The Murdochs - A House Divided | 9

Even the Rich

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Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

All good things must come to an end, right? Try telling that to Rupert Murdoch. In his eighties, the billionaire tycoon shows no sign of slowing down. But let’s face it: the guy must be exhausted. His company is mired in scandal — again — and he’s facing tougher competition than ever before. Don’t even get us started on his sons, Lachlan and James, who are so pissed at each other they’re about ready to rip off their shirts and fight it out. Something’s gotta give or else Rupert’s empire, the one he spent his whole life building, might just crumble.

Be sure to check out “Planet Fox,” the incredible three-part story about the Murdochs that ran in the New York Times Magazine: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/magazine/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-trump.html

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can
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0:04.4	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts.
0:07.6	A quick note, this episode has some swear words in it.
0:10.9	You sound like such a dork when you say swear words. Okay well
0:15.0	fuck you.
0:17.0	It's the summer of 2015, somewhere in Manhattan, and the Murdoch brothers,
0:28.0	Laughlin and James, are out to lunch with the Yeah, James is feeling pretty good. The phone hacking scandal practically forced him out of London, but he made a new start in New York.
0:48.0	And it's been going great. He's an executive at 21st Century Fox, and he's closed some big deals and two years ago his
0:56.2	dad made James a big promise Liz is off running her own company
1:00.8	Locklin is down in Australia doing God knows what, James has stayed by his dad's
1:06.0	side and now Rupert's going to reward him. James is next in line to run the empire.
1:13.5	James is looking good too.
1:15.4	He's in his early 40s, but he looks 10 years younger.
1:18.6	The bleach blonde hair is gone, replaced by a more conservative cut and fashionable tortoise shell frames.
1:25.0	So the youngest kid is now first in line for succession.
1:29.0	How did that happen?
1:30.0	I mean, it makes sense.
1:31.0	James may be the youngest, but he's worked his butt off.
1:34.8	At least that's how he sees it. He took one for the team in the hacking scandal.
1:39.2	He's moved his family all over the world to help build the company pretty much wherever his dad needs him.
1:45.4	Unlike his Yahoo brother, James knows what it's like to live in the trenches.
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