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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the 2024 Conversations with Tyler retrospective, where we look

back at past episodes, take listener questions, review Tyler's pop culture picks from 2014 in this case,

and cover numerous other topics besides. I'm Jeff Holmes. I'm one of the producers of

conversations with Tyler. And of course, I'm joined with the man himself. Tyler, welcome.

Hello, Jeff. Thank you for having me on the show. My pleasure. So we did 30 episodes this year, Tyler.

It's not a record, but, you know, it's a pretty full slate when you look over this list of episodes.

How do you feel about it?

Well, and there's the new podcast with Alex Tabarok.

That's right.

So it's a lot of episodes.

I thought we had a very good year. You know, each year you think, oh, well, it's not going to be that good this year. But this was very good. Only a few week episodes. Yes. And we'll get into underrated episodes and most popular. But I'm glad you mentioned the Marginal Revolution podcast. We just released the last episode of season one this this morning that we're recording this.

Give the listeners a sense of season one of the Margin Revolution podcast, what you and Alex

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