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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: uncertainty
25 Mar 2026 Conversations with Tyler Paul Gillingham on Why Mexico Stays Together
“I would guess it’s, I don’t know, 20, 25 minutes outside of the main city, so it’s easy to get there.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- Claim type
- uncertainty
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- 25 Mar 2026
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…I have not, but I’m starting to resent this story already, and you haven’t told it, Tyler. Go on, do tell. Well, there’s a fantastic church in town. I would guess it’s, I don’t know, 20, 25 minutes outside of the main city, so it’s easy to get there. You just take a cab ride. We asked our cab driver, taxista, where’s the best barbecue in a nearby pueblo, and that’s where he took us. It was unbelievable. First of all, very good strategy. The best meal I had in Yucatán by country mile was about half an hour outside Mérida, and it was the same thing. Ask a local taxi driver, “Come on, if you want a really good meal, where would you go?” He said, “Ah, it’s a bit of a drive.” You say, “Okay, I can see perverse incentive, knowing my question.” When you end up in a small warehouse, really in the middle of nowhere, stuffed full of Mexican people with the most incredible deer, you think, “Okay, I actually think this was a fair reflection.” I envy you that meal.…
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