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Today is May 15th, 2025. There is no guest today. This is a monologue. As far as I know, this is the 1,000th episode of Econ Talk. And to mark that occasion, I thought I'd share some thoughts.

It's a little self-indulgent.

I'm going to talk about some of the logistics and nuts and bolts of the podcast, which people have asked me about over the years.

And I'm going to reflect on what this has been like to do this for almost 20 years,

1,000 times. So to do that, I started to do this for almost 20 years, 1,000 times.

So to do that, I started to do this.

I made an outline of what I was going to talk about and then realized I wasn't excited about doing it.

And I went home and told my wife that it had just kind of fell flat,

just couldn't get any enthusiasm for the idea.

And she said, we should have had ChatGPT ask you the questions.

And I thought, well, that's a good idea.

So I did that.

And so this, I will occasionally repeat some of its questions or just answer them because that'll make sense.

But that was a fascinating experience in and of itself.

And I may reflect on that along the way as we get started.

So the first question, I love the way that it asked this question.

This is the 03, by the way, of ChatGBT, GBT, BT, which is really an extraordinary

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