Speaker 1: Pushkin. It started with a feeling, some nagging worry about
Speaker 1: this world we find ourselves in this Steve kerges through
Speaker 1: the clipboard. Steve kerg has got teed up. Steve Kerve
Speaker 1: has got ejected. A world where everyone hates the referee.
Speaker 1: Those who can kick the ball play football, those account
Speaker 1: referee feels like someone keeps poking you in the back
Speaker 1: of the shoulder and then saying foul, foul, foul. I
Speaker 1: would never say the things that I do to referees
Speaker 1: to a person in normal life. I'm Michael Lewis, author
Speaker 1: of The Blindside, Moneyball, The Big Short, The Fifth Risk.
Speaker 1: This is my first podcast. It's called Against the Rules.
Speaker 1: This season, I'm taking you to all the poorly referee
Speaker 1: corners of life. Look where we're sitting right now, Michael.
Speaker 1: We're in a crappy parking lot across the street from
Speaker 1: one of the most important capital market building on the globe.
Speaker 1: On the globe, I just have some simple, basic questions.
Speaker 1: It's going through my trash people do it. Questions about
Speaker 1: what's happened to our idea of fairness? When you first
Speaker 1: float this idea, how's it greeted? Okay, So, when I
Speaker 1: first float this. Let me come on, this is the
Speaker 1: early two thousands and I'm talking about a new government agency. Oh,
Speaker 1: just what everybody's looking for. Right, here's what I think.
Speaker 1: We still need our referees, someone to make the call,
Speaker 1: someone to protect us when life's unfair. But these days
Speaker 1: it's not easy. Why would anybody want to be a rap? Seriously,
Speaker 1: I wonder that too many? And they're not allowed to
Speaker 1: say anything. They're not allowed to explain themselves. They're not
Speaker 1: allowed to defend themselves. So I'm going to defend them.
Speaker 1: It starts April second. Against the Rules is the new
Speaker 1: show from Pushkin Industries. You can subscribe now for free
Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. So, do you have anything
Speaker 1: you'd like to say to the referees of the world
Speaker 1: before we turn this recording off. Don't pick sides unless
Speaker 1: it's my side.