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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Introducing Gambling with Michael Lewis from Revisionist History.

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Michael Lewis, host of Against the Rules and author of Moneyball, The Big Short, Liar’s Poker, and Going Infinite, joins Malcolm to talk about the wild world of sports betting. Then, a preview of Against the Rules season 4, which is legal in New Jersey (listen to find out why), or wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:10.9	Hello, hello, revisionist history listeners, Malcolm here.
0:14.6	I'm stopping by near the end of my book tour because I have a special guest in the house, Michael Lewis.
0:19.5	You may know him as the author of Moneyball, The Big Short, Liars Poker, and most recently
0:24.2	Going Infinite, which just came out in paperback, by the way.
0:27.5	Or you may know him by his alter identity as a Pushkin super host.
0:32.7	Michael's show Against the Rules is now in the middle of a fantastic new season.
0:39.2	It's all about the insane rise and the consequences of sports betting in the U.S. You're going to get a chance to hear one of the
0:44.7	latest episodes in just a moment, but first, I thought we would chat with the man himself.
0:50.4	Michael Lewis, welcome to revisionist history. It's been too long.
0:55.0	I haven't seen you in ages.
0:57.3	I know, I know we need to write that wrong.
1:00.2	So you've done this show about sports betting, and this comes after what, your first
1:07.4	one was about referees and then coaching, right?
1:10.6	The experts.
1:11.7	We sort of set them all in the sports arena.
1:14.0	And this is, you know, we frame this as fans.
1:16.9	And it's sort of like the fracking of the fan,
1:20.4	how the sports leagues have decided to squeeze ever more juice out of the fan base.
1:25.6	And, you know, six years ago, the Supreme Court
1:29.9	repealed a federal ban on sports gambling. And at that time, the NFL, the NBA, major
1:39.0	league baseball, the NCAA, we're all saying sports betting is evil, you know, that it's just
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