Slate Money - Fleishman is in Trouble
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🗓️ 26 November 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by New York Times Magazine writer and Fleishman is in Trouble author Taffy Brodesser-Akner to talk about wealth, class and the media industry, specifically through the lens of the Fleishman is in Trouble book and new limited TV series.
In the Plus segment: what is everyone thankful for this Thanksgiving?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Welcome to the Flashminis in Trouble episode of Sleek Money. Your guide to the business |
| 0:21.6 | and finance news of the upper east side. I am Felix Amin of Axios. I'm here with Emily Packer |
| 0:32.0 | of Axios. Hello, hello. I'm here with Elizabeth Spire and we are going to be talking about |
| 0:38.8 | Flashminis in Trouble and class and money and journalism and we are going to do it with obviously |
| 0:47.7 | the only person we could possibly do that with. The one and only Taffy Brothers at Agna, welcome back. |
| 0:53.2 | It's such a pleasure to be here. Friend of the pod. We love having you on this podcast. We love having |
| 0:58.7 | you on this succession podcast. We love having you on the regular podcast. But now I'm just going |
| 1:05.7 | to ask you to introduce yourself because as we will mention on this show, you have many jobs. |
| 1:11.3 | I have many jobs. I am a staff writer at the New York Times magazine right now on leave for a few |
| 1:17.8 | remaining moments and I am the author of Flashminis in Trouble, a novel from Random House that was |
| 1:24.0 | published in 2019 and its attendant FX limited series which is streaming only on Hulu and which |
| 1:33.4 | debuted this week and which will run a new episode every Thursday until December 29th I believe |
| 1:40.6 | and then after that you could binge it but you should watch it in real time I think. |
| 1:45.6 | We are going to talk about Flashmin. I'm going to talk about the upper east side. We're going to talk |
| 1:49.2 | about money. We're going to talk about class. We're going to talk about journalism. We're going to |
| 1:54.0 | talk about Thanksgiving. It's all coming up on slate money. We have loads to talk about in terms |
| 2:05.7 | of the entertainment industry, the journalism industry, the upper east side and everything but we |
| 2:10.4 | should start with plugging your show because that's obviously the most important thing. It's the only |
| 2:16.8 | thing. It comes out every week. What day of the week? On Thursday. On Thursday. 1201 AM. You could |
| 2:22.4 | watch a new episode of Flashminis in Trouble. Stay up late on Wednesday night and be ahead of |
| 2:27.2 | your friends. The reason why we here at slate money care about Flashminis in Trouble quite |
| 2:35.1 | beyond the fact that we just have big taffy fans is because the whole series pretty much is an essay |
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