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Hey there against the rules listeners, this is Katherine Gerardo.

I'm one of the producers on the show.

We're still working on our next season, coming out this fall.

In the meantime, we'd like to share a conversation between Michael Lewis

and journalist author Geraldine Brooks about Michael's new book, The Premonition.

It's all about the experts who saw the pandemic coming and did their best to stop it.

In case you missed it, check your feed.

Michael read the first chapter here a few weeks back.

Geraldine Brooks covered crises in the mid-east, Africa, and the Balkans

as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.

She also wrote the 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, March.

Here, recorded as part of the Live Talks Los Angeles series, is her conversation with Michael.

Michael, your wonderful new book on the back cover has just one quote.

And it says, I would read an 800 page history of the stapler if he wrote it.

John Williams, New York Times Book Review.

Pretty, pretty great quote. You haven't yet given us the saga of the stapler

that you have had a protein range in your work from money to politics,

to sport, to fatherhood, to science and data analytics.

And now the pandemic.

But all of your other books have been looking at events that have already occurred.

And this is the first time that you've written a book where the events were crashing down around us as you wrote.

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