What's up ladies and gentlemen boys and girls around the world.

I would like to welcome you back to the Real Talk with Zuby podcast.

On today's episode we've got on a very special guest.

He is an entrepreneur, a hedge fund manager, a high stakes poker player, and also a film

producer and author of the book, Die with Zero.

This is Bill Perkins.

Welcome to the show.

Thanks.

Thanks for having me on.

It's great to be here.

No doubt it's an honor to have you, Bill.

So I've done a brief intro there.

You do a whole lot of things, but for people who are not familiar with you, tell them a

little bit about who you are.

Well, I'm Bill Perkins.

I was born and raised in Jersey City with school University of Iowa.

I got my start as like an assistant, assistant, peon in the energy industry, basically sneaking

sandwiches onto the stage floor, worked my way up to basically having my own hedge

fund where I speculate on natural gas derivatives, trade options, et cetera.

When I started making money, I was like, oh, what are rich people supposed to do?

I was like, you know, I was trying to figure it out.

I made some movies, right?

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