Stephen J. Dubner

I forget if I told you, but he was like really psyched about something.

It ended up we were talking about Stephen Dubner's new web series that Gary Gullman was just on.

But I've been I'm I'm aware of your parents general comings and goings.

This is so crazy.

You're, you're being too much of a doer right now.

Got to, got to tap into that thinker." But the, the best I've heard of it from, you know, guys like Richard Thaler and, or St- or Steve, uh, Steve Dubner, and all those guys, like-

Mm-hmm

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Steve...

I thought you were gonna say Dr. Steve, Steve Dubner.

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Today on the show, is everything we thought we knew about food deserts wrong?

Whoa, what happened there? Oh, mama, brutal Today on Freakonomics Radio, how to pick or, in my case, how not to pick a great NFL quarterback.

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[upbeat music] The rookie quarterback that everyone has their eyes on this year is Fernando Mendoza.

The Las Vegas Raiders took him with the first overall pick in the draft.

This is how we would get him, you know, to really handle the rigors and the pressures of the game." [upbeat music]

We will be right back with the final act in our story about how to pick an NFL quarterback.

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Well, not that sort anyway.

[upbeat music] This is Better in Person with Stephen Dubner and James Daunt.

James Daunt is not a household name, at least in most households, but he always has been in mine.

Years ago, he opened a small independent bookshop in London, Daunt Books, which many people consider their very favorite bookstore.

Today on Freakonomics Radio, how to survive the AI shock with Gina Raimondo.

[upbeat music] This is Freakonomics Radio, the podcast that explores the hidden side of everything, with your host Stephen Dubner.

[singing] Gina Raimondo likes to refer to herself as a recovering politician, which seems to be a popular diagnosis these days.

She is a solidly centrist Democrat known for playing well with Republicans.

So what did you do Did you just tell them your dad's Bulova story and then they somehow were won over

Never underestimate just sheer determination willpower sticking with the problem But the real unlock was that I was able to get the biggest customers of TSMC which were American companies Apple NVIDIA I think between Apple and Nvidia it's like more than thirty percent of Tsmc's revenue And they did it You know Jensen the CEO of Nvidia

Jensen Huang Tim Cook the CEO of Apple Lisa Su the CEO of AMD all tsmc's biggest customers leaned on TSMC frankly to say 'We're too vulnerable if all of our chips come from the same factory in Taiwan.' We need you to manufacture in America [instrumental music plays] Tim Cook As you may know recently completed his term as CEO of Apple His successor John Turnus took over on September first I'm Stephen Dubner This is Freakonomics Radio and we finish up our conversation with Gina Raimondo right after this break Raise Us The new operation that Gina Raimondo is running Will have its initial rollout in four states Utah Maryland Arkansas and Connecticut For those of you keeping score at home Which seems to be everyone these days Two of those are red states and two are blue One goal of raise US Is a reform of job training Ramando and I spoke about job training back in twenty eighteen First time she was on freak economics radio Its episode three thirteen If you want to listen it's called How To Be A Modern Democrat & Win At the time She was governor of Rhode Island

I would talk to guys in the building trades who had been out of work for years losing their houses losing their marriages so I said we have to completely turn upside down the way we do workforce development We had a model which I often refer to as train and pray Train people and pray they get a job And it turns out that's not effective

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[upbeat music] This is Better in Person with Stephen Dubner and Anne Pasternak and Michael Roth.

What's it like to run an institution in a time when trust in institutions is at an all-time low? Anne Pasternak and Michael Roth have some thoughts.

Anne is director of the Brooklyn Museum.