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Slate Money: Travel | Jet-setting Like A Journalist

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6636 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 35 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?  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and an additional segment of our show every week. You’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Patrick Fort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I made you think you was real.

0:02.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

0:04.0

Some people call us American royalty.

0:06.0

We were liars.

0:07.0

A new series on Prime Video.

0:09.0

We were happy. We wanted for nothing.

0:12.0

Based on the best-selling novel.

0:15.0

Something terrible happened last summer,

0:17.0

and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.

0:20.0

No one in my family will tell me.

0:22.7

When you're left for dead, you want answers.

0:25.2

We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video. Hello and welcome to Slate Money Travel. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I am here with probably the best traveled person I know and the most interesting and the funniest and generally the most awesome.

1:00.4

Lydia Pohl-Green, welcome.

1:04.1

Oh, Felix, it's so great to be here.

1:06.5

I am such a fan of your podcasting and of your writing and of your cooking, of your hospitality, of so many things.

1:15.0

So it's just a thrill and a delight.

1:17.1

We are going to have an amazing conversation.

1:19.6

We are going to talk about a lot of Africa in this conversation.

1:23.5

We're going to talk about Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and how often we wind up changing planes in Paris.

1:32.0

But we're also going to talk about private jets and the advertising festival and generally just like what it's like to travel in some of the craziest parts of the world, including kind of the most

1:47.5

amazing shower situation that I think anyone's ever going to hear about. But before we get to any

1:53.4

of that, tell us a little bit about who you are. I keep asking myself that question. Who am I?

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