Hello everyone and welcome back to Make Me Smart.

I'm Kimberly Adams, and this is where we make today make sense.

Thank you all for joining us for our weekly happy hour, economics on tap.

And joining me for Make Me Smart Economics on Tap this week is Henry

Ep, Marketplace's own, but I know you all were looking for a local reporter. And Henry has

his own local reporting ties. Welcome to the show, Henry. Thank you, Kimberly. It's great to be here.

So tell us about that. And not everybody knows that you've been a local reporter for a long time before you came to Marketplace. I was. Yeah, I was a local reporter in Western Massachusetts for a long time, local reporter and host, and in Vermont. And Vermont is where I still live because a lot of us at Marketplace work remotely. We're distributed all

around the country. So I get to do this job here from Burlington, Vermont. Yes. And you had your

buddy on the show the other day. Yeah, Marlon Hyde. Shout out to Marlon, who's now in Georgia,

killing it. He was a fellow at Vermont Public Radio, what, maybe four years ago or more. And I worked with him

a lot when he was just starting out. And it's just so cool to see him doing so great and then being

on Make MeSpot a couple weeks ago. Yeah. Well, look, as everybody watching knows, it has been a week of news. But first, we got to talk

drinks. And I probably should acknowledge where I am because I am not in my normal home studio or

the bureau. I am in Castleton, Virginia at my cousin's wedding, hence the very big hat because it was an outdoor wedding and it

was a beautiful ceremony. So I dashed away just to hang out with our fun economics on tap crew

for this. But what did you bring to drink? I just have wedding wine. That's amazing. Well,

first off, amazing dedication to make Ms. Mark Kimberly to do this from a wedding.

I am drinking a beer from a beer that's up the road here in Vermont called Zero Gravity.

It's their October Fest.

A Marzen Lager felt seasonally appropriate.

So.

Marsen Lager?

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