This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.

Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.

I am your host, Michael Coval.

Not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

This podcast today brings back fond memories.

Memories that shaped me, memories that gave me the confidence, the inspiration, to do what I do.

It's different than what the men I'm going to talk about today did or have done in their careers. But that's not the point.

It was the inspiration. It was the confidence to see them up close and personal, just being

regular people with big dreams, big aspirations, and big drive.

I want to share some comments about T. Boone Pickens, the speculator who died on September 11th, 2019.

I had a chance to meet him.

I had a chance to spend time in his office.

In fact, it was for an interview.

This was 2006, 2007.

I would have to go back in time and find out the exact dates.

In fact, there is an audio of the interview.

Never released.

But let me tell you how that happened exactly.

Kind of a fun story.

My first book came out in 2004.

It became a bestseller quite quickly.

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