People I (Mostly) Admire
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44. Edward Glaeser Explains Why Some Cities Thrive While Others Fade Away
Oct 17, 2026
45m 32s
43. Arne Duncan Says All Kids Deserve a Chance — and Criminals Deserve a Second One
Oct 10, 2026
45m 12s
42. America’s Math Curriculum Doesn’t Add Up
Oct 3, 2026
42m 01s
41. Dr. Bapu Jena on Why Freakonomics Is the Best Medicine
Sep 26, 2026
40m 29s
How a Great Architect Thinks, with Bjarke Ingels | Better in Person
Sep 23, 2026
43m 07s
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- 🇮🇩ID · Society & Culture#385.5K to 68K
- 🇵🇭PH · Society & Culture#294.0K to 49K
- 🇮🇳India · Society & Culture#1092.8K to 35K
- 🇹🇭TH · Society & Culture#322.8K to 34K
- 🇨🇴CO · Society & Culture#146228 to 2.8K
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16K to 196K🎙 ~2x weekly·244 episodes·Last published 3d ago - Monthly Reach
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32K to 392K🇺🇸71%🇮🇩10%🇵🇭7%+2 more - Active Followers
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18K to 216K
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/17/26 | 44. Edward Glaeser Explains Why Some Cities Thrive While Others Fade Away | An expert on urban economics and co-author of the new book Survival of the City, Ed says cities have faced far worse than Covid. Steve talks with the Harvard professor about why the slums of Mumbai function so well, high-quality housing in China sits empty, and declining cities hang on for so long. This episode originally aired on September 11th, 2021. | 45m 32s | ||||||
| 10/10/26 | 43. Arne Duncan Says All Kids Deserve a Chance — and Criminals Deserve a Second One | Former U.S. Secretary of Education, 3x3 basketball champion, and leader of an anti-gun violence organization are all on Arne’s resume. He’s also Steve’s neighbor. The two talk about teachers caught cheating in Chicago public schools and Steve shares a story he’s never told Arne, about a defining moment in the educator’s life. This episode originally aired on September 3rd, 2021. | 45m 12s | ||||||
| 10/3/26 | 42. America’s Math Curriculum Doesn’t Add Up | A special episode: Steve reports on a passion of his. Most high-school math classes are still preparing students for the Sputnik era. Steve wants to get rid of the “geometry sandwich” and instead have kids learn what they really need in the modern era: data fluency. Originally broadcast on Freakonomics Radio, this episode includes an update from Steve about a project he launched to revamp the education system. This episode originally aired on August 27th, 2021. | 42m 01s | ||||||
| 9/26/26 | 41. Dr. Bapu Jena on Why Freakonomics Is the Best Medicine | He’s a Harvard physician and economist who just started a third job: host of the new podcast Freakonomics, M.D. He’s also Steve’s former student. The two discuss why medicine should embrace econ-style research, the ethics of human-challenge trials, and Bapu’s role in one of Steve’s, ahem, less-than-successful experiments. This episode originally aired on August 21st, 2021. | 40m 29s | ||||||
| 9/23/26 |  How a Great Architect Thinks, with Bjarke Ingels | Better in Person | Is the oxymoron really “the secret sauce to everything”? That’s the case Ingels makes in this debut episode of our new video show Better in Person, filmed in Stephen Dubner’s living room. If you'd like to see the video version of Better in Person, you can watch it on YouTube or Apple Podcasts. | 43m 07s | ||||||
| 9/19/26 | 40. Harold Pollack on Why Managing Your Money is as Easy as Taking Out the Garbage | He argues that personal finance is so simple all you need to know can fit on an index card. How will he deal with Steve’s suggestion that Harold’s nine rules for managing money are overly complicated? Harold and Steve also talk about gun violence — a topic Harold researches as a public-policy professor at the University of Chicago — and they propose some radical ideas for reducing it. This episode originally aired on August 13th, 2021. | 45m 34s | ||||||
| 9/12/26 | 39. Aicha Evans Wants You to Take Your Eyes Off the Road | She’s the C.E.O. of Zoox, an autonomous vehicle company. Steve asks Aicha about the big promises the A.V. industry hasn’t yet delivered — and the radical bet Zoox is making on a driverless future. Plus, Steve wants to know how she’s maintained her spark. This episode originally aired on August 6th, 2021. | 48m 34s | ||||||
| 9/5/26 | idea generationeconomics+3 | Sendhil Mullainathan | University of ChicagoScarcity | — | Sendhil MullainathanScarcity+3 | — | 36m 54s | ||
| 8/29/26 | playbehavioral science+3 | Sendhil Mullainathan | new appUniversity of Chicago+1 | — | behavioral scienceplay+3 | — | 50m 31s | ||
| 8/22/26 | governmentcities+3 | Rahm Emanuel | ClintonObama+2 | Chicago | Rahm Emanuelgovernment+5 | — | 41m 56s | ||
| 8/15/26 | generalismspecialization+3 | David Epstein | Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World | — | David Epsteingeneralists+3 | — | 49m 15s | ||
| 8/8/26 | behavioral economicschange+3 | Maya Shankar | Obama administrationGoogle+1 | — | behavioral unitObama administration+3 | — | 44m 58s | ||
| 8/1/26 | anti-dopingcheating+3 | Travis Tygart | United States Anti-Doping Agency | — | anti-dopingcheating+3 | — | 45m 10s | ||
| 7/25/26 | goal hierarchypsychology+3 | Angela Duckworth | University of PennsylvaniaGrit | — | goal conflictGrit+4 | — | 50m 47s | ||
| 7/18/26 | economicssocial sciences+3 | Peter Leeson | — | — | economicstrial-by-fire+4 | — | 45m 40s | ||
| 7/11/26 | foreign aidcorporate responsibility+3 | Dambisa Moyo | HarvardOxford+1 | — | foreign aidcorporations+5 | — | 43m 33s | ||
| 7/4/26 | animal rightsmeat consumption+3 | Bruce Friedrich | Good Food Institute | — | Bruce FriedrichGood Food Institute+5 | — | 45m 09s | ||
| 6/27/26 | drug legalizationneuroscience+4 | Carl Hart | Columbia UniversityDrug Use for Grown-Ups | — | drugslegalization+6 | — | 44m 32s | ||
| 6/20/26 | judgmentpsychology+3 | Daniel Kahneman | Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment | — | Daniel KahnemanNoise+4 | — | 44m 03s | ||
| 6/13/26 | memory techniquesbrain training+3 | Nelson Dellis | — | — | memorymemory champion+5 | — | 35m 18s | ||
| 6/6/26 | spiritualityskepticism+3 | Sam Harris | Making SenseWaking Up | — | spiritualityskepticism+3 | — | 42m 53s | ||
| 5/30/26 | intelligence workempathy+5 | Amaryllis Fox | C.I.A.The Business of Drugs | — | C.I.A.Amaryllis Fox+5 | — | 44m 08s | ||
| 5/23/26 | golfdata analysis+3 | Greg NormanMark Broadie | Columbia | — | golfdata+4 | — | 42m 15s | ||
| 5/16/26 | educationonline learning+4 | Sal Khan | Khan Academy | — | Khan AcademySal Khan+5 | — | 43m 54s | ||
| 5/9/26 | Pixaranimation+3 | Pete Docter | PixarSoul+3 | — | PixarPete Docter+5 | — | 43m 16s | ||
| 5/2/26 | laweconomics+4 | John Donohue | Freakonomics RadioStitcher | — | John Donohueabortion+4 | — | 36m 53s | ||
| 4/25/26 | business efficiencyfoster care reform+3 | Marina Nitze | Department of Veterans Affairs | — | business efficiency consultantfoster care+3 | — | 37m 38s | ||
| 4/18/26 | neurosciencestress+3 | Robert Sapolsky | — | Kenyababoons | neurosciencestress+5 | — | 41m 34s | ||
| 4/11/26 | economicsCovid-19+3 | Emily Oster | Brown University | — | Emily OsterCovid-19+5 | — | 41m 32s | ||
| 4/4/26 | magicdeception+3 | Joshua Jay | Humans Are So, So Easy to Fool. | — | magiciantricks+3 | — | 42m 03s | ||
| 3/28/26 | statisticsjournalism+3 | Tim Harford | World BankThe Undercover Economist+1 | England | Tim HarfordSteve Levitt+7 | — | 42m 25s | ||
| 3/21/26 | personal developmentgame theory+4 | Yul Kwon | GoogleF.B.I. Academy | — | Yul KwonSteve Levitt+6 | — | 43m 23s | ||
| 3/14/26 | basketballgender pay gap+3 | Sue Bird | ESPN | — | Sue Birdbasketball+5 | — | 39m 25s | ||
| 3/7/26 | economicsinnovation+3 | Paul Romer | World Bank | — | Paul RomerSteve Levitt+5 | — | 34m 20s | ||
| 2/28/26 | book industryliterary agents+3 | Suzanne Gluck | Freakonomics | — | literary agentbook publishing+3 | — | 36m 07s | ||
| 2/21/26 | longevityCovid response+3 | Peter Attia | — | — | longevityCovid response+3 | — | 38m 36s | ||
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Chart history for People I (Mostly) Admire
Peaked at #29 in PH, currently #29 in PH.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH | — | #29 | #29 | — |
| TH | — | #32 | #32 | — |
| ID | — | #38 | #38 | — |
| India | — | #109 | #109 | — |
| PE | — | #122 | #122 | — |
| SG | — | #127 | #127 | — |
| CO | — | #146 | #146 | — |
| IL | — | #165 | #165 | — |
| Finland | — | #176 | #176 | — |
| RO | — | #192 | #192 | — |
Chart Positions
10 placements across 10 markets.
Chart Positions
10 placements across 10 markets.