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Choices We Made: Wealthy or Wise? (with Michael Lewis)

12/13/2025 • 65 min

Author Michael Lewis joins Sam to celebrate the 15th anniversary of The Big Short and talk about if we’ve learned any lessons since its publication—like why we so often conflate wealth and wisdom. They discuss why they don’t think anyone would actually prefer to go back 30 or 60 years if they had the choice, why cutting interest rates mean house prices will go u… Play episode

Act or Direct? (with Michael Showalter)
Outraged or Engaged? (with Patton Oswalt)
Choices We Made: Mother or Father? (with Atsuko Okatsuka)
City or Country? (with Leslie Bibb)
Choices We Made: Caretaker or Comedian? (with Cristela Alonzo)
Earth or Space? (with Kal Penn)
Bread Baskets or Bougie Butter? (with Tony Shalhoub)
Magazine Makeup Artist or Cosmetics CEO? (with Bobbi Brown)
HHS or DOJ? (with Alex Wagner)
Choices We Made: Sourdo or Sourdoughn’t? (with Nancy Silverton)
Introducing: Don’t Listen To Us with Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody
Wealthy or Wise? (with Michael Lewis)
Cash or Card? (with Stephanie Ruhle)
Caretaker or Comedian? (with Cristela Alonzo)
Weightlifter or Runner? (with Casey Johnston)
Bystander or Upstander? (with Governor JB Pritzker)
Actress or Animal Tracker? (with Martha Plimpton)
A Bob or A Buzz? (with E. Jean Carroll)
Hopeful Pessimist or Doom and Gloom? (with Jen Statsky)
Listen or Speak? (with Piper Perabo)
Edinbra or Edinburgh? (with Jena Friedman)
Choices We Made: Comedy or Fascism? (with Josh Gad)
Choices We Made: Attention Seeker or Attention Giver? (With Chris Hayes)
Listen Now: Good Things - How to Fight Back Through Giving
Choices We Made: Scam or Sam? (with Weird Al Yankovic)
Retain or Repeal? (with Elie Mystal)
Sourdo or Sourdoughn’t? (with Nancy Silverton)
Mother or Father? (with Atsuko Okatsuka)
Fight or Flight? (with Senator Elizabeth Warren)
More Happier: Parenting Roundtable with Samantha Bee and Dr. Becky
Run or Retire? (with Amanda Litman)
Real Chef and/or Reality Chef? (with Tom Colicchio)
Listen Now: The Deep Dive with Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael
Community or Chaos? (with Connie Britton)
Scam or Sam? (with Weird Al Yankovic)
Choices We Made: Gourmet or Go Home? (with Ruth Reichl)
Go On With The Show or Go On Home? (with Isaac Mizrahi)
Doom or Democracy? (with Senator Brian Schatz)
Italian or French or Spanish or English? (with Matteo Lane)
Introducing: Pantsuit Politics
Life or Death? (With Yvette Nicole Brown)
Dark Place/Good People or Bright Place/Bad People? (with Tarana Burke)
Moms or Bros? (with Sophia Bush)
Minority Party or Opposition Party? (with Representative Maxwell Frost)
Comedy or Fascism? (with Josh Gad)
Choices We Made: She Shed or Man Cave? (with Kathryn Hahn)
Choices We Made: Make New Friends or Keep The Old? (with Brooke Shields)
Attention Seeker or Attention Giver? (With Chris Hayes)
Choice Words is Pro-Choice (with Amanda Skinner)

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