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Welcome to Animal Scurits with Michael and Ben.

It's Tuesday morning, we're recording this during the Epic Melt-up in Tesla and

C. NBC read an article or a tweet or whatever.

Ron Barron, the investor Ron Barron was on Squawk Box this morning talking about Tesla and he said something that I think is pretty out there

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