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forward slash free. You're going to be. Oh, yeah. Today is August 3rd 2017 and welcome to episode one of our 2017 summer series.

To my right are James and Grant. Good afternoon. Good afternoon guys. How's it going?

Excellent. That was a bit of a change of pace for intro music there. Yeah, pretty nice.

Listen, far be it from me to start the podcast up, seeing as we are changing things up for the summer, I have to say, James, I'm impressed with your choice of music this week.

Well done.

Thank you very much. I figured I'd liven the mood up seeing as it is actually summer.

Yeah, this is like the summer camp for good kids.

Nobody got sent here.

We all chose to come here, is excellent and throughout this series in

August we're going to be having a bunch of conversations with previous

guests and talk to them about something that Aaron and I find fascinating and

that's the things they do outside of finance that keep them balanced

and centered.

Yeah, that's absolutely right, Grant.

When we were conceiving this series and thinking about, oh, I mean, what should we do during the

August break?

It's like, why don't we just flip the script on its head and do something

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