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Slate Money: Movies: The Hudsucker Proxy

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 45 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. Katherine Bell, Editor in Chief of Quartz, joins to talk about The Hudsucker Proxy. They discuss the heightened depiction of corporate culture, circles, and yet another female reporter character who sleeps with her source. 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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0:00.0

Hello! Welcome to the Hutsucker Roxy episode of Sleep Money Goes To The Movies. I'm Felix

0:21.0

Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck. Hello. And we have the one and only Catherine

0:27.0

Bell with us. Catherine, welcome. Thank you. It's great to be here. Introduce yourself. Who are you?

0:33.0

I'm the editor-in-chief of Quartz. Quartz is a fabulous publication that was originally

0:39.3

started by the Atlantic and then became Japanese for a hot minute and now you are independent.

0:44.8

Yes, we did a management buyout last fall. So, braving the wilds of New Media, I need to ask you

0:51.6

before we get into the Hutsucker Proxy, how many SPAC approaches have you had in 2021? That is confidential.

0:59.6

Oh, damn. Okay, this episode we are not going to learn about SPACs. We are going to learn about a

1:09.4

much earlier form of capitalism with elevators and vacuum tubes and street lines and hula hoops

1:16.9

and nostalgia and wise cracking, fast-talking, reporters and magical like man and all manner of

1:24.5

things which may or may not be problematic all tied up by the cone brothers in a fanciful concoction

1:31.8

that is known as the Hutsucker Proxy. We will be taking it about and giving it grades. Coming up

1:38.2

on Sleep Money Goes To The Movies.

1:40.9

Hi, I'm Danny Dyer and welcome to What's That Smell?

1:47.5

Oh, smokey with a hint of burgers. It's my barbecue apron. Luckily, I can make this smell like freshly

1:54.2

picked lilies. Just pop it in the washing machine, add some surf tropical lily laundry detergent and

2:00.7

oh, my fave. It smells like my dream holiday. Get long-lasting fragrance with natural essential

2:06.9

oils with surf laundry detergent. You can make anything perth of surf.

2:11.8

So, Catherine, do you remember where were you when you first saw the Hutsucker Proxy?

2:19.4

I was in my living room. I just saw it for the first time.

2:21.9

Oh, wow! Okay, so this is this you were new to the Hutsucker Proxy. Are you a cone brothers fan?

2:27.8

Do you just miss this one or are you not really a cone brothers person?

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