In the 2021 Adweek Podcast of the Year Awards, "Best Interview Podcast" was awarded to People I (Mostly) Admire on the Freakonomics Radio Network.

In the 2021 Adweek Podcast of the Year Awards, "Best Interview Podcast" was awarded to People I (Mostly) Admire on the Freakonomics Radio Network.

Launched in August 2020, People I (Mostly) Admire finds University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt, co-author of the best-selling Freakonomicsbooks, interviewing a wide array of thinkers, researchers, government leaders, authors, and the occasional celebrity.

"The perfect guest for me is someone who's not only wildly intelligent, but also a little bit off the rails," Levitt says. "Someone who thinks differently and who doesn't care at all how the world perceives him or her."

Listen to People I (Mostly) Admire at https://freakonomics.com/pima/ or on any podcast platform. Recent episodes investigate the simple economics of saving the Amazon rainforest, why superhuman Artificial Intelligence won't be our slave, and why some cities thrive while others fade away.

PS. Freakonomics Radio itself, which pioneered bringing rigorous journalism to the podcast space over a decade ago and remains one of the most-listened-to shows today, will celebrate its 500th episode next spring.