I was an unusual kid. (We know, Woods, we know.)
I was a Beatles fan in the 1980s. I knew no other Beatles fans my age.
I went to a Beatles convention when I was about 10, and I met Pete Best, the drummer who was eventually replaced by Ringo Starr, just as the band was about to achieve massive success.
"You must have wanted to kill yourself," I once heard a radio host say to him.
Not long ago I saw a Beatles tribute band called Liverpool Legends aboard a cruise ship. They were excellent. They had the music down, yes, but also the singing voices, the speaking voices, the mannerisms, the sense of humor, the stage presence, everything.
I found out a little about them, and it turns out they've played to audiences of as many as 100,000.
At one point I ran into them in a bar. I bought them all a drink, and wound up striking up a conversation with Marty Scott, the guy who plays George Harrison.
It turns out he's a former bond trader [!] who decided the stress was going to kill him, so as a lifelong musician he jumped at the chance to become a Beatle, so to speak. He asked for a copy of Meltdown, my book on the financial crisis. My kind of Beatle.
I loved that he decided: I hate what I'm doing, so I'm going to make a change.
In that respect, I've been recommending giving Gerry Cramer a try: he's the world's number-one affiliate marketer, and he's gotten eight of his students into the top ten.
As an affiliate marketer myself, I can tell you: it sure beats digging ditches.
And as you know, as a bonus I'm offering something borderline absurd: 100% commissions on my Liberty Classroom product for a full year.
I have never offered anything like this. This bonus is potentially worth thousands and thousands of smackers.
But the program closes its doors tonight and I'll be withdrawing my bonus when the clock hits zero:
Tom Woods