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Mentions personal use of Coast to Coast AM.

29 Mar 2023 Acquired Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast)

“I used to listen to Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell. Do you ever listen to this?”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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recommendation
Recorded
29 Mar 2023
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…I always think of Sam Bronfman, the guy that did Seagram. He's in Canada. Their parents had lost so much money. I think they were Jewish and had to escape from persecution in Russia. I can't remember where they came from. But they go and they have to start all over. They're in Canada and there's no heating. They're freezing. He has this psychopathic drive to change, but that stays with you forever. He built this massive company and literally changed the trajectory of all of his descendants. His daughter's an adult. She tells a story in the book, where Sam is sitting there in a mansion next to a fire, shivering, thinking about how embarrassing it was to have to go to school with tattered clothing. That guy's never going to go back to that, and he never loses it. I've just always been a reader. That's the only unbroken habit I've always had. I just had this idea. I was listening to podcasts forever. I was obsessed with audio before there was such a thing as a podcast. I listened to talk radio when I was a kid. At that time, there's no on demand anything. You would listen to sports talk radio, politics talk radio. It's embarrassing. There was this woman that used to be on a night—people would write in advice for their love life. I'd listen to just the idea of all this information. I used to listen to Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell. Do you ever listen to this? It's when all the other radio programming expires, then you enter the 1:00 AM radio stuff, and it was aliens and tons of paranormal stuff. The Cavs game ends, I'm from Cleveland, then you listen to the sports postgame, and then it goes into the politics hour. If you still can't fall asleep, then you're in the aliens. It's four hours of that stuff. Do you have a radio in your bedroom?…

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