Michael Lewis (Who is Government: The Untold Story of Public Service, Against the Rules, The Big Short) is a best-selling writer, journalist, and podcast host. Michael joins the Armchair Expert to discuss his dad’s advice to not waste his education to figure out what he wanted to do for a living, incredible insider art stories from being the stock boy of the Wildensteins’ private collection, and learning that the world is a conspiracy of people who understand economics. Michael and Dax talk about diving headfirst into the bleeding edge of Wall Street in the 80s, getting in trouble (but not fired) for writing an article in the Wall Street Journal claiming that everyone in his firm was overpaid, and how Chevy Chase’s dad convinced him to write his first book. Michael explains being wired to live the life you want versus one the world wants you to, hating the feeling of not telling the reader everything that’s important regardless of the consequences, and taking on the predatory sports gambling epidemic with his podcast Against the Rules.Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard/ now.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Thank you. I'm Randy Shepard and I'm joined by Lily Padme.
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It's an honor to announce our guest today, one of our radical favorites. Thinkers.
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Michael Lewis. Michael is a bestselling author and podcaster. His books, The Fifth Risk, Flash Boys, The Big Short, read it, loved it. Moneyball, The Blind Side. He has a awesome podcast out currently. You could listen immediately called Against the Rules. And this season is all about this pretty troubling gambling epidemic among young men.
And we talk at great length about that in addition to, you know, all of his other great work.
I mean, this person wrote Moneyball and The Big Short, two of my favorite movies of all time.
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