Andrew Ross Sorkin

Like, by the way, same way, like everybody's probably talking to Trump or Trump today.

And I'm like, oh, my God, I haven't seen it.

And you're seeing the conversation.

And I thought, OK, if you could use those transcripts in an actual story and then you could figure out.

I didn't know if other transcripts existed for all the other characters.

Yeah.

Wow.

You could recreate this whole crazy situation.

But I didn't go into it thinking, okay, this is all one-to-one.

And I don't think it is one-to-one.

I think there's a lot of leverage in the system today, but it's a different kind of leverage.

I like to believe that there's now an SEC.

There's other regulations.

So I'm not here to tell you that we're going off a cliff tomorrow.

I think there's probably some things that are happening in our economy today that do mirror that period.

And I hope there's some lessons in here.

Easy money.

That's the human condition.

We all want more.

You know, there's that great line in, it's Wall Street 2, where I think Michael Douglas says to Shia LaBeouf, I thought the second Wall Street was not as good as the first one, by the way, says something like, what's your number?