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Well, I couldn't find my copy of The Ford-Wyoming Drive-In so let us pull this off the shelf and dig into what's wrong with me instead.

The Ford-Wyoming Drive-In is one of my favorite places in the world, and this book up in my non-fiction books you already own queue, but for the life of me I can't find where I put it.

I Feel like I've already listened to this audiobook, but I can find no record of it on Bookwyrm nor LibraryThing. Maybe I only listened to his first book Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling? I also can't currently find the CDs, so maybe I already donated it to the little library at the beach?

I really liked The Rambling Kid even if it wasn't what I was expecting. When I heard "A novel about the IWW" I was hoping for a story where we won, where wobbles successfully seized the means of production whilst bringing about a new world inside the shell of the old, even if in only a small part of the world. Alas what I got was a story that very well could have been a true story. Ashleigh even made frequent references to the Wobblies sometimes being too high on expectations and theory perhaps too dogmatic, for what the working-class needed, all while being the best thing they had.

But the book wasn't all gloom and doom. We follow the life of Joe who goes from a boy in London, England, to a farmer in the Dakotas. Straight thru Ellis Island to the prairies of the Scandinavian immigrants. The farm goes bankrupt and off to the Twin Cities they go. Joe joins the Wobblies for a good time and a good job and then hops the trains like a hobo. He falls in love, possibly more than once. Charged with a crime he didn't commit and becomes a spokesman for the movement.

So all-in-all still good fun while also have quite a bit of true working-class grit. Recommended to any Fellow Worker, whether or not they've joined the One Big Union.

I certainly didn't like it as much this time as when I listened to the abridged version a decade ago. I suspect that has more to do with where I am than anything else. According to Kiyosaki it would be because I'm more stuck in the Rat Race now than I was then, even though I'm making 50% more active income now than i was then. I still have 0 passive income. He says I need to invest in real estate, but I now feel like landlords are the devil. He also says I can't say anything bad about his recommendations if I haven't tried them, so there's that.

Regardless I recommend Dave Ramsey over Kyosaki, even though I've never got passed baby step 3 because of the American Health Care system. You need to be to at least baby step 4 before you even consider Rich Dad, Poor Dad's advice.

Oh, there was the whole nightmares I had about mutual funds when reading this before bed thing too.