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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Odd Thoughts. I'm Tracy Alloy,

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Speaker 1: Executive editor of Bloomberg Markets, and I'm Joe Wisenthal, Managing

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Speaker 1: editor of Bloomberg Markets. I want to let our listeners

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Speaker 1: in on a little secret. This isn't widely known outside

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Speaker 1: the Bloomberg office, but Joe abhores fun in all its forms.

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Speaker 1: He hates whimsy, he hates photos of cute animals and

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Speaker 1: anything related to general merriment. That's not true, No, no, yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty much true, pretty much. I like having fun,

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Speaker 1: just I just don't like most people's definition of it.

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Speaker 1: I guess you have your own definition. Al right. Well,

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Speaker 1: on that note, I thought today, in an effort to

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Speaker 1: change Joe's mind about fun and humor in general, we

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Speaker 1: might embark on something a little different, something fun, but

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Speaker 1: obviously it still needs to be markets related. So Joe,

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited to say that we're going to have

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Speaker 1: today someone who bills himself as the world's first and

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Speaker 1: only stand up comedian economist. Wait, stand up economists, Yeah

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Speaker 1: it is. I'm skeptical, all right, So we're having your

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Speaker 1: embowman on. He has a PhD in economics from the

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Speaker 1: University of Washington. He also travels the country doing comedy

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Speaker 1: gigs at universities and economic conferences, making jokes about yield

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Speaker 1: curves and supply and demand and all that fun stuff.

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Speaker 1: I'm even more skeptical there's actually a circuit of going

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Speaker 1: around making jokes and comedy conferences and universities. I swear

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Speaker 1: there is. If you look at his website, he has

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Speaker 1: a list of every show that he's done, and he's,

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Speaker 1: as economists would say, very much in demand. Okay, convinced, Yeah, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm starting to get intrigued. Just to give you an idea,

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Speaker 1: We're going to have your um come on and at

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Speaker 1: the beginning he's going to do a short set for us,

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Speaker 1: and I've also brought in some of our Bloomberg colleagues

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Speaker 1: to be our guinea pigs and his audience. All right, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to being convinced. Ladies and gentlemen, your

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Speaker 1: am Bowman. Thank you very much. It's it's a pleasure

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Speaker 1: me with all of you today. My name is Roon Bowman.

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Speaker 1: I appear before you as the world first and only

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Speaker 1: stand up economist. Yes, it's a it's a niche market.

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Speaker 1: I really only have one thing going for me as

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Speaker 1: a stand up economist, and that's low expectations. When I

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Speaker 1: told my father that I was going to be a

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Speaker 1: stand up economist, he said, Ronny said, you can't be

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Speaker 1: a stand up economist. And I said, why not? And

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Speaker 1: he said, because there's no demand a boom And I

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Speaker 1: was the first joke I ever told on stage. I said,

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Speaker 1: don't worry that I'm a supply side economist. I just

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Speaker 1: stand up and let the jokes trickle down. I believe

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Speaker 1: in laugher cur those are actually just my jokes that

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Speaker 1: how much economics everybody knows? And then I kind of

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Speaker 1: arranged the rest of your team accordingly. Uh you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm happy to say that it's been a good

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Speaker 1: couple of years for economics comedy. A few years ago

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Speaker 1: I got to be on the PBS News Hour. And now,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how much you all know about the

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Speaker 1: world of stand up comedy, but let me just play

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Speaker 1: you this. In the world of stand up comedy, it

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Speaker 1: does not get any bigger than the PBS News Hour

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Speaker 1: with Jim Lair. It was pretty amazing. They interviewed three

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Speaker 1: Nobel Prize, and they interviewed me. I felt like kind

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Speaker 1: of a self aware version of Sarah Palin And what

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Speaker 1: did they ask for my moment of TV fame when

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Speaker 1: the TVs News Hour they asked me if I'd ever

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Speaker 1: bombed on stage? A couple of things about this, right.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I am not a eight of failure,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'm an economist. Secondly, on professional comedian, right,

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Speaker 1: so it choke doesn't work. You just started keep throwing

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Speaker 1: basically the same thing that the fat of the Treasury

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Speaker 1: I had bombed on stage. The works show I ever

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Speaker 1: did was in October of two thousand and eight. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you remember what was happening to the global economy

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Speaker 1: in the stock market in October of two thousand eight.

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Speaker 1: October two thousand and eight, I did a show in

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Speaker 1: it going? Maybe I'll close this set with some You

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Speaker 1: because they don't interest you. You might be an economists

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Speaker 1: if you've ever gone to a bank or other financial

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Speaker 1: institution in the hopes of getting a date. If you

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Speaker 1: of the child tax credit. And finally, you might be

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Speaker 1: because you think they'll be worth more later. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: right your I thought that was really funny. I'm a

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Speaker 1: big fan of puns. The first time I've ever done

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to convince Joe that there can be humor

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Speaker 1: in economics. Um, on that note, can you tell us

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Speaker 1: into this gig? Yeah, it was. It was basically a

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Speaker 1: this chinest humor journal called the Animals of Improbable Research,

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Speaker 1: two things happened after that. One was my academic career,

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Speaker 1: to do stand up comedy about economics. So ten years later,

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Speaker 1: how often do you perform uh in a year? One?

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Speaker 1: of a full time, unpaid job working on on carbon

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Speaker 1: Mostly I do colleges and corporate events, and um, you know,

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Speaker 1: lends itself to humor. Well, like those jokes that I

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Speaker 1: for a while, we thought about putting together like a university,

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Speaker 1: I'm Tracy Alloway. You can follow me on Twitter at

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Speaker 1: Tracy Alloway. And I'm Joe Wisenthal. You can follow me

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