Hello, and welcome to the Hudsucker Proxy episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck.

Hello. And we have the one and only, Catherine Bell, with us. Catherine, welcome.

Thank you. It's great to be here. Introduce yourself, who are you?

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

It then became Japanese for a hot minute.

And now you are independent.

Yes, we did a management buyout last fall.

So braving the wilds of new media, I need to ask you, before we get into the Hudson Proxy,

how many SPAC approaches

have you had in 2021?

That is confidential information.

We're going to make news.

Okay, this episode, we are not going to learn about SPACs.

We are going to learn about a much earlier form of capitalism with

elevators and vacuum tubes and street lines and hula hoops and nostalgia and wisecracking,

fast-talking reporters and magical black men and all manner of things which may not be problematic,

all tied up by the Cone

brothers in a fanciful concoction that is known as the Hudsucker proxy.

We will be taking it apart and giving it grades.

Coming up on Slate Money Goes to the Movies.

So, Catherine, do you remember where were you when you first saw the Hudsucker

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