Hello and welcome to the trading places episode of Slate Money goes to the movies.

Yeah, we're going to the movies.

We are doing a whole little mini season

of watching movies with a business and finance theme.

We are going to be doing this throughout the early weeks of 2021,

but there is a Christmas movie on the list it is

called Trading Places it is Christmas and so as a little sneak preview the very

first episode of the season is going to be trading places. I'm Felix

salmon of Axios. I'm here with Anna Shimanski of Breaking Views.

Hello? I'm here with Yinka at De Guke of Quarts.

Hi.

Jinka, how old were you when you first saw this movie and what country were you living in?

Oh, now, one of those questions I can say confidently, Nigeria.

I was in my teens.

Let's just leave it there.

Young teens.

We are going to be talking about trading places, the classic John Landis, 1983 Eddie Murphy vehicle starring

Dan A Croixad, Denham Elliot and Jamie Lee Curtis and all manner of other folks including Al Franken, weirdly enough.

We are going to be talking in a very jumpy around the discursive way about the movie, its

acting, its themes, the money, whether whether it's realistic we are not going to be

running through the plot in any kind of useful way so if you haven't seen the movie

go see the movie first and then listen to us.

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