What Librarians and CIA Agents Have in Common

EverydaySpy Podcast

Andrew Bustamante

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4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

People mistake information as something you have to personally have in your mind. They assume that If you know a lot of information, you are smart, if you don't, you are dumb. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this episode, Andrew explains why information doesn't have to be in your head to be of value to you, and he shares a few secret people that can help you gain access to information you never even dreamed possible.

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0:00.0	My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.
0:07.0	Freedom! Freedom! Freedom.
0:23.7	Freedom.
0:37.0	Information is a funny thing, because people seem to think that when you have a lot of information, you are smart. And when you do not have a lot of information, you are smart.
0:41.7	And when you do not have a lot of information, you are not smart. And one of my favorite stories demonstrating this is really a very old story, an old piece of American history.
0:50.3	Back in 1919, the Chicago Tribune actually filed a lawsuit against Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Vehicles, because of their belief that he was ignorant.
1:06.1	They had claimed in a newspaper article that he was an ignorant man, an uneducated man.
1:12.3	And then Henry Ford went on to sue the Chicago Tribune for libel, saying that they libeled his name,
1:18.8	his name publicly, and he wanted to sue them.
1:21.8	So then in response to that lawsuit, the Chicago Tribune actually tried to go to court
1:27.3	to prove to the court that Henry Ford
1:31.4	was ignorant, that he was dumb, that he was stupid. Now, in that lawsuit, you can imagine there was a ton
1:40.5	of people observing who knows what was in the mind of the judge or the attorneys,
1:45.5	but you had a prosecutor who was questioning Henry Ford on basically everything you and I
1:52.0	have learned in our American civics courses and our history courses all through middle school
1:56.9	and high school trying to prove what Henry Ford didn't know. Now, the story goes
2:03.0	on and on with the kinds of questions he was asked and some of his responses, and don't get me
2:07.4	wrong, I don't believe for a second that Henry Ford was a patient or a friendly or a kindly man,
2:14.1	and everything I've read about him is quite the opposite of that. But what I do love is how he
2:20.1	brought all of the questioning to a head and essentially shut down any future arguments.
2:27.8	After a barrage of detailed history questions that he didn't have the answer to, he looked at the prosecuting
2:35.6	attorney directly in the face, and he said to him, quote, if I should really want to answer the
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