The Rest of the Story, 2025

This message comes from the International Rescue Committee. Cofounded with help from Albert Einstein, the IRC provides emergency aid and support to people affected by conflict and disaster. Donate today by visiting rescue.org/rebuild. Hey. Erica Barris here. We are almost at the end of 2025, and there is no way to sugarcoat it. It has been a tough year for NPR and for local stations. But with your support, NPR will keep reporting the news. And here at Planet Money, we'll keep doing what we do best, explaining the economy in the most entertaining and accessible ways we possibly can. If you're already an NPR Plus supporter, thank you so much. If not, please join the community of public radio supporters right now at +.npr.org. Signing up unlocks a bunch of perks like bonus episodes and more from across NPR's podcasts, visit +.mpr.org today. Thanks. This is Planet Money from NPR. We have so many ways to communicate these days. Email, text, WhatsApp, Snap. Recently, some people have been communicating in the Spotify comments of our podcast episodes are working theories that it's teens trying to get around their phone's parental controls. Thanks for juicing the algorithm kids, I guess. But lately, and I know this makes me sound like a grandpa, I have just been picking up the phone and calling people. On the phone, there's no subtext. There's no being left on read. There's no little ellipsis while you wait for someone to respond. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's instantaneous. Unlike voice memos, which are an assault on human dignity. You wanna tell me something, but don't wanna talk to me about it? Type it out, bro. Anyways, the phone. Try it. It's my twenty twenty six resolution. More phone. Not scrolls, calls. I bring this up because lately at Planet Money, it has been so satisfying to call up old sources. It's for a show we do every year around this time where we recognize that while we write nice endings to our stories, the music doesn't just fade up on the people we talk to or the storylines we're covering. Hello and welcome to Planet Money. I'm Nick Fountain. Today, we check-in on an engineer and patent attorney who made a safer saw on the Planet Money game. We have updates and on a diamond that may or may not have had a second life. It's a show we named after the radio great Paul Harvey, who had a radio show called The rest of the story. This message comes from Capital One with the Capital One Savor card. Earn unlimited 3% cash back on dining and entertainment. Capital One, what's in your wallet? Terms apply. Details at capital1.com. This message comes from Apollo Global Management who believes the global industrial renaissance is transforming the world. Over the next decade, industries like energy, infrastructure, and technology will need an estimated 75 to $100,000,000,000,000 to modernize and meet demand. Long term projects need long duration …