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Hell in a Cellphone is a wrestling podcast hosted by three comedian friends, where longtime marks Aaron Benoit and Bobby Hankinson introduce recent convert Eric Silver to the shock and awe of the Attitude Era in WWF/WWE. From “Austin 3:16” through “Ruthless Aggression,” in each episode they’ll watch a pay-per-view and dissect the rise of some of the biggest, most charismatic wrestlers of all time, and reckon with all the baggage that came along with them. There will be romance, there will be ...
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Those Conspiracy Guys is an Irish comedy podcast where we discuss all types and genres of conspiracy theories, paranormal happenings and true crime from Atlantean myths to Zapruder films; from ghosts and demons to alien abductions; from werewolves and vampires to CIA assassins and Russian spies. We have a big episode every two weeks, a True Crime show every other week and loads of other stuff every so often and you can head over to the website for details. Our aim is to cast a light into the ...
See how deep the rabbit hole goes- Charls Carroll is back on the show this week with much mirth and revelry abound. Support the show on Patreon Field Notes No knowledge in this episode. Only lots and lots of wisdom. And laughs. And smiles. We put an end to New Types Of Guys. No more New Types Of Guys. Mr Potato head is genderless now in a cunning m…
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Howard Lindzon Tells Us Why He Launched His Own SPAC
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SPACs, sometimes referred to as blank check companies, are incredibly hot. After being a sort of sleepy and sometimes sketchy backwater of the finance world, the last several months have seen them go on an absolute tear, with several of them fronted by celebrities like Alex Rodriguez or Colin Kaepernick. On this episode, we speak with longtime inve…
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DEEP DIVE - The McMahon/Helmsely Era Part 2
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We continue our deep dive as Triple H takes the WWF Championship and the story shifts to a redemptive one for the recently fired Mankind with the Royal Rumble and the road to WrestleMania looming overhead. Want to get caught up? This episode deals with content from the following episodes of RAW and SmackDown from 2000: January 3, January 6, January…
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How Chinese Buying Is Causing a Boom in Agricultural Commodities
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There are lots of hot areas in the market, which everybody knows. Stocks are obviously hot, as are industrial commodities like copper. Agricultural commodities are surging as well. If you look at a chart of corn or soy or even oats, they've been on a tear. One big factor: Chinese demand, in part driven by a desire to stock up on supplies. Meanwhile…
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Case File 201 with Sophia Smarandescu
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We're back! This week we're joined by Chicago comedian Sophia Smarandescu. You can follow her on Twitter, instagram, and Tiktok. Support the show on Patreon Field Notes No L's posted in this episode, only W's. Except for Gina Carano from The Mandalorian, who now has to work with Ben Shapiro on a movie. Also Rush Limbaugh died. Oops. Martin Scorsese…
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This Is How the World Ended up with a Shortage of Semiconductors
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The world is facing a chip shortage. Numerous companies, including the auto sector, are facing an inability to get semiconductors, hampering their ability to manufacture their goods and generate sales. Part of this is an acute crisis, related to the virus. But there's also a long-term structural issue, with so few companies able to manufacture at s…
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DEEP DIVE - The McMahon/Helmsley Era Part 1
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In the wake of the surprise finish of Armageddon, Stephanie McMahon and Triple H spend their honeymoon taking control of the day to day operations at the WWF, and nearly every storyline on RAW and SmackDown goes through them. Want to get caught up? This episode deals with content from the following episodes of RAW and Smackdown from 1999 and 2000: …
DEEP DIVE - On this episode we discuss arguably the most famous musician to have ever lived; a man who not only pioneered a music but a movement and while preaching a message of peace through his songs, was repeatedly violently attacked and tragically died before his time; Bob Marley. From a meagre start in the streets of Trenchtown, Jamaica to the…
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A Value Manager on How Most Value Managers Are Getting It All Wrong
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As you might have heard, so-called value investing has not had a good run. At least from a quantitative standpoint, strategies that aim to buy low-valued stocks (based on metrics such as price-to-earnings or price-to-book) are quite out of favor, as fast growing names, loaded up on intangible capital, have outperformed. So is there any way to resus…
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How Boring Food and Beverage Companies Turn into Huge Stock Winners Year after Year
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During the worst of the pandemic, people loaded up on staples from their grocery store. Shelf-stable food items, beverages, canned tuna, canned soup, chips... all that kind of stuff. But the big food and consumer staples companies have been huge winners outside of the pandemic. In fact, as an industry, these companies have some of the best track re…
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How Monster Beverage Shares Soared a Monster 100,000% in the Last 20 Years
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When you think about the big winners in the stock market over the past couple of decades, you might think about Amazon or Apple or some other tech winner. Or maybe, if you've listened to Odd Lots before, you think about Domino's Pizza. But there's another company that's outshone them all. Monster Beverage Corporation, the maker of the popular energ…
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ON THIS DAY - St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House - February 14, 1999
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Before you watch NXT: Vengeance Day look back at this other Valentine’s Day branded event from the build to WrestleMania XV. New episodes return next week with the first part of our deep dive on the McMahon/Helmsley Era. Theme song “There Are Traitors in Our Midst” by Disco Vietnam Art by Alexis Yavne…
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Case File 200 Call-In Extravaganza with The Discord News Team
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It's finally here! The big one: Episode 200! We have a bunch of former guests and listeners call in for what's possibly the longest episode in Thought Cops history! Thanks to everyone who has contributed, listened, and supported us throughout the years! Support the show on Patreon Field Notes When we set out to start doing this podcast a little ove…
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ARK's Head of Research on How They Find the Next Huge Winner
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In a world dominated by passive investing on one end and retail YOLO traders on the other, there aren't many star fund managers these days. There's one big exception though. Cathie Wood, the head of the ARK family of funds, has become a celebrity due to the incredible performance of her stock picks. So how do they do it? On this episode, we speak w…
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Mike Novogratz's Vision for Rebuilding Finance with Crypto
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Bitcoin, and crypto more broadly, have been on a huge tear lately. Then, with the chaos surrounding GameStop, there's been more discussion about whether financial markets could be rebuilt in a fairer way, perhaps involving crypto or decentralized finance. Probably one of the best positioned to take advantage of such a shift is Mike Novogratz, the C…
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Episode 47 - Armageddon - December 12, 1999
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Nobody would call this show from Sunrise, Florida a masterpiece, but there is definitely a lot of interesting things going on as the WWF ended the millennium and entered into one of the biggest years in the company’s history. Theme song “There Are Traitors in Our Midst” by Disco Vietnam Art by Alexis Yavne…
TRUE CRIME - On this episode we go all the way back to the 16th century to chat about a real sick puppy; The Werewolf of Bedburg, Peter Stumpp. An occult document details the story of Peter Stumpp and his despicable misdeeds such as killing and eating women and children and loads of other depraved animalistic satanic stuff. Stumpp apparently made a…
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Goldman's Jeff Currie on the Silver Squeeze and the Coming Boom in Commodities
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It's been a weird several days in the market. What started with a short squeeze in GameStop, driven by Reddit traders, somehow morphed into a huge surge in demand for silver. Whether it started on WallStreetBets is unclear, but something happened that caused demand for the metal to surge. So we talked about this with Jeff Currie, the global head of…
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Benn Eifert Explains How Retail Trading Is Rocking Markets like Never Before
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We know that retail activity, much of it on Robinhood, has been surging since last spring once the lockdowns began. But just how big of an impact is it really having? Is it going to be limited to just GameStop and a few others, or is this a permanent fixture of the new market landscape? We discuss this with Benn Eifert, CIO of QVR Advisors. Benn is…
Stocks are up- welcome back to another episode of your favorite financial advice podcast, Thought Cops! This week, Joie Agliata of Jump & Shoot Podcast joins us for a rip-roaring good time. Support the show on Patreon Field Notes Ryan Reynolds made a dirty joke this week, and it is literally the only thing anyone can talk about. Well, aside from th…
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Is The GameStop Trade Really A Political Rebellion?
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The GameStop short squeeze is one of the most extraordinary events to ever happen in markets. But does it have political significance? Some are saying that it represents the manifestation of Occupy Wall Street, that it is some kind of class warfare against hedge fund elites. Or is it just an interesting trade. We discussed what this moment really m…
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Can Open-Source Semiconductors Upend the Chip Industry?
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We're seeing historic change happening in real time in the chip industry. The old leaders are going away, and new players and new models are emerging, particularly around fabless chips. On this episode, we speak with Chris Lattner, the President, Engineering and Product, at the open-source chip startup SiFive, about the changes afoot, and how they'…
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DEEP DIVE - Test and Stephanie's Wedding Part 2
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Wedding bells are in the air! Vince McMahon is feuding with D-Generation X. Certainly that will have no bearing on his daughter’s nuptials with Test. Want to get caught up? This episode deals with content from the following episodes of RAW and SmackDown from 1999: November 15, November 18, November 22, November 25, November 29, December 2, and Dece…
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How One Online Investor Made the Score of a Lifetime on GameStop
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Everyone is talking about GameStop. The physical games retailer that was left for dead has been one of the hottest stocks of the year, surging well over 50x since its lows in late 2020. But how did it come about? Why GameStop? And what was the role that social media played? We speak with Rod Alzmann, the proprietor of GMEDD.com, which collects the …
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Dan Wang on China's Mission to Be a World Leader in Semiconductors
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We've been talking a lot on the podcast about semiconductors. The stumble of Intel. The general troubles with US manufacturing, and, of course, the rise of TSMC. But, for a long time, the Chinese government has endeavored to build a successful homegrown and world-leading chip industry. On this episode, we speak with Dan Wang, a tech analyst at Gave…
Klopfer Hardly Know'er, Aaron Klopfer joins us once again for another episode of Thought Cops. Support the show on Patreon Field Notes On this week's torture, I mean episode, we talk about a twitter thread about how the Avengers would respond to the Capitol Hill riot, learn the new sexist microagression men keep doing called mask-slipping, and fina…
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The Story of How TSMC Came to Dominate the World
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In every conversation about computer chips, it always comes back to the dominant player: TSMC. Founded in the 1980s, it's far and away the biggest and most advanced manufacturer. And, as our guest points out, it's virtually impossible to find any piece of consumer tech hardware that Taiwan Semi hasn't touched in some way. On this episode, we speak …
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DEEP DIVE - Test and Stephanie's Wedding Part 1
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We go all the way back to the Summer of 1999 to track every inch of the Test and Stephanie wedding story, from the proposal, to the second proposal, to the amnesia, to the third proposal. We even look at what’s going on with Triple H, even though there’s no way that could have anything to do with the happy couple’s nuptials. Want to get caught up? …
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The Important Lesson a Quant Manager Learned in 2020
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It goes without saying that 2020 was a year like no other when it comes to the markets. A historic crash, and then a raging recovery, all set against the backdrop of a pandemic and deeply depressed economy. One implication of this is that trading strategies based on historic rules and patterns didn't perform particularly well in this environment. O…
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Case File 197 with Shawn Chatfield of Mega64
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Pod's in his heaven, all's right with the world- Mega64's own Shawn Chatfield joins us today to talk about starring in their latest hit video Neon Genesis Evangelion In 5 Minutes (LIVE ACTION) (Sweded), as well as some of his favorite roles and moments over many years of content creation. Support the show on Patreon Field Notes Home Alone 2 cast me…
TRUE CRIME - On this episode we talk about one of the most important contemporary internet figures and how his ingenuity, innovation and imagination changed the face of the internet culture we know today and has set forth a standard by which the governments of the world should maintain the great global resource of the World Wide Web, this one is al…
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Why the Cost of Shipping Goods From China Is Suddenly Soaring
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The coronavirus crisis snarled global shipping in early 2020 as borders were closed, but lots of people expected it to improve as vessels returned to position. Instead, more than a year later, the shipping crisis has only gotten worse and standard container rates on some transpacific routes have more than quadrupled, leading to yet another headwind…
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Episode 46 - Survivor Series - November 14, 1999
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Survivor Series is filled with iconic moments: The Montreal Screwjob, the Deadly Game Tournament, and now the Middling Follow-Up from Detroit, Michigan. Aside from the traditional survivor series matches, we have the premiere of WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle, Chyna’s first Intercontinental Title defense, and the first Championship win for future Hal…
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How the U.S. Lost Chip Dominance and How It Can Be Regained
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The U.S. was once a manufacturing leader in semiconductors. That's no longer the case, given the rise of contract manufacturing and outsourcing, the dominance of Taiwan Semiconductor, and Intel's own design stumbles. But how did it come to this? And can it be reversed by government policy? On this episode we speak with Willy Shih, a longtime tech i…
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Case File 196 with Tristan A. Smith
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We're back! Chicago comedian Tristan A. Smith joins us this week, make sure to follow him on Twitter, Instagram, tiktok, and wherever else good content is available. Support the show on Patreon Field Notes THE RETURN. This week we have the Liam Peeson Pissspiracy, fake anti-piracy warnings, Donald Trump gets banned from the internet, and that's jus…
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Cowen's Co-President on Why SPACs Are Having Such a Moment
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One of the surprising developments in the last year was the boom in SPACs. The so-called blank check companies raised more money in 2020 than they had in the several years prior combined. But why? Why did a year that saw a pandemic and economic devastation turn into such a boon for what has historically been a speculative financing vehicle? On this…
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DEEP DIVE - The Big Show's Daddy's Dead!
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Known doggie murderer the Big Bossman sets his sights on the Big Show and his dying father for super vague reasons, but before its all done we’ll have broken watches, attempted murder and dragging coffins. Want to get caught up? This episode deals with content from the following episodes of RAW and SmackDown from 1999: October 7, October 11, Octobe…
TRUE CRIME - This episode is a cracker and tells the tale of one sick pup; Joseph Kondro. Comedian Betsy Speer joins me to chat about Uncle Joey and his misadventures with the children of his neighbours in Washington State and beyond. A lesser known killer, as murderer charts go; his story is one of manipulation, coercion, and deceit using the crut…
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Chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura on Twitch Streaming and “The Queen's Gambit”
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We're in a rare moment where chess is popular in the United States. There are two big factors driving it. One is the smash hit Netflix show "The Queen's Gambit." The other is the rise of Twitch streaming, as gamers play online for thousands of fans. On this episode, we speak with Hikaru Nakamura, a popular chess streamer, about the economics of thi…
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What Happened to Europe's Economy After the Black Death
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It's been pointed out that, after the Black Death in Europe, real wages surged because there was such a shortage of labor in the aftermath. But what was the structure of the economy that allowed this transfer of power to workers in the first place? On this episode, we speak with Patrick Wyman, historian and the host of the Tides of History podcast,…
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This Is How Prejudice Can Hinder the Economy
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Economics is all about improving living standards, but rarely does the dismal science deal with social justice or talk about how a lack of it could actually hinder growth. In this episode, UBS Global Chief Economist Paul Donovan discusses how prejudice and labor markets are intertwined, and why discrimination can restrict development. Donovan descr…
Happy after-holidays, everyone! Didn’t get what you wanted for Christmas or whatever? Well, here’s something else you didn’t ask for: a free episode of our spin-off show, Fire Bros! iTunes: Listen, subscribe, leave a review Support the show on Patreon “Fire Bros? W.T.F. is that,” you may be wondering. Well, if you donate at least $2 to us on Patreo…
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WATCH ALONG - Edge & Christian vs. the Hardy Boyz - No Mercy Ladder Match
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Happy Holidays to you! Ever wish you could watch wrestling with us? We tried to do just that and it mostly worked! If you sync up your WWE Network with a countdown in podcast Wizard of Oz/Pink Floyd style, you can hear our witty commentary live along with the final match of the Terri Invitational Tournament, Edge & Christian vs. the Hardy Boyz from…
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Goldman's Jan Hatzius on the Lessons Learned in 2020
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2020 has been an absolutely extraordinary year for the economy. In March, we saw the fastest economic contraction in history with an extraordinary surge in unemployment. Now, as the year closes out, we've had a housing boom, an extraordinary rise in financial assets, and unemployment has fallen much faster than most people expected. We spoke about …
TRUE CRIME - On this episode we talk about the catalyst for disarming the Australian population and an event that was so destructive to society at the time; it is used as the yard stick to measure the severity of all mass shootings until just very recently; this time we are talking about Martin Bryant and The Port Arthur Massacre. Port Arthur was a…
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Michael Saylor, the CEO Who Turned a Software Company Into a Bitcoin Company
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This past summer, the business intelligence software company MicroStrategy made waves when it put some of its extra cash into Bitcoin. Then, as Bitcoin ran up, it bought more, and the stock has now soared thanks to the bet. But what's the reasoning behind the move? We speak with MicroStrategy’s CEO, Michael Saylor, on why he thinks Bitcoin is the b…
SWAPCAST - This is a lovely little SwapCast with Tom O'Mahony where we get deep about what success means; what it like to be a working entertainer; what the fuck is going on in the USA according to two low information Paddy Muck Savages :D and a load of great chats! Check out Tom's podcast called Buckshot where he does interviews with loads of cele…
Clownin' around with us this week is Jade Benoit as we close out 2020, thus ushering in a new year in which everything will immediately be fixed. Support the show on Patreon Field Notes We have a brand new episode of Fire Bros up for all of our lovely Patreon donors, where we decide whether to burn or save: Borat 2, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Run The …
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Camille Fournier on Building Tech at Two Sigma
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We talk a lot about quantitative trading on the podcast, but typically from a rather big picture perspective, and not at the level of actually building the systems needed for trading and data analysis. On this episode, we speak with Camille Fournier, the head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, the financial services firm that, among other things…
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Episode 45 - No Mercy - October 17, 1999
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So many of our deep dives come to a head at this redundantly named pay per view from the Gund Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The Rock thankfully finishes his business with the British Bulldog. Mankind goes to war with Val Venis over a sock. The Terri Invitational Tournament has its stunning finale. Chyna finally gets sweet revenge on Jeff Jarrett. And S…
