Slate Money - Succession: “Belligerent Zucchini”
Slate Money
Slate Podcasts
4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Slate Money is obsessed with Succession, HBO's wonderful drama about the lives of the superrich Roy family. So, every Monday, we'll be discussing the previous night's episode with spoiler-filled glee. For Episode 5, Felix Salmon and Emily Peck are joined by Edmund Lee, longtime media industry reporter for The New York Times to talk about the real-life influences behind Sandy and Sandy, the big board meeting, and invisible cats.
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| 0:00.0 | Guys this is succession this is HBO if you don't want to hear me talking about |
| 0:04.8 | Logan Roy talking about |
| 0:06.4 | shits then don't listen to this there are bad language words in this show. Hello, |
| 0:13.0 | welcome Hello, welcome to the belligerent zucchini episode of Slate Money Succession. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Felixamining of Axios Emily Peck is here from fundraise. |
| 0:33.2 | Hello. |
| 0:34.2 | This is a special one people because we have the one, the only Ed Lee of the New York Times. |
| 0:40.6 | Hello. |
| 0:41.6 | Ed, you are the spiritual godfather of this show. |
| 0:45.0 | Like, are you, this show makes no sense without you. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm very honored, seriously. |
| 0:50.0 | Thank you for coming on the show. |
| 0:52.0 | Thank you for coming on the show. Thank you for coming on the show for this particular episode because if we need |
| 0:56.8 | explication and untangling of |
| 0:59.2 | Media corporate machinations, this is the episode that we need them. Timing was perfect. |
| 1:04.7 | Time this one perfectly. We're going to talk to you about board seats and annual |
| 1:10.4 | meetings and Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone and yes we're going to laugh at |
| 1:16.0 | imaginary cats and piss mad kings of England as well I need to ask you I have no idea anymore like what is your job these days? |
| 1:26.0 | Wow I didn't see that one coming. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah I have a new job I am now technically part of management. I have a title called |
| 1:36.5 | Assistant Editor, and I am part of this new experimental group called Trust and Innovation and what is that what the |
| 1:44.4 | hell does that mean? Is that something which they set up within like ATN to try and |
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