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If you look at what we've done over the last five years, right? A hundred billion dollars

plus of deleverging. We weathered the pandemic. We're going through this separation, not to mention

the first time we've brought in an outside chairman CEO in the company's history. If the next five

years we have none of that to work through but can be wholly focused on the businesses so that

we're even better positioned to take advantage of those tailwinds. I think we're going to be in great shape.

Hello and welcome to the Baron Streetwise podcast. I'm Jack Howe and the voice you just heard

that's Larry Culp. He's the CEO of General Electric which is undergoing some profound changes

at the moment and whose stock is up more than 70% year to date. We're going to talk about that

and we'll say a few words about the broad stock market and earning season and meme stocks.

Listening in is our audio producer Meta. Hi Meta. Hi Jack. We were talking about some gloomy things.

There's been a lot of flooding around here. There has been earlier that we had a lot of smoke

blowing through the air from wildfires. It's getting nuts and you had found a bit of cheerful

pattern. Is it cheerful news? You had found a picker upper in browsing the headlines there.

What do you have for us? Well you tell me the headline is she's still surfboards by the seashore.

She's a sea otter and then it goes. California wildlife officials are hoping to apprehend

a five-year-old sea otter who has a knack for riding the waves after committing long-board larceny.

Okay first of all there's a plot twist right in the headline. I like that. There's an otter thief

surfer. I am wondering are there accomplices because it's a long board and an otter is kind of a

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