Speaker 1: Pushkin. I want to say, hide all listeners of Against
Speaker 1: the Rules. I know you've been patient. It's Michael Lewis here.
Speaker 1: You've been waiting a long time for season four, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna wait a bit more though. I've been thinking
Speaker 1: about it a lot. But at the same time, I've
Speaker 1: been working on a new book about the crypto Exchange
Speaker 1: FTX and its founder Sam Bankman Freed, who I met
Speaker 1: now about a year and a half ago, and so
Speaker 1: I've been marinating in the story. As the story has happened,
Speaker 1: It's recently taken some pretty dramatic turns, and I can't
Speaker 1: give it all away. I'm not going to give very
Speaker 1: much of it away, but it involves lots of trips
Speaker 1: to the Bahamas and court dates and crypto trading and
Speaker 1: ankle bracelets. I feel a real obligation to this story,
Speaker 1: so I love it if you just hang tight while
Speaker 1: I finished writing it. However, there's one thing I always
Speaker 1: do when I sit down and tell a complicated story.
Speaker 1: I do a whole lot of interviews that are just
Speaker 1: on background stuff that's going to end up on the
Speaker 1: cutting room floor, just to educate myself around the boundaries
Speaker 1: of the subject. It's stuff that will just never make
Speaker 1: it into the book, and I know that going in,
Speaker 1: but it helps me understand the deeper context of what
Speaker 1: my characters are going through, and I'm at that phase
Speaker 1: right now. I'm going to let you in on these
Speaker 1: background interviews on the record once a month. You can
Speaker 1: listen in as I call up some esoteric expert. It
Speaker 1: might be a crypto sleuth who sniffs out secrets on
Speaker 1: the blockchain, or someone who studied white color crime and
Speaker 1: whether punishments fit offenses. I'd love, for example, to talk
Speaker 1: to regulators who can tell us what the rules actually
Speaker 1: are and aren't for crypto firms who trade in billions
Speaker 1: of dollars of other people's money. I'm interested in the
Speaker 1: way crypto is influenced American politics and taking advantage of
Speaker 1: campaign finance rules. I'm also interested in the Bahamas and
Speaker 1: learning why what you do in the Bahamas doesn't always
Speaker 1: stay in the Bahamas. We're calling the series on background,
Speaker 1: as in the reporter me, Michael Lewis talking with the
Speaker 1: people who will make the author also Michael Lewis sound
Speaker 1: like a smarter person. The first episode drops February fourteenth,
Speaker 1: Right here in this fee but in the meantime, if
Speaker 1: you have any questions for me, please do let me know.
Speaker 1: I can't talk too much about the details of the
Speaker 1: book I'm working on, but if you have questions about
Speaker 1: like the writing process, or what music or podcasts I'm
Speaker 1: listening to, or about books I'm reading, or about previous episodes,
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Speaker 1: first episode of On Background from Against the Rules. Let's
Speaker 1: see what we can learn together.