David Sirota Goes to the Oscars

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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David Sirota went from advising Sen. Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign to co-developing the story for Adam McKay’s film “Don’t Look Up,” which was nominated for — among other things — the Academy Award for best picture. It didn’t win, but Sirota was in Hollywood for the big night. He joins Ryan Grim to discuss why Hollywood is so averse to political films, the difficulty of generating interest in the climate crisis, and, yes, the slap.

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0:00.0	A new Netflix film captured
0:04.8	imaginations this holiday season.
0:07.0	Don't look up has become the second
0:09.0	highest stream movie ever on Netflix.
0:11.6	Here are the nominees for original screenplay.
0:14.5	Don't look up screenplay by Adam McKay,
0:18.6	story by Adam McKay and David Sarota.
0:21.7	Everyone's been asking me whether I got the Oscar like
0:24.7	$150,000 swag bag, which I didn't
0:28.5	apparently got swag bag only goes to rich and famous actors and
0:33.0	directors who don't need it.
0:34.2	So that's perfect.
0:36.6	That's everything right there.
0:38.4	It really is.
0:39.4	It really is.
0:42.7	We're joined by David Sarota last time.
0:44.8	David was on deconstruct.
0:46.7	He was talking about his podcast meltdown,
0:49.4	which is about the way that the financial crisis and kind of
0:52.8	more accurately the failed response to the financial crisis kind
0:55.9	of paved the way to the crisis that were that were in now.
1:00.4	So I would suggest that if people haven't listened to that yet,
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