ClaimsTyler Cowen

“My intriguing, multi-part, and longer than usual Conversation with Chuck Klosterman”

Tyler Cowen, writing on X 23 February 2022 Post by @tylercowen on X, 2022-02-23 (X)

Factual Their own work or organisation

Tyler Cowen published a multi-part Conversation with Chuck Klosterman, longer than usual.

Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

What would count as true or false

True if a Conversations with Tyler episode with Chuck Klosterman was published on or around 2022-02-23, is split into or presented in multiple parts or segments, and is longer than a typical episode (by runtime or transcript length). Mostly true if the episode exists and is longer than usual, but 'multi-part' fits only loosely (for example, distinct segments within one episode). Mixed if the episode exists but is not notably longer than usual and is not multi-part. False if no such Conversation with Klosterman was published.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (4)

  1. E1 Conversations with Tyler Castro (podcast app listing)

    “Chuck Klosterman on Writing the Past and Relishing the Present Episode 144 • 75:12 • Feb 23, 2022”
  2. E2 Conversations with Tyler Castro (podcast app listing)

    “Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital Episode 143 • 56:10 • Feb 9, 2022”
  3. E3 My Conversation with Chuck Klosterman - Marginal REVOLUTION Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen's blog) · 24 February 2022 Own record

    “Excellent stuff, we had so much fun we kept on going for an extra half hour, as he decided to ask me a bunch of questions about economics and personal finance.”
  4. E4 podcasts Colin Spear (personal blog)

    “This Conversations with Tyler episode with Chuck Klosterman was great. There are a lot of really interesting sections! At the end, Tyler breaks his Very Serious Interviewer mode and they just chat for a while.”

Reasoning

A third-party podcast listing shows the Conversations with Tyler episode with Chuck Klosterman (Episode 144) published Feb 23, 2022, with a runtime of 75:12 (E1). The preceding episode ran 56:10 (E2), and Cowen's post says the conversation ran an extra half hour (E3), so it was longer than usual. The evidence shows one episode with distinct sections and a closing stretch where Klosterman asks Cowen questions (E3, E4), not separately released parts. That means 'multi-part' fits only loosely.

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Tyler Cowen, “Tyler Cowen published a multi-part Conversation with Chuck Klosterman, longer than usual.” (said 23 February 2022). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_8f86ee9b1e98, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_8f86ee9b1e98

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