To celebrate our 100th episode, we are putting a compilation of the best of why do you do this work answers.

It'll be fascinating to rehear those. Obviously we ask those questions, but a compilation would be really interesting it'll be it'll be

cool to hear them back to back and I should also say wow thank you so much to everyone who

listens and for having stuck with us for a hundred

episodes or you know clearly some of you have not been with us for a hundred

episodes she should go back to the beginning and listen to them.

But anyway, it's been a fun ride and hopefully

we'll do another 100 episode.

And while you're there, you can leave us a review

on a five-star rating because that's how we got

more listeners and we'll have another hundred episodes.

So Nick, you're a really rich guy who likes to have fun.

I got to ask you about this podcast why do you do this work?

That's a good question. I don't do it for the money that's for sure as you know Goldie I just think it's so important to get the word out about

what's really going on in the economy.

Economists love to believe that mostly economics is like a science,

and I just completely disagree.

Mostly economics is a story about who gets what and why. And think it's really really I think a lot of the

social pathologies we face today are a consequence of a set of really terrible stories that economists told and the people who benefited from those stories re-told.

And if we don't tell a new story, we're not going to have a better economy.

So I think that there's a really important role for people who are both sort of in and outside

the economics profession to push back on those bad stories and to point towards new ones that are better and I think we can do that and also I'm just continually

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