2021-11-15
27 分钟Host Kara Swisher is joined by writer and podcast host Aminatou Sow to discuss the world of privilege and role of race in Succession. They discuss the Roys’ private jets at stake in season 3, episode 5 “Retired Janitors of Idaho,” and Aminatou explains how she feels about representation in Succession, and the window it provides into an isolated world of privilege. Also, Kara lets us know who’s up and who’s down in this week’s power rankings. The official Succession podcast is produced by HBO in conjunction with Pineapple Street Studios. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hi, everyone.
This is the official succession podcast from HBO and Pineapple Street Studios.
I'm kara swisher.
I've got, like, six more ovulation windows until all sex is prison sex.
We're not gonna make the piss mad bear dance with fucking cattle prods.
We need to be looking after him, okay?
You are putting yourself in the service of a monstrous endeavor.
Well, this week's episode was a true film.
The annual shareholders meeting turns into a petty fight between old men.
A rabbit dying after eating a bagel is only an amuse boosh because soon enough comes the main course.
Logan gets a UTI and hallucinates a dead cat.
Reagan had one in nearly nuked Belgium.
Look what now I've attended more shareholders meetings than you can shake a dead cat at.
And I've actually tried to shake a dead cat many times, and they've pretty much been performative kabuki that have yielded almost no important information that is worthwhile to investors.
But the hijinks in this episode that takes the volume of idiotic corporate kerfuffles up to an eleven.
Whether it's Jerry or Carl or Frank trying to jazz hands shareholders as shiv attempts to make a self dealing backroom deal.
I can sell it.
Can you sell it?
Or Kendall making an inane speech about a foundation to help Waystar Royco's victims.
A Roman doing perhaps the worst call you can make to a president of the United States.