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)
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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”
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E2 Conversations with Tyler Castro (podcast app listing)
“Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital Episode 143 • 56:10 • Feb 9, 2022”
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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.”
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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
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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