Speaker 1: Push him.
Speaker 2: Hey, there against the rules, listeners, is Michael Lewis here
Speaker 2: with some exciting news. I have a new book coming
Speaker 2: out on October the sixth. It's called Blockers. What's a blocker?
Speaker 1: You ask? A blocker is the worst thing you could be.
Speaker 2: During the President Trump's second term, especially if you worked
Speaker 2: in the federal.
Speaker 1: Government and wanted to keep your job. A blocker was
Speaker 1: a holdover.
Speaker 2: An impediment, someone who didn't get the message, and most
Speaker 2: of all, someone who didn't belong. Blockers is, among other things,
Speaker 2: an inside a look at the early days of Trump's
Speaker 2: Department of the Government Efficiency, or DOGE as it was
Speaker 2: referred to, as told by the public servants it entangled.
Speaker 1: But that's not all it is. I tell the story
Speaker 1: of seven.
Speaker 2: People who believe they had to call me, who were
Speaker 2: convinced they were doing something the country couldn't do without,
Speaker 2: and then discovered that they were no longer wanted. One
Speaker 2: kept American's most sensitive tax data out of the wrong hands.
Speaker 2: Another made sure that politicians and civil servants played by
Speaker 2: the rules. One figured out how to stop wildfires from
Speaker 2: destroying suburban neighborhoods. Another delivered the cured assistic fibrosis. Oh
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