Slate Money Travel: Jet-setting Like A Journalist
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🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In the first episode of Slate Money’s Travel series, Felix Salmon talks with The New York Times’ Lydia Polgreen about her time as a foreign correspondent and big-time business exec. What was it like to carry $10,000 in cash? And how buttery is the leather on a private jet?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody it's Tim Heidecker you know me Tim and Eric Bridesmaids and |
| 0:03.4 | Fantastic Four. I'd like to personally invite you to listen to office hours live |
| 0:07.8 | with me and my co-host DJ Doug Pound and Vic Berger. |
| 0:12.3 | Howdy. |
| 0:13.0 | Every week we bring you laughs, fun, games and lots of other surprises. |
| 0:16.4 | It's live, we take your Zoom calls. |
| 0:18.0 | We love having fun. |
| 0:19.0 | Excuse me? |
| 0:20.0 | Vicks said something. |
| 0:21.0 | Music, music. |
| 0:22.0 | Music. I like having fun. like to laugh I like to meet people who can make me laugh |
| 0:29.0 | Please subscribe |
| 0:31.0 | No No. Hello and welcome to Slate Money Travel. I'm Felix Sam one of Axios. I am here with probably the best travelled person I know and the most interesting and the |
| 0:59.8 | funniest and generally the most awesome. Lydia Polgreen, welcome. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh, Felix, it's so great to be here. |
| 1:09.0 | I am such a fan of your podcasting and of your writing and of your |
| 1:15.0 | hospitality, of your cooking, of your hospitality, of so many things. |
| 1:17.0 | So it's just a thrill and a delight. |
| 1:19.0 | We are going to have an amazing conversation. |
| 1:22.0 | We are going to talk about a lot of Africa in this conversation. |
| 1:25.8 | We're going to talk about Mali and the Democratic Republic |
| 1:30.0 | of the Congo and how often we wind up changing plans in Paris but we're also going to talk about private jets and the Can advertising festival and generally just like what it's like to travel in some of the craziest parts of the world, |
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