I can still remember when I first started hearing people talk about Elizabeth Warren.

It was about a decade ago when she was explaining the financial crisis to anyone who would listen,

including John Stewart on The Daily Show.

Do the banks think they've done anything wrong?

You should ask the banks think they've done anything wrong?

You should ask the banks.

This is when Slate's Dahlia Lithwick started noticing Warren, too.

That's when I remember thinking, this is a person who's doing something different.

And if you recall, like, she was very charming.

Every 10 to 15 years, there's a financial panic in our history. You just look at it.

And there's a big collapse, big trouble, people lose their farms, wiped out, until we hit the Great Depression. We come out of the Great Depression and you say, you know, we can do better

than this. It's just this kind of almost affectless, down to business. I mean, I just,

I remember being so struck by how she could render a late night host speechless, like,

somebody who's paid to be funny and charming just by being like, look, this is all you need to know.

And suddenly the whole world understood financial misconduct.

That is the first time in probably six months to a year that I felt better.

I don't know what it is that you just did right there, but for a second, that was like financial chicken soup for me.

That was...

Thank you.

Back then, Elizabeth Warren was still a law professor with a page boy haircut.

She hadn't run for Senate yet.

She'd just been appointed to a congressional panel that was overseeing the big banks after

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