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🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies.
Lizzie O'Leary, host of Slate’s What Next TBD, joins to talk about Margin Call, the 2011 drama about the financial crisis. They’ll talk about how realistic the film is, the nuanced depiction of the people behind the crisis, and Lizzie’s experience as a political reporter covering the real thing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to the margin call episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm here with Anna Shamansky. |
| 0:23.4 | Hello. |
| 0:24.0 | And I'm here with Lizzie O'Leary of Slate and various other places. |
| 0:31.4 | Yeah, that's good enough. |
| 0:32.4 | That's me. |
| 0:33.0 | Hi. |
| 0:33.7 | Hi, Lizzie. |
| 0:34.2 | What are you up to these days? |
| 0:35.6 | I host another podcast for Slate called What Next TBD, which is the Friday show about tech and power and the future. |
| 0:43.8 | And you have picked margin call. I picked margin call. We are going to go into a lot of detail about margin call, but you picked it because you like this movie, right? I do like this movie. |
| 0:55.5 | I think it's incredibly well-acted. |
| 0:57.9 | I apologize for the Kevin Spacey aspect of this movie. |
| 1:02.7 | But I've liked this movie since I first saw it because it's sort of dark and weird. |
| 1:09.0 | And it's like a bottle episode of a movie. Everything takes place in this |
| 1:12.5 | very compressed timeline with high stakes and not too much explanation, which is something I tend to |
| 1:20.7 | go for. It isn't larded down with extraneous exegesis. No, and it's not preachy. And it's not |
| 1:26.9 | preachy. So we are going to unpack a lot of what happens in margin call. |
| 1:31.2 | We're going to talk about which bank the bank is, how realistic it is, and even start talking |
| 1:37.1 | about like bigger picture, war tales of Lizzie O'Leary's time as a Capitol Hill reporter back in the day. All of that coming up on |
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