So I am so excited that I've been doing this podcast for 10 years. This is sort of a 10th year anniversary and I want to every now and then reel out the evergreen like as if they're brand new

podcast that have meant so much to me and I learned so much.

Niseim Talev is one of the smartest people on the planet.

I've learned so much from this guy.

I don't even know if he knows or cares how much I've learned from him.

I was so grateful he came on my

podcast. There's a little story to it. So came on my podcast a few years ago and

we're going to have it on now, but there's a story he might not even be aware of so back in

2002 I wrote to 20 people that I wanted to meet and I was I was broke I was hungry I was struggling I was losing my house I was

losing family everything and I wrote to 20 people people like Warren Buffett and

Carl ICON and all these famous investors and writers and I said I wanted to meet people and only three people responded.

So Jim Kramer responded, I written him 10 ideas for articles he should write for the street.com.

And he responded amazingly and said, hey, these ideas are great.

How about you write them? And that started my career as a writer. I started writing financial

columns and then expanded out to other stuff. Victor Nieder Hoffer responded because

I sent him literally software programs and I said I know your trading style this is for

you you and your traders and if you need any help figuring it out you could respond

to me otherwise no pressures and I wrote to the Seem to Lab,

and I just loved this book full by randomness

and I wanted to meet him.

And I wrote to 17 other people.

So 17 did people didn't even respond, except for Victor, Jim, and Nissim.

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