Hey everyone and welcome to this episode of Making the Argument with Nick Freitas. Let me tell you today we have a great episode and we're going to answer this question.

Should conservatives stop competing in the marketplace and direct all of our attention to the parallel economy?

We've got a lot of good stories that we're going to bring up today. And as you're probably aware, Nick and Tina are on their anniversary vacation today,

but they will be back with us next Tuesday, so we look forward to that. Nick had two really

difficult months, really challenging months in session between January and February,

and they both really deserved this vacation. But don't worry, we have a great episode for you today,

and now I'm going to hand it over to Lydia. Thank you guys so much for joining us on today's episode of making the argument.

I personally am really excited about this.

First of all, I have to say Nick really came back swinging.

I was really impressed with how strong he came back.

Definitely deserves this vacation. I hope they're really having fun.

But I wanted to say, I think that the parallel economy is super important because I have to get medicine through a pharmacy. I know how many of you

guys know, but I have MS, which is not a disease that ever goes away. So I have to work with

these pharmacies. So it was so frustrating to see that I had no option when it came to choosing a pharmacy

that actually supported my pro-life views.

So the first thing we're going to talk about today, it's going to be awesome, going to be the pharmacies.

Christian's going to talk about some of the business stuff, and we're really going to put a ribbon on all of it for you guys as we try to figure out whether we should engage with the way things are now or try to create a different paradigm.

You guys should definitely make sure to join us over on or try to create a different paradigm. You guys should

definitely make sure to join us over on Volley to give us more ideas for episodes. I'm excited

to get started. Let's go, Hamilton. So Christian, something just happened in California between

Governor Newsom and Walgreens. What was it? Actually, right before we jump into explaining what just happened over the past week in California,

I wanted to kind of set the stage for us and explain what a parallel economy even is.

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