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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Fair Play And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Netflix movie Fair Play stars Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich as a couple that's young, in love, and hot for one another. At least until one gets a promotion over the other at the hedge fund where they both work, and things get tense at home and in the office. Can their relationship withstand the pull of cutthroat ambition and male ego, or is their stock doomed for a free fall?

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A warning, this episode includes brief mention of sex.

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The new Netflix movie Fair Play is about a couple that's young in love and hot for one another

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at least until one gets a promotion over the other at the hedge fund where they both

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work. Things get really awkward at home and in the office.

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Can their relationship withstand the pull of cutthroat ambition, male ego, or is their

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stock doomed for a free fall?

0:29.9

I'm Linda Holmes.

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And I'm Aisha Harris, and today we're talking about fair play on pop-quarter happy hour from

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NPR.

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Here with me and Linda today is Will and Wong.

0:39.4

She's the co-host of NPR's Daily Economics Podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money.

0:44.3

Welcome back, Whelan.

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Thanks, great to be here.

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And also with us is the co-host of Slate's Icy YMI podcast and former P.C.H.

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producer, Candace Lim, it's so good to have you back.C.H.H.H. producer, Candice.

0:55.2

Oh my gosh, hi guys.

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Hey, hey.

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So Fairplay stars Phoebe Dinover and Alden Erron Reich.

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You might remember her from the first season of Bridgerton and he was Young Han solo.

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Here they play Emily and Luke, a newly engaged couple who were also colleagues at a New York City hedge fund. Now after a senior

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financial analyst is unceremoniously fired Emily's unexpectedly tapped to take

1:19.6

his place Luke is now her direct report. He's thrown for loop and the shift in

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