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I'm Pat McLean.

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the middle of October. Boy, it's October, both, October is kind of known as a volatile time

for the stock market. Yes. And we've skipped that. Actually, if you look the last few years,

we've kind of skipped that often October. It's been a while. We didn't even talk about it leading

up until October here at Hanson McLean's Money Marriage, but we certainly

saw last week some volatility hop back into the markets. It, the numbers were large. The

percentages on a historical basis weren't that bad. No, so we'll talk a little bit about

this and kind of what it means to you

as someone investing or for retirement because it's always surprising. I don't know if it's

surprising. It is surprising. When we have a period like this, how many people that I, in my, not

at work and not clients, I'm talking about

just people I run into want to have a conversation about the markets and, you know, what

should we do anything different? And so they'll come up to you in public and say, hey, Scott, because they know your investment advisor and want to discuss the markets with you?

Yes, this week I had people at the gym, multiple people at the gym.

That's why I don't go to the gym.

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