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All right, we've got back to the classroom. And I'm going to let you lead this off, Logan,

because you got this

question just recently. We're talking about, is the stock market just gambling?

Yeah, I had a gentleman in an initial meeting, which was very interesting. He reached out

to us and wanted to come in and then had an initial

meeting with him. And he said, well, this doesn't really matter anyways. You're just gambling my

money and trying to make money off of it. And I was like, whoa, full stop. Hold up. Wait a minute.

I like stop the meeting entirely. I was like, this is not gambling. Like we are investing,

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