Hello and welcome to the long-awaited

to the long-awaited Germany edition of Slate Money, which is normally your guide to the business

and finance news of the week,

but really now this week, we are just going to talk about Deutschland, which is one of my

favourite subjects, and we haven't, after five years of Slate Money, really talked about it much.

So we have the one and only Adam twos from Colombia where you study I teach European history

and world history and I run the European Institute there so and you lived for 20 years in

Heidelberg and Berlin yeah on and off yeah on and off and you've been living, but let me also quickly introduce Emily Peck from

the Huffington Post. Hello.

Who, um, you've learned like two German words for this episode.

Yes, and I wrote them down.

And also Anna Shamansky, who will name like Shamansky. You, you have like...

With a name like Shamanky, I'm Polish.

I mean, it's much the same country, really.

Although I'm actually Polish and German.

And you have...

And you too have like a couple of German words.

Yes, I'm Byschen.

We have...

I'm Klanes Bissian, Deutsch.

And we will talk about Germany with Adam twos.

And Adam, you're just telling us before we started recording here that you were in Berlin,

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