William Poundstone

Like you're just trying to have like limits on what your Greeks are and you're not thinking about things in terms of like oh this is a discrete bet you basically have a just giant soup of positions it's not there's no discrete nothing about it it feels discreet so telly just wasn't something that i was all that uh interested in was it didn't really apply to my work day to day uh but like i said i've been aware of it And then I read, maybe two years ago, I read Fortune's Formula.

So Fortune's Formula by William Poundstone.

It's a phenomenal book.

If anybody's listening to this and hasn't read it, it's kind of...

Richard Shelton.

And in today's episode, we're exploring William Poundstone's Priceless.

Let's get into it.

So, Richard, we were very happy to welcome William onto the show back in episode 85.

And I've read for years about the subliminals that are supposedly hidden in the film.

I first read about them in William Poundstone's amazing book, Big Secrets.

Wilson Brian Key, that's the guy, if you ever hear any 70s and 80s conspiracies about advertising, they come from him.

He claimed if you stack Ritz crackers in any way, it would spell sex.

Hey, speaking of falling out, let's abandon this fallout and say...

Coming to you live from our houses in Los Angeles, California, this is Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, your comedy field guide to life.

Tonight, we talk about the law a lot on this show, but not the only laws that even our president can't break, the laws of physics.

So as we enjoy the spectacle of certain criminals succumbing to entropy and gravity, it's worth asking, what are physics? podcaster, musician, and actual physicist, Brian Wecht is here to fill that vacuum.

I am a self-organizing collection of atoms known as Adam Felber.

And now, please welcome the woman who does not understand chaos theory, but happily personifies it.

It's Paula Poundstone.

Hey, you guys.