Tim Stenovec
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And I'd try to understand what the weather was that day and whether it was light out or not.
All of these sort of little things so that, again, if you're trying to, as a narrator, you can sort of feel like you're there.
You know what?
It was like... Or is it just so piecemeal?
No, it was like it would either be...
raining like you're in the rainforest and it was fabulous or just like the desert for months.
There's nothing.
Because you'd go to these places looking for stuff and then you'd go through all these boxes and there'd be nothing and then you'd be so depressed and then magically something would happen.
I mean, I will say there was one moment for me still that I think was just like a true aha, which is one of the main characters of the book is Carter Glass, of course, Glass-Steagall.
He was a senator in Virginia.
And I think I had an impression going in, you know, today, that bill is often held up by Elizabeth Warren, other people as this sort of pure effort to really break up the banks for all the right reasons.
And I found a trove of correspondence that showed, I think, maybe for the first time that, in fact, parts of that bill were actually written by another banker trying to
frankly, to screw over JP Morgan.
And you think to yourself about, you know, money in Washington and lobbying.
And I thought, oh, the good old days, they didn't do things like that.
And it's no different.
Evangeline Adams is an astrologer.
She had an office up at Carnegie Hall on 57th Street and
And every banker in town would go visit with her.
She had a newsletter.