Slate Money: Movies: Trading Places
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 34 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.
In this special holiday preview episode, Felix and Anna are joined by Yinka Adegoke, the Africa editor for Quartz, to discuss the classic Christmas/commodities-trading comedy Trading Places. They talk about the rampant 1980s-ness of it all, what is actually happening with the frozen concentrated orange juice, and how the film stacks up as a finance movie overall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the trading places episode of Slate Money Goes to the Movies. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, we're going to the movies. We are doing a whole little |
| 0:22.4 | mini season of watching movies with a business and finance theme. We are going to be doing this |
| 0:28.8 | throughout the early weeks of 2021, but there is a Christmas movie on the list. It is called |
| 0:35.3 | Trading Blazes. It is Christmas. And so as a little |
| 0:38.2 | sneak preview, the very first episode of the season is going to be trading places. I'm Felix |
| 0:45.5 | Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Anna Shemanski of Breaking Views. Hello? I'm here with Yinka |
| 0:52.4 | a de goque of quartz. Hi. Yinka at Degoke of Quartz. |
| 0:55.2 | Hi. |
| 0:56.1 | Yenka, how old were you when you first saw this movie and what country were you living in? |
| 1:00.4 | Oh, now, one of those questions I can say confidently, Nigeria. |
| 1:04.6 | I was in my teens. |
| 1:06.0 | Let's just leave it there. |
| 1:07.7 | Young teens. |
| 1:08.8 | We are going to be talking about trading places the classic john landis |
| 1:14.2 | 1983 eddie murphy vehicle starring dan akroyd denham eliot and jamie le curtis and all manner |
| 1:21.4 | of other folks including al franken weirdly enough we are going to be talking in a very jumpy |
| 1:27.3 | around the discursive way about |
| 1:29.7 | the movie, it's acting, its themes, the money, whether it's realistic. We are not going to be |
| 1:35.8 | running through the plot in any kind of useful way. So if you haven't seen the movie, |
| 1:41.0 | go see the movie first and then listen to us. Or if you basically remember it, you can listen to this. But if you have never seen the movie, go see the movie first and then listen to us. Or if you basically remember it, |
| 1:45.4 | you can listen to this. But if you have never seen the movie, you will not understand a word |
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