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Slate Money - The Scams Edition

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Felix Salmon of Fusion, emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, and Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann are joined by Call Your Girlfriend podcast host Aminatou Sow to discuss:

Amanda Chantal Bacon and GOOP

Pyramid schemes and Herbalife

Email scams

Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm.

Email: slatemoney@slate.com

Twitter:@felixsalmon,@Aminatou, @Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann

Production by Daniel Schroeder.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:10.4

Hello and welcome to the Scams edition of Slate Money.

0:17.8

Normally your guide to the business and finance news of the week. But this week, we have

0:23.3

an incredibly special guest, and we're just going to devote the entire episode to scams.

0:31.0

I'm Felix Hamlet and Fusion. I'm joined as ever by Anna Shamansky and by Jordan Weissman.

0:38.5

Hello.

0:39.2

The core slate money team, but we are very excited to have in the studio, Aminatu's cell.

0:46.1

Hi.

0:46.9

Introduce yourself.

0:48.5

And what is your podcast?

0:49.5

You have a great podcast.

0:50.5

Listen, so I definitely scammed my way onto this show. How did you do that?

0:55.1

We're all about to find out. I don't know anything about money, except how to spend it and not have a lot of it.

1:02.1

I host a podcast called Call Your Girlfriend. And it's excellent, and you should all download it and use the

1:09.0

sponsor codes.

1:11.6

Yes, please.

1:15.8

Stop buying Casper mattresses off of this show and buy them off of my show.

1:20.6

This is the entire podcast economy.

1:21.6

Just got to summarize.

1:26.1

Listen, you know, every once in a while when I need to buy things, I'll use other podcast codes.

1:28.0

And it's, you know, I'm just like it's, you got it, you got to underground black, black market. Yeah. Or, you know, we also definitely get a lot of advertisers who, obviously, like, want to advertise with women, which is great, but it means that, you know, like some stuff that I really want, like, I won't even name those businesses are all on the dude podcast. And I'm like, ugh, which one, you know, like, where am I going to, which code am I going to use for this thing? So I feel like you got to spread the love around. So, yeah, you can, you can use my code for a rocket mortgage when you refinance your own. I am so excited for when I scam my way into homeownership.

2:01.6

This is going to be great.

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