Mike Della Rocha

Your mangoes are fine because mangoes are incredible, but you don't even know.

You don't know.

Michael Lewis here.

My book, The Big Short, tells the story of the buildup and burst of the U.S.

It was like feeding the monster, said Eisman.

We fed the monster until it blew up.

The monster was exploding.

Yet on the streets of Manhattan, there was no sign anything important had just happened.

Now, 15 years after the Big Short's original release, and a decade after it became an Academy Award-winning movie, I've recorded an audiobook edition for the very first time.

The Big Short story, what it means when people start betting against the market, and who really pays for an unchecked financial system, is as relevant today as it's ever been, offering invaluable insight into the current economy and also today's politics.

We were in the car, like a rolling stone came on, and he said, there's a line in there about your mother.

What I would do if I didn't feel like I was being accepted is choose an identity that other people can't have.

I need to ask you guys, do I come off like I seem like I'm better than you?

Sometimes, yeah.

Do you want us to answer this honestly?

It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning.

Yeah, there's some things you don't get.

Yeah, you're a little detached.

I know we talk a lot about my childhood upbringing sometimes, about how I come from a different socioeconomic background than you guys.

Yeah, I mean, you went to the same school as Charlie Sheen's kids, but cool.