404 - Nice Guys Do NOT Finish Last

The Real Jason Duncan Podcast · Oct 21, 2026 · 17m

You've heard that nice guys finish last since you were a kid. Leo Durocher, the man who gets credit for it, never said it. In 1946 he said the nice guys were in seventh place, and when Baseball Digest reprinted the column that fall, somebody changed "seventh" to "last."

In this episode, Jason reads this week's What's Real? article and puts the saying to a real test. Back in 1980, a political scientist named Robert Axelrod set up a computer tournament where programs played the Prisoner's Dilemma against each other, 200 rounds at a time. The winner was the shortest program in the field, and all…