8	lucked out. I feel so bad for the folks that are just straight up by themselves
0:20.4	quarantining? Could have been me. Could have been you. But boy, oh boy, do I have a long list of gratitude for so many things. We had one of the best conversationalists we've ever had on. This motherfucker, Stephen Dubner, he can talk about any topic you throw at him.
0:37.3	He'll know a little bit about it.
0:38.8	He will, and we did talk about every topic. We really go on a lot of tangents and it's fun. Oh we I love
0:46.0	talking to him I can't wait to have him back so Stephen Dubner of course is an award
0:49.9	winning author journalists and podcasts and radio host.
0:53.0	He is the co-author of one of my favorite books of all-time Freakonomics.
0:57.4	I'm sure many of you have read it as it reached millions and millions of people globally.
1:01.4	He also has the very fascinating podcast,
1:03.9	Freakonomics Radio, which is a huge, huge hit.
1:06.8	And we are just delighted to shoot the shit with him.
1:09.9	We hope you'll enjoy and we hope you're staying safe and well fed and your ass is
1:14.2	well wiped. Please enjoy Stephen Dubner.
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1:35.0	He's an option expert. He's an option expert.
1:36.0	He's an I'm sure it's bad.
1:41.0	I really like I really like your attitude.
1:47.8	Well thank you so much that's really flattering
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