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How's it going out there?

It's Tuesday, July 3rd.

I'm Frank Curzier, hosted the S&A Investor Podcast,

where I break down the headlines and tell you what's really moving these markets.

I wanted to open up with a personal story this week and now it's probably not one that's going to make you

laugh. Well it'll make you laugh a little bit at first but has more of a serious tone to it later on.

But it's the 4th of July, 4th of July is coming tomorrow.

This holiday has a lot of meaning to me.

And it's one of my biggest family holidays when I was growing up.

And my mom and dad owned a house in upstate New York

just outside of Oniata, if some of you familiar with the area.

And my dad used to invite probably about 20 of our family members, uncle, aunts, cousins to the house to celebrate the 4th of July every year.

It was a big tradition. And you know, our house was kind of big, had like seven bedrooms and it was seven open acres of land. It's really, really nice place up state.

And we still have the house in the family today but you know it's pretty crowded family members are

sleeping on cots on couches even on the floor you know it was basically total chaos when we're going to eat dinner or

breakfast and everything was just it was basically total chaos when we were going to eat dinner or breakfast

and everything was just uh... it was really really cool though a really good time

and uh... each year my father used to buy a ton of fireworks which was illegal in

New York i live in florida and it's like firework places. They sell fireworks

in Walmart here, but in New York it's illegal. So, you know, they basically I'm telling you this story

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