In Defense of Nepotism

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4.5 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the proposed changes to retirement plans in Congress’s 2023 spending bill. They also talk about the current boom in cocaine production and debate whether or not nepotism is as bad as everyone says.

In the Plus segment: Felix, Emily, and Elizabeth admit what they each got wrong about 2022.

Podcast production by Anna Phillips.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the indefense of nepotism episode of Slate Money.
0:20.7	Your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:23.5	I am Felix Amman of Exeos and I am on a call with my colleague Emily Peck who is simultaneously
0:33.2	rolling her eyes and shaking her head.
0:35.3	It's true.
0:36.3	I am not defending nepotism in this episode, just FYI, dear listeners.
0:41.6	Emily is not defending nepotism.
0:43.9	Elizabeth Spires, are you going to defend nepotism in this episode?
0:48.1	No.
0:49.1	We all vote you.
0:51.7	Yeah.
0:52.7	Well, I will step up to defend nepotism.
0:55.8	It's a dirty job that someone has to do.
0:57.9	We're going to talk about nepotism, nepo babies, a term from TikTok that seems to have
1:03.2	consumed the media of late.
1:05.7	We are going to talk about cocaine because it's the party season and we are going to talk
1:11.9	about retirement plans and how they are changing in 2023.
1:16.9	We even have a Slate Plus segment where Emily, Elizabeth and I all come clean on the thing
1:23.1	we were most wrong about in 2022.
1:26.6	So there's lots to look forward to.
1:28.0	It's all coming up on Slate Money.
1:31.3	Hey there, Slate Money listeners.
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