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Welcome to Animal Spirits, a show about markets, life, and investing.

Join Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson as they talk about what they're reading, writing, and watching.

Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson work for Rit Holt's wealth management.

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Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

So on Monday morning as we went to record, I was telling you before we got started.

I said, did you listen to Bill Simmons this morning because he messed up his

audio. We both use a Zoom recorder which is very easy, it's very intuitive, you plug something

in, there's four different ports and you just have to make sure that you're in the right one.

A child could do it, but he forgot to plug his into the right one and so his audio was completely

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