Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hey, there against the Rules listeners. We'll be back
Speaker 1: with a new season in April. Until then, here's a
Speaker 1: preview of a special project that we've been working on.
Speaker 1: I was twenty seven years old when I wrote my
Speaker 1: first book. It was called Liars Poker. His friends thought
Speaker 1: he was crazy when he quit in nineteen eighty seven
Speaker 1: to write a book. They were wrong. The book Liars
Speaker 1: Poker hit the New York Times bestseller list, and Michael
Speaker 1: Lewis never went back to work on Wall Street. Now
Speaker 1: he just writes about it. I'm Michael Lewis, and it's true.
Speaker 1: I never went back to Wall Street, except of course,
Speaker 1: to write about its ups and downs. I also actually
Speaker 1: never reread Liars Poker until now, but now I'm releasing
Speaker 1: it for the first time as an unabridged audio book
Speaker 1: with Pushkin Industries. Here's how it starts. I was a
Speaker 1: bond sales on Wall Street and in London, working beside
Speaker 1: the traders at Solomon Brothers. Put me, I believe at
Speaker 1: the epicover of one of those events that helped to
Speaker 1: define an age. Traders are masters of the quick killing,
Speaker 1: and a lot of the killings. In the past ten
Speaker 1: years or so, had been quick, and Solomon Brothers was
Speaker 1: indisputably the king of traders. While we were in the
Speaker 1: studio making the audiobook, I kept interrupting myself. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: was annoyed with my younger self as a writer, but
Speaker 1: also I had so many questions, questions about what had
Speaker 1: happened to the people I wrote about, for example, and
Speaker 1: why did Wall Street keep getting more crazy not less
Speaker 1: after the events I described, so I called up a
Speaker 1: bunch of my former colleagues from Wall Street. I also
Speaker 1: spoke with Ira Glass and George Saunders about how writers
Speaker 1: find their voices, and all of this has come together
Speaker 1: as a podcast miniseries called Other People's Money. Think of
Speaker 1: it as a companion piece to the book. It was
Speaker 1: a good time for you to write that book and
Speaker 1: me to be forced to leave. Did you feel like
Speaker 1: you were forced to leave by the book? Yeah? Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: If you'd told me that Solomon Brothers in nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: nine was a kind of golden age for women, you
Speaker 1: would not have expected that, would you? You hate the
Speaker 1: young Michael Lewis you hate twenty seven year old you?
Speaker 1: Twenty seven year old me has got serious character defects
Speaker 1: that are coming through between every line. Other people's money
Speaker 1: is coming soon right here in this feed, so keep
Speaker 1: an ear on it, don't go anywhere, and you'll be
Speaker 1: able to find this new and for the first time
Speaker 1: wholly unabridged Liars Poker audiobook at Pushkin dot Fm Slash
Speaker 1: Liar's Poker and also at Autumn Wall You were the
Speaker 1: wolf of Wall Street. It was like the antelope of
Speaker 1: Wall Street or the rabbit of Wall Street. I was
Speaker 1: I was not the wolf of Wall Street.