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523. Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with “Moneyball”?

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Society & Culture, Documentary

4.632K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

No — but he does have a knack for stumbling into the perfect moment, including the recent FTX debacle. In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, we revisit the book that launched the analytics revolution.

Transcript

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Whether it's a team reinventing the electric motorbike,

0:03.0

the sound of what this place is looks like it should be in front.

0:05.5

Or a company making a vest that allows you to feel the virtual world.

0:09.9

Right now we have wind, now it's hailing.

0:13.6

Uh-oh, now it looks like it's going to be fireballs.

0:16.6

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0:21.4

most unique feats of engineering.

0:23.6

I'm your host Paul Hames from PTC.

0:26.0

The third angle is out now on your favorite podcast app.

0:31.8

It was so much fun to go back and read the book.

0:34.5

Gosh, I just love the book, so thanks.

0:36.7

You did just did something I've never done.

0:38.2

I was going to ask you if you've ever read it.

0:40.2

Uh-oh, no.

0:41.4

I never sat down and read it.

0:42.7

I wrote it in pieces and sent it in.

0:44.5

So now.

0:46.8

That is Michael Lewis.

0:48.4

He may be one of the few people who doesn't read his books.

0:51.6

He's perhaps the most prominent nonfiction author of our generation.

0:55.7

It doesn't hurt that several of his very good books have been turned into very good movies,

1:00.4

including the big short and the blind side.

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