Welcome to the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Joy Pullman, the executive editor over here

at the Federalist. Joining me today is Tom Barrella. He is a 20 year high school teacher

of business and economics. He is an author of several books and he's an international

media sensation. Tom, welcome to the program. Joy, thanks for having me.

So do you want to just before we're going to focus on your latest book that I think is great.

It's called Financial Lit. And I mean, your name's pretty thankfully pretty easy to spell

Tom Barrella. People can just fine that sticking that into a search engine. But would you

just give people the sort of 30, 60 seconds sound bite about how you became an international

media star, something completely unrelated to your professional work?

Yes, Joy, thank you for having me. Back in back when I was a single guy, I was moving

through my 30s and things weren't happening for me. And I just wasn't meeting the type

of women that I wanted to meet. And a lot of myself, somebody who would be really great

for me was just sitting in another city thinking the same thing. And so I was in the process.

I was an entrepreneur. I started a business with some guys who I'd met at high school and

we moved to our business from New York down in Atlanta. And I was in the process of moving

back from Atlanta to New York. And then one day on the plane, it just hit me. It's like,

you have to create a billboard and you have to have that billboard direct women to a website

that talks all about you. And then I hashed it and then I said to myself, if you don't

do this and you wind up single for five and ten more years, you were going to be kicking

yourself in it. It literally became one of those things that I just had to kind of, I

had to do it. And so I conceived of the idea I met with a website company I talked to

I think Lamar, Althor advertising. And we got this monster billboard just outside the

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