Slate Money: Succession, S2E3, “French Kissing an Armadillo”
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3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 44 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.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:18.3 | Hello and welcome to episode three of the Slate Money Succession Recap Mini Season Special. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm joined by Emily Peck of The Huffington Post. |
| 0:34.4 | Hello. |
| 0:35.7 | And, excitingly, we have the queen of all slate podcasts, or possibly the |
| 0:42.4 | emperor. June Thomas is here. I just want to be clear, Felix, that this is not a podcast. It's just a |
| 0:49.6 | precursor to see if I might be open to podcasting. |
| 0:56.1 | Perfect. |
| 1:01.1 | Well, okay, one of these days, June, I'm going to teach you about what off the record means. |
| 1:01.9 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:09.0 | But June is a poor naive who doesn't really understand the ways of the world. |
| 1:09.4 | No. |
| 1:11.9 | You have brought in a piece of paper. |
| 1:13.3 | What is your piece of paper? |
| 1:21.3 | It is a printout of the poem Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson, which clearly is the key to all of succession. |
| 1:22.9 | I am so into this. |
| 1:31.7 | Because when we're getting a little ahead of ourselves in this episode, but at a certain point, Logan brings back Frank and he gives him a watch. |
| 1:34.6 | And on the back of the watch is a quotation of this poem. |
| 1:38.4 | I believe it says, some work of noble note may yet be done. |
| 1:43.4 | And of course, I mean, that immediately suggested to me Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson. |
| 1:45.0 | It's indeed a poem. |
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