This is an IHeart podcast.

Michael Lewis here.

My bestselling book, The Big Short, tells the story of the buildup and burst of the U.S.

housing market back in 2008.

A decade ago, the Big Short was made into an Academy Award-winning movie.

Now I'm bringing it to you for the first time as an

audiobook narrated by yours truly. The Big Short Story, what it means to bet against the market,

and who really pays for an unchecked financial system, is as relevant today as it's ever been.

Get the Big Short now at Pushkin.fm slash audio books or wherever audiobooks are sold.

Coming up on you need therapy.

We tend to internalize things as true, even when they are totally implausible and we really,

really know deep down that they couldn't be true when we've heard them multiple times,

when they rhyme, when they're

written in like legible, aesthetically pleasing fonts, these are things that make us feel

like something is true because they activate processing fluency.

I started to realize that not being an expert isn't a liability. It's a real gift.

If we don't know something about ourselves at this point in our life,

it's probably because it's uncomfortable to know. If you can die before you die, then you can really live.

There's a wisdom at death's door. I thought I was insane. Yeah. And I didn't know what to do because

there was no internet.

I don't know.

Man, I'm like, I feel like everything is hard.

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