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The show with Normalish takes for when the news gets weird.

I am Mary Catherine.

I'm Carol Markowitz.

How are you, Mary Catherine?

I am doing pretty good.

We just had the last day of school over here.

Nice. I don't like to brag, but there was some hardware brought home. Some real academic successes over there.

Tell us about it. One big trophy for just like reading the most books, which of all the things I succeeded in in homeschool for the one year I did it was I got them reading lots of books. So they always get hardware for that. Well done, guys. I love it. And you and I were in Argentina with some friends, and we got to see, you know, free market in action. It was kind of cool.

Oh, my gosh. I'm in my, uh, Malay shirt right now.

Oh, very nice. I made that. Yes. It is, it is, uh, nice to be in a place where a bunch of people, one of, you know, the leader of which is like quite ideologically committed to the free

market was like, this will solve our near, like our hyperinflation

problems and make the economy better and give us businesses and prosperity. And then they do it.

And it's like, oh, that's what happened. It worked. Yeah, it's great. And I feel like I could not eat

steak for a while because we had some amazing, amazing steak.

One thing can I say that's interesting about the hyperinflation thing, which you don't

experience if you've never been in that kind of economy. A lot of things in Argentina,

the prices are on a QR code or done by letter or color code because during a time of hyperinflation,

they had to raise prices so frequently

that it didn't make sense to price things. And that is a whole different world. That's right.

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