Other People’s Money: Ira Glass on Finding Your Voice
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Michael Lewis did not rest long on his laurels after publishing Liar’s Poker. In the 1990s, he hit the presidential campaign trail, writing a series of magazine pieces. Some of his dispatches got adapted for audio by a then-new public radio show called “This American Life.” Michael speaks with the show’s creator, Ira Glass, about how they both found their voices as storytellers. Trigger warning: this episode contains vintage NPR sounds.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh my God. You know what this is? I printed it out and sent it chapter by chapter to my parents. |
| 0:20.0 | And my mother saved it. And she put them in a three-ring binder. |
| 0:24.0 | Amazing. |
| 0:26.0 | And it says, like, says MNP, mom and pop, to follow what you've got. This is chapter seven. |
| 0:31.0 | And it's the whole book. And she just saved it as I sent it to them in a serialized fashion. |
| 0:37.0 | And I think my father function is a kind of editor for me. |
| 0:41.0 | That's so important to have that. I mean, whether it's as explicit as that or this implied audience, |
| 0:46.0 | someone that you feel okay. |
| 0:49.0 | Yep. |
| 0:50.0 | Like kind of being yourself with. You're not trying to impress them. |
| 0:53.0 | Right. I don't know. I think it's like an overlooked part of writing life, you know. |
| 0:58.0 | Who you're writing for? |
| 1:00.0 | That you want to say something to somebody is where it all starts, right? |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm Michael Lewis. Welcome to other people's money, a Liars Poker Companion. |
| 1:14.0 | This is episode four and we're going to call it, well, let's call it spell bond, |
| 1:18.0 | which is one of the many titles that I considered for the book that became Liars Poker. |
| 1:23.0 | All right. We're rolling. Let's go. |
| 1:28.0 | We're going to need a lot of throat coat tea. All right. |
| 1:32.0 | Liars Poker, rising through the wreckage on Wall Street. |
| 1:36.0 | Do I say this? |
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