The Murdochs - There's Something About Wendi | 7

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Rupert becomes the hopeless cliche of a much older rich man caught up in a whirlwind romance with a younger woman who works for him. He sees a chance at happiness, but his kids see something else entirely — a threat to their inheritance.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of even the rich before anyone else.
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0:07.6	A quick note before we start, we know this is a difficult time when our medical workers
0:12.1	and first responders are risking their lives.
0:15.0	All of us are dealing with a virus affecting everyone.
0:18.1	Yeah, we just want to say we're grateful that so many of you have been enjoying our new show. We want to welcome new
0:23.5	listeners and we hope the stories we tell here can bring you a little
0:26.7	distraction and humor. Also a quick heads up we're going to be cursing a little
0:30.7	during this episode. We realize this isn't necessarily proper.
0:34.4	Yeah, because we haven't been outside in a while.
0:37.0	It's 1997 and Rupert Murdoch is holding a town hall meeting at Star TV
0:48.7	his satellite TV company in Hong Kong.
0:50.9	Hang on he's in Hong Kong now?
0:53.2	It's a global empire.
0:55.0	But China is one part of the world Rupert is having a hard time conquering, and Star TV isn't doing
1:00.2	well.
1:01.2	So Rupert goes to Hong Kong to give everyone a pep talk. It's a typical company meeting. Everyone is in dark suits and ties being very polite. A lot of executives are asking the boss suck up questions like how does it feel to be a genius?
1:16.2	And then this young female employee stands up and straight out asks Rupert Murdoch, one of the most powerful men in the world.
1:24.3	Why is your China strategy so bad?
1:27.0	Boy, is she getting fired?
1:29.0	You'd think.
1:30.0	But Rupert loves gutsy people who speak their minds.
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