When Bryan Caplan, the economist and blogger, came out with a book on self-help, Self-Help Is Like a Vacccine, I wrote to him in connection with my side project, Bryan Caplan's Life Advice, and he suggested we do a podcast. So we did. It took two tries to overcome technical difficulties, but the result has been released.
This was my first attempt at a podcast on YouTube, and I will upgrade my presentation if I get the opportunity to try again, but I did work hard to prepare my questions and overall I was happy with the result. Somehow the podcast has a couple of inside jokes for people who read this blog. One of the important parts of the podcast for me was to ask Bryan about Epicureanism, and without any intention on my part, I start the discussion 23 minutes into the podcast. There's also a part where I ask about Bryan's habit of making public bets on the outcome of public-policy issues, and Bryan mentions he's won 23 our of 23 so far.
Bryan has a Substack. Here is a post on other podcasts about the book and an audiobook version.
Postscript: If the discussion on Epicureanism makes anyone curious about the subject, Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life by Emily Austin is considered the best modern treatment of the subject by many people, including me. Austin is a philosophy professor at Wake Forest University who focuses on ancient Greek philosophy, but her book is aimed at general readers.
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