The Godly Edition
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org, Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and Chris Lehman of the Baffler.
Topics discussed on today’s show include:
-How religion became an industry in America.
-Donald Trump is a prosperity preacher.
-Debt and the American version of Christianity.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.9 | Hello! |
| 0:10.2 | And welcome to the most special edition of Slate Money. |
| 0:16.8 | I think we should call it the godly edition of Slate money because we are going, we are getting religion this week. |
| 0:25.3 | Holy shit, we're godly. |
| 0:28.1 | Exactly. |
| 0:28.8 | Adjectives that have never been discused to describe sleep. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm feeling super godly. |
| 0:33.8 | I feel like we've been doing slate money for over 100 episodes now. |
| 0:38.7 | We've been going for a while, and this is a big gaping gap, a lacuna, you might say. |
| 0:45.4 | Yes. |
| 0:46.0 | Not quite a naporia. |
| 0:47.7 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:48.5 | There's, no, we've been talking about money and money and money and money and society, |
| 0:53.2 | and we have not talked about religion which is a |
| 0:56.8 | key part of how people think about money why people think about the money in the way they do |
| 1:01.4 | and it's a big business and so we have in the studio quite aside from kathy o'ne, the atheist blogger and MathBabe.org. |
| 1:14.8 | And I really don't know anything about religion. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm super interested in this topic. |
| 1:17.9 | And quite aside from Jordan Weissman, the I guess Jewish moneybox colonist at Slate. |
| 1:25.8 | Shockingly. |
| 1:28.7 | And me, Felix Aaron, the 80-year-s senior editor at Fusion, I went to a school which was Christian, |
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