Hello and welcome to the self-loading postmodern hype piece edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost.

Hello.

I'm here with Anna Shamansky of Breaking Views.

Hello.

But most excitingly, I'm here with the blog father, well, the podcast father himself,

Mr. Jacob Weisberg, the father of this show, the man without whom slate money would never

have existed.

Jacob, welcome.

Thank you, Felix.

Jacob is a podcasting pro, which means that he is telling us what the name of this show is.

It also means that he is going to explain everything you need to know about podcasting.

In the whole segment we have about everything you need to know about podcasting,

if you were ever having questions about how it works and how it makes money or anything like that,

this is the episode you need to listen to because Jacob has started two podcasting companies.

He knows everything.

But Jacob, you, so you were the editor-in-chief of Slate, the chairman of Slate.

You've now founded a new podcasting company called Pushkin.

Is that it?

That's all true.

You know, I started getting involved in podcasting and Slate like 15 years ago.

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