Hello and welcome to sleep money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

I'm Felix Simon of Axios with Emily Peck of Axios.

Hello, hello. With Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times.

Hello.

And with an incredibly special guest, zooming in from Washington, D.C., the one and only

Kyle Chaker. Hello. Kyle, welcome. Who are you? Introduce yourself.

I am Kyle Chaka. I'm a New Yorker staff writer and author.

Yeah, plug your books into your onslaid money. All right. Well, so my second most recent book is called Filter World, Colon, How Algorithms Flattened Culture. It's about how digital platforms and algorithmic feeds are bad for the art we consume.

I really like people who introduce their book by saying the word colon.

This subtitle is important.

Like when you sell your nonfiction book, they will be like, okay, but what's the subtitle?

I think probably at least 50% of the conversations with my editor, like, what is the subtitle

going to be? But yes, filter world go out and buy it at McNally Jackson or whatever your local

bookstore is. Kyle is going to help us talk through the rise of the technocrats, which is a subject that he wrote about

in New Yorker this week. We are also going to talk about the guys running the government,

people like Scott Vesson and Donald Trump in their relationship with the truth and whether

it matters, whether they're telling the truth when they say that the private sector is in a recession

or that they're going to sell 5 million gold card fees, things.

We are going to talk about black spatulas, of course, because we need to know what that was all about.

Apparently they were unsafe a minute, but now they're safe again.

We have a slateate Plus segment on

expensive food, things like $18 strawberries. Strawberries and shrimp cocktails and that. There is,

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