Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Dayle MacKenzie from the Facebook group asks, Hi Gary, You cover a lot of ground with the variety of topics you cover, and present your subject matter with confidence and authority. How often do you attack a subject matter on which you have no working knowledge, how do you research it, and is the time invested in research variable depending on the base subject and your particular interest in it?

Well Dayle, I never record an episode without knowing a fair amount on the topic before starting it. There are some topics I can do off the top of my head, like the recent episode I did on economic statistics.

Others take more time and research. There are some episodes that took years between being put on the list before I actually ended up recording it.

I’ll do some low-level research on a topic like reading articles to get an overall idea of the story, and then try to get more specific data the closer I get to recording.