SYSK Selects: How much money is there in the world?​

There are few things more futile than trying to count all of the money in the world. Even many governments have no idea how much currency they have issued. But that won't stop Chuck and Josh from trying and explaining why we can't be sure how much money exists and the problems with flooding the world markets with bread.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everyone, it's me Josh and for this week's s
Y s K Select, I chose how Much Money Is
in the World? First aired in September two thousand thirteen.
And this is one of those topics that you kind
of wonder about ever since you're a little kid. I
know I did, and delightfully I found that as an
adult the answer was even more interesting than I had

(00:21):
imagined as a youngster. Youngster, that's what adults called kids,
right Well, anyway, this is one of my all time
favorite episodes. I hope you enjoy it as well. Welcome
to Stuff You Should Know from House Stuff Works dot com. Hey,

(00:46):
and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and I'm
with Charles W. Chuck Bryan. He's right here with me.
So it's stuff you should know. It's also really stuff
you should know because Jerry's here too. Oh the chairs
now here. It's fake stuff you should know. It's less
than vintage stuff you should know, got you. I mean,
it's not bad, it's not great. I'm sure Matt and

(01:12):
everyone appreciate that. Dud. I listen to this cramp Yeah, uh, Chuck, Yes,
how much money do you have on you right now? Cash,
zero dollars and zero cents. Well, that's stupid, because you
should have thirty eight in cash on you. I never
have cash. Well, you should almost never have cash. You

(01:33):
should have thirty eight hundred dollars in cash on you
right now. So should I, so should Jerry. Um, but
we don't. We don't. It's sad. I'd love in my pocket. Okay, Well,
let's let's explain why I just said that. Huh was
I supposed to? That's all right, I'll do it. Um,

(01:54):
I can do it. That's how much if you divide
up all the money between all the Americans, that's how
much we should all have. Bam, bam. So we're trying
to answer a question here, how much money is there
in the world? Um, And we'll get to that. There's
a there's actually a rough estimate out there that may

(02:14):
be right. But instead, first let's talk about how much
American money there is in the world. And not just
because we're American, but because it is the standard currency worldwide.
It's the closest thing to the universal currency that we have, um,
the dollar, the green back. Yeah. But um, that's not,

(02:35):
as I guess, um widespread as it once was. A
lot of people have abandoned the dollar UM and now
use a basket of currencies to value their currency against
very rebellious um. But still the dollar is generally what's
used to say, for oil speculation. And imagine the dollars

(02:56):
in that basket too though, right, maybe maybe not, It
depend on how much they hate America, gotcha? So um.
What you were talking about, though, was all the money
divided up by all the Americans coming up to thirty dollars.
That's called the M zero money supply. Of course, you
know how I read that m O the more money Supply.

(03:19):
I was like, what, and then I read I read
it again. I said, it can't be called the MO
money supply, and then I realized that was a zero
and not an Oh it it looks very much like
the MO money Supply. I wrote this article. I realized it,
and I never saw it like that until you just
said that. Really, Yeah, I like the MO money supply
better than the m OH. It's good, but it is

(03:40):
m O for a reason. There's also the M one,
M two, and there wasn't M three, which we'll get
to right. And the people who came up with this
was the federal Reserve Bank, the United States Central Bank,
the FED, right, and they like to track money. That's
one of the things they do to amuse themselves. Count yeah,
count money, um, and go to sleep on pile of
gold ingots. But the FED came up with this M

(04:05):
I'm sorry, this more Money Supply, also known as the
M zero supply, and that is all of the bills
and coins, all of the actual hard currency that exists
in the world anywhere in US dollars. And as of
July two thirteen. Hey, that's recent. Yeah, that came to

(04:25):
always should say Catherine Whitbourne from The Coolest Stuff on
the Planet. She updated this. So the fact that this
is as up today as it is is thanks to her. UM.
But the the M so, the more Money Supply as
of July two thirteen is one point to trillion dollars.
That's all the cash and all the coins all over

(04:46):
the world of American dollars, the real dollars that you
can collect and put together you can light your cigars with, yeah,
or you can throw into a fountain. Yeah. At one
point to trillion US dollars. So that's how much money
was in the world. But and and we said also
that's thirty eight hundred for every American man, woman, and child.

(05:09):
All three hundred and sixteen million, six hundred and sixty
eight thousand, five hundred and sixty seven Americans that were
alive in July of two thousand thirteen, each one should
have had thirty eight hundred bucks in their pocket. Because
we're not talking checking accounts, we're talking the actual currency
that people are walking around with. Since I don't have
thirty eight hundred dollars in my pocket, and I didn't

(05:29):
in July, you don't, Jerry, Nope, Jerry's got more. Where
is this stuff? That's a good question. I wonder how
that clock ticks, by the way, the population clock. I'd
like to see a real time like three people died,
four people born, people died, eight people born, said its wins.
I wonder if it ever does go backwards for a second.

(05:51):
It's got too because people are dying, but more people
are being born than people are dying. Yeah, it depends
on the country you're talking about. Yeah, that's true. Um,
I always drive by the one in Atlanta, you know,
on the population clock that's been there forever. When I
was a kid, I remember when the top two million
it was like whoa wow, and now it's whatever three
points something is it? Yeah? I mean that's metro Atlanta, right,

(06:13):
it's not city of Atlanta. Um, alright, so back to it. Uh,
where were we hard to track the more money? No,
we were talking about where the thirty eight hundred bucks
that should be in our pockets is? Oh well, um,
about a half to two thirds of that is overseas.
It's an overseas pockets, that's right, or overseas bank accounts

(06:34):
or no, no, we're not talking bank accountants. Wait, that's
just the money, that's right. Yeah. So that means that
there are people walking around overseas with cash on them
American dollar American dollars, which makes a lot of sense.
And so when you start to divide the amount of money,
at one point two trillion buy a lot more than
three hundred and sixteen million people. That explains why I

(06:56):
have a single dollar bill on my person right now,
why I have nothing? All right? And Jerry nothing nothing man,
we're sad sex Okay, So that's just the MO money supply. Yeah,
the M zero, the M one is all of the
MO money plus checking account money and other kinds of
just accounts that you can you know, track and travelers checks. Yeah,

(07:19):
very very liquid types of accounts. Yes, that's the M one,
Yeah supply that And it's funny that you were having
trouble wrapping your head around the fact that we were
talking about cash outside of banks for the M zero supply.
I had the same problem too, like it's hard to
think of money outside of banks in this day and age,
you could rarely have cash on hand use like debit

(07:42):
cards and credit cards and all that kind of stuff.
Yeah's American Express for everything. That's funny that on this
audio podcast you just held it up to your face
when you said that. Um, so that's the M one.
In June of of this year, the M one supply
was about two point five trillion, So the momentey supply

(08:04):
was one point two. The M one was two point five.
That's all the accounts and checking accounts, travelers checks. Then
there's the M two, which is the M one supply
plus uh money market fund, money savings accounts, and CDs
under a hundred grand, which they call small c ds
right from that's a pretty good CD. Well, c D

(08:26):
over a hundred grands called a jumbo. Yeah. I was
looking up jumbo right there used to be something like
four and a quarter. Some of them would be like
for like a ten year. Yeah, so you get like
twenty two grand back over now I'm sorry, five years.
So you go give a bank a hundred grand, say
keep this for five years paying me back, and they

(08:46):
would give you twenty two interests. So you get a
hundred and twenty two cran This not very long ago,
a couple of years ago before the crash. You want
to know what it's at right now, for a hundred
thousand dollar three year I believe c D a jumbo
c D, you get like one point four percent. It's
only worth your time to give a bank a hundred

(09:08):
thousand dollars to keep for three years. They'll give you
fourteen hundred dollars. Asinine go to the dog track with
a hundred thousand dollars and you leave a heroin addict crying. Um. Alright,
So the M to supply, which like I said, was

(09:29):
it was the M one supply plus money market fund
saving counts and those smaller CDs ten point five trillion.
That's virtually all of the American money in the world
pretty much. Because they got rid of M three basically
in two thousand six, because they said it really doesn't
tell us much to know what the larger jumbo CDs

(09:50):
are adding to this pile. It doesn't change things that much,
I guess. I imagine there's just not that many exactly.
So about ten point five trillion US dollars in accounts
and in cash um in holdings in the world in
about July June July of two. That's a lot of dough.

(10:11):
That's a lot of mula, all right, And if you
want to, yeah, it even says in't here that's it did.
And that's when I looked up. It's like who wrote this?
It was like, oops, I thought this was well done.
Well and I learned how to spell mulah. I didn't know.
Don't don't Patre, Now I'm serious. I literally thought, oh,
that's how you spell mula. How do you think you
spelled it? I don't know. M u l a no.

(10:33):
I just never thought of I've never seen it spelled
out m O O l a. H Uh. That's a
p standard exactly. So, um this I think we've kind

(11:05):
of pointed out it's tough to track money like this. Well, yeah,
it's not the easiest thing. They do a pretty good
job of it that the FED does specifically because it's
just what they do and they love doing that. Yeah,
but it's you know, it's an estimate still, like no
one knows how much cash I have in my house,
no one asked me, no, But they know how much
was printed. They keep track of that kind of stuff,
how much is destroyed, how much in circulation um. And

(11:27):
you know there's bank reportings. They know how much a
bank has at the FED UM, so they have a
It's it's pretty close estimate from what I understand. The
thing is, not every country has a FED like the
FED in the US, and that makes it way harder
to say how much money is in the entire world,

(11:48):
not just US dollars, but all the money in the
entire world, and more difficult to control your economy. It is,
if you if you don't know how much money you have,
it's very difficult to sway your economy one way or
the right exactly. So UM Zimbabwe is a really good example,
man of why it's so hard to track a lot
of money, and also what happens when you don't track

(12:10):
your money, yeah, or what happens when you decide in
order to fix economic woes, let's just start printing more money,
because that's um. If you know nothing about finance and economics,
a common thing you might think is, well, they could
probably just infuse some some cash flow by printing money occasionally,
and they do occasionally. But in Zimbabwe they did it

(12:32):
to such an extent with a zim dollar, which I
didn't even believe that was right. It's actually called a
zim dollar. Sounds like something from a movie. Um, not
a good one exactly. Uh. They printed so much money
that they encountered hyper inflation like the world has never
seen before. Yeah, so it's ridiculous numbers. Yes, this hyper

(12:54):
inflation in two thousand and six, it was. It was
really bad and two thousand Zimbabwe started to or an
inflationary spiral. Um. In two thousand and six, it was
so bad that a sheet, not a roll, a sheet
of toilet paper cost four hundred and seventeen zim dollars. Okay, yeah,

(13:16):
a roll of toilet paper cost a hundred and forty
five thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Well that's the thing.
Everybody would have gone broke. But it wasn't that the
toilet paper was very expensive. It was that the Zim
dollars had very little purchasing power, and that was because dollars,
just like any other commodity, are subject to the influences

(13:38):
of supply and demand, and when there's a lot of
them on the market, their value decreases. That's how the
US government has managed to stay afloat so many times
they release a bunch of money. They cause inflation so
that the debts that they owe are worth less, so
when they pay them off, it hurts the government less.
It's a really horrible thing to do to your investors,

(14:00):
but it's it's done. But that's the point. When you
have a lot of dollars out there, you have less
purchasing power per dollar. And that's what was going on
in Zimbabwe, and things got really out of hand because
they decided to fight this by printing more dollars. Yeah,
they really got out of hand. That Some of these
stats in here are just staggering. Um, you said that

(14:23):
every what you didn't say you report that. Um, it
was estimated that it was equivalent to prices doubling in
stores every one point three days. Yeah, the most I
saw was every twenty four point seven hours prices. Essentially,
we're being doubled by the way of the dollar losing value. Right,
Like the kind of inflation that we're looking at right

(14:44):
here in America right now is like in the single
digit percentiles, and it's being kept low by the Fed
on purpose. But we're talking like doubling increase. Like the
toilet papers this much the next day is twice as much.
The next day it's three times that. And that's just
not gonna affect economy. That's gonna like, I mean, think

(15:05):
about it. Its toilet paper costs that much money. People
are gonna stop using toilet paper. That leads to poor sanitation,
that leads to you know, it's just a domino effect. Well,
there was a joke that the toilet paper was so
expensive of the dollar, the zim zim dollar bought such
a little toilet paper that it was actually more useful
as toilet paper than to buy toilet paper with. Ye

(15:25):
that's not funny, but well yeah, if you're in Zimbabwe,
is not. But the annual inflation was um estimated. Like
this was watching Zimbabwe. If you were a currency or
monetary policy economists, it was like a dream come true.
Last time something happened this bad. It was Hungary in
n I think we talked about that once. Yeah, um,

(15:48):
I think it was in the super Stuff Guide to
Economics or Spoken Word album. Um. But the the inflation
in Zimbabwe was estimated at five hundred and sixteen quintillion percent.
That's by the end of two thousand and eight. Okay,
that's not even the highest that I've seen. Now, the

(16:09):
highest I saw is eighty nine point seven sex tillion percent,
which is a eighty nine point seven billion trillion percent
or eighty nine point seven ten to the twenty one
power percent. That was their annual rate of inflation, and
that was probably early two thousand nine. Yeah, yeah, because

(16:29):
in January two thousand nine they basically said you can
start using foreign currency again, which helps stabilizings a tiny
the tiniest bit, but it it didn't obviously work well.
It ended inflation abruptly because they abandoned these dollars. The
currency lost value so much that everybody stopped using it

(16:51):
and they went to the South African rand and the
US dollar. That took four months from January to April
for basically to completely abandon their money, right, So four
months in the country's money is literally useless, right, and
when they did, when they did abandon it was actually
a pretty good move. Like you couldn't carry the economy
with this money any longer because it was so value

(17:12):
that they're in bad shape no matter what. But at
least they that was a good move, right. And Um,
the reason it was a good move because it stopped
inflation because there weren't that many dollars and there weren't
that many rands around, which means that they were scarce,
which means again according to supply and demand, Um, they
were valuable and that hence they had purchasing power. Yeah,
and um, it's really unbelievable. But it got so bad

(17:35):
they were printing money in larger and larger denominations because
they had to, because people couldn't carry around. You'd have
to have a suitcase full of money to buy your
toilet paper. So they ended up producing a one hundred
trillion Zimbabwean dollar note that you can now buy on
eBay for about five bucks. Yeah, that's sad. While when

(17:56):
it was released it was worth about thirty Yeah, and
that's actual conversion rate, Like now it's only worth something
on eBay. Yeah, there is no conversion rate, right, Um,
I think I'm gonna get one, not just to have
it do it? Yeah, okay, so what is it? Three

(18:17):
d trillion dollar notes? Um? But that's the fact that
the Zimbabwean government wasn't tracking their money in the first place,
and they didn't track it after they kept releasing it
again and again, and there was no buyback program. They
just said, you guys keep that. Um. They have no
idea how many Zimbabwean dollars were released just in the century,

(18:41):
let alone how money are out there on the market.
So that's why it's virtually impossible to track how much
money is out there in the world. But that hasn't
stopped at least one guy. Well, actually that's not true.
I talked to Katherine Whitbourne today and she was saying
that the guy gave up the most recent figures she
could find with two dozens him because he's like, forget this, Yeah,

(19:01):
miquet of dollar days with the z dot com. Um, yeah,
I guess he gave up on a huh that was
his blog, his econ blog, and he was tracking a
hundred thirty five currencies uh in a hundred and sixty
seven countries, and I guess December two, thou ten is
probably one of the last stats he has then if
that's when he quit UM in his MO money equal

(19:26):
to five point trillion in US dollars in circulation M
two was fifty five trillion, So fifty five trillion bucks. Yeah,
that's the value of all the money in the world
occurring to Mike in US dollars, the US dollar value. Yeah,
but not just US dollars. That's everything, right, So there

(19:47):
you have it. Okay, So this would be a lot
easier to track and things like what happened in Zimbabwe
wouldn't happen. You would never have hyper inflation if we
all used a universal worldwide currency. Yeah, let's talk about that.
No less than John Maynard Keynes has suggested that, and

(20:08):
it's been bandied about for a long time since World
War two, well even before then. Yeah, I don't think
it's I think it was maybe closest to happening maybe
after World War two, well, which wasn't very close. You know,
there were instances of what were to the people who
were using the currency was effectively a universal currency like UM.

(20:30):
A lot the early imperial powers of China and Rome
used a single currency in all the lands they conquered,
which is why hordes of Roman silver coins are found
in fields in the UK still today. Um, but it's
still not technically a worldwide currency. But world War two
we came very close, right. Yeah. Let's talk about some

(20:54):
of the pros. I guess, um, because it's I mean,
if you look it up on the internet, there's a
lot of debate still going on. Um. Some of the pros.
Speculators can't short a currency. That scenario you were talking about,
like the value and currency to pay back debts, right,
that'd be gone because it wouldn't be a commodity. There
wouldn't any other currency to exchange it against. So therefore

(21:18):
it's just a dollar just can be used to buy
something you can't buy and sell it itself. It would
be valueless like that. Exporters wouldn't have to worry about
price gaps. There would be no conversion fees, which would
free up money for like healthcare or whatever, I mean,
something good to spend it on. Um. Of course, I'm

(21:41):
just this is utopian outlook like, oh yeah, then they
could spend it on healthcare ideally, but it would free
up money. Um, it would end disputes about a currency
manipulation um like China. Um. So they're like there are
some pros. For sure, you wouldn't have to stand in
line at the combie centers and exchange your money when

(22:01):
you traveled, No, and um convenience you. Me and I
went to Europe this summer and it was nice to
not We just exchanged once. Yeah, that hasn't been since
the euro it's like everywhere, um, and even in places
in Croatia they still use their currency, but everybody accepts euros. Yeah.
I bet they accept American dollars there too. Um. I

(22:24):
kind of enjoyed the different currencies. Oh yeah, it's pretty
and it's just neat. I kind of enjoyed the I mean,
I guess it was. I didn't see it as a hassle.
Maybe I was young, but I always thought it was
kind of neat, Like let me go turn in my
francs for uh for my German dollars. Well, it just
sucks to lose money buying another currency, yeah, or to
come out ahead though, that's when you're rocking right sometimes.

(22:46):
But it's been a while since that happened. Well, this
was in the mid ninety nineties, so the American dollar
was we were doing pretty well in Eastern Europe the
dollar was sound as the pound, but we we got
killed in England of course, as always, yeah, because your
pound is so awesome. Well, that was the big discrepancy
after World War Two, like when we came close to

(23:07):
adopting universal currency, the Americans and the Brits couldn't decide
on what to value it against the pound or the dollar,
and so it just fell apart. Well, the Pew Research
Center did a poll and apparently of Americans believe that
we will have a universal currency by um But the
article I got that from, the guy speculates that could

(23:29):
be because we're sort of programmed to think that the
future will be like that, because every entirely, yeah, like
every sci fi movie ever, it's like, you know, universal credits.
It's not even like cash. So people just kind of
have that in the back of their minds. So there's
a lot of like drawbacks to a universal currency as well.
There's some clever things you can do if you are

(23:51):
in charge of your own currency and it's valued against
other currencies. One of them is, if your economy is sluggish,
you can release a lot of your currency create inflation,
drive prices down in your country compared to the um

(24:11):
the buying power of a foreign currency, and attract that
foreign currency and get your economy kick started again. If
you're using the same currency as all these other countries
that you're trading with. Sure there's not that that gap, right,
the currency gap, But you also can't do that nice
little trick that's probably would have bailed out Spain and

(24:33):
Greece on their own had they not been trading the
Euro or using the Euro the last couple of years. Yeah,
that's a good point. Um. Some pundits think that the
gold standard, if they were going to go to a
universal currency, it would should be based on something like
the gold Standard again or the gold Standard period. But
a lot of other people say, no, that's antiquated and

(24:56):
just a bad idea. Yeah, potentially dangerous. I wonder how
I would be dangerous. I don't know. We we should
do one on the gold standard. I mean, they got
rid of it for a reason, so I don't know
something about going back to something that but it was
Nixon and get rid of it. So it's makes you
think it's inherently evil getting rid of the gold standard,
you know, The other thing, too, is who's going to

(25:17):
run the show? Is really the big I think that's
probably the biggest stumbling block. It's a huge one. Is
it's there's got to be a universal body, an international
reserve bank, central bank, that has the authority on issuing
these things buying them back. And yeah, I mean, like
ever since the Clinton there, everybody has been nervous about
that kind of thing. But even if you're not a

(25:39):
paranoid type, you may just think that this body by
definition would be incompetent just from looking at like the
U n UN has successes. Piece keeping missions are frequently
very helpful and can add stability to a region. And
then you have things like the International Panel on Climate Change,

(26:00):
which releases it's um it's opinions on climate change based
on politics and diplomacy rather than science. Yeah, and you
can't if you if it's a world bank. There's too
much at stake to make mistakes. And we already have
a World bank. It's just not in charge of every currency.
And if it were, I mean there, it could be problematic.

(26:23):
It could be helpful, it could be problematic. I don't
really fall down on either side of this. Yeah, I
mean I don't know. You know how I feel about economics.
It's just as long as I can go buy my
stuff and pay my mortgage. Yeah, I don't care if
it's at the end or the dollar or the or
the the community financier deaf freak frank do you care

(26:48):
if it's that? No, I had never heard of that.
I didn't know. I thought the euro was sort of
the only consolidator. But um, apparently in Africa, eight West
African nations do share that West African CFA franc African
Financial Community. Another six Central African nations share a Central

(27:08):
African CFA franc which is weird because they're interchangeable. Yeah,
two currencies that they can either one's fine. Yeah, I
guess it's like when you go to Costa Rica, right,
or Mexico you can use your dollars, you can use
your pass. Yeah, I guess so. But apparently from interchangeable,
I read that to me like they're valued the exact same,
which is like, why I have two different currencies that

(27:30):
are so similar that are the same value. Just make
one c f A franc um. And then there was
a lot of talk about hemispheric and regional unified currencies
in Central America and South America, and they came very close,
but the recent troubles from the Eurozone have made a
lot of people back off about it. And uh, in

(27:51):
North America, there was going to be the North American Union,
which is Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Supposedly we're
going to be fused together into one and it was
like yes, and Canada was like right in America was like, well,
we were going to come up with the amaro A
M E r oh was the name of the unified currency.

(28:13):
That would have been interesting. Well, it's a conspiracy theory
at least. Okay, there you go. That's how much money
is in the world. Any kind of weird. That not weird,
but that America's sandwich between such two different countries. It is,
I can in Mexico. That's like, you can't get any
more opposite. Yeah, I guess simon people, food, economy, and

(28:38):
then America's right in the middle. It's kind of fitting
where the melting pot of Canada in Mexico. Yes, we
are where it all comes together. America's had in America's pants.
I can't remember what you've called Mexico before. Shoes m
I don't think, so let's just call it Mexico. Uh. Okay,
So that's how much money there is in the world.

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you very much. Our buddy Roger Ma sent us to

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the Vampire Combat Manual and he's previously sinis the Zombie
Combat Manual and Roger's good. Do we actually finally met him?
Didn't we? I don't know did we meet him? I
think we met Roger at one of the comic consay taken. Yeah, okay,
I think you're right, hey rod. Uh. We got a
postcard from China from Carry Nice. We got another book

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called Trunkless. It's a children's book and I don't have
the author here, but it's called Trunkless. I think we
did that one before, did we? Alright? Double plug? Uh.
We got another postcard from Bogram Airfield from Amy Lynn,
Thanks for that. We got a book called Verbifor's Feast
Verbie Horse Feast by Christie the Word Smith and that
was sent in by Hillary Nice. Uh. We got a

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postcard of a bear pooping in the woods from Van Nostrin. Thanks. Yeah,
and we should mention too. Van Nostron also sent us
his CD from his awesome band, The Bangalore's Sasquatch with
a mullet. Yes, thank you, buddy. Um. We got a
comic zine called Happy Trails Cowboy Poetry by Horace T.
Rushy Beard stash Um. We got a really cool cityscape

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watercolor card that was designed and sent by Alex. Thanks Alex.
John Lennemeyer wrote a book called How An Average Man
Lived an Adventurous Life. And I haven't read that yet,
but I'm going to good going chuck. Yeah. Um. We
got some CDs from Rich Boswick that may or may
not have been all of them, but thank you very

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much for those. Yeah, and I believe he also sent
us a DVD called Forgotten Detroit and a nice handwritten
or I'm sorry, inc Rendering of Ourselves? Right? Did you
see that? Yeah? Is it the same guy? I think
it's the same guy. Well, thank you very much big time.
A book called Roman Disasters by Jerry Turner, and a

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book called the Life and Times of Swirly Van Coco.
Stuff you should know edition. It's a comic actually from
Aaron Dunbar yes, I remember what else we have, chuck. Uh.
And then we have a bunch of music you want
to go through these? Uh? Colum blow Double in Disguise,
that's right, Ben from self evidence in his c D
s and vinyl of the record. We built a fortress

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on short notice, so we've definitely plugged that one before.
The La La band sent us their c D Moonshine
Still yep. The group called Forging Reverie sent us a
CD called Motion Canvas, and that was from Derek. Eric
Davis and Sam Gray sent us a c D table
People and some authentic Korean junk food. Burke Uh in

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Graphia or in Graphia sent us download codes for his
c D Jazz Animals. Right. Katie Center sent us a
nice handwritten letter. She's doing something called the Letter Project,
where she sends a letter to somebody who inspires her
to ask what are you pursuing in your life? And
do you know? How do you know when you've gotten there? Yeah? Yeah,
and we answered, did we? Yeah? I did? Oh? And

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nice for both of us. Oh nice, thanks man, I
know what you I know what you're pursuing. I don't
even have to do me thinking. Uh. And then we
have one more vinyl and c D the shape of
beats to come from bendick box us band. Yes that
is b E N D I K B A K
S A A S and should take these vinyls. There's

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a couple over there on my desk. And thanks man.
You got a record player if I do and mine
is busted. What happened to your record player? Oh it's
up in the attic endword pree year or so until
I get to go in and should just take the
vinyl will Yeah? And we appreciate the vinyl by the way,
it's very cool. I believe Benedict backs us. Um do
we read his name for volunteering no donating to co

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ed Oh maybe I believe so. Yeah. Well if that's
the same person, then thanks for that doubly. So that
is administrative details for now. Thanks for the stuff. Yeah,
we're all caught up. Very nice. I know it feels good.
It didn't take like eight episodes to cover it, right. Uh.
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