Ep. 1076: Michael Meyer Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Michael Meyer. He took a wide route to the story of Benjamin Franklin’s remarkable afterlife, starting when Meyer was sent to China as one of its first Peace Corps volunteers. Beginning with The Last Days of Old Beijing, he authored three critically-acclaimed reported books set there, as well as numerous stories that appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Time, Smithsonian, and on This American Life. A Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award winner, Meyer has also received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, MacDowell, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy.

The topic is his book Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.4	My guest today is Michael Meyer.
0:36.2	We go into a subject area that maybe I knew something about as a kid,
0:40.4	but sure have forgotten whatever those lessons were. His book, Benjamin Franklin's last bet,
0:47.0	the favorite founder's divisive death, enduring afterlife, and blueprint for American prosperity.
0:54.6	Franklin was a really interesting guy.
0:57.2	Some of you might know that.
0:58.4	Some of you might not know that.
1:00.5	He left something, sort of like an endowment for people to do certain trades.
1:05.9	A fascinating story of somebody who knew they were going to die, like all of us, but wanted to leave something
1:12.8	for the generations that would come after him. He actually succeeded. A very cool story,
1:19.5	lots of lessons, lots of insights and inspirations that you probably don't know about. Let's jump
1:26.3	right in with my guest today, Michael Meyer, and talk a little Ben Franklin.
1:30.5	I hope you enjoy this conversation.
1:43.3	You're in Taipei, yeah?
1:44.8	I am. I'm in Taipei.
1:46.0	Are you living there?
1:47.2	I'm here for eight months. I'm on a Fulbright scholarship.
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