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This is Monica Perez here today with a returning guest and friend of the show to give us an update on money, markets, the economy, trade, whatever is going on right now in the here and now. And we're going to do this in the form of a kind of newsreel because it is in the moment news. So, thanks

for joining us again. Please welcome Jason Purcell. Hey. Hey, great to be here. I think it's

been like almost a year maybe. So this is really? Oh my gosh. Well, I had so much going on. I haven't really been doing too much and I had this. You know, we were, I think were we talking about the fires a little bit. Did you send me so I think you sent me a graph of the fire. Was that you? Oh, I did. Yeah, yeah. Some guy on, well, not some guy.

Somebody on X was pontificating that there was going to be like a financial crisis that would

be sparked by the California wildfires. So I kind of, you know, did a little bit of analysis

here and there. And it turned out to not be, I mean, as far as we know, that impactful economically.

Right. I believe that.

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, you have had a lot going on.

Your house almost burned down.

Yeah.

Yes.

And we've just still, I get interrupted all day and all night with, well, it's not all night, but it's 6.30 in the

morning. The trucks start rolling in to remove debris. It's a crazy situation here. But we're kind of

trying to get back in action. And I'm finally able to turn my attention to some of the news,

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