Slate Money Succession: “Belligerent Zucchini”

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🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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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. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Guys, this is Succession. This is HBO. If you don't want to hear me talking about Logan Roy talking about
0:07.6	then don't listen to this. There are bad language words in this show.
0:20.9	Hello! Welcome to the belligerent zucchini episode of Slate Money Succession.
0:29.6	I'm Felix Amin of Axios. Emily Peck is here from Fundres. Hello! This is a special one,
0:34.8	people, because we have the one, the only, Ed Lee of The New York Times. Hello! Ed, you are the
0:43.5	spiritual godfather of this show. This show makes no sense without you. I'm very honored,
0:49.2	seriously. Thank you for coming on the show. Thank you for coming on the show for this particular
0:54.4	episode, because if we need explication and untangling of media corporate machinations,
1:01.2	this is the episode that we need them. Timing was perfect. Time this one perfectly. We're going to
1:06.9	talk to you about board seats and annual meetings and Rupert Murdoch and some of Redstone. Yes,
1:14.7	we're going to love it, Imaginary Cats and Pistmad, Kings of England as well. I need to ask you,
1:21.7	I have no idea anymore. What is your job these days? Wow, I didn't see that one coming.
1:31.0	Yeah, I have a new job. I am now technically part of management. I have a title called Assistant
1:37.1	Editor. I am part of this new experimental group called Trust and Innovation. What the hell does
1:44.6	that mean? Is that something which they set up within ATN to try and modify shareholders?
1:51.7	Not quite so brazen as that. It's more, look, remember innovation 1.0 or innovation report that
2:01.9	AG Salzburg are working on. I guess you could argue this is sort of the next iteration of that,
2:06.6	right? How do we modernize the report in a way that is keeping up with what's going on so that we
2:12.9	can make sure we're not alienating readers and engendering trust with everybody?
2:17.6	I have the answer for you. You have the answer. I have the answer. All you need is a slogan saying,
2:23.4	we hear you. We hear for you. We hear for you. We hear for you. You know what, I'll run that up the
2:29.4	chain. I have a feeling AG probably will not go for that, but you know, it's definitely, definitely
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