361. Freakonomics Radio Live: “Jesus Could Have Been a Pigeon.”

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4.6 • 32K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Our co-host is Grit author Angela Duckworth, and we learn fascinating, Freakonomical facts from a parade of guests. For instance: what we all get wrong about Darwin; what an iPod has in common with the “hell ant”; and how a “memory athlete” memorizes a deck of cards. Mike Maughan is our real-time fact-checker.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey there, Steven Dubner.
0:14.5	As you know, Freakonomics Radio is primarily an interview show based on extensive research
0:20.0	in which we explore various issues, often quite complicated ones, in some depth.
0:25.9	But we need to break from that now and again.
0:30.9	Of course you do.
0:32.6	And so, may we present the following episode of Freakonomics Radio Live, not recorded
0:39.2	in some somber radio studio, but in a pub, in front of a live audience.
0:43.8	It's a little game show we like to play called Tell Me Something I Don't Know.
0:47.3	It's got the same DNA as Freakonomics Radio, but in reverse.
0:52.2	If you'd like to attend the future show or be on a future show, visit Freakonomics.com
0:57.1	slash live.
0:58.1	We'll be in New York on March 8th and 9th at City Winery and in May, we're coming to California.
1:04.5	In San Francisco, on May 16th at the Norse Theatre in partnership with KQED and in Los Angeles
1:11.2	on May 18th at the Ace Hotel Theater in partnership with KCRW.
1:15.7	Again, for tickets, go to Freakonomics.com slash live and now on with the show.
1:22.7	Good evening, I'm Stephen Dubner and this is Freakonomics Radio Live.
1:30.5	Tonight we are at Joe's pub in New York City and joining me as co-host is the University
1:36.2	of Pennsylvania Psychologist and author of Grit, our good friend Angela Duckworth.
1:40.9	Hi, Stephen.
1:46.0	Hi, Angela.
1:47.0	Hi, everyone.
1:48.2	So happy to have you back.
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