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How's it going out there?

It's Wednesday, June 12th, and I'm Frank Curzio,

hosted the S&A Investor Podcast, where I break down the headlines and tell you what's really moving these markets.

Had a little bit of a rough week.

A lot of times I open this up, kind of a funny story. Today it's not

so fun. I got a call on Wednesday from my mother. Turns out that my brother had a bilateral stroke. So he lost his speech, had

paralysis in his face, his blood pressure jumped to 215 over 140. Incredibly high.

My brother lives in New York, Staten Island.

He has four kids under six years old.

He's five kids in total, one from his previous marriage.

We won't get into that and he's

basically you know the breadwinner in a family is wife you know she doesn't work

but she takes care of the house and kids which is a you know an awesome job my wife

does the same thing and it's equivalent

probably to make it $150,000 a year because I'd be lost without her so but basically he brings

into cash and he works so I had to travel in New York City this week. I think that makes what my eighth trip in two months. I'm pretty sure, but it's been crazy. As you know, I've been traveling like crazy trying to give you information from every place all over the world unfortunately this is

not business this is personal and it was a shocking experience for me and my family and

overall my brother got real lucky he still splurs his

speech a little bit, but the doctor thinks that's going to come back in a couple months and he's going to be okay after therapy.

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