Part One: The Rise of the "Activist" Investor

Speaker 10:00

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Robert Evans· Host0:02

Welcome back to Behind the Bastards, the podcast that we're all listening to right now. You're listening to it as a recorded thing that's been turned into an ear product for your, your, your ear dig- eargestion? Ear digestion. And I'm listening to it because I can't help but listen to my own voice. It's a curse. [laughs] Here to be cursed with me on this glorious week, obviously my producer, Sophie.

Sophie· Host0:31

Hey.

Robert Evans· Host0:32

And the great Kim Kelly.

Kim Kelly· Guest0:33

Yay.

Robert Evans· Host0:33

Author of the book Fight Like Hell. Kim, you are a wonderful journalist. You focus a lot on the labor movement, and you have a new special edition of your book coming out soon, don't you?

Kim Kelly· Guest0:44

I do. It just came out, the young readers edition of Fight Like Hell- Mm ... which is called Fight to Win: Heroes of American Labor.

Sophie· Host0:51

I love it.

Kim Kelly· Guest0:52

I thought it'd be really funny to call it Fight Like Heck, but they did not agree with me.

Robert Evans· Host0:55

No.

Kim Kelly· Guest0:56

So.

Robert Evans· Host0:56

That, that is a pretty good bit.

Kim Kelly· Guest0:57

So it's Fight to Win, but it's, it's out. It's, like, really cheap. It's in paperback. It's summer reading time. Tell your teacher friends, tell your little radical- Yeah ... children. It's, you know. It's out.

Sophie· Host1:08

I like Fight Like Heck.

Robert Evans· Host1:10

In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you got labor, you got labor on your mind.

Sophie· Host1:13

Yeah.

Kim Kelly· Guest1:14

Always.

Speaker 11:15

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