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Hello! Hello! contains explicit language. Hello, and welcome to the celebrations edition of Slate Money.

Your guide to the business and finance news of the week, and this week is doubly special.

Not only are we as ever joined by Kathy O'Neill, the blogger at

math babe.org. Hi, Felix. But we are also joined by the very special guest, Rob Cox, of

breaking views. Glad to be here, Felix. We used to work together at Reuters.

He's, as Kathy told him just a minute ago, has amazingly good hair.

Very good hair for radio.

And most interestingly, Rob is sitting in for Jordan Weissman.

It's Jordan's wedding day today.

So Jordan can't be here today.

That's a dirty lie, Felix.

Wait, okay. So Jordan, you have to tell us, this is your wedding day. So I am getting married later today at 6 p.m. in Central Park. It's going to be a small

ceremony with a few friends and family. What are you doing in a windowless podcasting studio in downtown New York? Who would I rather be with, surrounded by, on my wedding day, than my podcast mates? Now, I, you know, A, I need something to do until later in the day, but also beyond that, I just am sort of the opinion that we'll

talk about this, I think, during a segment, weddings just kind of need to be shrunk down to size a little bit. I think it would be better for us as a culture and a country and just like a people, if people didn't put so much stock into their actual wedding. So let's just move straight into segment one. We're going to talk about General Electric. We're going to talk about music festivals.

Let's talk about this because it's fascinating.

Um, straight into segment one. We're going to talk about general electric. We're going to talk about music festivals. Let's talk about this because it's fascinating. Kathy O'Neill has a minimalist

heuristic when it comes to parenting. Jordan has a minimalist heuristic when it comes to

weddings. I've seen research somewhere which says that one of the reasons that people are getting married at lower rates these days,

the people aren't getting married as much as they used to, is precisely just because weddings are so expensive.

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