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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In the first episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers talk with Joe Nocera, author of “The Big Fail” about Dumb Money. Can you make a good movie about something that happened two years ago? What’s it like to watch the COVID pandemic on the big screen? Who made money in the GameStop craze? 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	Hello and welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies.
0:19.0	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times from Slate Money goes to the movies. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.
0:21.2	I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of New York Times from Slate.
0:24.6	Hello.
0:25.5	Emily Peck of Axios.
0:28.1	Hello, hello.
0:29.1	And we are going to be talking about dumb money, the movie all about the meme stock craze of early 2021 and specifically the GameStop meme stock craze.
0:42.3	And we have a great guest to talk about this. Joe, I don't want to say that you're dumb.
0:49.3	So why don't you introduce yourself in a glorious way.
0:53.5	Jonah, Sarah, welcome.
0:55.6	Thank you, Felix.
0:56.8	I think the most important thing to say about me is that I'm the author of a brilliant
1:00.9	new book called The Big Fail about COVID.
1:04.0	This is, I'm pretty sure, the first movie I've ever seen, and quite possibly the last
1:07.8	movie I'll ever see, where COVID is a central character in the movie,
1:12.4	lots of people are wearing masks, it's sort of omnipresent throughout the movie,
1:17.5	and the movie, let's just be clear about this, is basically a comedy.
1:21.9	Yes.
1:23.4	And so you have written, the book I'm going to just come out and say, is not a comic book.
1:30.0	It's not, ha ha, wasn't COVID funny.
1:32.5	But this is a comic movie about a pretty tragic time.
1:37.5	Yes, but it's also about a fun, it's a fun story that took place within that sad time, in part because people, all these
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