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Hey, there against the rules, listeners, is Michael Lewis here with some exciting news. I have a new book coming out on October the sixth. It's called Blockers. What's a blocker?
You ask? A blocker is the worst thing you could be.
During the President Trump's second term, especially if you worked in the federal.
Government and wanted to keep your job. A blocker was a holdover.
An impediment, someone who didn't get the message, and most of all, someone who didn't belong. Blockers is, among other things, an inside a look at the early days of Trump's Department of the Government Efficiency, or DOGE as it was referred to, as told by the public servants it entangled.
But that's not all it is. I tell the story of seven.
People who believe they had to call me, who were convinced they were doing something the country couldn't do without, and then discovered that they were no longer wanted. One kept American's most sensitive tax data out of the wrong hands. Another made sure that politicians and civil servants played by the rules. One figured out how to stop wildfires from destroying suburban neighborhoods. Another delivered the cured assistic fibrosis. Oh
and there was also a security guard. You can pre order your copy of the audiobook exclusively at blockers dot fm. That's blockers dot fm. Pre order now, and we'll also send you a code for twenty five percent off all Pushkin titles, including mine like Liars
Poker in the Big Short through the end of the year.