Heavyweight: Live from New York
Heavyweight
Pushkin Industries
4.9 • 18.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In October, the Heavyweight team gathered in New York City for a live event at Caveat on the Lower East Side. There was a reading, a Q&A, and a Meet & Greet. And because we are a podcast, we recorded it all.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.0 | Michael Lewis here. |
| 0:06.8 | My best-selling book, The Big Short, tells the story of the build-up and burst of the U.S. |
| 0:12.0 | housing market back in 2008. |
| 0:14.7 | A decade ago, the Big Short was made into an Academy Award-winning movie. |
| 0:18.7 | And now I'm bringing it to you for the first time as an audiobook narrated by yours truly. |
| 0:24.0 | The Big Short Story, what it means to bet against the market, |
| 0:27.5 | and who really pays for an unchecked financial system, |
| 0:30.5 | is as relevant today as it's ever been. |
| 0:33.1 | Get the Big Short now at Pushkin.fm. |
| 0:35.4 | slash audiobooks, or wherever audiobooks are sold. |
| 0:42.9 | Pushkin. |
| 0:52.7 | In October, the heavyweight gang gathered in New York City for a live event at caveat on the Lower East Side. |
| 1:03.1 | If I may be so bold as to speak on behalf of the crowd, the wait staff, and Pushkin Industries as a whole, a lovely time was had by all. |
| 1:12.6 | There was a wall to write down your regrets and a meet-and-grit where you could take a picture with yours truly. |
| 1:19.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:20.7 | I feel like they're smiling in all these pictures. |
| 1:22.6 | So what you're doing is not quite a smile. |
| 1:24.7 | It feels like you're my soul animal, so good luck to your soul. |
| 1:27.8 | Heavy weight. |
| 1:28.2 | The first episode came out when I was 12. |
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