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Against the Rules: The Big Short Companion

The Premonition

Against the Rules: The Big Short Companion

Pushkin Industries

Business, Sports, Society & Culture

4.49.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this special bonus episode of Against the Rules, Michael Lewis reads a chapter from his new book about the pandemic, The Premonition —available now wherever books are sold. This episode includes the voice of Charity Dean, former Assistant Director of the California Department of Public Health and one of the medical visionaries featured in the book. And stay around for an exclusive author interview. 

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:07.0

It all started with two federal agents who heard a rumor.

0:10.0

It all started with two federal agents who heard a rumor.

0:15.0

She mentions, well, there is this alleged murder to have taken place.

0:21.0

There was.

0:23.0

They had no clue who the victim was.

0:26.0

We have to do our job, and we have to find out who did they kill.

0:32.0

It had been 15 years since this alleged murder. Was it still possible to unearth the truth?

0:44.0

I used to watch the unsolved mystery shows and I often thought about calling because I was like this is this is not right. How can the person

0:55.7

get killed and no one knows anything? I'm Jake Halpern and this is Deep Cover The Nameless Man.

1:05.0

Listen wherever you get your podcasts and if you want to hear the entire season right now,

1:09.6

ad free, subscribe to Pushkin Plus on our Apple podcast show page, or on Pushkin.

1:15.0

F.M. slash Plus. Hey against the rules listeners, this is Catherine Girardot. I'm one of the producers on the show. We're hard at work on season 3, which will come out this fall.

1:39.0

Meanwhile, like most of us, our host Michael Lewis spent a lot of the last year

1:43.4

cowering in his home, trying to find solace in Netflix and

1:47.4

take out from his local deli. But unlike most of us,

1:51.0

he also wrote a book during the pandemic.

1:54.3

He wanted to report on people who saw it coming

1:57.0

and did their best to stop it.

2:01.0

The book is called The Premonition, and we got him to read a chapter of it just for you.

2:07.0

A heads up, it contains some salty language and a somewhat graphic medical scene.

2:15.0

Anyway, here's Michael.

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