Hello. Hello and welcome to the Blackberry episode of Slate Money goes to the movies.

I'm Felix Ammon of Axios. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires, of

Slate and New York Times and such places. Hello?

I'm here with Emily Peck, Evaxios.

Hi Felix.

We are going to talk about Blackberry, the movie about the company, which actually wasn't

called Blackberry, it was called the search in motion.

And since none of us are Canadian, we have decided to bring in the greatest possible expert to explain all things Canadian to us.

Amanda Lang, welcome.

Thank you.

Amanda, introduce yourself, who are you?

And how long have you been a Canadian?

I've been a Canadian my whole life,

the duration of which I will not mention,

but a while.

A business journalist and currently B&N Bloomberg, but over time in this country was back in the 90s, the tech

reporter for the then financial post, now national post, one of the big papers, so covered research

in motion from pre-IPO days.

So it was with great interest that I saw them turning this fine Canadian book worth a read into a movie.

So okay so this is the first thing we need to know this is an adaptation of a book.

What's the book?

So the book is called Losing the Signal by Jackie McNition Sean Silkoff, two great Canadian

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