Slate Money - The Creativity Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On Cathy’s final episode, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, chat with Derek Thompson, author of Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction. They decipher what it takes to produce a hit in three major creative industries, including:Film and televisionBook publishingMusic
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello and welcome to a special creativity edition of Slate Money with a man called Derek. |
| 0:19.6 | He does have a last name. There is a man called Derek here. We'll get to that. This is also Kathy O'Neill's last ever show us with money, so it's a little bit sad, but it's also happy because we have a man called Derek. Kathy, welcome. Oh, thanks. And I'm Felix Hammond and Fusion, and Jordan Weissman and Slate is here. |
| 0:37.8 | Hello, dearly. |
| 0:38.4 | And we also have a man called Derek. |
| 0:40.3 | Hello, I'm a man called Derek. |
| 0:43.6 | Surnamed Thompson, but we can do the Madonna thing if you want. |
| 0:48.5 | Slate Money with Derek. |
| 0:49.6 | Derek looks a lot like Madonna. |
| 0:51.6 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 0:52.6 | This is the great thing about podcasting is... |
| 0:55.5 | Nobody knows. |
| 0:56.3 | Nobody knows, but it's true. |
| 0:58.1 | Derek Thompson walked into the studio. |
| 1:00.0 | I was like, oh my God, Madonna just walked into the studio. |
| 1:03.5 | I asked her for her autograph. |
| 1:05.6 | We are going to be talking about Madonna, actually. |
| 1:07.9 | On this show, we're going to talk about the economics of, well, all bits of the creative world. We're going to talk about the economics of, well, |
| 1:11.6 | all bits of the creative world. We're going to talk about the movie industry, the book industry, |
| 1:17.4 | the art world because I'm on the show and I can't really talk about creativity without |
| 1:22.0 | wonking out about the art world. But Derek, Derek, why are you the person that we're talking to about this? |
| 1:30.6 | That's a good question. Well, I wrote a book called Hit Makers. Hitmakers, the science of |
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