mr. mezrich. i really enjoyed "sex on the moon," and i really enjoyed "bringing down the house," and i'm looking forward to "ugly americans." it should be interesting. i had a philosophical question for you about what you referred to as the gambling idea in wall street. i took a beating on lehman brothers, and my pension took a beating in the financial collapse, and i was sold lehman as the idea was 157-year-old or rock-solid company, not a casino. and i'm guessing, you know, you say you like to gamble. i wouldn't imagine that you'd take your parents' retirement fund to vegas to go gambling with. so if you could speak to the idea that these guys aren't gambling with their own money, they're gambling with money of vulnerable people. i'm in my late 50s, and my retirement fund has been beaten up by this whole thing. i know you're a happy guy, but i wonder you could respond to a serious question. >> guest: and i think it's a great question. you know what? i don't want to make it sound like people didn

mr. mezrich, it's an honor to speak with you. i'm very proud of you. i can only imagine how your parents must be. you're a very nice yes han. -- gentleman. i would ask you to comment on mark zuckerberg, basically, exposed everybody's lives to the corporations and has been made man of the year, and julian assange and bradley manning for exposing the the corruption in high levels of government have been made marked men if not national criminals. i mean, they're whistleblowers that are now being held, you know, to a high degree of persecution or prosecution by the authorities which they've exposed destroying our constitution. so i would just ask you to comment on that if you could. >> guest: great question. you know, it's, it's very interesting. zuckerberg and facebook, they really do believe that having your information public is a good thing. i think that mark, i believe that mark believes that a more open world is a better world. and they do profit on that. um, and a lot of people have called them to task for opening up our lives to corporations, but n

mr. mezrich would artur upcoming projects and story lines? >> guest: that's a good question. he is in boston, dwight? >> host: he's an incredible fashion designer who works in boston. he wants me to tell secrets about -- i am working on a project but i'm not yet at liberty to say what it's about. it might be a female named character which would be new for me. i've never written a female main characters of if i write that book next the will be it plame not sure. i haven't decided what my next book is to refine also working on a couple television shows. i have a scripted show that i'm working on and then i have a show, a reality check documentary showed i go inside stories every week, which i have been working on you know how there's always macho guys on tv, the opposite of that. so all of those man versus wild i'm the one who doesn't succeed against the one. like inside the stories every week and try to tell the story. all the stuff people pitch to me essentially and i become a part of its and you can see the story but then i get right out. i don't know what specifically my ne