Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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12 published records
01 / uncertainty
“I don’t know how you cancel Michael Jackson. You probably listen with something firing in the back of your brain about “warning, warning,” but you still listen.”
02 / belief
“Otis Redding is somewhat known, but a lot of the Stax sound was maybe too gritty or not polished in the right way. It’s not played in Muzak as often, I think.”
03 / belief
“There were other R&B studio dynamics that were going on, and they haven’t all fared as well as Motown has done, and I agree with that.”
04 / preference
“What is there in the black visual arts that is especially important or meaningful to you? For me, it’s Haitian art, of course, but I suspect your answer is different.”
05 / preference
“I like your technique. I like your podcast interview technique. I may well emulate it.”
06 / prediction
“He says it’s a complete losing — “All that is going to happen is, if I say what I actually think, a ton of bricks is going to fall on me, and so I won’t talk about it.”
07 / evaluation
“If you tell them, I think in some cases it has an impact. At times a negative or reverse impact, but words matter.”
08 / evaluation
“Governments very often subsidize, say, fossil fuels more than they tax them. Now, here’s an, I think, 1979 release from Glenn Loury.”
09 / preference
“We listen to hip hop, we listen to blues, we listen to a lot of blues. Bluegrass — now, I love a brilliant banjo solo as much as the next guy.”
10 / evaluation
“I agree with you that the prospects for them are rosy, all things considered, but not everybody is going to get into Stanford Law School, or Yale Law School, or the Chicago Business School, or get hired as a young associate at one of the investment banks of something.”
11 / recommendation
“I wouldn’t advise a young graduate student to follow in the path of writing papers like the papers that I wrote, because (a) they’re not going to get in the AER [American Economic Review], and (b) you want to get a job.”
12 / evaluation
“I don’t trust the reportage that I get because it’s all too tendentious and in the service of making sure that Donald Trump doesn’t get any more votes than he might otherwise get, or that Black Lives Matter comes out smelling like roses.”