Hello, and welcome to a very special episode of, well, crossover episode of Slate Money with

Death, Sex and Money, the two Slate podcasts that have money in the title.

Bring in the Deaf and Spex to Money.

I feel like I'm very happy about this because, because, well, I. that have money in the title. Bring in the death and specs to money.

I feel like I'm very happy about this because, well, I should introduce myself.

I am Felix Sampen of Slate Money, which is a kind of blank slate title where you can put anything in if it's vaguely money related.

I am here with the one and only Anna Sale of death, sex, and

money, which I feel like is a much more descriptive title real, really. It's descriptive, but maybe

you could think of it as a more vast blank slate, because you can throw even more into that big

bucket of death, sex, or money, and or money. Yeah. And so I feel like where we oversect is obviously money.

But the reason I was super excited to talk to you is because one of the things we don't talk

about on Slate Money that often, well, is A, personal finance, and B, just emotions.

I'm a cold, I'm a cold fish, Anna.

Oh, I'm going to make you squirm, Felix.

You're going to make me squirm.

And, yeah, like, we don't really have feelings on slate money we are we

are rational robots and now I'm entering this this like jacuzzi with you full of emotions and

floaty bits and you're going to hold my hand and make sure that I'm comfortable. I am.

And you're going to hold my hand because what I love about Slate Money is I feel like it's a way to listen to understanding how I am fitting into systems, how the floaty feelings that I spend a lot of time thinking about.

You help me kind of hook it on scaffolding to help me understand where I am and how I'm

situated to other people in the economy. So I appreciate the expertise here. Thank you. Thank you.

And so what we, what I thought we could talk about today is short people or specifically

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