We Buy A Superhero 5: Hollywood

Planet Money

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4.6 • 30.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In the last and greatest chapter to our superhero saga, Micro-Face tries to make the jump from comic books to movies. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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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, oh my gosh.
0:19.0	This is Planet Money Studios from NPR.
0:23.0	This is it.
0:38.0	The last superhero episode we've planned, but you know, who knows.
0:42.0	You can never truly kill a superhero.
0:45.0	But for now, this is it.
0:47.0	This is the fifth in our series.
0:49.0	And we've explored copyright.
0:51.0	We've explored the public domain, product licensing, and soda pop trade marks.
0:56.0	But Robert, from the very beginning, baked into this series has always been the idea
1:01.0	of exploring the inner workings of the entertainment industry.
1:04.0	And it was inevitable that we would end up at the movies.
1:08.0	Movies are the reason superheroes changed from a geeky subculture into the dominant form of entertainment.
1:15.0	And we were now ready to take microface, the audio powered superhero,
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