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I'm Tracy Allaway.

Tracy, did you know we just had something in New York that's apparently called Giga Week?

See now I don't know how to answer this question because we were sort of talking about it a few minutes

before we started recording. I am aware that there was a big big art auction. I was unaware

that it's actually called Giga Week. Yeah I didn't realize that either. Like I guess every once in a while auctions, like big weeks of art auctions are kind of like

Mardi Gras New Orleans or something, they just suddenly just pop up and your feed just gets

dominated by people who are at this event and you're like,

oh yeah, this is happening again.

So obviously in New York recently we just had a series of gigantic art auctions and apparently because of how much money the art sells for during the course of the week, they call it gig a week because over a billion dollars of art gets sold.

Oh, okay, so lots of money. $1 billion of art gets sold.

Okay, so lots of money flowing through those auctions.

And there was one point of interest in particular, because I remember you actually tweeting

about it, but the father of Treasury Secretary Steve

Minuchin he bought a pretty large how do I describe it a sculpture that

resembles like a balloon bunny.

Yeah, and I don't even think it was that large, although we can get into it.

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