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All right, welcome to the Risk Reversal podcast. nathan that is guy damey hi guy yo what is

going on on this fine day sunny day by the way about time and i gotta tell you you haven't been

in the city in a couple days some of those huge ice mounds when you see as the as the snow is

melting what's inside of them it it is disgusting. The streets of

New York City are going to be disgusting. I think what's, I know we're not here to talk about that,

but it appears as though in the snow, the rules of society no longer exist. In other words,

if you have a dog or some sort of pet, where in nice spring, whether you will

pick up after, for some reason, people feel in the snow, they're allowed to sort of leave it

there. It is rather disgusting. Well, that's maybe the least of it, but we'll save that for

another podcast. Guy, I just got done talking to Jason Wilkie as the founder and CEO of Dave. It is a fintech

company that is, it's very interesting what's going on there. They've had tremendous growth.

They went public maybe four or five years ago. They are in the micro lending space, but also,

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