EP.66 - MICHAEL LEWIS

THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST

Adam Buxton

Comedy

4.8 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Adam talks with American writer Michael Lewis (The Big Short, Money Ball, Liar’s Poker etc.) about his book ‘The Undoing Project’, which tells the story of the friendship and fascinating work of psychologists Amos Tversky and Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman.

Much of the work of Tversky and Kahneman focuses on the human capacity to make errors of judgment based on unhelpful prejudices and rules of thumb that frequently operate beneath the level of our awareness.

Michael explains a few of these to Adam (who has never engaged in fallacies or systematic errors of any kind) as well as talking about the tensions that shaped Kahneman and Tversky’s friendship.

The conversation was recorded when Michael was visiting London in November 2017.

Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and Matt Lamont for additional editing.

Music & jingles by Adam Buxton

Thanks to SonicCouture for instrument plug-in fun and Dan Hawkins for on-line bass.

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0:00.0	This is a paid advertisement for BetterHelp Therapy Online.
0:03.3	Thought I'd bring my guitar along for the walk today was yes I noticed. Can I play you a song I just wrote?
0:10.9	Yeah great.
0:12.9	Sometimes I feel in the worst person in the world selfish and boring and everybody knows it.
0:20.9	I'm sick and tired of living in my head it's like a stinky ear from sewer and I really want to dance it.
0:28.9	Yeah I liked party pom pom. Why don't you do another one like that?
0:32.9	I'm bearing my soul.
0:34.9	Well that's very vulnerable of you but if that's really the way you feel about yourself.
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0:53.9	Yeah there you go. How many times do I have to tell you they can provide human contact when you're struggling and when you don't feel you can talk to anyone else?
1:01.9	And not even writing a brilliant song and playing it to your dog friend helps.
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1:12.9	Oh yes they do do. At betterhelp.com slash Bucston.
1:17.9	Alright thanks Rosie. Let's get back on the road.
1:20.9	Alright Mr Hendrix.
1:26.9	You up for a walk? Rose?
1:32.9	Let's go.
1:36.9	Whoa.
1:50.9	I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin. Now you have plugged that podcast out and started listening.
2:00.9	I took my microphone and found some human folk. Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke.
2:08.9	My name is Adam Bucston. I'm a man. I want you to enjoy this. That's the plan.
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