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Jeff and Rufus talk to Ben Mezrich | Brought to you by Hull Tactical

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4626 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rufus have Ben Mezrich on to talk about his "narrative non-fiction" style of writing, the impact of the film "21" on gambling, and the aspects of journalism vs. storytelling. Then, they continue their conversation with Petra Bakosova. The hosts of this podcast are not investors with HTAA and were not directly compensated for their views; however, HTAA sponsored this podcast. The hosts and sponsor share a conflict of interest because the sponsor paid a one-time cash compensation for the content of the podcast and the hosts may be incented to endorse or promote HTAA’s investment management services.

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0:00.0

Hey, Rufus, have you actually taken the Hull Tactical timing the market quiz?

0:05.7

Wait, there's a quiz.

0:07.4

I want to take it.

0:07.7

There is a quiz.

0:08.4

There is a quiz.

0:08.9

I took it yesterday and I did pretty well.

0:12.7

But if you guys want to go take it, it's at Haltatical.com.

0:16.9

And this episode of that the process is brought to you by Hull Tactical, which is an ETF using market

0:23.1

to beat the market.

0:24.5

And so ultimately, you know, it's pretty cool to like think about some of the principles that

0:29.4

are used because it's super academic and how they look at it.

0:32.8

And I found it interesting.

0:34.9

So if you haven't done it, Rufus, I highly encourage you to do it.

0:40.8

You know, and I had a conversation with Blair Hull last week, and we were talking about which languages we code in. I was super impressed. Nice. And what languages does he code in?

0:46.3

R and Python. That's pretty standard these days for anyone doing really good analytical work.

0:52.5

I'm 37 years old, and I still use languages that were around a long, long, long time before.

0:58.5

So I'm impressed.

0:59.9

Cobol?

1:00.7

I don't know if that is.

1:02.0

I'm not that old.

1:03.1

On this week's Pet the Process podcast, we actually have a very special guest, a guest that's near and dear to my heart.

1:08.6

We have Ben Mezzarck coming on to talk a little bit about his work, his current work,

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