Hello. Hello. Hi. Who are we talking to? Alissa. I'm second grade and I'm a

brownie girl scout. And Alissa, we want to try to get people to donate to NPR.

And so I want you to tell us all of your tricks about how you get people to buy

Girl Scout cookies. Okay. Okay. You have to be smart because it's really hard work to

scout cookies. Right. Okay. We can do that. We can be smart. Next one? Always be cute.

Because if you be cute, you will, they will love you and give you money to have your cookie.

Okay. So you have to look cute. Work cute. What if someone says, oh no thank you. I don't want

any Girl Scout cookies today. What do you say? You say thank you for listening and then we'll

walk around because you always have to be friendly and not neat. So you say okay. Well thank you

anyways. Thanks for listening. Mm-hmm. I think that's a good approach too. Will you tell people where

they can donate to NPR? Donate NPR. Or slash plan it money. Thank you so much. Thank you.

This is Planet Money from NPR.

There is an old quote about artists from Paul Gardner, himself an artist. He said,

a painting is never finished. It simply stops in interesting places. Which is exactly what we

tell ourselves here at Planet Money as we try and put out two shows a week. Sure. We travel the

globe looking for compelling stories about economics, the most fascinating characters we can find,

and we beg, beg for time to tell the story. We'd spend years working on each one. But

there are deadlines, there are shows to put out, and so we end each story. And even as we're pushing

the send button, or however podcasts get up there, which I'm still not sure about. But even at

that moment, we feel like the podcast isn't really finished. It's just hopefully stopping in one

of those interesting places. Well today on our yearly update show, we're going back to those

places, and we're going to tell you what happened after we turned off our microphones. It is an

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