Hello and welcome to Brokonomics. Now we often talk about on Brokonomics what it's going to be like when what you know what might cause the dollar to collapse

themes like that how things are going wrong in politics how systems are becoming

ever more complicated more brittle there's competency crisis all of these

things are pushing down to make these systems not really work but it's all very

well talking about when the dollar will collapse as some hypothetical future event.

What's it like if you actually live through it?

And of course we don't know that yet, but Lionel Shriver has helped us out by reading this book which is The Mandibles.

It's all about a family who are expecting to come into some considerable fortune who then

actually end up, well living through a dollar collapse and everything that comes with it and the

evisceration of their wealth and all that and in order to do that we've got

Chloe from the Proper Horror Show so thank you very much for coming on Chloe

thank you for being here thank you very much for coming on Chloe. Thank you very much. It's an absolute pleasure

I I just sort of sprung this on you when I when we met briefly and I I thought this is my chance

I've got a pitch down

Lionel Shriver's the mandibles I want to get your take on it.

Yes well I'm glad you did actually because you'd been in because you've been doing various

I mean your thing is presumably horror.

It's all horror movies, it's a massive focus on that and over analyzing them.

Which is the best one, the best horror movie?

It would be Candyman from 1992.

Right, I haven't seen that one yet, so I loved it.

Certain themes of like social decay and...

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