Slate Money - Fist Bumps for Zelda
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🗓️ 27 November 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Stacy-Marie Ishmael are joined by Gene Park of The Washington Post for a very special all-gaming episode. They get into the massive economy behind video games, the complexities of the multiverse, what games make you a “gamer” and discuss how gaming can actually be really social.
In the Plus segment: What makes a great gaming chair.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Fist Bumpster Zelda episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:21.9 | I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm here with Emily Peck of Fundrise. |
| 0:26.5 | Hello. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm here with Stacey Marie Ishmael of Bloomberg. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello. |
| 0:32.9 | And Stacey Marie, this is basically your episode. So pick it up and run with it. Who is your |
| 0:41.1 | special guest this week? It is my absolute pleasure to introduce Gene Park of the Washington |
| 0:46.8 | Post. Hey guys, happy to be here. Stacey, thank you so much for inviting me. |
| 0:52.2 | Gene, we know who your employer is, because Stacey just told us, but what is the single subject to which we are going to devote this entire episode? |
| 1:00.5 | It's my beat. Video games. Stacey's excited about this. I'm excited about this. We are going to learn about video games, video gaming platforms, video gaming economics. |
| 1:12.1 | We're going to learn about the metaverse. |
| 1:13.9 | We're going to talk about NFTs. |
| 1:15.4 | We're going to talk about community. |
| 1:16.7 | We're going to talk about social this and that. |
| 1:18.7 | We're going to talk about how many people are playing video games in China. |
| 1:22.7 | We are going to span the world. |
| 1:26.0 | We're going to win all manner of gold coins while doing so. It's all |
| 1:30.1 | coming up on Slate Money. Gene, welcome. I feel like we have a whole bunch of questions to ask |
| 1:39.0 | answers to receive on the subject of video games. But for you, at least, most of your games are played on |
| 1:45.5 | a PC rather than on any kind of specials. So there are three consoles, three major console |
| 1:50.6 | manufacturers. There's Nintendo, which we've all known and loved for a long time. Sony entered |
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