The Ackman-aniacs
We revisit our old pal Bill Ackman, who was one of Wall Street's most notorious activist investors, to become the SPAC king, to finally settling into his new role as a billionaire culture warrior. Also, we discuss the suspension of a delightfully moronic Tory MP, and check out how Neom is finally building some stuff that's not just different shaped hotels.
CHRISTMAS ANNOUNCEMENT: The TF team will be taking some time off, so instead of a free episode in the week of the 25th we will be unlocking a paid episode for free listeners and releasing a Q&A for paid listeners, and then normal service will resume the first week of Jan.
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Briefly misheard Utamo as Utumno, the first and greatest fortress of Morgoth, delved deep beneath the Iron Mountains in the far north of Arda during the First Age, home to hosts of fallen Ainur and to monsters which were corrupted and bred therein, and I thought "yeah, seems par for the course"
The only DEI I support on campus is Opus Dei.
Virtu isn’t a hedge fund. It’s an HFT/market maker, was a prop firm now listed and does other stuff. Made headlines for 1400+ days without a loss when they listed. Flash boys era. If you fund startups you aren’t a hedge fund, you’re an angel/vc, maybe pe with wide mandate.
...listened to this right after reading how ramseyer is spear-heading the complaints against dei at harvard. truely cursed
Very disappointed in the Classics education one or more of the gang received. Not one atque joke in an episode where they kept saying, "Ack!"
NEOM, where you have to be rich to eat the rich.
Axel Springer Spaniel.
riley don't try to stop Milo from doing the Peter Griffin impression that's half the reason I'm subscibed to the patreon
Oh, I thought DEI was Divide Et Impera. There's a joke about how much guys think of the Roman Empire, and I might be the joke. Darn.
I've got a bit of conspiracy hypothesis on the doxing of openly Pro-Palestinian Ivy-Leaguers. It's just a very explicit filtering of anyone who made it through, e.g., Harvard with any moral core intact out of the next layer of elite manufacture.
Axel Springer (the guy) died in 1985 btw. The current head of Axel Springer is Mathias Döpfner.
Axel Rose Springer
"I don't want my food wrapped" - Alice hates burritos? Unsubbing
Enjoy the well earned break
Now a luddite about the dick-sucking factory. We must retvrn to the dick-sucking workshop.
Small-batch artisanal cocks
Little correction in terms of Germany, Axel Springer has been dead for decades even though his company continues his line
“I clearly said dome!”
BENTON MENTIONED! This man is my local MP and he's such a deep well of cruel stupidity. He could easily be his own episode.
Brave twitterer Bill Spacman The Divorced King Ackman
nanananananana ACK MAN
Im addicted to neom updates
Have a lovely break, TF team! x
But what about our SLOP?