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Slate Money: Succession, S2E3, “French Kissing an Armadillo”

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Investing

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 45 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. This week, Felix Salmon and Emily Peck are joined by Slate’s resident Succession stan, June Thomas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello. Hello and welcome to episode three of this late money succession recap mini season special.

0:25.0

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

0:30.0

Hello!

0:32.0

And excitingly we have the Queen of All Slate Podcasts or possibly the Empress.

0:37.0

June Thomas is here.

0:42.0

I just want to be clear, Felix, that this is not a podcast.

0:45.0

It's just a precursor to see if I might be open to podcasting.

0:49.0

Perfect.

0:53.0

Well, okay, one of these days, June, I'm going to teach you about what off the record means.

0:58.0

Oh, okay.

0:59.0

But June is a poor naive who doesn't really understand the ways of the world.

1:05.0

You have brought in a piece of paper.

1:08.8

What is your piece of paper?

1:10.8

It is a printout of the poem Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson, which clearly is the key to all of succession.

1:18.0

I am so into this.

1:19.0

Because when we're getting a little ahead of ourselves in this episode but at a certain point

1:24.4

Logan brings back Frank and he gives him a watch and on the back of the watch is a

1:29.6

quotation on this poem I believe it says some work of noble note may yet be done and of course I mean that

1:36.6

immediately suggested to me Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson it's indeed a poem it's a kind of

1:42.2

poem about a lion in winter and kind of raging against the light and you know getting one last deal in before you get snuffed out.

1:51.3

That's Logan.

1:52.3

I did not realize that it was Tennyson because there was before you get snuffed out. That's Logan.

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