The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the panic edition of Slate Money your guide to the

business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

I'm joined by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.

Hello.

We were just talking about your parent company writing down billions of dollars worth of media assets. We might talk about that later. I am joined by Anna Schmanski who is the only person in the studio who does not work for a media company.

She's feeling quite smug about this and we are also joined by the one and only Josh Durango.

Hi Josh, it has had a storied career in the content business, including many years at Time Inc, editor of Business Week, and now

something at Vice. That is the official title yes. And also has a fabulous executive producer credit on a movie that we are going to talk about.

So it's going to be a media heavy episode this week.

We're going to talk about with a financial media.

We're going to talk about with a media in general. And we're going to talk about whether media in general when we're

going to talk about whether the media just all we can talk a little bit about

the financial crisis in the media and the intersection thereof, especially in light of this dog.

So all of that is coming up on slate money.

Let's start with this movie.

It's called Panic and it's and I watched it on

HBO and it was produced by Josh Durango and it is something to do with Vice and

there are many brands going on here and you managed to get lots of important people on the

telly to talk about the financial crisis.

That is all true.

Yeah, I mean basically this came about because Vice has an agreement with

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