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I'm Michael Lewis.

And we're here with a special kind of bonus episode of the Big Short Companion Podcast. Yes, which you've heard because you were there for it live. I was interviewed by

Nicole Wallace at Symphony Space, and you were in the audience. And there were a few wrinkles to

this interview that made it really fun. One, it was Nicole Wallace, and she's a fabulous

interviewer, and I've been on her show on MSNBC, and she has a devoted and large following,

and there's a reason for it. Two was, as we'll hear, an actor came out at the beginning

of the show and performed one of the passages from the book. And he was so much better at reading

my book than I was. And it was, I was mesmerized. It was like I was listening to the thing for the

first time. And the third was that characters from the big short were actually in the audience.

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