If you think talking about finances in general is hard, try talking to your parents about money.

What you don't want to do is like, do you have any money, what's going on?

You don't want to come at them in a more adversarial way.

Or, as I said, you don't want to come out like you're now the parent.

What to do about the ups and downs of your 401k?

If you or someone you care about plans to retire soon, that's on the next explain it to me.

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Welcome to Raging Moderates. I'm Scott Galloway.

And I'm Jessica Charlob.

Jess, where are you today?

The same place I always am.

I'm at home in New York.

Yeah.

Well, actually at the Vox studio, so I'm in the financial business.

Oh, you're not.

It's very nice here. I go there now.

Yeah, you're a newbie. You're excited

and ambitious to actually do the right thing. So you haul down to what is arguably the most

uninspiring part of Manhattan to where my guess is they're paying Vox to occupy their office space.

But they are very nice studios. And it's a lot of young people running around.

Yeah, I'm like middle-aged here, like 55 on a comparative basis.

Okay, you say that like it's really old.

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