The May the Fox Be With You Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon of Fusion, Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann, and political risk consultant Anna Szymanski discuss:
Disney acquiring 21st Century Fox
In Slate Plus: More bitcoin discussion
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Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter:@felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @JHWeissmann
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello, and welcome to the May the Fox Be With You edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:25.9 | It is Star Wars Week. |
| 0:29.1 | Yep. |
| 0:29.5 | Yep. |
| 0:30.4 | Star Wars is a major movie franchise. |
| 0:34.6 | We're going to talk a little bit about that. |
| 0:36.8 | It's like an alien who just landed in New York from Mars, a major movie franchise. We're going to talk a little bit about that. It's like how an alien who just |
| 0:38.7 | landed in New York from Mars or did a major movie franchise. Talking with aliens. I just |
| 0:44.2 | I hear tell of this skylocker character today. It tells me. Well, I mean, I mean, talking |
| 0:50.8 | of an alien, alien is also a major movie franchise. |
| 0:54.5 | It is also. That's true. |
| 0:56.0 | And now the Star Wars franchise and the Alien franchise are going to be merged. |
| 1:02.6 | It's going to be married. They're going to be cousins. I don't think. Although that would be |
| 1:05.8 | interesting if you actually put Luke Skywalker and like one of the actual aliens together. |
| 1:11.4 | I don't think that would end well. Who wins the force? I mean, we've had Alien versus Predator. Now we can have Alien |
| 1:15.7 | versus Darth Vader. I don't see why not. Absolutely. We are going to talk about that. We are |
| 1:20.8 | going to talk about Apple, which also made an acquisition this week, not quite as big as the one that Disney made, |
| 1:29.5 | but an interesting one all the same. And by popular demand, and by popular demand, I mean, |
| 1:36.1 | because Anna insisted that we had to, we are going to talk about Bitcoin. And Nintendo. |
| 1:43.7 | Yes. There's going to be talking about Bitcoin and specifically about Bitcoin futures, which |
| 1:48.3 | have now emerged on the scene and may or may not have made any difference to anything. |
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