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The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the Random Rules Edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business

and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion.

I'm back.

I hope you missed me.

Well done to Jordan and Cardiff and Kathy for putting out an awesome podcast last week without me.

I'm feeling a little bit, you know, what's the word?

Excluded?

No, I think it's superfluous.

I feel like maybe this podcast doesn't need me and I'm, I, I, Felix, we're so glad you're back. Thank you. That's exactly what I was hoping you would say. I'm so glad you're back. You're sort of like Don Draper returning to Sterling Cooper after one of his benders and discovering that the whole thing.... It's all fallen apart.

It's true.

This place does...

I'm going to have to, you know, pull this thing back together.

So, yes, we still have Jordan Weissman.

The Moneybox gone.

That's now, you know, relegated to a mere co-host role.

And Kathy O'Neill, the blogger at mathbabe.org.

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