She is one of the best basketball players ever. She’s won multiple championships, including four Olympic gold medals and four W.N.B.A. titles — the most recent in 2020, just before turning 40. She also helped negotiate a landmark contract for the league’s players. Sue Bird tells Steve Levitt the untold truth about clutch players, her thoughts about the pay g ... Show More
Sep 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 ... Show More
40m 29s
Sep 23
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 A ... Show More
43m 7s
Oct 2019
Sue Bird, 4-Time Olympic Gold Medalist and 3-Time WNBA Champion, on winning at every level, how a willingness to change has helped her extend her career, and why she'd like to see the women's national team play a game against celebrities.
<p>Basketball legend Sue Bird discusses what's enabled her to have so much success for so long (4:37), the boxes she needs to check in order to perform at her best (11:29), the value of sometimes skipping practice to rest (14:59), whether or not morning shootarounds cause un ... Show More
1h 18m
Oct 2020
555: ALN CLASSIC - Sue Bird!
ALN CLASSIC - Sue Bird!! The WNBA legend is about to lock in her 4th championship as the leader of the Seattle Storm! In this incredible sit down from Oct 21st 2019, Sue shares stories from her youth Bball days, difficulties adjusting to UCONN, winning in college, gold medals, Me ... Show More
1h 33m
May 2022
Sue Bird: Running it back, We Are BG, and what's next for the WNBA
Sue Bird joins The Players’ Pod to talk all things WNBA: where the league should expand, how players are handling Brittney Griner’s detainment, whether this is actually Bird’s last season, how the league has changed and how it needs to evolve, and what it takes to win a Champions ... Show More
1h 7m
Nov 2020
Talking Turkeys with Sue Bird
WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist Sue Bird joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about the butthole version of Cats, a person who turned their shed into a restaurant, a student who caused chaos testing engagement rings, the aggressive wild turkey in Oakland who was finally captured, an ... Show More
51m 30s