Interviews With Ken Burns

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People who are lone operators tend to be more authentic. Von Smith, the polyglot and carpet cleaner, I thought was extremely authentic. Ken Burns is very good at delivering eloquent monologues that may or may not actually relate to the questions he was asked but he knows how to hit the points he wants to make.

On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and producer Jeff Holmes talk about the past year on the show, including which guests he’d like to have on in 2023, what stands out to him now about his conversation with Sam Bankman-Fried in light of the collapse of FTX, the most popular and most underrated episodes of the year, what makes a guest authentic, why he hasn’t asked the “production function” question much this year, his essay on Marginal Revolution on the New Right, and what he’s working on next. They also evaluate Tyler’s pop culture picks from 2012 and answer listener questions from Twitter.

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Recorded December 14th, 2022

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