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Slate Money: Movies: Thank You For Smoking

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 56 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. Joanne Lipman, author and journalist, joins to talk about the 2005 film Thank You For Smoking. They discuss the terrible trope of female reporters sleeping with their sources, The Marlboro Man, and “moral flexibility.” Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Nike.

0:04.2

It's packed to school season, and you and your child might be feeling a bit anxious.

0:09.0

As a parent, you're the best team mate for your mini-me, and together you can use sport

0:13.2

to help overcome anxiety.

0:15.6

Try something new as a family and celebrate even the little wins you achieve on the journey.

0:19.9

Create long-lasting memories that will take your kids from class to court and beyond.

0:25.5

Go to Nike.com, forward slash kids to get school ready.

0:29.3

Looking for ways to use less fuel.

0:31.2

At SO, we can help.

0:32.8

Small changes we can make today can start to help win the energy challenges we all face.

0:37.7

Like your choice of fuel, making the fuel you buy go further, and even finding alternatives

0:42.4

to using it in the first place.

0:44.4

We call this thoughtful driving.

0:46.8

The journey won't be easy, but we want to start it with you.

0:50.2

Not what you're expecting to hear from a fuel company.

0:53.0

Well, at SO, we think it's time that changed.

0:55.5

Search SO thoughtful driving for changes we can all start to make today.

1:13.6

Hello, and welcome to the thank you for smoking episode of Slate Money goes to the movies

1:22.8

where we watch movies.

1:24.9

And talk about them.

1:25.9

We being me, Felix Amanovaxios, and Emily Peck.

1:30.7

Hello.

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