Are you're looking for a book that's not boring that you would be able to give to friends or family members who may be interested in finance but might not be interested in reading the type of finance books that you read you know the boring ones you know I do

it too or maybe Christmas is coming up well my guest today has written just such a book. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets. Thank you for being here.

Today is Thursday, October the 23rd, 2014.

This is episode 87 of the show.

And today I have an interview with a man named Joey

Furman who has written a pirate adventure novel to teach you about finance.

It's gonna be good.

One of the things that I see happening more and more in today's world is we're

developing brand new types of media to appeal to different people and one of the

types of media that I see, at least a huge need for, is better books.

Not necessarily just more boring finance books that tell you here's what you do.

There's plenty of those.

And it seems if you go down to the

personal finance section it seems like if you read four of them you've probably

read about all of them many of them say about the same things but what if there's an

opportunity for a different format?

My guest today is a man named Joey Furman.

Joey's a really great guy.

We met at Fincon when I was out there a few weeks ago,

or a month or so ago, New Orleans and Joey formerly worked on

Wall Street where he worked as an investment analyst and then he quit Wall Street to

pursue his dream of writing and publishing his book. He's written a book entitled

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