Male Mass Hysteria

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Edmund Lee of the New York Times joins Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael to talk about AT&T's massive WarnerMedia-Discovery merger, this week’s Bitcoin crash, and burnout. In the Plus segment: Future media merger speculation. Mentioned in the show: “U.S. Telecoms Decide Focusing on Pipes Isn’t So Dumb After All,” by Nic Fildes, Anna Nicolaou ,and Sujeet Indap for the Financial Times “‘Why the Bitcoin Crash Was a Big Win for Cryptocurrencies,” by Jim Bianco for Bloomberg “The Lie of ‘No One Wants to Work’,” by Gaby Del Valle for Eater Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the male mass hysteria episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business
0:18.9	and finance news of a pretty big news week we saw exactly what's promised in the title a bunch of
0:27.2	male mass hysteria surrounding crypto currencies and bit coins and
0:31.6	blockchains and etheorems and all of that kind of stuff.
0:34.0	We're going to talk about that.
0:36.0	Wait, who's we?
0:38.0	It's me. It's Felix salmon of axios.
0:40.0	It's...
0:41.0	Stop.
0:42.0	Let me just start that one from the beginning.
0:45.0	That was so amazing.
0:47.0	That's good.
0:49.0	All right, it's me, it's Felix Emily Peck, welcome.
0:52.8	Hello!
0:53.8	It's Stacy Marie-ishmail.
0:56.8	Welcome.
0:57.6	Hello.
0:58.6	But most excitingly, this is the Ed show.
1:03.0	Edmondley, welcome back to Slate Money.
1:05.0	Always fun to be here.
1:07.0	Thank you.
1:08.0	We love you on this show so much, and you are here partly to talk about
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