Slate Money - The Not So Super League
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Peter Thal Larsen of Breakingviews joins Felix Salmon and Emily Peck to talk about the mess with soccer’s Super League, what happened with Greensill, and the state of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.
In the Plus segment: Immersive Vincent Van Gogh exhibits.
Mentioned in the show:
“They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War,” by Andy Greenberg for Wired.
“Dueling Van Gogh Exhibits Cause Confusion Across America,” by Selene San Felice for Axios.
Email: slatemoney@slate.com
Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.
Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the not-so-super league episode of Slate Money, your guide to the |
| 0:18.8 | Business and Finance News of the week, which this week means |
| 0:23.3 | football, real football, not American football. |
| 0:26.7 | I am Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:29.4 | I am joined by Emily Peck. |
| 0:32.1 | Hello. |
| 0:32.9 | And I'm also joined, I'm quite excited about this, by Peter Thel Larson. |
| 0:39.0 | Peter, introduce yourself, who are you, and what is your affiliation? |
| 0:43.0 | So I'm Peter Thalas. I'm the Emir editor at Reuters Breaking Views, which is the commentary arm of the global news organization. |
| 0:51.7 | And you are an Arsenal supporter? |
| 0:53.8 | I am for my sins, yes. |
| 0:55.4 | I do not understand this, but we will talk about soccer, Arsenal, and the crazy plan they cooked up with 11 other teams to break off and form a Super League. |
| 1:08.2 | A very important plan, we have to say, it didn't last very long. We're going to |
| 1:11.1 | talk about that. We're going to talk about Lex Greensill, the financier who went spectacularly |
| 1:17.8 | belly up in the UK and all across Europe and try and work out what the hell happened there. |
| 1:23.6 | We are going to talk about COVID in Europe and why and whether the European countries are going to be able to get it under control. |
| 1:31.0 | We are going to talk about the most popular, immersive, experiential artist in the world in the Slate Plus. |
| 1:40.4 | It's a lot coming up this week, all on Slate Money. Let's talk about the Super League. I love the |
| 1:49.4 | Super League. It's super. It's the most super thing to happen in the history of soccer, which I have to |
| 1:56.0 | call it because I'm now American and most of our listeners are American. And if I called it |
| 2:00.1 | football, they would think I was talking about something with an oval wall. |
| 2:02.8 | The Super League is not a Marvel movie, which is what I thought it was for several hours. |
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