Hello and welcome to the There Will Be Blood episode of Slate Money goes to the movies.

I'm Felix Simon of Axios, I'm here with Anna Shimanski.

Hello? And I'm also here with my multi-talented colleague Naila Boodoo.

Naila, welcome.

Thank you. Thanks for having me. Tell us about yourself.

So I have a morning news podcast called Axios Today, which everyone who pays any

attention to Axios knows we are all all about Smart Brevity so it's a

10 minute morning news show that comes out every weekday morning and my

background is as you know Felix I am also a alum of Reuters and started in the business world and spent years as a business reporter before I moved into audio and public broadcasting and now podcasting.

Wow, all three of us have worked for Reuters.

All three of us have a background in business journalism.

All three of us have watched There Will Be Blood, the 2007 Ball Thomas Anderson movie,

which we are about to talk about.

spoiler alert, we didn't love it, but it is an interesting movie all the same.

Stay tuned for that and especially for Anna Chamansky teaching us all about Christian iconography.

Who knew the depths that she had? All of that coming up on slate money goes to the movies.

Okay so Nyla, most of our guests on this mini season

of Slate Money have picked a film that was dear to their hearts and that they saw in their childhood and that has lived

in their soul for decades, this is not the case with you.

This is not trading places.

So, had you ever even seen this movie before like this week? I had not seen this before two days ago.

So the first question has to be what possessed you to pick

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