This is an I-Heart podcast.

Michael Lewis here.

My book The Big Short tells the story of the buildup and burst of the U.S. housing market back in 2008.

It follows a few unlikely but lucky people who saw the real estate market for the black hole it would become

and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception.

It was like feeding the monster, said Isman.

We fed the monster until it blew up.

The monster was exploding.

Yet on the streets of Manhattan, there was no sign anything important had just happened.

Now, 15 years after the Big Short's original release, and a decade

after it became an Academy Award-winning movie, I've recorded an audiobook edition for the very

first time. The Big Short Story, what it means when people start betting against the market,

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

offering invaluable insight into the current economy and also today's politics.

Get the big short now at Pushkin.fm. slash audiobooks, or wherever audiobooks are sold.

Music ever, audiobooks are sold.

Florence, Alabama.

1988.

A preacher has an affair.

A woman is murdered. It sounds like the beginning of one of the many

true crime series that saturate the podcast world, but when I tell you that I am teeing up the latest

series of revisionist history, you know it's going to be different. Malcolm Gladwell doesn't do podcast by numbers.

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