Freakonomics Radio · 2026-10-09 · 62 min · 10,592 words

690. It’s Show Business, Baby!

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AI is so stupid. You think? Oh, come on. All right. Let's hear about that. Oh man. Tell me when you want me to stop trolling. You know, I'm a natural born bully.

I've come to see that. I believe in justice. I do bullying for justice. This person, this bully for justice is my friend Jenna Weiss Berman. She is a podcast producer. We'll get to her very strong feelings about AI later.

What's this episode about? It's a podcast about podcasts. We get about Ten to twenty emails a year of people saying, I listen to your show and I don't understand how it works. It sounds like you all work kinda hard, but like how do you get paid? Do you get paid? No, you just do it for free. That's so sweet. For the record. No, we don't make this show for free.

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