Against the Rules is a podcast with 110 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. Michael Lewis’s best-selling book The Big Short is now 15 years old. The Oscar-winning movie based on it came out a decade ago. To mark the occasion, Lewis has narrated a new audiobook of The Big Short. Here on his podcast, he and co-host Lidia Jean Kott are thinking about the legacy of the book, the movie, and the financial crisis of 2008. Michael catches up with the director of the movie, Adam McKay, as well as some of the real-life characters depicted by the likes of Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Jeremy Strong. He also calls up journalists, economists, and historians to make sense of the 2008 financial crisis and to understand how it still affects the world today. PodLexicon indexes every episode of Against the Rules and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on Against the Rules
Sports Betting Legalization and SpreadMorality-Based OppositionNative American Tribal Casinos and Mobile ThreatFanDuel and DraftKings DuopolyParlay Economics and Consumer HarmCalifornia Prop 27 BattleTribal Competitor Failure and Technology GapsFantasy Sports Origins