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Hello!

And welcome to season two, episode two, or I guess it's season one, episode two of the Succession Recap podcast, which is recapping season two, episode two of succession.

You know, this is getting complex, but we're going to dive right into it.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

I'm joined by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.

Hello.

And a very special guest, the editor-in-chief of Volta, Mr. Ryan McCarthy.

Former editor-in-chief of Vice News. They both begin with V. They both begin with V. That's all I'll say about that. And there are other parallels which we will get into in this episode, which is titled Walter. Which is titled Volter. Ryan and I have known each other for many years. Ryan used to be the business editor at the Huffington Post. That's correct. And then we built an empire known as counterparties. Yes, in a, it was pivoted away.

Let's just put it that way. Yeah, we didn't pivot to video. We pivoted to nothing. Yes, we pivoted to not doing this anymore. But Ryan, unlike me, went on to bigger and better things.

And in fact, an editor-in-chief job at Vice, which may or may not have a vague resemblance

to Volta.

We're going to talk about that on this episode of Slate Money Succession.

Okay, let's get into it.

This was, it all started going on.

And I'm very, very grateful to Emily Peck because she actually has an idea of structure here and she wants to go through the episode and everything that happens in the episode.

And I think that's what we should do in a recap episode.

But can I just say female Roger Ailes?

Yes.

Like how awesome was that?

Sid Peach was quite incredible.

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