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Slate Money: Movies: Working Girl

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Investing

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies.  For the season finale, Jolie Hunt, CEO of Hunt & Gather, joins Felix Salmon and Anna Szymanski to talk about the 80s classic Working Girl. They discuss the class dynamics at play, the actual business taking place in the film, and what makes it such an enjoyable fairytale. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello!

0:09.0

Welcome to the working girl! Hello! Alexe, I'm here with Anna Shimanski.

0:23.2

Hello?

0:23.8

We have the inimitable and unique Jolie Hunt from Hunt and Gather.

0:30.4

Jolie, introduce yourself and tell us what is this movie that we are going to be talking about?

0:37.0

Well Felix today's special is Working Girl a classic in my very humble opinion film from the late 80s that was

0:47.0

really about someone trying to make it in this case Wall Street but really just trying

0:51.2

to make it in the business world and getting there

0:53.8

through a whole host of sexual harassment idea poaching the fashion

0:59.8

statements were remarkable and really I think it's a movie about rooting for the

1:04.8

underdog and what you can achieve if the fairy tale chips fall in your favor so to

1:10.2

speak and it's your life right? This is basically the Shirley Hunt

1:14.4

by a pick. Look I mean there's definitely aspects of this movie you know without

1:18.9

getting out my stratovarius I mean I you know I had a parent who grew up in New York City and a parent who grew up in the sticks and

1:26.7

always dreamed of you know working in that tall building in Manhattan and

1:31.8

living the big life.

1:33.4

And so I do think that for my younger self and my current self, it's a good reminder of why you have

1:39.8

to hustle to get wherever it is that you're going.

1:43.0

Jolie Hunt is nothing if not a hustler.

1:46.0

So we will join you on the other side talking about Working Girl.

1:52.0

Okay, Jolie, Working Girl, where were you when you first saw this movie?

1:58.0

How old were you?

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