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🗓️ 15 August 2020
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Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Anna Szymanski are joined by Edmund Lee of the New York Times to discuss Fortnite versus Apple, the reliability of statistics, and the life of Sumner Redstone.
And in the Plus segment: Stock splits.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Welcome to the YNFU edition of Slate Money or Guide to the Business and Finance |
| 0:19.7 | News of the Week. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios Capital, the rebranded newsletter, formerly known as Axios Edge. |
| 0:32.0 | I am here with Anna Shemansky of Breaking Views. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost. |
| 0:37.7 | Hello. |
| 0:47.8 | And on a big week in media news, we are joined by Slate Money's favorite media person in the world. |
| 0:49.8 | Mr. Ed Lee of the New York Times. |
| 0:50.5 | Welcome. |
| 0:52.1 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:55.0 | You had a lot of words in the New York Times today. |
| 0:58.7 | A lot of them were Sumner Redstone obit. |
| 1:03.3 | And we are going to talk to you about Sumner Redstone and the degree to which he was the model for Logan Roy and Succession and various other aspects of the Viacom, CBS Empire. |
| 1:10.2 | We are going to talk about statistics, which are more |
| 1:13.7 | interesting than you might think, or certainly less reliable than you might think. |
| 1:17.3 | We are going to talk about Epic and Fortnite and what the big anti-monopolistic move is in |
| 1:27.0 | terms of the app stores in Apple and Google. |
| 1:30.3 | We are going to have a Slate Plus segment on Stock Splits. |
| 1:33.2 | This is a big fun show, and because it has Edley on it, it's absolutely awesome. |
| 1:37.7 | So stick around. |
| 1:39.0 | It's all coming up on Slate Money. |
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