We Buy A Superhero 4: Sellout
Planet Money
NPR
4.6 • 30.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We were toxic last owners. |
| 0:07.0 | She was our pet toxic asset. |
| 0:10.0 | A hundred barrels of crude oil. |
| 0:12.0 | Three. |
| 0:13.0 | Yes we did. |
| 0:14.0 | Two. |
| 0:15.0 | One. |
| 0:16.0 | We have ignition. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, whoa! |
| 0:18.0 | Oh my gosh! |
| 0:19.0 | This is Planet Money Studios from NPR. |
| 0:23.0 | Two months ago, we hear it Planet Money acquired. |
| 0:40.0 | Slash relaunched our very own superhero. |
| 0:43.0 | A character called Microface. |
| 0:45.0 | He had audio superpowers. |
| 0:47.0 | There are three episodes all about this. |
| 0:49.0 | If you haven't already listened, you should go back and listen right now. |
| 0:52.0 | Now what is exciting for us is that that was just phase one. |
| 0:56.0 | Phase one of our project. |
| 0:58.0 | Phase two is where we get to learn how the big boys, your marvels, your DCs, make a fortune |
| 1:05.0 | by taking a silly drawing of somebody in tights and turning it into a billion dollars. |
| 1:11.0 | And we're able to do this because we own our version of Microface. |
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