The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the birthday edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios and what do I want for my birthday?

I want you to go to sign up.axos. subscribe to my newsletter it is my birthday well it is the birthday of

slate money it is the fifth birthday of slate money we have been doing this for

five years and to celebrate we're going to have a birthday party with Emily

Peck of the Huffington Post. Hello happy birthday. Thank you. And with Anna

Shimansky happy birthday to you. Thank you so much. And most excitingly with Jordan Weisman asleep. I'm back people. He's back Jordan Weisman asleep.

I'm back people. He's back Jordan Weisman as long-term five years subscribers to Slate Money might recall

used to be on this show as part of the original lineup and so we've decided to

bring him back for old time's sake and also because my ex-girlfriend

colleague Deanne Rabeuen got a message from his friend Mischa saying what has

happened to Jordan Weisman?

I don't know what this says about my career right now.

And so we needed to bring you back here just so that we could ask you,

Jordan, what happened to Jordan Weisman?

Well, it's a long story.

I was sold off to a nomadic warrior tribe

in the east for a while, and then I managed to take over

as their leader, and I've been kind of, no, is anyone here watch Game of Thrones I'm

literally rehearsing Danny's storyline no one no one no one

none of us have a clue what you're talking about this is this is

this like an Avengers thing?

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