You can't understand that the system is messed up while also understanding that there are rules of the game and you can't just say I'm not playing.

You have to play along, you have to play to the best of your ability, you have to play responsibly, but all the while you can understand that the game's not fair, that some people start life halfway down the monopoly board and you started at Go.

Oh, I have Christmas Carol stuck in my head.

I'm so excited to see you.

It's Christmas time.

It's also the last episode of this year. It is the last episode of Financial Feminist for

2023 and if you have been here for a long time we thank you. If you are new here

we also thank you. We're just so excited to round out this year after producing episodes for

literally almost every week of this year and Kristen's shaking her head very tiredly but we are just so

thankful for your support we could not do this without you and oh boy do we have a

great last episode for you?

Before we get into it, I want to go on a like a quick little,

I don't know if it's a rant or like a appreciation moment

for Santa Baby.

And I have this whole debate on like whether or not it's feminist because I've seen the Myli Cyrus version on Jimmy Fallon and if you haven't watch it it's great and it's basically like I don't need

Santa to buy me things I can buy them for myself and I agree but also I'm like if

Santa does want to buy me things I'm gonna take free shit also if you read the lyrics, first of all, it's Earth a kit.

This does not get appreciated enough. I was telling this to my partner the other day. I was like,

you know Santa Baby's Earth a kit. He was like, what? And I was like, yes, it's Isma from Emperor's

New Groove and Madam Zoroni from holes like and a bunch of others. Like she's a

fucking legend,

died a couple years ago, like, but I fucking love this woman.

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