Meister spent years working for legendary investor Carl Icahn, and it appears he learned plenty from the famed agitator, who frequently pushes for change at companies he invests in and offers to acquire businesses where management proves unresponsive or incapable of the turnaround he desires.

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He settles in an old cowboy bunkhouse without electricity or running water near the town of Woolybucket where he proves a poor salesman of pig hell and an even worse liar.

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