Introducing Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2019
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Get ready for the launch of Michael Lewis's first podcast, where he takes listeners from student-loan call centers to the courts of Uzbekistan to the new trading hubs of Wall Street (in New Jersey). What happens when fairness can't be enforced?
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | It started with a feeling, some nagging worry about this world we find ourselves in. |
| 0:16.0 | Steve Kerbs is through the flip board. Steve Kerbs got teed up. |
| 0:21.0 | Steve Kerbs has got ejected. |
| 0:23.0 | A world where everyone hates the referee. |
| 0:26.0 | He was so sukkent kicked about, playful, but that was a can't referee. |
| 0:30.0 | He feels like someone keeps poking you in the back of the shoulder and then saying foul, foul, foul. |
| 0:38.0 | I would never say the things that I do to referees to a person in normal life. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Michael Lewis, author of the Blindside, Moneyball, |
| 0:55.0 | the big short, the fifth risk. This is my first podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | It's called Against the Rules. |
| 1:06.0 | This season, I'm taking you to all the poorly refereed corners of life. |
| 1:11.0 | Look where we're sitting right now, Michael. We're in a crappy parking lot across the street |
| 1:15.0 | from one of the most important capital market building on the globe. |
| 1:19.0 | I just have some simple basic questions. |
| 1:22.0 | Who's going through my trash? |
| 1:24.0 | What do people do it? |
| 1:25.0 | Questions about what's happened to our idea of fairness. |
| 1:29.0 | When you first float this idea, how's it greeted? |
| 1:33.0 | Ha! Okay, so when I first float this time, come on. |
| 1:37.0 | This is the early 2000s and I'm talking about a new government agency. |
| 1:42.0 | Oh, just what everybody's looking for, right? |
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