Tyler Cowen: belief

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…What are you hoping to see in Oman? How long are you there for? A couple of days, you said? Three days total. I’ve never been here before. I’ve been to quite a bit of the Gulf region and wanted to see the place I haven’t seen. Oman, like Yemen, was a civilization in the proper sense in a way a lot of the other Gulf states were not. There’s a grand and glorious past here. Oman controlled Zanzibar in the 19th century, or part of it. What’s in the National Museum is beautiful and very impressive. People don’t think much about Oman, but it’s an important place. Why not go see it? It’s comfortable. It’s quite safe. Plenty of people speak decent English. There’s no hassles associated with being here. The weather’s gorgeous. It’s not a food country. I’ve had some good food, but you don’t come here for the food, I would say that. You come here to see Oman. Again, for scenery, it’s gorgeous. All right. With that, let us turn to our shoutouts. These are the people who donated above a certain amount. They get their name shouted out, and we’re going to thank them in person right now. That’s Alexander Walsh, David Kemp, Alexander Zook, Eric Ward, Dennis Sheehan, Clifford Sosin, Jordan Marye, Huy Luong, Alexander Czarnecki, Chet Corcos, Roger Fisher, Mia Shapiro, Charles Marsh, Michael Lumpkin, Hal Sider, Owen Grohman, Matthew Melchione, Leslie Spencer, Manny Roman, Derk Cullinan, Michael Stubel, Christopher Pang, and Paul Shapiro. Thank you all very much for donating. We really appreciate your listenership. In general, I said this before, but the response to the campaign this year has been really awesome. I want to say thank you to all the listeners who donated, but also just people sending in notes of how much they’ve enjoyed the show. They’re sending me their top and bottom episodes sometimes as well. I enjoy hearing all of it, so thank you all very much.…

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