Hello, welcome to the big short episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies.

I'm Felix Ammon of Axios.

I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.

Hello, hello.

And we are doing something we haven't done on slate money goes to the movies here on two,

which is basically talk about it's not a

documentary but it's not not a documentary it's it's a kind of true story the

big short adapted by Adam McKay from the very, very true story written by Michael Lewis and put out in book form.

And the man who brought it to us is Kurt Anderson welcome happy to be here

Kurt Welcome back we will happily have you on to talk about absolutely anything or or nothing do you have something you want to plug? Sure, everything I've ever done.

You know, the books are still selling, the podcasts are still available, so yeah.

Read Kurt's novels Stefan.

Yeah well you know thank you and and one of them the first one actually called

turn of the century is you know connected to this world a bit so yeah

Kurt Anderson.com just gamble in my ooh. It's not a much of a gamble.

Why did you why did you pick this movie? I almost never see movies more than once. So I thought, well, that was a good movie and you hadn't done it on this program before. And I'd like to see it again. It was one of the few ones left. Yeah. I'd like to see it again.

I'd like to see it again and I remember it being pretty remarkable, pretty remarkably good and

you know who knows you know eight years later a lot of water under the bridge since then you

know in addition to all of my feelings and thoughts about it then and now again from

we're watching it I it was just a pleasure to rewatch it.

So we will start right there.

Coming up on slate money goes to the movies.

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