Hello, and welcome to Odd Lots, a new podcast from Bloomberg. I'm Joseph Wisenthal, co host of What You Missed on Bloomberg TV and an editor at Bloomberg Markets. I'm here with my colleague Tracy Alloway. Hi there, I'm executive editor of Bloomberg Markets, and I'm really excited to be here for our new podcast, odd Lots. For those of you who don't know, an odd thoughts is a small bundle of stocks or bonds. It's relatively unusual. People. You usually
pay a premium to trade it. This is free. You're not paying a premium. But we're going to be discussing some interesting ideas, and so they don't normally fit within the normal trading patterns of the day. Is at the idea exactly? We're doing something a little bit different here and how does it fit with you? Know? We? You and I. We do stuff on the web all day. We blog and tweet and send out charts, and how do you see what we're doing fitting with that? We
got a three hundred sixty degree view of markets. We cover stocks, credit, bond, commodities, you name it, we're covering it. This is our chance I think and you'll have to tell me what you think about it to really get into some of those themes that we're seeing and discuss them in a bit more detail. Right, we're going to be talking about finance, market economics, market structure, geo politics, and everything that we kind of want to talk about.
We can think of odd lots as the overflow area for all the interesting financial and market stuff that we see. I wanted to have longer conversations with people. You always want more time, and so for our first episode, we're going to be talking with Tom Keene, the legendary host here at Bloomberg of Bloomberg Surveillance on TV and radio. Hello, Tom, good to be here. Why do you like podcasts? And you you talk about why you like them and you think it's a good format. What appeals to the Yeah,
it's really important. We learned a lot years ago with iTunes. With doing podcasts. The number one thing we know is what we don't know about video. There's a huge mystery to video is going to be consumed. There's no story about audio. Audio gets consumed. That's a number one thing about podcasts. So people will listen. We we we know from all sorts of research, audio wins over video every
day that may change. People have been predicting it would change for years, but so far post for the first episode, you'll be able to listen to us talk about Tom Keane and his extraordinary and unusual background, as well as the economy, the big issues, and particularly how mathematics and music relate to the market. All right, well, I can't wait to have this conversation and I hope everybody out there is looking forward to it and hopefully enjoy the
first episode. And you should subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud and follow me and Tracy on Twitter at at Tracy Alloway and at the Stalwart. Will definitely tweet out the link to each episode. So thank you for listening and you'll hear from us in two eighteen