This is longtime Cato Daily podcast host, Caleb Brown.

I've moved on to head the Kentucky's Bluegrass Institute,

but I wanted to leave listeners with some favorite episodes over the last nearly 18 years of my hosting tenure.

I tried to pick episodes that are relevant to our current moment.

Thank you for listening.

This is the Cato Daily podcast for Monday, January 16, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Last week, we at the Cato Institute were saddened to learn of the passing of our colleague,

the journalist Nat Hentoff.

I spoke with Scott Bullock, president of the Institute for Justice,

about Hentoff's powerful legacy and his twin loves of jazz and the Constitution. You knew Nat Hentoff in a way that a lot of us here at Cato know Nat Hentoff, which is mostly by phone.

And I would occasionally have phone calls with him and we would talk about music. We would talk about the things that he was writing. We would talk about all sorts of things. And he always had some incredible story to go along with almost anything you could possibly mention.

In particular, he, I remember, I had a conversation.

I said, yeah, I like jazz a lot, but I'm more of a bluegrass guy.

I play the banjo a little bit.

And he goes, well, let me tell you, in the 1950s, I went on tour with

flat and Scruggs. And I was just, I was absolutely in heaven hearing this, this story about this,

you know, little fuzzy-headed guy with a pipe traveling through, throughout the south with south with flattened Scruggs.

But that was like, that was fairly typical.

He was well acquainted with all manner of musical figures and wrote extensively about them.

Yeah, it was, it was amazing.

The amount of people that he knew, the experiences that he had in the music world, even

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