Re-Kindled: Amusing Ourselves to Death (EP.99)

Animal Spirits Podcast

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Business News, News, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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On this edition of Re-Kindled, Michael and Ben discuss Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. Find complete shownotes on our blogs... Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common Sense Michael Batnick’s The Irrelevant Investor Like us on Facebook And feel free to shoot us an email at animalspiritspod@gmail.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.
0:05.0	Join Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching.
0:11.0	Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson worked for Ritholz Wealth Management.
0:15.0	All opinions expressed by Michael and Ben or any podcast guests are solely their own opinions
0:19.7	and do not reflect the opinion of Ritholz wealth management.
0:22.4	This podcast is for informational purposes only. not be relied upon for investment
0:23.0	for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for
0:26.4	investment decisions.
0:27.4	Clients of Ritholz wealth management may maintain positions in the
0:30.3	securities discussed in this podcast.
0:32.1	Hey Ben.
0:34.0	Hi.
0:35.0	So you know how sometimes you see a tweet pop up?
0:38.0	Who would be great on Twitter today?
0:40.0	Yes. Mark Twain is a common answer.
0:42.0	Yep.
0:42.8	Neil Postman would be amazing.
0:46.2	Yeah, he would get a lot of woke retweets.
0:48.8	He'd be great.
0:49.4	So who is Neil Postman?
0:51.3	Neil Postman is the author of amusing ourselves to death and 19 other books.
0:57.4	He was a professor at NYU. He wrote more than 200 magazines articles, and I guess he was, he was almost like a philosopher.
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