The big short

“How How are you feeling on our technically not a Behind the Bastards on Michael Lewis, but basically a Behind the Bastards on Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short?”

“Jamie speaking of great authors 80% of this episode is [ __ ] on Michael Lewis the author of The Big Short”

“if you haven't been following the story and if Michael Lewis is not familiar to you then you probably do remember like the most famous result of one of his novels which is the movie The Big Short”

“all of that the potential all of that had to legitimize him paled in comparison to having The Big Short dude treat you like a financial genius”

“The Big Short is obviously not a Wall Street puff piece but it became beloved by exactly the same people you might assume it was trying to criticize”

“it also came out that the guy who wrote The Big Short has been following him for six months so I suspect at some point it's got that's gonna be fun”

“um he'd probably written 15 books before The Big Short came out right when the markets melted down in 2008 he had written dozens of popular books about Finance about sports about uh you know Tech entrepreneurs and then that moment happened and he was the person to write that book which sold millions of copies”

“My version of what you're talking about is I I I think Michael Lewis was born to write uh the big short. Everything in his life was leading up like his background in finance, all his other books, all his characters”

“but you could also argue that sort of his his development as a writer perfectly intersects with the financial crisis in 2007-2008 and you get The Big Short.”

“you know I had a selection problem that reminded me a bit of the selection problem I had with a big short in The Big Short”

“you know I had a selection problem that reminded me a bit of the selection problem I had with the big short in The Big Short there was a pool of kind of 15 Wall Street guys”

“among the nominations are um Brooklyn by col toyin The Big Short by Michael Lewis room by Emma Donahue which is a really sort of chilling novel and a hard one to adapt and the Martian by Andy Weir and the Revenant which is based on U Michael pun's 2002 novel about a frontiersmen that actually picked up 12 nominations”

“I mean I think maybe the big short I just learned so much um that's my more than just about potatoes yeah that's um that's Michael Lewis's book”

“You ever seen the movie The Big Short? This is what happened.”

“Same in 2007, like the reason the Big Short is such a good movie and a and a good book in particular is because there was only like four people who really actually saw it coming and were able to make money off of the vast majority of the people who do it for a living, they either had too”

“Like if you've ever been seen the big short, they talked about these subprime loans. They had these teaser rates and the interest rates go up and people can't afford them, right?”

“Michael Lewis writes about this in The Big Short you have all of these individuals who think that they are the king or the queen of their Castle”

“Michael Lewis spent forever working on Wall Street, waited and waited and then was able to write The Big Short.”

“or an even more unlikely book to be turned into a film The Big Short Lewis's book about how a housing bubble turned into a financial disaster”

“and he would need to course correct on the Michael Lewis in the first place for how he directed The Big Short”

“Like um like I think about um Michael Lewis and 'The Big Short' which is one of the greatest non-fiction books of all time but also a massive hit.”

“I got my first job in New York at an elite hedge fund in the fall of 2007 you know the fund I worked at got an honorable mention in Michael Lewis's book The Big Short this is my first job out of college”

“and what you're describing with their entire business model reminds me of Michael Lewis's book The Big Short right where these high frequency Traders I mean they are setting up at least in my recollection they're setting up these crazy fiber optic cables to get into these stock exchanges nanoseconds earlier”

“As we were looking at what’s going on in the housing market, I thought about how it’s wonderful, the book's great, and the movie's great as well. A lot of people, when we started this episode, were talking about comparisons, and you pushed back on that.”

“well Michael Lewis's book the big shorts a good book on it”

“there's a a book called The Big Short by Michael Lewis and he basically traces how this all happened”

“have you seen The Big Short where one guy figured something out early and everybody else thinks he's crazy”

“Some of his books have even become some of our favorite movies, such as The Blind Side, Moneyball, and The Big Short.”

“And what's funny is I said that to each of the directors and the writers who have taken the projects on: John Lee Hancock with The Blind Side, Bennett Miller with Moneyball, Adam McKay with The Big Short.”

“And I got lucky to some degree; it was The Big Short when I read that book, I had one of those weird moments where I just knew how it should look and I knew that I was going to break the fourth wall.”

“On August 22nd of 2019, Michael Burry, who is famous from The Big Short, discloses a three percent position in the company and highlights that ninety percent of GameStop's 5,700 stores are free cash flow positive.”

“By the way, you know, that seen in the big short where he's like, this is my quant. Look at him. Asian guys sitting at the table, I feel like Zuck did that with like a Gen Z kid.”

“He did the blind side. He did the big short.”

“Michael Bur, one of my favorite movies is The Big Short, and Michael Bur is this kind of mis mysterious character.”

“So I had a really interesting conversation once with the author Michael Lewis um of Moneyball and The Blindside and the big short”

“I had an intriguing conversation once with author Michael Lewis, who has written 'Moneyball,' 'The Blind Side,' and 'The Big Short.' I asked him about the extraordinary success stories he had studied: which ones remained grounded and appreciated how far they had come?”

“he's the writer of like Moneyball and The Big Short many books and so he was in the middle of profiling this guy when everything collapsed”

“first up Michael Lewis the number one New York Times bestselling author of more than 15 books including Moneyball The Blindside and The Big Short which were made into major Motion Pictures”

“his books include liars poker Moneyball The Big Short Flash Boys and now going infinite the rise and fall of a new Tycoon”

“His books include Liars Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short, Flash Boys, and now, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.”

“Moneyball The Blind Side The Big Short they've all become cultural phenomena turned into Blockbuster films”

“And I think also Michael Lewis, the author of The Big Short and Liar's Poker, I love his work. I'm also a big fan of Richard Thaler, the Nobel Laureate economist.”

“I watched The Big Short probably a couple months ago probably uh I wonder if anybody else watched it relatively recently”

“my favorite uh Twitter feed autism Capital who's been covering this whole story has said that Michael Lewis the guy who wrote The Big Short has been like embedded with him for the past six months”

“and that's why if you ever watch The Big Short you know all these mortgages were highly rated debt”

“so they're calling it the new big short which obviously the movie made about but the difference is that ackman's short took six weeks”

“as we all learn in the big short and so you're not actually betting on it you're wimping out by pulling out your cash waiting for things to happen before you jump back in”

“apparently the big short book I've just heard this right is fantastic”