Part One: The Rise of the "Activist" Investor
Behind the Bastards
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 17.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Robert explains the growth of "activist investors" through the career of one specific guy who also happens to be annoying as hell.
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| 0:00.0 | Quarzo Media |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, the podcast that we're all listening to right now. |
| 0:10.8 | You're listening to it as a recorded thing that's been turned into an ear product for your ear digestion, and I'm your, your gestion, your digestion. |
| 0:25.1 | And I'm listening to it because I can't help but listen to my own voice. |
| 0:26.2 | It's a curse. |
| 0:30.0 | Here to be cursed with me on this glorious week. |
| 0:31.6 | Obviously, my producer, Sophie. |
| 0:32.0 | Hey. |
| 0:36.1 | And the great Kim Kelly, author of the book, Fight Like Hell. |
| 0:38.7 | Kim, you are a wonderful journalist. |
| 0:44.4 | You focus a lot on the labor movement, and you have a new special edition of your book coming out soon, don't you? |
| 0:45.0 | I do. |
| 0:51.2 | It just came out, the Young Reader's Edition of Fight Like Hell, which is called Fight to Win, Heroes of American Labor. |
| 1:14.2 | I thought it'd be really funny to call it Fight Like Heck, but they did not agree with me. No, that is pretty good bit. So it's fight to win. But it's out. It's like really cheap. It's in paperback. It's summer reading time. Tell your teacher friends. Tell your little radical children. It's, you know, it's out. I like Fight Like Heck. In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you got labor. You got labor on your mind. Yeah. |
| 1:13.7 | Always. it's, you know, it's out. I like fight like heck. In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you got labor, you got labor on your mind. |
| 1:14.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.7 | Always. |
| 1:18.5 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 1:20.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 1:28.9 | You know who else is a hero of American labor, Kim? Oh, no. |
| 1:30.0 | Oh, no. |
| 1:31.2 | That's kind of the opposite. |
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