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Hello and welcome to a very special Warren Buffett edition of Slate Money, which is normally your guide to the Business and Finance News of the week, but this week we have decided to dedicate the entire show to capitalism's most evuncular billionaire.

In honor of the annual meeting, which is coming up in a couple of weeks, we know that all you slate money listeners are avid Berkshire Hathaway shareholders who are going to make the pilgrimage to Omaha.

And so as a result, we are going to talk a little bit about what it is you're going to find there.

I am Felix Salmon of Fusion.

I am joined as always by Kathy O'Neill, the data scientist and blogger at

mathbabe.org. Hi, Felix. And by Slate's Moneybox columnist, Jordan Weissman.

Hello, Felix. So, Warren Buffett, we, you know, he has this unique status, I think,

in not just American, but global capitalism. Somehow

he has made, he has become insanely wealthy. He's always in the top two on the global rich

list, but never seems to do anything wrong. Like he's untouchable. Everyone loves him. Everyone wants to be like him.

Everyone wants to invest like him. He has this aura of amazingness about him. And people worried that

if and when he has to get replaced because all men are mortal, that somehow that will be the end

of Berkshire

Hathaway. So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about whether there's any

future for this disparate conglomerate if Warren Buffett is not around. We're going to talk about

how he made his money. We're going to talk about whether there might be some seedy underbellied

to that.

And whatever else comes up on this special Warren Buffett edition, I'm looking forward to it.

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