Entering the show with enthusiasm I see.

Oh my goodness gracious.

Yes, yes, it's me for the first time on a Friday since New Year's I know I'm sorry I'm

Kha Rizdahl welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make today make sense

it is Friday today the 26th of January.

Yes, and I am Kimberly Adams.

Thank you for joining us on the podcast or if you're joining us live on the YouTube live stream.

Live on the live stream, I suppose that was redundant, but here we are.

It is Friday, and that means it is time for our weekly happy hour episode,

Economics on Tap.

We are gonna do what we do on a Friday Friday some news. We'll take a break. We'll do a little half full half empty

And we will peruse the chats for what people are drinking as as I was telling Kimberly before we turned the microphones on,

I got a soccer game later, I had some gator aid, it's about all I got. What, Kimberly, what do you got?

I made myself a little mocktail, it's just pomegranate juice, sparkling water, and some non-alcoholic bitters.

You know, I'm doing like half of a dry January, so like two weeks dry back end of the month.

Do bidders have alcohol in them?

They do. They do indeed.

Really?

Yeah, like really strong alcohol. but like that's why you droplets. Yes, bitters are booze.

I had no idea. That is so interesting.

So there are non-alcoholic bitters.

That's so interesting.

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