Ben Dreyfuss

This is Josh Barro.

I'm here with Megan McArdle, columnist for The Washington Post, and Ben Dreyfus, who writes the Substack newsletter, Calm Down.

I am just back from vacation.

I hope you all enjoyed our conversation with Annie Lowry, uh, last week that we put out while I was, uh, traveling through Germany and France.

I, I have a lot to talk about, about Europe.

I'm gonna save most of it for Happy Hour this week.

But I, I, I, I do wanna say, Megan, Ben, I think I finally figured out what's going on with ice in Europe.

They behave like ice costs $100 a pound.

This is Josh Farrow.

I'm here with Ben Dreyfuss, writes the Substack newsletter Calm Down, and Megan McArdle, columnist for The Washington Post.

Megan, so I was out on Fire Island this weekend, and our neighbors had a house guest who I was introduced to.

And he was like, I've met you before.