Hello, hello, hello, good evening.

Good evening, my friends. How are you doing?

I have a little bit of time tonight.

I'm actually, sort of been in a little bit of negotiations to appear on a fairly large podcast,

and I had a nice chat with free talk people today.

So, maybe emerging like a gopher hole from the long winter of my banishment.

But anyway, but anyway, I was thinking about women today as husbands and fathers of

daughters tend to do.

And I was thinking about the women I've known who are broke.

And perhaps you know some women who are broke. And I'll, you know, broach this as a topic to start.

And then, of course, I'm happy to hear your thoughts on this topic or whatever topic you like.

But, holy crap, are there ever some broke women?

Wow, it's wild.

And I've known some.

I remember meeting a girl, chatting with her, I chatted with her in the gym.

We were both on the bike machine and we happened to be reading the same book. And I'm like, hey, twins, book twins.

And I ended up taking her out for a coffee and she actually launched into, it's an odd topic,

you know, for, it was, you know, I wouldn't even say it was necessarily a date,

but I just remember her launching into this topic about how much in debt she was. And she was

$17,000 in debt. Boy, this is back with $17,000. Well, it's still a lot of money, but it was

even more money back of the day. And it was an ex-boyfriend

who'd run up the debt for her. And boy, can you imagine, can you imagine getting involved

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