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Slate Money: Movies: Working Girl

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Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 43 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! Welcome to the working girl episode of Sleet Money Goes to the Movies. I'm Felix

0:20.2

Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Anishimansky. Hello. We have the inimitable and unique

0:28.2

Jolie Hunt from Unt and Gather. Jolie, introduce yourself and tell us what is this movie

0:35.3

that we are going to be talking about. Well, Felix, today's special is working girl,

0:41.8

a classic in my very humble opinion film from the late 80s that was really about someone

0:48.2

trying to make it, in this case Wall Street, but really just trying to make it in the business

0:52.1

world and getting there through a whole host of sexual harassment, idea, poaching, the fashion

1:00.0

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

1:06.2

you can achieve if the fairy tale chips fall in your favor, so to speak. And it's your life,

1:12.2

right? This is basically the Jolie Hunt biopic. Look, I mean, there's definitely aspects of this

1:17.8

movie without getting out my strata various. I mean, I had a parent who grew up in New York City

1:24.2

and a parent who grew up in the sticks and always dreamed of working in that tall building in Manhattan

1:31.2

and living the big life. And so I do think that for my younger self and my current self,

1:37.3

it's a good reminder of why you have to hustle to get wherever it is that you're going.

1:43.3

Jolie Hunt is nothing if not a hustler, so we will join you on the other side talking about

1:50.6

working girl. Hey, Tom Sharpling here, the host of the best show, and if you've never heard of

1:58.0

the best show before, everything you need to know is right there in the title. Each week we've

2:03.0

put on the best live podcast you're ever going to hear featuring live callers, celebrity guests,

2:09.3

music, plenty of surprises. Who knows what's going to happen? Last month alone, we were joined by

2:15.4

Conan O'Brien, Patricia Arquette, Jeff Tweety from Wilco, Nathan Field, or Sinan Archives,

2:21.4

John Oliver, the list goes on and on. So what are you waiting for? Join us live every Tuesday night

2:27.8

on Twitch at 6 p.m. Pacific time and find us the next day on the Forever Dog podcast network

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