I have enjoyed the podcasts for years and I have used vast amount of topics raised in the podcast as conversation staters for years. You won’t regret listening!

My favorite podcast about whale feces and fecal plumes

I have listen to all the pods from the start and most of them are really worth while listening to! //Per from Sweden

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These guys are just great. Seeing things from the other perspective and untangling the logic of every day life.

Really good with interesting subjects!!

So. Some other reviews have criticized this podcast for not being in-depth enough. But I would argue otherwise. Good radio needs changes in tempo and I think the more ’high-brow’ listener sometimes feels they are listening to something less worthy because the radio quality is so good. They work very well with sound effects and music and the sometimes cheesy humour just adds to the entire podcast. Because beyond all of this is often an excellent topic and an interesting listen. This is, in my view, the exact way you should turn the books of Freaknonomics into good radio. I sometimes lack a direct link to economics but for the most part, it’s very true to its name. It’s an excellent podcast and one that I keep going back to.

An amazing podcast, deserves all the praise it gets!

This is the podcast along with "This American Life" that I quote for other people. After listening to a podcast I can always inform friends and family and my children new provoking ideas (sometimes facts) like: Its better to fail fast - just look at the salary of baseboll players; Experts that has as a profession to predict the future are no better then an average newspaper reader; No, eating tomatoes from spain is not bad for the environment. I get so excited everytime there is a full new episode.

This is one of the best scripted podcasts out there. If you enjoyed the book "Freakonomics" by Levitt and Dubner, or simply like learning about interesting social and economic phenomena, this podcast is for you. Note that many episodes are very short however, and some have an extreme lack of detail and analysis. Sometimes an episode simply brings up a piece of interesting research and nothing more, resulting in a 6 minute episode, where 2 minutes are for the intro and outro.