Tyler Cowen: belief

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…In terms of the composition of guests. Otherwise, we didn’t really do a lot of COVID programming. In fact, I’d say we did more counter-programming to COVID. We did a few, notably Paul Romer and Glen Weyl. In terms of the guests or episodes, how do you think the composition — other than the obvious — was affected by our switch? Do you think we got different guests than we normally would? I don’t think so much. We’re well enough known now that, say, people with a new book out — they simply want to do us, whether we deserve them or not, so that’s good. Maybe doing something like flying to London to do Karl Knausgård — I would have tried something like that again, I’m not sure with whom. Like fly to Italy and yell out Elena Ferrante’s name and hope she appears with a tape recorder. Something like that would have happened, and it didn’t. We had three COVID episodes. I’m glad we had three, but COVID has been covered very heavily by me on Marginal Revolution, and I think whatever I have to say, people get there, and it changes so quickly. I’m happy with the three we did, and probably it’s going to stay at that. This was a year of repeat guests. We had Fuchsia Dunlop last year, but it was a bonus episode. But this year we had Ezra Klein for the second time, promoting a book; Ross Douthat promoting a book, as you mentioned; and then Russ Roberts as the bonus episode, as a third. And Paul Romer, I forgot Paul Romer. We did him a second time as well. Do you anticipate doing more repeats in the coming year?…

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