Okay, I’m a chef on a Sunday afternoon setting the night’s menu at a big restaurant. I ordered my fish on Friday which is the mortgage bond that Michael Burry shorted. But some of the fresh fish doesn’t sell. I don’t know why, maybe it just came out halibut has the intelligence of a dolphin. So what am I going to do, throw all this unsold old fish, which is the BBB level of the bond, in the garbage and take the loss?
The Big Short (2015)
ANTHONY BOURDAIN
A screenplay character in The Big Short (2015).
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Sample dialogue
Okay, I’m a chef on a Sunday afternoon setting the night’s menu at a big restaurant. I ordered my fish on Friday which is the mortgage bond that Michael Burry shorted. But some of the fresh fish doesn’t sell. I don’t know why, maybe it just came out halibut has the intelligence of a dolphin. So what am I going to do, throw all this unsold old fish, which is the BBB level of the bond, in the garbage and take the loss?
scene 35, source scene 40 — INT. CHEF’S KITCHEN - DAYNo way. Being the crafty and morally onerous chef that I am, whatever crappy levels of the bond I don’t sell I throw into a “sea food stew.” See, it’s not old fish. It’s a whole new thing! And no one knows they’re eating three day old halibut. That is a CDO.
scene 35, source scene 40 — INT. CHEF’S KITCHEN - DAY
Bookends
No way. Being the crafty and morally onerous chef that I am, whatever crappy levels of the bond I don’t sell I throw into a “sea food stew.” See, it’s not old fish. It’s a whole new thing! And no one knows they’re eating three day old halibut. That is a CDO.