Hey, everybody. Today's show is going to be a little different. Throughout the life of this podcast,

we've asked you our wonderful listeners to pick up the phone and leave us assignments. And you know

what? You delivered. Wow, what a great discovery, audience. I'd love to see you do a deep dive

as you're so good at them. And I'm calling, because there's a controversial topic that I think the media is getting very

wrong.

I love getting these messages.

And once you left enough of these leads, we realize that you would do an excellent job

programming the show.

So today, the assignments come from you. I'm Audie Cornish.

Here's what we did. We took three of your assignments and then called up three reporters who could

give us some answers. Let's get into the first message with my colleague here at CNN, Claire Duffy.

Claire, just start by telling us what you do here, officially.

Yes, so officially I am a tech reporter for the CNN business team.

However, we have an interesting question for you today.

A very special voicemail from one of our listeners that we think you can help us out with.

Here it goes.

Hi, I guess this is for an assignment I was curious as to the ongoing coin

shortage and what's the deal with that whether it's a conspiracy with the you know

credit card companies getting the fee ex-s fees or just laziness on nobody wanting to go

to the bank and getting you know dimes nickels, nickel, and pennies. My information is Sarah

in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Thanks. Okay, so Sarah from Albuquerque bringing us a question about

the coin shortage, and I detect a little bit of cynicism, whether it's a conspiracy from the

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