coming up in how to speak money author john manchester talks about the words many people use and whaty mean by some. during this event at the commonwealth club in san francisco mr. manchester is in conversation with michael lewis whose book liar's focal was released this year in celebration of the 25anniversary of its publication. this is just over an hour. >> good evening and welcome to today's meeting of the commonwealth club of california, a place where you are in the know. find us on the internet at commonwealthclub.org or download our iphone and android apps for its programming schedule information and hot gas past programs lose time dr. ruth shapiro of the commonwealth club's board of governors and your chair for tonight's program. notice my pleasure to introduce tonight's program featuring john lanchester, new yorker contributor and author of the new book "how to speak money: what the money money people--and what it really means". john will be in conversation with michael lewis, author of a number of books that involve liar's poker. let me give you background about each of them

manchester city. he's been speak about his nomination this time around to our reporter john bennett. >> it's fantasticy, specially for the african player who's doing very well in his respective league. a couple are doing very well. there's been a lot of football last year and this year. between that, we had the world cup. i think liverpool was in great form. beating all the teams. they beat us in anfield. i think last year was a fantastic league, you know i mean? and at that point, to win the league. it was unbelievable because every player, even the fans as well enjoyed. i've been working a lot, because i would wake up earlier in the morning, training every morning just to be in the top of the top. i've been working a lot, a lot, a lot. i think what is happening, i'm very happy and very satisfied about it because all the work i've been doing when i was young is not for nothing. my family, they've been so happy. after that, it would be quite difficult, you know. after that, i had a couple of injuries. for me, i said, i want to give back. give you, you know, something else, and you know what i mean. it

manchester. looks like clear sailing to denver. >> i'm hoping so, we don't have the domino effect with flight here, for sure. >> thanksgiving with john elway for you? >> hey, still philly fan, absolutely. >> where are you going to see? >> my father, my sister, and family in denver. >> get thereon time. get there safe. >> thank you very much. >> hey thanksgiving. so big smile on his face. philly came in in the top ten, in the most frustrating airport to fly out of, according to bloomberg business magazine. but no frustration here from anybody we met so far today. everything is great here at the united check in, a lot of families, a lot of luggage, a lot of people just happy to get in here and get out of the rain. maybe that's why everybody's smiling here. and people are just from warmer climates. nobody dressed for winter here. everybody must be flying south so far today. chris, kerry? >> can you blame them? >> 6:38. just couple of days away from, well, one day really from "black friday" shopping madness, every year people seem to line up early and early to catch the deals. >> believe it or not, already catching people in line, at lea