How to Use Ryan Gosling in an Ugly Wig to Explain the Financial Crisis
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Adam McKay, director of The Big Short and a fellow podcaster, joins us to talk about the sense of anger— but also humor— that led him to make the financial crisis film The Big Short, and why he absolutely had to bring in Anthony Bourdain to help him do it. From there we’re joined by Vanity Fair’s executive West Coast editor Krista Smith to dig into Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, which is just one of two movies this Christmas about men killing each other in the snow. Finally we go big before we go home and weigh on whether Leonardo DiCaprio is a lock to win the best actor category.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to Little Gold Men, an award season podcast from Vanity Fair and Panoply. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Katie Rich, the Hollywood editor of Vanity Fair. com, and I'm here with vanity fair's digital director, Mike Hogan. |
| 0:16.0 | Hi Katie. |
| 0:17.0 | And vanity fair's film critic Richard Lawson. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello. |
| 0:20.0 | This week we're talking to Adam McKay, who is the director of The Big Short, as well as a fellow |
| 0:24.2 | podcast host as one half of the team behind Gimlet Surprisingly Awesome. |
| 0:28.5 | But today we're going to focus on The Big Short, which was a late arrival in award season, but has popped up on many top 10 lists and with a lot of major awards |
| 0:36.4 | nominations from groups like the Golden Globes and the Sag Awards. |
| 0:39.6 | So yeah, we kind of want to know how that feels. From there we'll be joined by our friend fellow |
| 0:44.0 | Vanity Fair staffer and returned guest Krista Smith who will join us to talk |
| 0:48.2 | about Quentin Tarantino's The Hatful Eight, which stars last week's guest |
| 0:51.8 | Jennifer Chasing Lee along with a very large other |
| 0:54.1 | cast and is a very elaborate Western one of two of them that are opening over the |
| 0:58.3 | holidays and finally we'll go big before we go home and predict who we think will win best actor. |
| 1:04.0 | Everyone can see that there's a real estate bubble. |
| 1:08.0 | Actually no one can see a bubble. That's what makes it a bubble. |
| 1:11.0 | That's dumb, Lawrence. It's always markers. Mortgage fraud, |
| 1:15.2 | quintupled since 2000 and the average take-home pay. It's flat, but home prices are soaring. |
| 1:21.6 | That means the homes are debt, not assets. |
| 1:23.8 | So Mike Burry, a guy who gets his haircut at supercuts and doesn't wear shoes, |
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