Slate Money - Work is Mid 🤷♀️
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week: Americans don’t care as much about work. They have better things to do. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the prospect of a four-day workweek and what it could mean for the economy. Also: How Liquid Death made water rad as hell, and the uncertain fate of TikTok in America. In the Plus segment: Tanning is back! Producer Cheyna Roth joins the hosts to discuss the rising popularity of tanning salons and self-tan products.
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Podcast production by Jared Downing and Cheyna Roth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to Sleep Money. |
| 0:15.0 | Your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Felix Simon of Axios with Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello. |
| 0:23.0 | With my colleague Emily Peck, Maxios. |
| 0:25.0 | Hi, hi, hi. |
| 0:26.0 | We have a great show this week. |
| 0:28.0 | The big business and finance news of the week is all of the crazy stuff going on around Tik-Tok which the House may or may not have voted to ban. |
| 0:36.1 | We are going to talk about that, but that's not even the first segment. |
| 0:38.9 | We are going to talk about liquid death and branding water and how branding water is now worth a billion dollars. |
| 0:46.0 | And that's not even the first segment. |
| 0:48.0 | We are going to have a whole other segment |
| 0:50.0 | is the first segment about whether work is mid and how work is just doesn't have the same |
| 0:56.3 | attraction that it used to be pandemic. It's a great show we have a slate plus |
| 1:00.9 | for the ages with Shayna Roth all about tanning it's all coming up on |
| 1:05.6 | slate money |
| 1:12.0 | McDonald's are making small improvements to our classic burgers, sealing our 100% |
| 1:16.5 | British and Irish beef patties so they're even juicier. And we're serving them |
| 1:20.4 | hotter for meltier cheese, all in new toast of your buns the classics now a little more mmm comparison with prior classic burgers serves after 11 a.m. subject to availability. |
| 1:29.6 | This episode is brought to you by Revolute. |
| 1:35.0 | Revolute is your perfect travel companion for all things money. |
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