Episode 0 A Sneak Peek of Your Next Favorite Podcast

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Tell Me Something I Don’t Know is like the best dinner party you can imagine — except without the food. But it’s got all the sparkling conversation you can handle. In each episode, audience contestants get on stage and tell us something fascinating (or earth-shaking, or just plain weird) while a panel of three experts tries to sort out what’s worth knowing and what’s not.

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The panelists are drawn from an eclectic group of wise people — like Barnard College president Debora Spar; New York Public Library president Tony Marx; former White House economist Austan Goolsbee; the Jesuit writer and thinker James Martin; bioethicist Zeke Emanuel; former White House chef Sam Kass;  Microsoft researcher danah boyd; the heart surgeon and TV doctor Dr. Oz; poker champ Annie Duke; the linguist John McWhorter; the Grit author Angela Duckworth; and the happiness guru Gretchen Rubin.

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We also have plenty of comedians and humorists, including Keisha Zollar, Chris Gethard, Frank Delaney, Andy Zaltzman, and Hannibal Buress. And occasionally a globetrotting adventurer like author Simon Winchester.

It’s all hosted by Stephen J. Dubner, host of Freakonomics Radio, who is accompanied each night by a real-time human fact-checker to keep everyone (mostly) honest.

So please enjoy this amuse-bouche. And subscribe today so you don’t miss a single course. Our first full episode will be out on November 7th. Season 1 will run six episodes — and we’re already taping Season 2 in New York City (in December and January), so come be a contestant or get tickets to see the show. Also, follow TMSIDK on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.