Pushkin. Hey, there against the Rules listeners. We'll be back with a new season in April. Until then, here's a preview of a special project that we've been working on. I was twenty seven years old when I wrote my first book. It was called Liars Poker. His friends thought he was crazy when he quit in nineteen eighty seven to write a book. They were wrong. The book Liars Poker hit the New York Times bestseller list, and Michael Lewis never went back to work on Wall Street. Now
he just writes about it. I'm Michael Lewis, and it's true. I never went back to Wall Street, except of course, to write about its ups and downs. I also actually never reread Liars Poker until now, but now I'm releasing it for the first time as an unabridged audio book with Pushkin Industries. Here's how it starts. I was a bond sales on Wall Street and in London, working beside the traders at Solomon Brothers. Put me, I believe at the epicover of one of those events that helped to
define an age. Traders are masters of the quick killing, and a lot of the killings. In the past ten years or so, had been quick, and Solomon Brothers was indisputably the king of traders. While we were in the
studio making the audiobook, I kept interrupting myself. Sometimes I was annoyed with my younger self as a writer, but also I had so many questions, questions about what had happened to the people I wrote about, for example, and why did Wall Street keep getting more crazy not less after the events I described, so I called up a bunch of my former colleagues from Wall Street. I also spoke with Ira Glass and George Saunders about how writers find their voices, and all of this has come together
as a podcast miniseries called Other People's Money. Think of it as a companion piece to the book. It was a good time for you to write that book and me to be forced to leave. Did you feel like you were forced to leave by the book? Yeah? Yeah, absolutely. If you'd told me that Solomon Brothers in nineteen eighty nine was a kind of golden age for women, you would not have expected that, would you? You hate the young Michael Lewis you hate twenty seven year old you?
Twenty seven year old me has got serious character defects that are coming through between every line. Other people's money is coming soon right here in this feed, so keep an ear on it, don't go anywhere, and you'll be able to find this new and for the first time wholly unabridged Liars Poker audiobook at Pushkin dot Fm Slash Liar's Poker and also at Autumn Wall You were the wolf of Wall Street. It was like the antelope of
Wall Street or the rabbit of Wall Street. I was I was not the wolf of Wall Street.