Conversations with Tyler 2025 Retrospective
Conversations with Tyler
Conversations with Tyler
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
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On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and producer Jeff Holmes look back on the past year on CWT and more, including covering the most popular and underrated episodes, why single-subject deep dives made for some of the best conversations this year, the biggest AI surprises and how LLMs changed the show's production function, what happened with the Magnus Carlsen episode, listener questions on everything from hotel selection to AI x-risk discourse, Tyler's serene acknowledgment that uncontrollable laughter is something he has neither experienced nor desires, reviewing his pop culture picks from 2015, and a dispatch from Muscat, Oman.
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Recorded November 5th and December 15th, 2025.
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Favorite episodes of the year
00:12:08 - AI's impact on the show
00:15:05 - The lost Magnus episode
00:17:13 - Tyler's #1 hotel amenity
00:18:40 - Tyler's growing influence and thoughts on tariffs
00:21:15 - AI x-risk discourse
00:26:22 – Copying Tyler's interview style
00:28:50 - Tyler's lack of joy
00:32:55 - How well ChatGPT answers as Tyler
00:35:15 - Tyler's 2015 movie picks
00:40:44 - Tyler's 2015 book picks
00:45:00 - Tyler's 2015 music picks
00:48:16 - Most popular episodes and thoughts on Oman
Photo Credit: Kevin Trimmer
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, listeners, this is Tyler. |
| 0:06.2 | Thanks to your support, Conversations with Tyler is celebrating 10 incredible years. |
| 0:12.3 | We've brought you over 250 conversations with some of the world's sharpest minds, |
| 0:17.8 | from Margaret Atwood to Stephen Pinker to Sam Altman and countless others. |
| 0:22.6 | Together, we're making the world wiser and more appreciative one episode at a time. |
| 0:28.0 | But here's the thing. We can't do this without you. Your tax-deductible contribution |
| 0:33.2 | keeps these conversations coming. New episodes every other week, sometimes more often than that, full transcripts, live shows, |
| 0:42.3 | and listener meetups. |
| 0:43.5 | And to thank you, we've got some amazing donor benefits if you can give before January 1st, |
| 0:49.4 | 2026. |
| 0:51.0 | At $50, get exclusive 10th anniversary swag and a signed message from me. At $750, sponsor a transcript. $1,500 gets you into a virtual Ask Me Anything with me. Donate $25,000 and you'll get a private one-on-one dinner in the D.C. area with me. |
| 1:14.0 | Every dollar matters. Please head to the link in the show notes to learn more and make your |
| 1:18.9 | contribution today. Thank you for listening and for helping to make this podcast possible. |
| 1:28.8 | Conversations with Tyler is produced by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, |
| 1:33.9 | bridging the gap between academic ideas and real-world problems. |
| 1:38.1 | Learn more at Mercadis.org. |
| 1:40.2 | For a full transcript of every conversation enhanced with helpful links, visit |
| 1:45.3 | Conversations with Tyler.com. |
| 1:51.8 | Hello and welcome to the 2025 retrospective episode where we review the past year in |
| 1:58.7 | conversations with Tyler. |
| 2:00.2 | We answer your listener questions. |
| 2:02.3 | We review Tyler's pop culture picks from 2015 |
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