And I noticed that as we, you know, went towards the airport, we kept having to reroute ourselves because so many roads were closed because they have been converted to mini-rivers, buses shut down in the middle of the street, water just gushing everywhere. A taxi got there, I was drenched just getting into the car. So I didn't know how bad it was at the time but I looked outside the window and said: there's no way I'm going to walk to the bus station, it’s a mile away, let me just call a taxi. Well, the past week I was in DC, the nation's capital of the United States of course, and the day I was leaving to go from DC back here to Atlanta, not just a day but the very hour I was trying to leave, the city got hit by historic rainfall: we receive something like 3.6 to 4 inches of rainfall in just under an hour and that was the hour I was trying to leave.
We do climate change topics on this podcast every once in a while, right? David Torcivia: David, before we get started, I have a climate change story. Thank you Alexey for this very money transcript! ( Yes, this is a machine generated transcript. Google Play | Stitcher | Soundcloud | Spotify | RSS | or search "Ashes Ashes" on your favorite podcast app. It seems like a straight-forward topic and yet we still manage to ramble off script. South Korea is elminating coins and requiring shoppers to upload their cash receipts to a digital database Indians are still reeling from a 2016 decision that turned 86% of the country's cash worthless in a matter of hours migrants and refugees are being targeted for new schemes of financial inclusion, but not experiencing the promised benefits US cities are retaliating against cash-only retailers eager to speed the flow of customers, increase spending, and surveil our every purchase while exluding undersirable demographics and despite our technological proficiencies, fiction writers 500 years ago still had more creative solutions to our money woes.
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