Someone eventually unlocks the door and leads me down a hall filled with a lot of old basketball stuff- jerseys and bobbleheads and basketballs and posters of Michael Jordan. The Replay Center was built to persuade people that life was fair. Inside, a recent concession to the world we live in- the Replay Center, a place where basketball referees review the calls made by other basketball referees in real time, to minimize referee error. There's a discreet little sign here that says NBA and shows a logo with a basketball player. And we're approaching a four-story, rectangular, otherwise nondescript concrete building.
It's like what people think about when they tell jokes about New Jersey. And we're surrounded on all sides by freeways. And there are chain hotels and motels in someone's idea of a mall. So we're walking across a parking lot in Secaucus, New Jersey. Before you hate me for saying that, give me a moment to show why.
If there's one thing that unites Americans just now, it's their belief that the refs suck- which is weird, because they almost certainly suck less than ever before. The first episode is about people not trusting the refs in the most literal sense of that. And Michael has adapted a version of their very first episode for us to play for you right now. Michael Lewis has not published this reporting that he's been doing on this in a new book. So many people feel that the figures of authority, charged with enforcing rules impartially, keeping everybody on a level playing field, that they're failing at their jobs. I mean, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump both ran on that. So many people today feel the system is rigged. I'm talking about police, Supreme Court justices, journalists, the people who regulate the banks and Wall Street and student loans, the people setting medical costs, judges. And he noticed that one way you can describe the current moment that we're all living through is that Americans don't trust the refs- in all walks of life. The journalist Michael Lewis, who wrote Moneyball and The Big Short and lots of other books and who contributes to our program now and then, he was looking around at what's going on in America these days.
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