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Hello!

And welcome to Season 2, Episode 2, or I guess it's Season 1, Episode 2 of the Succession Recap podcast, which is recapping Season 2, Episode 2 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 Valter. 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. Sid Peach was quite incredible. Sid Peach is my new favorite character in the whole show. I mean, how awesome is Sid Peach? She was great and she really put Tom or Tommy, as she called him. She really fucking put him in his place. And he was just absurd going into that scene. I think we've all worked in media long enough to have a visit from one of those

executives, whether or not they're connected to a dynastic family or not. That felt very true.

Yep. And it was so clear in the scene. So I guess we can dive right into the scene at ATN. So Tom Wams

is super excited because he's going to be running ATN and, you know, he goes in all

gang messages the Fox News substitute. Totally Fox News. Like there's a little bit of question about

whether it's entirely about the Murdox or whether it's a little bit of the Trumps or the Dolans or the

Graham's or whatever. But like ATN is 100% Fox. 100% Fox News and he he has this great conversation with Greg heading into the scene with the female Roger Ailes where Greg has some reservations about going to ATN.

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