Hey guys it's downtown Josh Brown we are sort of live from the compound play our favorite game what are your thoughts I'm here with Michael Batnik as always Michael doesn't know what I'm going to ask him.

I don't know what he's going to ask me. Let's see what's going on.

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in this podcast. Okay, here we go.

All right, Mike, I'm gonna go first.

Um, are there any crisis stars?

Like, I mean, well, besides you, I feel like every one of these crashes we've gotten like these new

Celebrity people that called it in advance but this one was so exogenous and so sudden that I feel like nobody really had time to position themselves as the man or the woman who saw it coming.

I think the closest to that is

maybe Mohammed Alarian, but only because he said don't buy the dip.

He didn't predict the pandemic.

I don't know.

What are your thoughts?

I think Ben Hunt comes to mind.

Okay, because he was so aggressively like guys pay attention pay attention.

And I was I'll admit that I was laughing a little bit, not like I wasn't publicly

shaming because that's not my style, but when I was reading him I was like, wow, this guy is really

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