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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this episode of the Movies series, the Slate Money gang talks with BNN Bloomberg’s Amanda Lang about “BlackBerry”. Are there really vampires in Waterloo, Ontario? Why are all movie business guys just people who yell? If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and an additional segment of our show every week. You’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Patrick Fort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's.
0:03.0	Then there are days when you're Big Arch hungry for McDonald's.
0:08.0	You'll get to know the difference.
0:10.0	New Big Arch for Big McDonald's hunger.
0:13.0	Until 9th of September, from 11 AM,
0:17.0	participating restaurants only, subject to availability.
0:42.2	Hello and welcome to the Blackberry episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies.
0:43.9	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.
0:49.3	I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of Slate and New York Times and such places.
0:49.6	Hello.
0:53.0	I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:55.0	Hi, Felix. We are going to talk about Blackberry, the movie about the company, which actually wasn't called BlackBree.
1:02.0	It was called Research in Motion.
1:04.0	And since none of us are Canadian, we have decided to bring in the greatest possible expert to explain all things Canadian, all things
1:12.9	Canadian to us. Amanda Lang, welcome.
1:16.9	Thank you. Amanda, introduce yourself. Who are you? And how long have you been a Canadian?
1:21.5	I've been a Canadian my whole life, the duration of which I will not mention, but a while.
1:28.8	Business journalist and currently BNN Bloomberg, but over time in this country, was back in the 90s,
1:38.7	the tech reporter for the then Financial Post, now National Post, one of the big papers,
1:43.2	so covered research in motion from pre-IPO days.
1:47.3	So it was with great interest that I saw them turning this fine Canadian book worth a read
1:52.4	into a movie.
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