Slate Money: Movies: The Hudsucker Proxy

Slate Money

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Business, Investing

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 42 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! I'm here with Emily Peck.
0:23.7	Hello!
0:24.7	And we have the one and only Catherine Bell with us.
0:27.6	Catherine, welcome.
0:29.1	Thank you.
0:30.0	It's great to be here.
0:31.2	Introduces of who are you?
0:33.2	I'm the editor-in-chief of Quartz.
0:35.2	Quartz is a fabulous publication that was originally started by the Atlantic and then became
0:41.6	Japanese for a hot minute and now you are independent.
0:44.7	Yes, we did a management buyout last fall.
0:48.0	So braving the wild of new media, I need to ask you before we get into the HUD sucker proxy how many
0:54.0	SPAC approaches have you had in 2021? That is confidential information. Oh damn. damn. Okay, this episode, we are not going to learn about specs.
1:08.0	We are going to learn about a much earlier form of capitalism with elevators and vacuum tubes and straight lines and
1:15.7	hula hoops and nostalgia and wise-cracking fast-talking reporters and magical black men and all manner of things which may or may not be
1:25.4	problematic all tied up by the cone brothers in a fanciful concoction that is
1:32.2	known as the HUDsica proxy. We will be taking it apart and giving
1:36.2	it grades. Coming up on slate money goes to the movies. So Catherine, do you remember where were you when you first saw
1:46.8	the Hudsucker proxy? I was in my living room. I just saw it for the first time. Oh wow!
1:51.8	Okay so this is this you are new. I just
1:55.0	this one.
1:58.0	this, you were new to the Hudson proxy.
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