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Slate Money Succession: "Clown Town"

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 56 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 6, Felix Salmon and Emily Peck are joined byjournalist, author and Godmother of Slate Money Succession, Taffy Brodesser-Akner to talk about Soy Boys, the fascists, and Tom’s diner regiment in preparation for prison. 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.

0:20.6

Hello and welcome to Clown Town. Welcome to the Clown Town episode.

0:30.4

You have to say that on every episode going forward. Sorry.

0:36.8

This is Slate Monday's Succession. I'm Felix Salmon the Vaxios. I'm here with Emily

0:41.2

Peck of Fundraise. Hello. And here, how happy are we Emily? We are here with Tavi

0:47.5

Brodessa Agna herself. Delightful. We are in Clown Town. Welcome. It's good to be here.

0:54.1

Is this a nice place where I don't have to pretend to like Hamilton?

0:57.6

Tavi is our favorite person and used to be a journalist and is now incredibly powerful and

1:03.8

important in making TV shows on the streets of New York. Congratulations, Tavi. Your book is in

1:10.1

production and it's being executive produced by you and written by you. It's kind of amazing.

1:18.7

I tried to star in it. They weren't having it. There are safeties in place to prevent that from

1:24.3

happening. Can you do like an Alfred Hitchcock style cameo somewhere? I'm trying, man.

1:32.2

Can you be one of the supermodels doing like the supermodels? I will. I will be one of the supermodels

1:36.4

in the supermodel fight club, spoiler. So yeah, we are going to be talking about Episode 6

1:43.0

on Succession with the one and only Tavi Brodessa Agna coming up after this.

1:48.0

Let's talk about fascists on the tally. I love the fascists.

1:55.0

Jared Minken. Tavi is smiling here. She's like, oh my god, Jared Minken. He's kind of hot.

2:02.3

It's that I like a new nickname for Hitler. I can't believe I've traveled all these years and not

2:10.2

not just at H. H is so good, right? You know how many nicknames I have for Hitler. How many nicknames

2:20.3

do you have for Hitler? Lenty. And never once did I just think to say H.

2:26.8

Seriously, me, I just, I don't have a lot of boundaries. I'm saying Augustine, Thomas Aquinas,

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