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Stephen J. Dubner (@Freakonomics) is an award-winning author, journalist, and radio and TV personality.

He is best-known for writing, along with the economist Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics (2005), SuperFreakonomics (2009), and Think Like a Freak (2014), which have sold more than 5 million copies in 35 languages.

In this podcast, we discuss dozens of topics, including: his writing process, religion, parenting, favorite documentaries, and much, much more.

I recommend checking out his new book, Think Like a Freak. If you liked the assumption-busting, myth-testing stories of Freakonomics or any of my books, you’ll enjoy it.

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Show notes are below, courtesy of reader Kasperi — thanks for posting in the comments!

You can find the transcript of this episode here. Transcripts of all episodes can be found here.

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Episode Transcript

Stephen DUBNER: Hey there, it’s Stephen Dubner, and this is a special, bonus episode of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club. In case you’re not familiar with the format, it works like this. We select a very good book; we interview the author at length; and: rather than force the author to provide a slapdash summary of the book they’ve spent years writing, we have them read actual excerpts, hand-chosen for maximum effect.

This episode features two people I happen to be exceedingly fond of, and I’m guessing you will be as well. Conducting the interview is Kurt Anderson, the author of several very good books himself, most recently Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History. He also created and hosted the public-radio show Studio 360 and, before that, he co-founded and edited Spy, the magazine of satirical journalism that took aim at various blowhards, scoundrels, and terrible ideas. He also happens to have lived in New York City for the past few decades — and the past few decades of New York City is the very topic of the book we’ll be hearing about today. The author is Thomas Dyja, and the book is called New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation. If you care even a little bit about New York City — an

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