The Gist

Stephen Dubner’s Genre-Busting Game Show

The Freakonomics journalist on his new podcast, Tell Me Something I Don’t Know, where panelists are taken out of their comfort zones.

Journalist Stephen J. Dubner.

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Tell Me Something I Don’t Know is a new podcast game show from Stephen Dubner, the journalist behind Freakonomics. While radio quiz games are nothing new (in fact, Mike has hosted one himself), Dubner wants to do something different with this program, where experts have to engage with people from a field they are totally unfamiliar with. TMSIDK debuted at No. 1 on the iTunes podcast chart earlier this month.

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