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🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week: Netflix has agreed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck are joined by the New York Times’ Nicholas Kulish to discuss the ricochet effect of such a massive media merger on the film and television industries. Then, Michael and Susan Dell have announced a $6.25 billion donation to the so-called “Trump accounts” for children. Nick, who has been covering the story, helps the host unpack the motive behind this unusually massive donation and what these accounts represent to various parties. And finally, The Guardian has revealed wide-spread and insidious consumer-fraud at Dollar General and Family Dollar. The hosts and Nick dive into how the massive dollar store chains are ripping off their already financially stretched customers. In the Slate Plus episode: Is Zootopia the future of cinema? Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.
0:12.7	I'm Felix Salmon of Bloomberg. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of the Opinion Side of the New York Times.
0:19.2	Hello.
0:20.2	I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:23.4	Hi.
0:24.1	And we have a super special guest today, the one and only Nick Coolish from the news side of the New York Times.
0:33.1	Thrilled to be here.
0:34.1	Nick, introduce yourself.
0:35.4	Who are you?
0:36.1	Oh, I didn't know I was going to introduce myself. My name is Nicholas Coolish.
0:39.3	I'm a reporter with The New York Times. I have been there now for 20 years. And I have been writing
0:44.5	a lot recently about philanthropy. 20 years. Wow. Now you're really making me feel a lot.
0:50.4	Nick and I have some past history, which if you are a Slate Plus subscriber you will learn a little bit about
0:57.1	because we have a Slate Plus segment on kids movies which is kind of interesting and you get to learn what Nick and I got up to what
1:05.5	27 years ago we do have a main show before that though and we of course are going to talk about
1:13.0	just movies in general and film and TV because Netflix is buying Warner Brothers. So we're
1:19.2	going to talk about that. We are of course going to talk about the Michael Dell $6 billion donation
1:24.6	to kids with American passports.
1:27.8	We are going to talk about dollar stores and whether and why and how they overcharge for goods.
1:34.5	It's all coming up. It's a fun one this week.
1:36.9	Welcome to Slate Money.
1:43.7	Think about cheese.
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