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Speaker 1: Joining us here is not seeing teleeb and Scott Patterson

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Speaker 1: and celebration of a brutal book. I really can't say

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Speaker 1: enough about this for Global Wall Street. I'm sorry. This

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Speaker 1: is the adult book Chaos Kings. Bill Cohen, William Cohen,

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Speaker 1: he wrote a book about Duke Lacrosse. It was Bill Cohen,

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Speaker 1: just says Scott Patterson. He's done it again, which he

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Speaker 2: Dark Pools and all that.

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Speaker 1: And the problem we got here, David is we can

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Speaker 1: spend the next three hours of TALEB.

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Speaker 2: But you know we got to give some love here.

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Speaker 1: Scott Patterson, who's only here because James Madison University'd be chapel.

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Speaker 2: That happened your book in.

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Speaker 1: Full disclosure, I'm totally enough, seems camp And knows that

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Speaker 1: like Wicked in his camp. So when you set up

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Speaker 1: your book, which is the TALEB team like JMU against

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Speaker 1: the other teams, some French dude like you, how did

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Speaker 1: you set up that polarity?

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Speaker 2: Describe the tension of Chaos Kings.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it seems belief is that you can't predict markets,

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Speaker 4: Events all the time. The Black Swans.

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Speaker 3: And I can trast that with another character, a French

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Speaker 3: econophysicist named Didier Sornette, who uses advanced physics and other

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Speaker 4: He calls them dragon kings, which technical term.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I call it Newtonian envig So he's a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a math guy. He uses some things that could.

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Speaker 3: Be used to predict the explosion of rockets and transpose

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Speaker 2: You gotta be kid. Here's the reality, folks. Now, see

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Speaker 2: tallav changed the world with John and Nero in Fooled

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Speaker 1: Turks and caicos or whatever. He went on to do

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Speaker 1: Black Swan. And then you and I sat on the

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Speaker 5: The point is you don't need humility. Humility actually is

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Speaker 5: much our error costs you when it happens that ruined

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Speaker 5: problem and uh and and and basically Scott's book is

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Speaker 5: about ruined problems.

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Speaker 2: Let's see.

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Speaker 5: So you could be arrogant about everything, all right, you

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Speaker 6: Could could I get your having come out of the pandemic,

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Speaker 5: I mean Scott discusses what happened in the pandemic and

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Speaker 1: Sure enough, right, Scott Patterson, you've got you know, one

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Speaker 1: Okay, we've got an extended conversation when nassee Telebin Scott

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Speaker 2: Kings is a book. Okay.

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Speaker 1: You know I asked that question of Scott, and I

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Speaker 1: We're doing China here right now. We'll do the stock

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Speaker 5: then the dollar would be in trouble.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. One of the protagonists of Chaos Kings,

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Speaker 1: of crisis, Scott Patterson, thank you so much for coming

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