Succession S4 Ep8: Election Night
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🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, Elizabeth Spiers, and guest Euan Rellie discuss the Election Night episode of Succession season 4.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Slate Money Succession. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:17.5 | Hello. I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times and all manner of other fabulous |
| 0:22.4 | places. Hello. And we have a very special guest this week. Mr. Ewan Rally, welcome. |
| 0:30.1 | Hello. Thank you for having me. Ewan, introduce yourself. Who are you beyond being one of the world's |
| 0:35.8 | great murderologists? |
| 0:38.7 | I am an investment banker. |
| 0:40.5 | I set up an investment banking firm 27 years ago, which causes me to travel around the world. |
| 0:47.2 | And in my spare time, I watched Succession. |
| 0:50.8 | So this was a kind of outlier episode. I'm going to come out and say, I always say that the first time you watch it, it's tragedy, the second time you watch it, it's comedy. I can say that this time, the first time you watch it, it's tragedy. The second time you watch it is tragedy. It was written by Jesse Armstrong himself, which is rare. |
| 1:13.4 | And Elizabeth, tell me if you think I'm off base on this, but this really came across to me as |
| 1:21.5 | Jesse Armstrong taking the opportunity of writing a hit TV show to basically do a sort of 60-minute warning of what might |
| 1:30.0 | happen on the 2024 election. I mean, sort of. I felt like the Minkin character was a little bit |
| 1:35.3 | Trumpian, a smarter version of Trump. I thought it was a little bit rehashing what happened in |
| 1:40.6 | the last election, and particularly with the whole issue of whether ATN was going to call the election early. |
| 1:46.6 | And the opposite thing happened at Fox. Fox called Arizona for Biden at a reasonable time, but |
| 1:53.4 | internally in the newsroom, there was a lot of controversy about that because there was some thought on the part of the executives that the actual |
| 2:01.3 | newsroom staff had jumped the gun. And there was a lot of drama around it. In succession, ATN does |
| 2:07.0 | exactly the opposite thing. They call everything early. And then Tom gets blamed for doing that. |
| 2:12.2 | And you can tell that they're setting it up to be a kind of election integrity scandal in the next episode or two. |
| 2:19.3 | Well, yeah, but that's exactly why I took it more as a warning about 2024 than as a kind of rehash of 2020. |
| 2:25.8 | And I think it's fair to blame Tom. |
| 2:27.6 | He was the guy making all of the decisions. |
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