Slate Money - Slate Money Travel: Jet-setting Like A Journalist
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In the first episode of Slate Money’s Travel series, Felix Salmon talks with The New York Times’ Lydia Polgreen about her time as a foreign correspondent and big-time business exec. What was it like to carry $10,000 in cash? And how buttery is the leather on a private jet?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to slate money travel. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm Felix Samuel of Axios. |
| 0:20.4 | I am here with probably the best travel. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I am here with probably the best traveled person I know, |
| 0:26.3 | and the most interesting, and the funniest, and generally the most awesome. Lydia Paul Green, |
| 0:31.9 | welcome. |
| 0:34.3 | Oh, Felix, it's so great to be here. I am such a fan of your podcasting and of your writing and of your cooking, of your hospitality, of so many things. |
| 0:45.2 | So it's just a thrill and a delight. |
| 0:47.3 | We are going to have an amazing conversation. |
| 0:49.8 | We are going to talk about a lot of Africa in this conversation. |
| 0:53.7 | We're going to talk about Mali of Africa in this conversation. We're going to talk about |
| 0:54.3 | Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and how often we wind up changing planes in Paris. |
| 1:02.1 | But we're also going to talk about private jets and the Cannes Advertising Festival and generally |
| 1:09.4 | just like what it's like to travel in some of the craziest parts of the |
| 1:15.0 | world including kind of the most amazing shower situation that I think anyone's ever going |
| 1:20.4 | to hear about but before we get to any of that tell us a little bit about who you are. I keep asking myself that question. Who am I? |
| 1:30.5 | Yes. No, I am an opinion columnist for The New York Times. That's my current job. I've been doing |
| 1:36.4 | that for, I don't know, a little over a year. And that's a really fun job. It takes me to lots of |
| 1:43.0 | interesting places. Before that, I ran a podcast |
| 1:46.1 | company at Spotify, which was a strange thing for me to do. Before that, I was the editor-in-chief |
| 1:51.7 | of HuffPost. And before that, I spent many, many years as a foreign correspondent and then an |
| 1:58.3 | editor at the New York Times. And so a lot of the things we're going to talk about now are my, my exciting adventures as a foreign correspondent and then an editor at the New York Times. And so a lot of the things we're going to talk about now are my exciting adventures as a foreign correspondent in Africa and Asia for the New York Times during the kind of salad days of my life anyway. |
| 2:12.6 | Your best days are ahead of you, Lydia, because you have a budding career as one of the top podcasters on the planet. |
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