Hello. Hello welcome to the thank you for smoking episode of Slate Money goes to the

movies where we watch movies and talk about them.

We being me, Felix Sam and the Baxios, and Emily Peck.

Hello. And in this case, an extremely special guest, Joanne Lippman, welcome.

Thank you, great to be here.

Joanne, who are you?

Introduce yourself?

I am Joanne Lippman.

I am a journalist and an author, and I've been a reporter and an editor and

and chief, editor and chief most recently at USA Today

and the USA Today Network.

And before that, editor and chief at Condé Naus portfolio

where I was fortunate enough to work with Felix.

Where you hired me or one of your underlings hired me.

And before that, many years at the Wall Street Journal and I'm also an author.

My most recent book is that's what she said,

which is about how to close the gender gap at work.

So we are going to have a lot of gender politics

to talk about in this show.

There is some problematic representation

of female journalists in this movie, but there's lots of other stuff going on.

Ivan Reitman's movie of Thank You for Smoking from the book by Chris Buckley.

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