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Slate Money Goes to the Movies: Office Space

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies.


Cardiff Garcia, co-founder of Bazaar Audio, joins Felix and Emily to talk about the 1999 cult classic, Office Space. They get into how office life has changed since the movie’s premier, whether Peter would actually make a good manager, and poor, poor Milton.


Email: slatemoney@slate.com

Podcast production by Cheyna Roth


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the office space episode of Slate Money Goes to the movies.

0:18.8

This is going to be a fun one. I know it.

0:22.2

I'm Felix Amon of Axios.

0:25.1

I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.

0:26.5

Okay.

0:28.4

Hello there, Felix.

0:32.6

Oh, you're creeping me out already.

0:36.5

We have a very exciting special guest for this one.

0:39.0

Mr. Cardiff Garcia, welcome to the show.

0:43.5

Thank you. Yeah, great to be here. I'm psyched about this one. It's a good one.

0:55.7

Cardiff, introduce yourself and plug your podcast. I am the host of the New Bazaar, which is a weekly, long-form podcast about all things wonky and economic.

1:03.7

I should make one concession to the format of this show and ask Cardiff where you were, when you were.

1:06.3

Do you remember the first time you saw this movie?

1:09.1

Sadly, I don't because I was a freshman. I don't think anyone does.

1:11.3

I think this is one of the movies, and I think this is kind of interesting, that basically no one saw when it came out.

1:18.8

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised.

1:20.4

I was a freshman in college, and so I wasn't really seeing a lot of movies in the theater anyways.

1:25.3

But what I remember was that by the time this

1:28.1

movie took hold as a kind of underground hit, it was in everybody's mind. It was in every,

1:34.7

it affected everybody's language. So by the time I did start working a few years later,

1:39.0

in an office very similar to this one, it had very similar dynamics at a bank. I was at J.P.

1:44.0

Morgan. Everybody was

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