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Welcome to Slate Money Succession.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.

Hello. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times in all manner of other fabulous places.

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And we have a very special guest.

This week, Mr. Ewen rally, welcome.

Hello, thank you for having me.

Ewen, introduce yourself.

Who are you beyond being one of the world's great Murdochologists?

I am an investment banker.

I set up an investment banking firm 27 years ago which causes me to travel around the world and in my spare time I watched succession.

So this was a kind of outlier episode.

I'm gonna come out and say, I always say that the first time you watch it

it's tragedy, the second time you watch it is comedy I can say that this time the first time you watch it is tragedy the second time you watch it is tragedy it was written by

Jesse Armstrong himself which which is rare, and Elizabeth, tell me if you think I'm off base on this, but this really came across to me as Jesse Armstrong taking the opportunity of writing a hit TV show to basically do a sort of 60 minute

warning of what might happen on the 2024 election.

I mean sort sort of.

I felt like the Minkin character was a little bit Trumpian,

a smarter version of Trump.

I thought it was a little bit rehashing what happened in the last election,

and particularly with the whole issue of whether ATN

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