Slate Money: Movies: Glengarry Glen Ross
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🗓️ 3 August 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies.
Mary Childs of Planet Money joins Felix and Emily to talk about the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, adapted by David Mamet from his play of the same name. They discuss toxic masculinity in the workplace, short-termism, and why this film kept Mary up all night.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Glenn Gary Glenn Ross episode of Slate Money Goes to the movies. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios and I'm pointing to my long-term co-host here, and I'm going to say, |
| 0:26.6 | what's your name? |
| 0:28.5 | What's my name? |
| 0:29.4 | Fuck you. |
| 0:30.1 | That's my name. |
| 0:35.9 | I drive an $80,000 BMW. |
| 0:38.1 | That's my name or whatever, right? |
| 0:40.7 | But your name is not I drive an $80,000 BMW. |
| 0:43.7 | Your name is actually Mary Childs. |
| 0:45.4 | That's accurate. |
| 0:46.3 | I stand correct. |
| 0:47.0 | My name is Mary Childs, yeah. |
| 0:48.5 | Not quite the same punch. |
| 0:49.8 | Not quite the same punch, but it is a fabulous name. |
| 0:52.4 | And you're a fabulous person. |
| 0:54.0 | And you have |
| 0:56.3 | all manner of awesome stories on the radio, right? Yes, I try to deliver awesome stories. I'm a co-host |
| 1:03.5 | at Planet Money and we do fun narratives that are about like business economics, finance things. |
| 1:09.4 | They're usually capers yet educational. |
| 1:12.3 | This here movie, I'm not sure if it counts as being either educational or a caper, |
| 1:16.7 | although it could probably make claim to both if you really twisted. |
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