The SnackCast: Tom & Judy Love and George Bishop

Zero Sum Empire

This week we open up with a frank discussion of Chad’s recent bout of shingles (which is the reason we missed last week’s episode). Our billionaire in the news this week is Jan Koum, creator of WhatsApp. He’s in the news because he just bought an $80 million house. Aside from buying mansions, Koum collects Porsches. That’s pretty much all he does these days. He proudly claims not to have any other ambitions. He’s not working on or investing in any new technologies. He doesn’t even have a job as far as we can tell. After studying so many self-aggrandizing and deluded billionaires, his lack of motivation is actually sort of refreshing. Joe introduces us to Tom and Judy Love, founders of Love Travel Stops & Country Stores. They were innovators in the convenience store game. Judy once taunted LeBron James (check the vid below), but otherwise has stayed out of the public eye. Tom Love has been featured as a guest on Chickasaw.tv, and just this year was inducted into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame. Joe weaves a theory for us about American dietary habits. He argues that we love snacks, but we don’t care much about their quality, and he has the stats to back it up. It seems that we just want to shove sugar and salt into our big, dumb mouths. Chad discusses George Bishop, a mysterious Texas energy billionaire. There are zero pictures and scant information about Bishop. However, he does offer us a chance to talk about the various ways LLCs are used to obscure identities and evade taxes, sport-fishing extortion schemes, the absolutely dire future we can expect regarding fossil fuel extraction, and the rapidly-growing world of Sharia-compliant finance. The conversation goes off in a bunch of different directions, possibly as a consequence of too many shingles meds, but we hope it remains interesting for our dear listeners nonetheless. The Jan Koum Collection: https://youtu.be/RgjxLDVAYqE Judy Love: https://youtu.be/xuYWJVgnKZ0 9 Habits of Gas-Buying Customers: https://www.convenience.org/Topics/Fuels/9-Habits-of-Gas-Buying-Customers Chub Cay Airbnb (please go photograph George Bishop and send the picture to us): https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/25312947?source_impression_id=p3_1560730583_xuOJBJVh5QRy0eVL