Succession S4 Ep9: Church and State
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by filmmaker, activist (and member of a real-life media dynasty) Abigail Disney to discuss the penultimate episode HBO’s Succession. At Logan’s funeral, speeches are made and power is brokered as the future of Waystar Royco hangs in the balance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the penultimate ever episode of Slate Money Succession. |
| 0:19.5 | The end is nearly nigh, but we have two amazing episodes. I'm |
| 0:25.4 | absolutely sure the last one's going to be amazing. This one was amazing of Succession to cover |
| 0:29.4 | before it's all over. I am Felix Samuel of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:35.3 | Hello. |
| 0:36.0 | With Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times and other places. |
| 0:40.1 | Hello. |
| 0:40.7 | And our special guest this week, Abby Disney, welcome. |
| 0:45.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:46.4 | Happy to be here. |
| 0:47.6 | Abby, introduce yourself. |
| 0:49.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:49.7 | And what is your relationship to this here show? |
| 0:51.9 | Let's see who am I. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm a filmmaker and an activist. And my great uncle was Walt Disney, my grandfather, Roy Disney. |
| 0:59.1 | So I lived a little bit of this succession life, let's just say. |
| 1:03.9 | Do you think that the Roy family's name was named after Roy Disney? |
| 1:08.4 | It had to be. |
| 1:09.4 | They have amusement park. |
| 1:10.7 | And I was thinking I was crazy, but I actually was on a Zoom call with Jesse Armstrong. |
| 1:15.1 | And I was like, am I out of my mind? |
| 1:17.0 | And he was in his, like, library. |
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