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hosted by Michael Baddick and Ben Carlson, two guys who study the markets as a passion,

and invest for all the right reasons.

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Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

On this week's show we're going to be speaking first off the bat to the Oracle of Brooklyn.

Our very own Michael Batnick was mentioned in the

Wall Street Journal last week. I believe it was on Friday. I actually prefer to be called

the bald plunger. Okay. By the way that term doesn't seem to be used very much anymore with a plunger.

Yeah, it seems like it died with Jesse Livermore is that right? I think we had back.

Yeah, yeah, it's bits. I think that died a long time ago.

So you had a Jason's wag from the Wall Street Journal of the piece. that's

I think I died a long time ago. So you had a Jason's wag from the Wall Street Journal

wrote a piece I think it came out on Friday afternoon and you sent it to me and it's

pretty crazy because it's a profile of your book, but it also has quotes in there from Swag went to Warren Buffett

and Charlie Mungerdia quotes on some of their biggest mistakes.

So what was your feeling when you saw this post hit?

I had literal tears down my cheek. So what was your feeling when you saw this post hit?

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