Hey podcast listeners, I've been reading this book called Petty. It's a biography of Tom Petty

written by Warren Zanes. Warren used to be in a band called the Del Fuegoes. I used to

be in a band called the right profile and we played some dates with the Fuegoes. I love

them. I love Tom Petty too. And reading Warren's book about Tom Petty brought back all these

memories about what it means to be in a band. So it's hard kind of like being married to three or

four people at the same time. But also it's your gang. You share things with them that you will never

share with anyone again. The terrible terrible gigs where they threw bottles at you, the occasional

triumph. The story is so weird that no one outside the band would ever believe them so you never

tell them to anyone else. And of course the music, especially the early stuff you wrote when you

thought you knew what you were doing. But then as the years go on you get a little bit better,

it comes obviously you didn't know what you were doing. So you still listen to that early stuff

sometimes. Kind of the way you look at pictures of yourself back in junior high. Is that really me?

Come on. But you can't stop listening. And thinking all these thoughts got me digging in the

Frekenomics Radio archives. So I went back and back and back and I finally got to the very first

episode we ever put out was early 2010. The episode is called The Dangerous of Safety. And since it's

August and we were looking to put out an episode from the archives, I thought why not? How much couldn't

they possibly hate it? Well you'll let us know, won't you? Everything in this episode was up to date

at the time, but now a lot of it isn't. I'll give you some specifics later.

What comes to mind risk wise when I say the following things? Shark attacks.

The biggest joke of all time. All right, terrorist attacks.

The biggest waste of time ever.

This is Frekenomics Radio, a new podcast about the hidden side of everything.

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