1
00:00:15,276 --> 00:00:21,956
Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hey, there against the Rules listeners. We'll be back

2
00:00:21,956 --> 00:00:25,196
Speaker 1: with a new season in April. Until then, here's a

3
00:00:25,276 --> 00:00:27,676
Speaker 1: preview of a special project that we've been working on.

4
00:00:30,756 --> 00:00:32,636
Speaker 1: I was twenty seven years old when I wrote my

5
00:00:32,676 --> 00:00:37,476
Speaker 1: first book. It was called Liars Poker. His friends thought

6
00:00:37,476 --> 00:00:39,396
Speaker 1: he was crazy when he quit in nineteen eighty seven

7
00:00:39,436 --> 00:00:42,116
Speaker 1: to write a book. They were wrong. The book Liars

8
00:00:42,116 --> 00:00:44,436
Speaker 1: Poker hit the New York Times bestseller list, and Michael

9
00:00:44,476 --> 00:00:46,876
Speaker 1: Lewis never went back to work on Wall Street. Now

10
00:00:46,876 --> 00:00:50,156
Speaker 1: he just writes about it. I'm Michael Lewis, and it's true.

11
00:00:50,516 --> 00:00:52,956
Speaker 1: I never went back to Wall Street, except of course,

12
00:00:52,996 --> 00:00:55,756
Speaker 1: to write about its ups and downs. I also actually

13
00:00:55,836 --> 00:00:59,796
Speaker 1: never reread Liars Poker until now, but now I'm releasing

14
00:00:59,796 --> 00:01:02,396
Speaker 1: it for the first time as an unabridged audio book

15
00:01:02,556 --> 00:01:08,316
Speaker 1: with Pushkin Industries. Here's how it starts. I was a

16
00:01:08,356 --> 00:01:17,876
Speaker 1: bond sales on Wall Street and in London, working beside

17
00:01:17,876 --> 00:01:20,996
Speaker 1: the traders at Solomon Brothers. Put me, I believe at

18
00:01:21,036 --> 00:01:23,836
Speaker 1: the epicover of one of those events that helped to

19
00:01:23,876 --> 00:01:27,596
Speaker 1: define an age. Traders are masters of the quick killing,

20
00:01:28,196 --> 00:01:29,836
Speaker 1: and a lot of the killings. In the past ten

21
00:01:29,916 --> 00:01:32,956
Speaker 1: years or so, had been quick, and Solomon Brothers was

22
00:01:33,036 --> 00:01:41,836
Speaker 1: indisputably the king of traders. While we were in the

23
00:01:41,876 --> 00:01:45,716
Speaker 1: studio making the audiobook, I kept interrupting myself. Sometimes I

24
00:01:45,756 --> 00:01:47,796
Speaker 1: was annoyed with my younger self as a writer, but

25
00:01:47,916 --> 00:01:52,076
Speaker 1: also I had so many questions, questions about what had

26
00:01:52,076 --> 00:01:54,396
Speaker 1: happened to the people I wrote about, for example, and

27
00:01:54,516 --> 00:01:57,636
Speaker 1: why did Wall Street keep getting more crazy not less

28
00:01:57,836 --> 00:02:00,756
Speaker 1: after the events I described, so I called up a

29
00:02:00,756 --> 00:02:03,636
Speaker 1: bunch of my former colleagues from Wall Street. I also

30
00:02:03,676 --> 00:02:07,236
Speaker 1: spoke with Ira Glass and George Saunders about how writers

31
00:02:07,236 --> 00:02:10,636
Speaker 1: find their voices, and all of this has come together

32
00:02:10,756 --> 00:02:15,916
Speaker 1: as a podcast miniseries called Other People's Money. Think of

33
00:02:15,956 --> 00:02:18,476
Speaker 1: it as a companion piece to the book. It was

34
00:02:18,516 --> 00:02:19,996
Speaker 1: a good time for you to write that book and

35
00:02:20,076 --> 00:02:21,916
Speaker 1: me to be forced to leave. Did you feel like

36
00:02:21,956 --> 00:02:26,036
Speaker 1: you were forced to leave by the book? Yeah? Yeah, absolutely.

37
00:02:29,396 --> 00:02:33,636
Speaker 1: If you'd told me that Solomon Brothers in nineteen eighty

38
00:02:33,716 --> 00:02:36,316
Speaker 1: nine was a kind of golden age for women, you

39
00:02:36,316 --> 00:02:41,596
Speaker 1: would not have expected that, would you? You hate the

40
00:02:41,676 --> 00:02:44,276
Speaker 1: young Michael Lewis you hate twenty seven year old you?

41
00:02:44,596 --> 00:02:47,836
Speaker 1: Twenty seven year old me has got serious character defects

42
00:02:47,836 --> 00:02:53,636
Speaker 1: that are coming through between every line. Other people's money

43
00:02:53,676 --> 00:02:56,436
Speaker 1: is coming soon right here in this feed, so keep

44
00:02:56,476 --> 00:02:59,116
Speaker 1: an ear on it, don't go anywhere, and you'll be

45
00:02:59,156 --> 00:03:01,156
Speaker 1: able to find this new and for the first time

46
00:03:01,236 --> 00:03:06,556
Speaker 1: wholly unabridged Liars Poker audiobook at Pushkin dot Fm Slash

47
00:03:06,716 --> 00:03:14,196
Speaker 1: Liar's Poker and also at Autumn Wall You were the

48
00:03:14,236 --> 00:03:16,516
Speaker 1: wolf of Wall Street. It was like the antelope of

49
00:03:16,516 --> 00:03:19,516
Speaker 1: Wall Street or the rabbit of Wall Street. I was

50
00:03:19,636 --> 00:03:20,996
Speaker 1: I was not the wolf of Wall Street.