Encore: The Murdochs | There’s Something About Wendi | 84
Even the Rich
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🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Rupert becomes the hopeless cliche of a much older rich man caught up in a whirlwind romance with a younger woman who works for him. He sees a chance at happiness, but his kids see something else entirely — a threat to their inheritance.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can |
| 0:01.8 | convince the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:08.0 | Mostly this is a content warning for our terrible Ozzy accents, |
| 0:12.3 | but also some swearing. |
| 0:14.0 | It's 1997, and Robert. |
| 0:20.5 | It's 1997, and Rupert Murdoch is holding a town hall meeting at Star TV |
| 0:25.2 | His satellite TV company in Hong Kong. Hang on he's in Hong Kong now. It's a global |
| 0:30.4 | Empire. But China is one part of the world Rupert is having a hard |
| 0:34.3 | time conquering and Star TV isn't doing well. So Rupert goes to Hong Kong to give |
| 0:39.3 | everyone a pet talk. It's a typical company meeting. Everyone is in dark suits and ties, being very polite. |
| 0:46.5 | A lot of executives are asking the boss suck up questions like, how does it feel to be a genius? |
| 0:52.7 | And then this young female employee stands up |
| 0:56.3 | and straight out asks Rupert Murdoch, |
| 0:58.8 | one of the most powerful men in the world. |
| 1:01.0 | Why is your China strategy so bad? Boy is she getting fired? You'd think, but |
| 1:06.8 | Rupert loves gutsy people who speak their minds. He defends his strategy to her, but she's still |
| 1:11.8 | not impressed. She goes, that she's still not impressed. |
| 1:12.8 | She goes, that's not a good explanation. |
| 1:16.0 | So he tries again. |
| 1:17.3 | And then he asks, does that satisfy you? |
| 1:20.3 | And the woman says, no. After the town hall, she corners Rupert and asks him a lot of smart questions about Star |
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