Tess Vigeland

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I'm your host, Tess Viglund.

Picture a fertilizer company in Belarus selling to a buyer in Azerbaijan, setting the deal in dollars.

Neither company touches an actual dollar.

Well, Brent, thanks so much for coming on the show again.

It's great to see you again.

Thanks, Tess.

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I'm Tess Vigeland, your host and executive producer.

Thanks for listening, and we'll see you next time.

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Hmm.

I wish that we could have our producer, Tess Vigeland, join us for this conversation because she took a three-year sabbatical from work and lived in Asia for a while.

She's just out of the frame, um, but we'll have her on for another episode [laughs] to talk about this.

But I think knowing how much you would wanna spend.