Slate Money Goes to the Movies: This Is Spinal Tap
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, director Rob Reiner gave the world a band named Spinal Tap. No one knows who they were or what they were doing … except for legendary designer Paula Scher, the mind behind 40 years of music artwork and branding. She chats with Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers about the true stories that inspired the classic mockumentary.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to slate money goes to the movies. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Felix Hammin of Axios. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of Slate |
| 0:21.0 | and New York Times and such places. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello? |
| 0:24.0 | I'm here with Emily Peck, Feccios. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:29.0 | And also, this is the bit that is getting everybody here unbelievably excited. |
| 0:34.8 | We are here with the one and only Paula Share. |
| 0:37.3 | Paula welcome. |
| 0:38.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:39.5 | Paula introduce yourself. |
| 0:41.1 | Who are you? |
| 0:41.9 | I'm Paula Share. I am a graphic designer and a partner of |
| 0:46.7 | pentagram design and I live in New York and I like what I do. And we here at Slate Money, good friends of your fellow Pentagon |
| 0:58.5 | partner Michael Beirut, who's been on the show a few times, |
| 1:01.0 | and who sent us an email a couple of weeks ago saying guys you |
| 1:05.5 | really need to have Paul a share on to talk about this is spinal tap and the |
| 1:10.7 | minute I got that email I was like, well, yes, obviously. |
| 1:15.5 | So that's exactly what we're doing. Coming up. |
| 1:20.9 | The new Samsung Galaxy Z-5 and Chromebook are better together. |
| 1:26.0 | Take hands-free selfies which automatically sink to your Chromebook, |
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