Pushkin.

Hello, hello podcast listeners, it's Malcolm Gladwell.

I want to tell you about something very special that Pushkin Industries has just released.

It's a new, unabridged edition of Michael Lewis' classic first book, Liars Poker.

And it's read by Michael himself.

In 1986, before Michael Lewis became the best-selling author of books like The Big Short, Moneyball,

and The Blind Side, he landed a job at Solomon Brothers, one of Wall Street's premier investment firms.

Liars Poker tells the story of young Michael Lewis, a bond salesman.

He chronicles three heavy, frenzy years at Wall Street, and he thought he was describing the end of an era.

But in fact, the book describes a lot of the world we live in still today.

I first met Michael not long after he wrote Liars Poker.

He was a friend of my Pushkin co-founder Jacob Weisberg, and I've always said that I learned more about how to tell a story from reading Michael Lewis than almost anyone else.

When Liars Poker first came out in 1989, audio books were still on cassette tapes, and usually just featured a fraction of the original, whatever it would fit on the tape.

The team at Pushkin, who made this new audio edition, is the same team that produces Michael's number one podcast against the rules.

Our version of Liars Poker is unabridged, and features Pushkin's signature sound design scoring and archival news footage from the era.

Okay, enough hype from me. You should hear it for yourself.

Let me play you the introduction and opening chapter of Liars Poker. And afterwards, you can go to pushkin.fm slash Liars Poker or to audible to buy the book.

Here's Michael Lewis.

Joining a chorus of prominent economists, Salomon Brothers Henry Kaufman called yesterday for the Federal Reserve to keep on easing monetary conditions.

All those recent questions about the chaotic stock market today seem to boil down to just one. How high is up?

Preface

I was a bond salesman on Wall Street and in London.

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