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Hey everyone, welcome to the Big Picture Retirement Show.

I'm your host, Devin, joined today by my co-host John Ross.

Howdy.

So, John, have you noticed what's been going on in the stock market like?

Man, I was at a financial advisor's office last, the best week ago, maybe.

And I was doing some estate planning for some of their clients.

And they would, they'll, they'll have a day and they'll rack up three or four clients that need

my services and I'll go in and I'll sit in their office and I'll meet with them. Anyway, I was talking to I was talking to one of the financial advisors. I was done. I was kind of walking out and I was like, Sylvan, I said, how's it going? He was like, how you think it's going? He said, there's a reason why all of our offices are on the first floor.

He said that way when we jump out

the window, we just get a bruise. It has been a rough period. For sure. And you know, a lot of my

colleagues that I've talked to, they are very, very busy right now with incoming phone calls

and, you know, clients that are really concerned. And I'll have to say that I've been really

blessed with the, with the clients that I have. I rarely have anyone that calls, you know,

ready to jump where I'm having to talk them off the cliff. It rarely happens. A lot of my clients

have been through these markets already, you know, some of them started to come into their wealth.

Maybe it wasn't in the 2000 to 2002 bear market, but the 2008 through the latter part of nine bear market, they went through that.

Then we didn't really see another big bear market until March of 2020.

That was so short, it was laughable.

I think it was 43 days and the market fell like 32% in that period. So it was very sharp,

but very quick. And here we are in kind of a classic bear market. Right. Yeah, kind of

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