I'm James Altature sitting in this week for both Porter Stansbury and Aaron Brabham who

are both in Singapore for our annual Alliance Members Conference.

You know, I don't know why I actually wasn't invited to Singapore.

I'm sitting here at home in the rain doing this radio episode for them so they could

live it up in Singapore.

But that said, I'm happy to be here because my guest today is an old friend of mine.

Greg Zuckerman, Greg is a writer for the Wall Street Journal.

I guess Greg, I've known you for about eight years, I think, something like that.

Exactly.

Yeah.

We both are in the same sort of world, in fact, kind of Wall Street investment type world

or where you used to be anyway.

Yeah.

And I remember on your, so Greg's, we're going to talk about Greg's book, The Frackers.

But first, I want to mention Greg's last book, which was called The Greatest Trade Ever,

The Behind the Scene Story of how John Paulson defied Wall Street and made financial history.

And that book was a New York Times bestseller.

And I want to mention on my private theory about why that was a bestseller.

It was because, I believe it was page 236, I'm actually mentioned in the book.

And I mentioned because I actually turned down investing in John Paulson's hedge fund

right before he went up 600% in a year.

So I made, and Greg's document in the author was kind enough to point out that I probably

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