This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, May 13, 2016.

I'm Cato Institute President Peter Geller.

Ten years ago this week, the Cato Institute launched its daily podcast.

For most of that time, your host has been our own silken voiced Caleb Brown.

In commemoration of this milestone, today we turn the tables and question the questioner

about the podcast, his favorite policy issues, and what makes him

optimistic about the future. We spoke last week. When I used to listen to the

podcast before I met Caleb and for those of you who don't know him you know he sounds like he's

about six two and looks probably like a I don't know a kendile but he's actually how tall

are you five five. Five. Okay.

And don't look like a Ken doll.

Or do?

Do you? Any of us some of the history behind the podcast.

I understand you weren't involved at the inception, but who was, how did you get going, and then maybe we'll talk a little bit about how you got involved.

The podcast, of course, started in 2006. It was started at the urging of Anastasia Yolova, who was I believe

a Russian young woman who said podcasting is a thing we should do podcasting and then got the title

Cato Daily Podcast baked in which if you're ever considering starting a

podcast you shouldn't build into the title of the podcast how often it comes

out because that can put you on quite a... Constrain you.

It can constrain you some of those days that you want to sleep in and you can't.

It can put you on quite a treadmill.

So she did it for about a year and...

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