Slate Money - Succession: "Clown Town"
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🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 55 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. For Episode 6, Felix Salmon and Emily Peck are joined byjournalist, author and Godmother of Slate Money Succession, Taffy Brodesser-Akner to talk about Soy Boys, the fascists, and Tom’s diner regiment in preparation for prison.
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| 0:00.0 | Guys, this is Succession. This is HBO. |
| 0:03.1 | If you don't want to hear me talking about Logan Roy talking about |
| 0:06.8 | then don't listen to this. |
| 0:09.0 | There are bad language words in this show. |
| 0:20.7 | Hello and welcome to Clown Town. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome to the Clown Town episode. |
| 0:31.9 | You have to say that on every episode going forward. |
| 0:35.6 | Sorry. |
| 0:36.7 | This is Slate Money Succession. I'm Felix Sam and V Vaxios. I'm here with Emily Pecker Fundrise. |
| 0:42.3 | Hello. |
| 0:43.0 | And here, how happy are we, Emily? We are here with Tavi, Brodice, Agna herself. |
| 0:49.8 | Delightful. We are in Clown Town. Welcome. It's good to be here. Is this a nice space where I don't have to pretend to like Hamilton? |
| 0:57.7 | Daffy is our favorite person and used to be a journalist and is now incredibly powerful and important and making TV shows on the streets of New York. |
| 1:07.5 | Congratulations, Tuffy. Your book is in production and it's being executive produced by |
| 1:13.2 | you and written by you. It sure is. It's kind of amazing. I tried to star in it. They weren't |
| 1:20.5 | having it. There are safeties in place to prevent that from happening. Can you do like an |
| 1:26.9 | Alfred Hitchcock's style cameo somewhere? |
| 1:28.9 | I'm trying, man. |
| 1:30.7 | You should. |
| 1:31.3 | Can you be one of the supermodels doing like the supermodels? |
| 1:35.1 | I will. |
| 1:35.2 | I will be one of the supermodels in the Supermodel Fight Club. |
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