Guys, this is Succession. This is HBO. If you don't want to hear me talking about Logan Roy talking about

then don't listen to this. There are bad language words in this show.

Hello and welcome to the Goons,

Stooges and Rough Jacks episode of Slate Money Succession.

Your guide to the greatest show on HBO. I'm Felix Amin of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of

Fundrise. Hello, hello. And we have with us the guy who literally wrote the book on the rich.

Michael Mechanic, welcome. Thanks so much. Mike, introduce yourself and tell us about how you

became a richologist. Is that a thing? I don't. A richologist. Well, I just was obsessed with

people coming to wealth and how it affects their lives. So I'm a journalist. I'm a senior editor

at Mother Jones magazine for like a dozen years. And I took a couple of years off to write a book

called Jackpot, how the super rich really live and how their wealth harms us all. So I kind of

embedded with the very rich and their minions and the lawyers who actress their conciliaries and

people who trained nannies in personal combat and luxury realtors and Bentley dealers and all

these people. I ran around and interviewed a million people and I wrote up this great book that

tells us how our wealth fantasy has run amok. This is of course. Succession is on one level a

wealth fantasy that has never been any shortage of wealth fantasy shows on TV. Succession is one

of them, although it is not as much more than just a wealth fantasy show. But we're going to unpack

a little bit of that this week. And of course, we're going to talk about Tom and Greg and Shiv and

the whole crew and Adrian Brody, Josh Aronson, the brand new character all coming up on sleight

money succession. All right, I'm Jack Greenlich. I think you can listen to music from

relaxing, to celebrating, to getting yourself prepared. I like all sorts, honestly, I like

hip-hop R&B and then house music as well. So yeah, there's no guilt in places around here.

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