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Hey, smarties, it's Kimberly. Make Me Smart is still on a little break, but we'll be back with new episodes next week.

To help tide you over, we're dropping in an episode from Marketplace's podcast for kids,

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Whether you're shopping at the farmer's market or just curious about the prices you're paying at the grocery store these days, there's something in it for everyone.

Okay, here's the show.

Day 37 of Growing Catnip from All Natural Seed for my beloved cat skimble shanks.

I've found a decent growing location in the parking lot outside the marketplace office.

The view of the highway is unparalleled.

Hey, Ryan, what are you working on over there?

Oh, hey, Bridget.

Just working on growing my greens.

Greens?

Oh, are we using money slang again? I love that. Wait, does this mean that you're

finally putting all the saving money lessons from our show to good use? No, I'm trying to grow

a valuable resource that I'll need in the future. You opened a retirement account? Finally.

No, that's not it. I'm working on an investment I can harvest much sooner than retirement. I'm actually... Ugh, you didn't try to buy crypto again, did you? We talked about this, Ryan. That's not what's happening here. How should I put this? Uh, I'm trying to make a little mint. Mint? You're not trying to forge your own, like Ryan coins or something? we can get in big trouble for that.

It's none of that. I'm growing my own catnip for skimble shanks.

Oh, catnip. Is that some sort of slang for crypto?

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