PM does a pop culture draft: 1999 edition
Planet Money
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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It could be a movie related to business or maybe a song about money … as long as it came out in 1999! Listen to hear each of them make the case for why their team should be crowned the winner!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:05.2 | Hey, Kenny Malone here interrupting, to some degree your regularly scheduled Planet Money programming, |
| 0:11.0 | because what we have today is a special episode. |
| 0:14.3 | It's a sample of one of our recent bonus episodes. |
| 0:18.6 | You can think of this as a fun little holiday treat made up of some |
| 0:22.7 | economic insights, sprinkles of pop culture nostalgia, and everyone's favorite holiday time |
| 0:29.0 | competition, a little good-natured elbowing between Planet Money hosts. But look, this is the kind |
| 0:35.2 | of bonus content that you can get when you join Planet Money Plus. |
| 0:38.7 | If you're already signed up, thank you, truly. |
| 0:41.9 | But if you haven't joined, here is how you can get more content like this. |
| 0:47.2 | Just check out the link below in the episode notes. |
| 0:50.4 | And with that, here you go. |
| 0:52.5 | Enjoy. |
| 0:56.0 | Here, dear listener, Planet Money Plus listener, is a short list of movies that came out in the year 1999. |
| 1:02.6 | All kinds of movies that people still talk about today. |
| 1:05.3 | We're talking The Matrix. |
| 1:06.8 | The Matrix is everywhere. |
| 1:08.9 | It is all around us. |
| 1:10.0 | The Sixth Sense. |
| 1:10.9 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 1:12.7 | The Blair Witch Project, Fight Club. |
| 1:14.3 | You do not talk about Fight Club. |
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