Mike Della Rocha

Yet on the streets of Manhattan, there was no sign anything important had just happened.

Now, 15 years after the Big Short's original release, and a decade after it became an Academy Award-winning movie, I've recorded an audiobook edition for the very first time.

The Big Short story, what it means when people start betting against the market, and who really pays for an unchecked financial system, is as relevant today as it's ever been, offering invaluable insight into the current economy and also today's politics.

We were in the car, like a rolling stone came on, and he said, there's a line in there about your mother.

What I would do if I didn't feel like I was being accepted is choose an identity that other people can't have.

What do you do if you've been single for the last few years, you've been on over a dozen dates, on a dozen different dating apps, and absolutely nothing has stuck?

Oh, God.

I accept that you're undateable.

He was talking to me.

Don't butt in.

Jose, you'd have to actually leave your house in order for that to count as like you're trying.

Got it.

Get a date.

You could become a monk.

and take a vow of celibacy to make it seem like it was all your idea the whole time.

Oh, that works perfectly.

I mean, they do have some of those places, beautiful views.

Oh, yeah.

All virgins up there.

Or you could do the most frightening thing in the world, like our listener Rob did, and meet someone in real life.