Tracy and Joe Answer All Your Questions
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots Podcast. I'm Tracy Alloway.
And I'm Joe Weisenthal.
Joe, it is the holiday season. I am very much looking forward to it. One reason I'm looking forward to it is because we always do an annual ask us anything show.
Yeah, you know, I think uh I like that in the podcast, you know, it's really not about us. I mean the show is about what we're interested in, but it really is about the uh the perfect guests. But every once in a while I suppose it's nice to sort of have the microphone turned in the other direction, so to speak.
Yeah, the other thing I would say is we're already pretty accessible. Um like there's a whole all thoughts discord that that we're on. Um there's Twitter, obviously, there's instant messages on IB and mostly we respond depending on how busy we are. So um feel free to contact us there too. But we did get some pretty interesting questions from a bunch of listeners.
Yeah, and I like the fact that we can put in many cases listeners' voices on the air, bring back some of the old time radio callin shows, the likes of which uh I used to listen to when I was a young kid riding in the car with my dad.
Colin shows are Lindy.
The Colin shows are definitely Lindy.
All right. Shall we start? Yeah,
let's take a listen to some.
John Lazaro, age sixty three, Berkeley, California. Sometimes, when you finish recording an episode, do you look at each other and say, This doesn't meet our standards and kill the episode? Or is it more like skiing? Once you commit to riding the traillift, you commit to skiing down the mountain.
Um, well, I I can't ski. I'm the only Austrian in the world, possibly, who cannot ski. Um, so I'm we have killed episodes in the past. Um in fact there's there's kind of a funny story where we did an episode, it really wasn't going very well. Um the guests seem very nervous and just sort of like not at his top performance and In the end, after we recorded, we told him, you know, we're just gonna kill this episode. And he was actually really happy about that because he felt he hadn't done his best work either. And then the other thing I would say is I actually think journalists should kill a lot more stories. We should be more selective. And if you think about the German word for r reductor. redactor. It sounds a lot like redact, right?
Which gives you, you know, some sense of what editors are supposed to be doing, which is taking away as opposed to adding.
Yeah, it is very rare. Um, we have I mean, the number of episodes that we've fully recorded that we uh actually did not release, I think it's less than you could count on one hand, right? It's not that many, but there have been a few where just for whatever reason the guest was not on their game or whatever it didn't work and uh I agree. I agree with Tracy. I think we should do more in general. I mean, I think journalists as a whole should do more. It's like just release the good stuff. You know, just release ones you're you're genuinely proud of. I don't want to release anything anywhere where I can't say I'm really proud of this work and normally we are proud, but occasionally it's like, no what, this is uh this is not awesome.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:33
2
What is the purpose of this “Ask Us Anything” episode and how do Tracy and Joe engage with listener questions?
5:33–11:42
3
Do Tracy and Joe ever kill an episode before publishing it, and why might they choose to do so?
11:42–21:07
4
What book did Joe read after Moby‑Dick and how does it relate to modern history?
21:07–27:56
5
Why do portfolio managers accumulate wealth if the Efficient Market Hypothesis is true?
27:56–37:10
Speakers
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