Slate Money - Explosive You-Know-What
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🗓️ 25 July 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week: The term “explosive diarrhea” captured the nation's attention, turning all eyes toward the company linked to a major cyclosporiasis outbreak. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss the much-talked about food poisoning story and the PR flubs of Trump-aligned Taylor Farms. Then, the hosts give an update on Trump’s latest attempt to keep his beloved tariffs alive after the Supreme Court ruled his original plan illegal. And finally, they react to the Japanese prime minister’s recent claim of sleeping zero to three hours a night.
In the Slate Plus episode: Is Diet Coke embracing “fridge cigarettes"?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. My name is Felix Salmon. I work at Bloomberg. I am joined as ever by Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:23.1 | By Elizabeth Spires as New York Times. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello. |
| 0:31.9 | And we are going to talk about cyclospora this week and the other term of which it is commonly associated. We are going to talk about the latest round of Trump tariffs, which are kind of fat shit, but that's half the course. |
| 0:39.1 | We are going to talk about Sinai Takichi's sleep habits. |
| 0:45.0 | We have a Slate Plus segment on Coke and Mulder. |
| 0:49.3 | It's a fun one this week, so stay tuned. |
| 0:51.0 | It's all coming up on Slate Money. |
| 1:06.0 | Okay, so I want to start this week by talking about branding. We have like, spoiler alert, |
| 1:11.6 | we have a segment three on branding, which is all about Coca-Cola and Malbara. |
| 1:16.2 | But segment one, I think, is also about branding. |
| 1:17.5 | Isn't that the plus? |
| 1:20.6 | I'm so sorry to interrupt your flow, which was fabulous. |
| 1:23.6 | Wait, segment three is not Coca-Cola and Marlborough? Segment three was the Japanese PM. |
| 1:25.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.1 | Well, God, damn it. |
| 1:27.5 | Okay, so guys, if you want to learn a lot about, Sigmund 3 was the Japanese PM. Yeah. Well, God, damn it. Okay. |
| 1:29.2 | So, guys, if you want to learn a lot about branding, you have to become Slate Plus members, upon which you can learn all about the weird similarity of the Coca-Cola font to the Malbra font and whether that was deliberate or not. |
| 1:40.6 | We are not going to talk about this in Svegment 1, but we are going to talk about a different type of branding, which is taking a relatively recondite parasite named cyclosporro and rebranding it as explosive diarrhea. |
| 1:55.0 | I really thought we weren't going to say explosive. I thought we, I don't know. I thought we were classier. I'm sad to tell you that we have no class |
| 2:03.6 | here on Slate Money. The fact that those two words captured the public imagination in a way that |
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