Slate Money: Movies: Sense and Sensibility

Slate Money

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Business, Investing

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 49 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. For the final episode of the season, author and Slate Money favorite, Taffy Brodesser-Akner returns to talk about Sense and Sensibility….and, in a major plot twist, the JLo vehicle Maid in Manhattan! They’ll discuss what these two films could possibly have in common, the villainization of gold diggers, and why Emily felt Sense and Sensibility was a horror film. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.0	Hello and welcome to the Sense and Sensibility episode of Slate Money goes to the movies.
0:24.0	We have, me, Felix Sanneophaxiosios we have Emily Peck of fundraise but most excitingly we have Taffy brought us at Acna of so many
0:29.7	different places and affiliations.
0:32.6	I don't even know how to introduce you anymore.
0:35.1	Taffy, introduce yourself.
0:36.5	I am a staff writer at the New York Times magazine.
0:40.4	I am the writer of Fleischman is in trouble coming soon-ish to a television. I'm a
0:47.8	member at congregation Beth L and you know an all-round fabulous awesome slate money friend of the pod
0:58.1	we do ask people to suggest movies for this show and you you did pull a taffy and force us to watch
1:05.9	two but then you pulled a phillics and called this the sense and sensibility
1:10.3	addition this is the sense and sens, but yeah, I have to say it got hijacked a little by a terrible movie, which we are about to reveal the other terrible movie that you made us watch in the conjunction with sense and sensibility.
1:24.4	So we're going to compare a good movie with a bad movie coming up on slate money goes to the movies.
1:33.2	Go ahead, apologize to Felix.
1:35.3	I'm very, very sorry that we had to watch this,
1:39.3	but I stand by it.
1:40.9	It's my point.
1:41.7	Okay, so, Taffy, just to be clear,
1:44.0	you are not apologizing for making me watch
1:46.7	the Ang Lee masterpiece, Sense and Sensibility.
1:49.7	I am not apologizing for making you watch the Ang Lee masterpiece sense and
1:56.2	sensibility I am apologizing for the inevitability of having to watch Made in Manhattan as its companion.
2:06.0	And Hafing, why did we have to watch
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