Greetings, dear listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg and this is the Remnant. Taking a quick

break from the Booktore stuff to bring you another podcast because I don't want to

break stride and this week's episode is brought to you by Conversations with Bill Crystal,

which I think is one of the best egghead pieces of egghead fair out there on the interwebs

today. We'll talk about more of that in a minute. Today we have as a guest, a friend of mine,

a colleague of mine at the American Enterprise Institute, and literally one of the sharpest

guys I know when it comes to a vast array of things. I actually wanted to have them on the show

to talk about North Korea a while back, but Conversations with Bill Crystal had them on for

an hour and a half and it was fascinating. As great as I think this podcast is going to be,

I highly recommend if you're interested in the topic of North Korea watching that as well.

You can just Google Conversations with Crystal and it'll come up type in the Ebrostat.

I actually was on Conversations with Crystal just like a week ago talking about the book.

I thought that went pretty well as well. We're going to get to him in just a second and then at the end

we'll figure out some other major minor irrelevant announcements to include as well.

Okay, so today we have my friend, my AEI colleague, a guy who's so sharp you get paper cuts just

shaking his hand. Nick Everstead. Nick, what is your title here? I'm the Henry Went Chair in

Political Economy, which means I guess I can do anything. I think that's right. You also have

some affiliation with some trade school in Cambridge or you used to. I used to. Okay, so I first met Nick

in the elevator in AEI about 21 years ago. He has no memory of this where I was with a bunch of other

research assistants and Nick was in there and he was looking quite young and I asked him which scholar

he worked for and all the other research assistants in the elevator punched me in the arm.

So I also know Nick because I used to work for a self-taught demographer named Ben Wattenberg and

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