Slate Money Goes to the Movies: Barbie
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Movies series, the gang talks with Slate’s Cheyna Roth about Barbie. Is Barbie an anti-capitalist movie? Does Ryan Gosling steal too much of the show? And what message does Barbie’s success send to Hollywood?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies and oh boy do we have a corker of a movie with which we are kicking off |
| 0:23.9 | this season. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. Hey Barbie. I'm here |
| 0:32.6 | with Elizabeth Spires of all over the place. Hi, Barbie. |
| 0:49.7 | Yes, and we are talking Barbie, and we have a truly Barbilicious, perfectly wonderful, brilliant, perfect person to talk Barbie with. |
| 0:54.9 | You've heard her name on this show many times in the past, but you've never heard her voice. |
| 0:56.2 | Shana Roth. |
| 0:56.8 | Hey, Barbie. |
| 1:01.8 | I was thinking maybe I should go with a hey, Ken, just to be different, but. |
| 1:04.7 | Shana, introduce yourself. |
| 1:05.3 | Who are you? |
| 1:07.3 | I am Shana Roth. |
| 1:09.4 | I am a senior producer at Slate. I produce The Waves, which is Slate's |
| 1:13.2 | Gender and Feminism Show. I also pretty frequently host the Waves, including The Waves' |
| 1:18.5 | as really exciting Barbie episode. It wasn't necessarily about the movie, but it was about the |
| 1:24.0 | history of Barbie and Barbie as a feminist icon. |
| 1:32.0 | I also jump around on different shows across the Slate Network, |
| 1:35.2 | either producing or guesting or guest hosting. |
| 1:37.3 | And so, yeah, I'm kind of all around at Slate. |
| 1:39.7 | A woman of many talents. |
| 1:43.1 | We are extremely excited to have you on the show. |
| 1:58.2 | And because this is Slate Money, I think I'd like to start by asking you, what is your opinion of how capitalism is, you know, comes across in this movie? |
| 2:01.2 | Is this a pro-capitalist movie? Is this a pro-capitalist movie? |
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