Pushkin.

Hey there against the rules listeners. Michael Lewis here.

I know you've been very patient waiting for season three.

And it's coming this spring.

But over the next few weeks I wanted to share something special with you.

It's a project that I've really grown to love that I didn't think I would at first.

It starts with a bunch of boxes I kept in storage for three decades.

I brought them into the studio here in Berkeley, California.

Not sure what I'd find inside.

And I asked my editor, Julia Barton, to listen in as I opened them up.

This is promising at the top here.

You're looking at a banker's box that says Liars poker scribbled in in messy black ink on the top.

And sure enough you open it and here is

I have here a tattered manila folder with working titles,

a list of all the titles I considered.

Oh, let's hear it.

Fast and loose in the golden years bond fever.

Spell bound.

No spell bond.

That's I guess I thought that was a upon what burn out the empire builders.

Disposable assets.

Other people's money.

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