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Now I know what you're thinking. Jack is a way on vacation. He's left us with a crummy rerun.

I got news for you. We've got a brand new listener question that we're going to answer in this

episode with a crummy rerun. But I think it's going to be fresh because it's so old.

Where's this episode from? November 2020. It's so old you won't have remembered it. It'll be

like it's new. Am I selling this thing? Oh yeah, I think people are tuning in in the thousands right now.

It's about fine art. By the way, listening in our audio producer meta like you need an introduction.

Let's hear our listener question. We can't hear it because it's just only in print.

All done. I get to take a minute to recover. But Dennis writes us. Go ahead.

I recently came across your podcast and it has rapidly become my go-to morning listening.

I have been looking for diversification and I've been speaking with Masterworks to fractionally

buy works of art. Some of the returns are intriguing and I would like to hear your thoughts.

Great question, Dennis. I love your accent. Are you Danish?

I get this question from time to time and I see stories now and then about different

fractional pieces of art becoming available from Masterworks and there was one a couple of years ago

about raising some funding. I think it valued the company more than a billion dollars.

Before that point, we had spoken with the founder and CEO of Masterworks. His name is Scott Lin.

We also spoke with Arthur Cordoweg. He's an associate professor of finance and business economics

at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. That's tough to

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