The Mrs. Watanabe’s Favorite Podcast Edition
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Anna, Emily, and Felix discuss Spotify buying the podcast company Gimlet, the wild labor expectations for women in Japan, and what your savings account might be earning.
To hear the episode referenced with Alex Blumberg, check out the March 28, 2015 episode of Slate Money entitled "The Podcast Podcast." The moment Felix references starts at 34:00.
In the Slate Plus segment: The Jeff Bezos/National Enquirer/Nude Selfie/Extortion...situation.
Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Mrs. Watanavi's favorite podcast edition of Slate Money, |
| 0:18.8 | your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:21.7 | We had a mega bank merger this week, which we are not going to talk about. |
| 0:26.3 | So if you're interested in North Carolina banking institutions, maybe go somewhere else for that. |
| 0:32.7 | I don't know. |
| 0:33.2 | But actually don't. |
| 0:34.4 | Stick around here because we had to bump that for even more awesome |
| 0:40.3 | podcasty content, foremost among which is podcasty content. We are going to talk all about |
| 0:48.1 | the podcasty content, M&A space, Spotify is trying to do amazing things in podcasts and various awesome people in Brooklyn |
| 0:58.5 | have managed to get rich as a result. So we're all very happy about this. We are going to talk |
| 1:03.8 | about women in Japan and how much they're working both inside and outside the office and whether that's ever going to change. |
| 1:13.8 | We are going to talk about savings rates. |
| 1:17.2 | And did you know that you can actually just keep your money in the bank in a savings account and get like 2.5% on it, which is amazing. |
| 1:25.2 | And you haven't been able to do that for years. |
| 1:34.3 | Is this something that you will be able to expect from your local high street bank or not? We're going to talk about that. We are even going to talk about Jeff Bezos and David |
| 1:41.7 | Pecker in Slate Plus. You're going to want to stick around for that one because Emily is going to make you laugh. |
| 1:48.0 | And all of which is coming up on Slate Money. But first I should introduce us because this is important. In case you are not a regular listener to the show, I am Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 2:04.0 | Emily is... I'm Emily Peck of the Huffington Post. |
| 2:07.0 | And Anna is... Anna is... Anna Schmanowski. |
| 2:09.1 | And between the three of us, we are Slate Money, I guess. Well done us. |
| 2:14.5 | Emily Peck. |
| 2:15.6 | Hello. |
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