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Hello, everybody. This is Glenn Laurie. You have tuned into the Glenn Show. I am with

Yaya Jata Finucci, a young man who I have come to know through my affiliation with a

Woodson Center in Washington, D.C., a gathering of relatively conservative African-Americans

around the work of Bob Woodson, the great Bob Woodson.

Yaya and I have been on a few calls where advisory council to Bob have put our heads together about this or that.

He's impressed me as an interesting fellow and I thought it'd be fun to talk with you, Yaya, here at the Glenn Show.

I'm Glenn Lowry. I'm a professor at Brown University. I'm a John Paulson senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Every other week, I'm here with John McWhorter, my conversation partner, but on the off weeks,

I talk with varied guests, and our guest this week is Yaya.

Thank you. One of the reasons I wanted to talk to you, man, is because you know a lot more

than I do about digital currency,

about central bank digital currency, about crypto and this kind of stuff.

Bitcoin, I don't understand it.

I'm an economist who does not understand the modern financial world.

I thought you might be able to break it down.

You are also a former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency.

And I don't know that many former CIA analysts.

I'm very curious to hear about your experience to the extent that you're at liberty to share it.

And you're younger than me by decades and interested in African American life and culture

and have an angle of vision

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