The Business of Lively vs Baldoni

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week: The Lively/Baldoni PR war has become a legal battle. And it’s not just reputations that are at stake. Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers explain how Blake Lively’s lawsuit against Justin Baldoni and his answering suit against The New York Times is more than just a Hollywood feud, it’s a fight to stay profitable. Then, the hosts discuss the recent ruling that seems to have killed the dream of net neutrality for good. Finally, they examine the decline in drinking that has caused a lake-sized tequila surplus in Mexico. In the Slate Plus episode: Coffee Wars Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Jessamine Molli and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the first slate money episode of 2025.
0:18.3	This is your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:21.6	I am Felix Salmon of Axios with Elizabeth Spires, who has been writing in the New York Times about celebrity gossip.
0:28.8	Hello.
0:29.7	With Emily Peck, my friend and colleague at Axios.
0:34.5	Hello, hello.
0:35.3	We are going to be talking about celebrity gossip on Slate Money.
0:39.0	We will explain the whole Slate Money angle to you and you will be convinced. We are going
0:44.9	to talk about net neutrality, RIP. We are going to talk about the decline of drinking alcohol.
0:51.6	We also have a Slate Plus segment about the rise of drinking coffee where Emily will reveal
0:58.8	her embarrassing predilection that comes to coffee.
1:02.1	This is slander.
1:03.5	I'm going to file a lawsuit right away to make my case.
1:07.0	I'll see you in court, Emily.
1:08.5	But in the meantime, I'll see you on the rest of this podcast, which is coming up on Slate Money.
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