The Live Forever Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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On this episode of Slate Money, hosts Felix Salmon of Fusion, Cathy O’Neil, data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction, and Slate’s Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann breakdown the cost of living forever. Topics discussed on today’s show include: -Buying immortality: would you put your body on ice for $36,000? -Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic venture to cure all diseases. -Genetic testing: Can my genes tell me how to optimize my fitness training and diet? heck out other Panoply podcasts at itunes.com/panoply. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @felixsalmon, @mathbabedotorg, @edmundlee Production by Veralyn Williams. Come have a beer with us! Slate Money Live in Brooklyn for a special craft beer episode 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15 Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY Tickets are $25 Go to slate.com/live (slate dot com slash live) for tickets and more information. --- Slate Money is brought to you by Boll and Branch. Get 50 dollars off your first set of sheets, plus free shipping, by going to BollandBranch.com and using promo code money. And by Betterment, the largest independent automated investing service. Learn how you can get up to six months of NO FEES by going to Betterment.com/slatemoney. And by Blue Apron.Blue Apron’s meal kits are delivered right to your door, and make cooking at home easy. Get your first THREE meals FREE by going to BlueApron.com/money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:33.2	Hello and welcome to the live Forever edition of Slate Money, your guide to the Business and Finance
0:48.2	News of the Week.
0:50.3	I am Felix Salmon of Fusion. I am
0:53.0	joined as ever by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and author of Weapons of
0:59.0	Math Destruction.
1:00.4	Hello Felix.
1:01.2	And calling in from the distant climb of Austin, Texas is Jordan
1:07.4	Weisman. Thankfully we do have the technology for me to connect and share this
1:11.6	wonderful morning with you guys.
1:13.0	So we are going to be devoting this entire episode to, well, living forever.
1:20.2	You know that thing that vampires do?
1:22.4	I need to tell the story because on Thursday night last week,
1:28.0	I went to the opera because I'm a sophisticated kind of gentleman, I went to see Jennifer at the Met, which is one of Yana Czech's greatest operas.
1:38.0	And the Kostelnika character, the sort of tragic evil stepmother character, at the beginning of
1:46.7	Act 3 has this whole speech about how because she's so tragic she can't wait to die basically in that living forever is a really horrible thing
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