Ben Wilson

To me though, I almost feel like it's a symptom of a sick world that I read these stories of people, Horatio Nelson and Napoleon, Alexander Hamilton. And I'm like, yeah, that's what a noble life is supposed to look like. Founding something that really lasts and endures and is beautiful and is a part of your identity.

To me though, I almost feel like it's a symptom of a sick world that I read these stories of people, Horatio Nelson and Napoleon, Alexander Hamilton. And I'm like, yeah, that's what a noble life is supposed to look like. Founding something that really lasts and endures and is beautiful and is a part of your identity.

And people like Todd Graves are probably have that quality of spirit, but live in a sort of sick world where instead of building something like a city or a country or something truly beautiful and enduring, they have to have a chicken finger dream.

And people like Todd Graves are probably have that quality of spirit, but live in a sort of sick world where instead of building something like a city or a country or something truly beautiful and enduring, they have to have a chicken finger dream.

It's interesting to me. Like I, so I'm doing an episode on Coco Chanel and I've been researching her story. And to me, she is emblematic of, She's an entrepreneur who's very successful, becomes very wealthy, and she's having all of these dalliances and affairs.

It's interesting to me. Like I, so I'm doing an episode on Coco Chanel and I've been researching her story. And to me, she is emblematic of, She's an entrepreneur who's very successful, becomes very wealthy, and she's having all of these dalliances and affairs.

It's like gold. But to me, it's interesting because she's also obviously attracted to... the power and the allure of old world aristocracy, right? She's always having these affairs with these barons and counts and British royalty and Russian royalty.

It's like gold. But to me, it's interesting because she's also obviously attracted to... the power and the allure of old world aristocracy, right? She's always having these affairs with these barons and counts and British royalty and Russian royalty.

To me, there's this interesting tension of like, she comes along at the time, which is sort of turn of the 20th century and into World War I, where the old... You know, the aristocratic classes... really were driven by conquest. These were often descendants of the Norman invaders who'd come to England, taken it with the sword, and then said, we own the land now, and we get the money from it.

To me, there's this interesting tension of like, she comes along at the time, which is sort of turn of the 20th century and into World War I, where the old... You know, the aristocratic classes... really were driven by conquest. These were often descendants of the Norman invaders who'd come to England, taken it with the sword, and then said, we own the land now, and we get the money from it.

And that's where they got all their money. And there's still this attraction to it. She's still attracted to that world, even as she herself is supplanting it with this new commercial world. And... And so anyway, I just think that even as that world has been supplanted, we cannot really get over the allure and the attraction because the whole world is a series of games.

And that's where they got all their money. And there's still this attraction to it. She's still attracted to that world, even as she herself is supplanting it with this new commercial world. And... And so anyway, I just think that even as that world has been supplanted, we cannot really get over the allure and the attraction because the whole world is a series of games.

We all choose the games we play. And I think there's a certain attraction to yeah, but there's one game that's bigger than all the others. And Those people who really feel like they are world beaters, that they're the greatest, they always have an attraction to that game. They want to play that game. They want to play the Game of Kings. Yeah, they want to play the Game of Kings.

We all choose the games we play. And I think there's a certain attraction to yeah, but there's one game that's bigger than all the others. And Those people who really feel like they are world beaters, that they're the greatest, they always have an attraction to that game. They want to play that game. They want to play the Game of Kings. Yeah, they want to play the Game of Kings.

It's like that game isn't even being played anymore.

It's like that game isn't even being played anymore.

By what? By social strictures. Like, you know, his wife divorces him and takes half his money, and there's nothing he can do about it, right? Yeah, but he's already made all the money back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got plenty of money, but it just shows that there is a very strong limit to the actual amount of control.

By what? By social strictures. Like, you know, his wife divorces him and takes half his money, and there's nothing he can do about it, right? Yeah, but he's already made all the money back. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got plenty of money, but it just shows that there is a very strong limit to the actual amount of control.

he has in the world you know he buys washington post and what does it do for like you say he has all this political influence what has he done with it then maybe maybe he just has no vision for the wider world and he doesn't really care about that but you know i do think like one petty king in 1350 had more power no actually has no no way yeah wait 100 100 zero percent zero percent

he has in the world you know he buys washington post and what does it do for like you say he has all this political influence what has he done with it then maybe maybe he just has no vision for the wider world and he doesn't really care about that but you know i do think like one petty king in 1350 had more power no actually has no no way yeah wait 100 100 zero percent zero percent