Slate Money - Fist Bumps for Zelda
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2021
⏱️ 57 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, and welcome to the Fist Bumps the Zelda episode of Sleep Money, your guide to the |
| 0:19.2 | business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Fundrise. |
| 0:26.5 | Hello. I'm here with Stacy Marie Ishmael of Bloomberg. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello. |
| 0:38.1 | And Stacy Marie, this is basically your episode, so pick it up and run with it. |
| 0:39.5 | Who is your special guest this week? |
| 0:43.5 | It is my absolute pleasure to introduce Jean Park of the Washington Post. |
| 0:48.5 | Hey guys, happy to be here. |
| 0:49.6 | Stacy, thank you so much for inviting me. |
| 0:52.1 | Gene, we know who your employer is, because Stacy just told us, |
| 0:55.0 | but what is the single subject to which we are going to devote this entire episode? |
| 1:00.0 | It's my beat, video games. |
| 1:02.0 | Stacey's excited about this. Stacey's excited about this. I'm excited about this. |
| 1:06.0 | We are going to learn about video games, video gaming platforms, video gaming economics. |
| 1:12.0 | We're going to learn about the metaverse. We're going to talk about |
| 1:14.5 | NFTs. We're going to talk about community. We're going to talk about |
| 1:17.4 | social this and that. We're going to talk about how many people are playing |
| 1:21.0 | video games in China. We are going to span the world |
| 1:25.1 | we're gonna win all manner of gold coins while doing so it's all coming up on |
| 1:30.9 | slate money. |
| 1:34.0 | Gene, welcome. |
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