Airships, AI and Alan Cumming: Tim Answers Your Questions
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Why does economics get a bad rap? How did a small Hungarian airline wreak havoc in the 2000s?
What cautionary tales can we glean from Tim’s own life? And what’s his favourite role-playing game?
You sent in your questions and now - with the help of podcasting maestro Jacob Goldstein (What’s Your Problem?) - Tim is answering them.
Do you have a question for Tim? Please email any queries you might have, however big or small, to tales@pushkin.fm.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello everyone, gather around. |
| 0:03.5 | Malcolm Gladwell here. |
| 0:05.1 | If you're a fan of my show, Revisionist History, then you know my deep and abiding obsession |
| 0:10.0 | with American higher education. |
| 0:12.0 | How it's broken, how it can be fixed. |
| 0:15.2 | Over our next couple of episodes, we dive into this topic again. |
| 0:19.2 | And as you will hear, one story makes me really angry. |
| 0:23.6 | And the other gives me hope. |
| 0:27.7 | Listen to Revisionist History wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.4 | And you can always get our shows early and at-free by subscribing to Pushkin Plus. |
| 0:39.4 | Pushkin. |
| 0:57.7 | Hi everyone, Tim Halford here. |
| 0:59.2 | It is our listener Q&A episode. |
| 1:01.9 | Our very first listener Q&A episode of cautionary tales. |
| 1:05.4 | You have been sending in your questions to tailsatpushkin.fm. |
| 1:09.5 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:10.5 | I have been thinking about how to answer them, but I'm not going to just read out the emails. |
| 1:14.5 | No, I need one of the mystros of podcasting. |
| 1:17.7 | I need Jacob Goldstein to help me. |
| 1:19.9 | Jacob, welcome to cautionary tales. |
| 1:22.3 | Hi Tim, thanks for having me on. |
| 1:24.2 | I'm here to read emails. |
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