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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're with Michael Lewis from his

1989 debut book, Liars Poker, to his other titles including The Big Short, The Blind Side,

and Moneyball. Michael has this knack of combining statistics and psychology in a way that reveals new ways of thinking about the world around us.

And he is one of the most important thought leaders of our time.

And I'm thrilled. He's here today. Michael, welcome.

I don't think of myself as having many thoughts or being a leader.

But that's very sweet about it.

Oh, you are both for sure.

And I know the drink selection today is the New Orleans drink. many thoughts or being a leader. That's very sweet of you. Oh, you are both for sure. Yeah.

And I know the drink selection today is the New Orleans drink. Yes. The Sazirac. Yep.

So we'll get going. I grew up in New Orleans. And this was, it's very hard to find it made outside of New Orleans the way it tastes in New Orleans. I've never

figured out why. There's variation in the recipe. People will sometimes use herb saint as

opposed to absinthe or they'll forget it's rye or whatever, or they'll just toss Sazirac

whiskey into a jar and call it a Sazirac. Well, I did look it up, I confess.

I've had them before, but I looked it up just to make sure that you and Isaacson and Carville

and the rest of the New Orleans Mafia feels good about the way I do this.

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