Slate Money - Succession: "Caucasian Rich Brain"
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 50 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 3, Felix Salmon and Emily Peck are joined by Matt Haber, Newsletter Editor for the Alta Journal, to armchair psychoanalyze Kendall, talk about the daddy issues of the Roy children, and debate whether Tom will actually go to prison.
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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 |
| 0:06.8 | then don't listen to this. There are bad language words in this show. |
| 0:29.9 | Hello and welcome to the Caucasian rich brain syndrome episode of Slate Money Succession. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Fundrise. |
| 0:35.4 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:39.3 | Emily, we have made it to episode three. |
| 0:44.8 | And who better to talk about episode three of succession than Matt Haber. |
| 0:45.6 | Matt, welcome. |
| 0:46.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:47.7 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm excited. |
| 0:50.3 | We are very excited to have you. |
| 0:53.1 | We're going to talk all about Caucasian rich brain syndrome. |
| 0:57.8 | You are a connoisseur of media satire and just about anything else related to media. Introduce yourself. Who are you? I am the newsletter |
| 1:04.6 | editor of Alta magazine, and I also have a weird resume item, which is that I worked for |
| 1:10.0 | News Corporation under James Murdoch. |
| 1:12.0 | So I observed some of this stuff at a distance, but slightly up close. |
| 1:16.4 | How often were you in the room with James Murdo? |
| 1:20.0 | Oh, probably four times. |
| 1:21.5 | But Rupert did come to the office one time, and I literally hid in my cubicle in fear. |
| 1:25.7 | And as he walked through the office, |
| 1:27.7 | somebody whistled the Imperial Death March from Star Wars, |
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