Interview · moment 11 of 27
Adam Curtis, Real Housewives, and the 2008 Financial Crisis
from #239 - Anna Khachiyan | The Tim Dillon Show · #239
4 min
Guest
Anna discusses her love of documentarian Adam Curtis and argues that Real Housewives of Orange County is the best cultural depiction of the 2008 mortgage crisis, citing realtor Gina Kehoe as an example.
- Tim's parents left the Soviet Union to escape being compelled to read Marx, so he'll leave America when forced to read Chelsea Handler.
- Adam Curtis speaks to him on intellectual, aesthetic, and conceptual levels, and Curtis is a Gemini like Trump, Kanye, and Azaelia Banks.
- Tim identifies as an Aquarius, which he thinks just means he's full of shit—a good description of himself.
- The Real Housewives franchises offer a genuine sociological view into gender dynamics rather than miserable cultural criticism.
- The first season of Real Housewives of Orange County depicts the financial crisis better than most books: developmentally disabled women owned three or four homes each while their brain-damaged husbands ran real estate empires.
- Gina Kirschenheiter, a fat realtor who was a Playboy Bunny, and her brain-damaged husband Matt bought three houses for their kids and exemplified the housing collapse perfectly.
Real Housewives of Orange CountyAdam CurtisBethany McLean