PREVIEW: Against the Rules Season 2
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Previewing the first episode of Against the Rules Season 2 by Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Big Short, The Blind Side):
It wasn’t that long ago that coaches were confined to sports. Now they’re everywhere. You can hire a life coach or a death coach, an executive coach, a dating coach, even a charisma coach. Journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis asks who’s getting all this coaching, and who isn’t? Lewis brings his wry wit and mastery of storytelling to topics as diverse as sports, consumer finance, college, and firefighting — to understand what the rise of coaching means for all of us.In a seven-episode season, Against the Rules takes listeners from the home of a single mom in the mountains of Colorado, the classrooms of the Harvard Business School, to a data-driven “Bionic Man” facility for baseball pitchers. He speaks with a celebrity voice coach, an analyst who grades sales calls, and a startup founder who's coaching consumers out of credit-card debt. Along the way, he also revisits the controversial methods of his own high-school baseball coach. Through conversations both amusing and horrifying, Lewis explores the rise of coaching in America and what it says about unfairness.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, this is Justin Richmond. I'm really excited to tell you that Pushkins |
| 0:13.7 | against the rules podcast is back for its second season. |
| 0:18.8 | Against the rules is the brainchild of Michael Lewis. The author of a lot of great books, |
| 0:23.2 | but three of which turn into movies I'm sure you've seen. Moneyball, the big short, and |
| 0:28.1 | blind side. Michael's an incredible storyteller and his podcast is no different. Against the rules |
| 0:34.9 | looks at fairness in every aspect of American life. In this season, Michael returns with |
| 0:40.4 | a very special series on coaches. They used to be confined to just sports, but I'm sure |
| 0:46.5 | you've noticed now that coaches are everywhere. Life coaches, death coaches, writing coaches, |
| 0:52.2 | business coaches. You can hire a coach to improve your executive skills, your online dating |
| 0:56.8 | performance, even your charisma. But coaching has also become an odd source of unfairness. |
| 1:03.5 | Just look around and ask yourself, who has access to these coaches and who doesn't. |
| 1:10.3 | Stay tuned to hear the first episode of Against the Rules right here. And be sure to subscribe |
| 1:15.1 | to hear the rest of this great season. |
| 1:19.5 | Welcome to season two of Against the Rules. I'm Michael Lewis. Before we get to where we're going, |
| 1:28.1 | I want to go back for a moment to where we've been. A little backstory from season one. |
| 1:33.6 | The story involves a woman named Katie Highland. She's in her late 30s. A public school teacher, |
| 1:40.9 | wife, mother of two small children. Her entire adult life, she'd been made miserable by student |
| 1:46.8 | alone. She'd taken out when she was 18 years old. I don't see any pay off and it just keeps |
| 1:52.0 | getting harder and harder. And that's soul crushing her state of mind. Well, even her children |
| 1:59.6 | could see it wasn't good. It might be actually kind of painful for her because all of this |
| 2:06.7 | counts with a bill and getting something changed to another thing that's the scene, but |
| 2:15.0 | changing to it. I love you. It feels, well, it does feel kind of painful, right, Mommy? |
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