Hi everyone, this is Jeff.

Today we're bringing you a bonus episode featuring audio from a Mercatus event last week

with Tyler and Catherine Mengu Ward, who's the editor-in-chief at Reason.

It's a discussion of Tyler's book, The Complacement Class.

It was a fun night, you'll definitely want to listen in for the part Catherine describes

as being peak Tyler, but there's plenty of other good stuff in there too.

In other complacement class news, thanks to all of you who rated and reviewed us on

iTunes.

The podcast has really taken off in the last few months, your ratings have been a big part

of that.

I don't have any more free books to give away, but please keep spreading the word, it helps

a lot.

So enjoy this audio from the complation class event, and we'll be back on Wednesday with

our next episode featuring Malcolm Gladwell.

Thank you, Dan, and thank you very much to you all for coming here to be vaguely

insulted by Tyler, which is, you know, it is an honor, and you were right to come in for

that.

So, Tyler, maybe before we get started, could you talk a little bit about the series of

books that you seem to be writing, which are sort of, well, frankly, which are frequently

insults to the people in this room, or that sort of raise concerns about where we find

ourselves politically, socially, economically, that you frequently don't hear elsewhere.

What sent you down this road that ends with the complation class, or maybe the middle

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