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Welcome to the Risk Reversal podcast. I am Dan Nathan. That is Brian Belski. He is the founder, CEO, CIO of Humulus Investment Strategy. Nailed it. Did I nail it all, right? Nailed it. I didn't even have notes either. I didn't take out of the garbage, though. I'm chief compliance officer. Well, you got Ryan. He's going to be doing a bunch of stuff. He's the Swiss Army knife. The brains behind the operation. All right, let's we're going to do lots of stuff. We're going to do year end. We're going to do some of the big macro debates. We're going to do some of the sector, you know, debates. If you want to call them debates, it seems like no debate. It's,

you know, AI all the time. That's driving the train. We're going to talk about 2026 in your

outlook there. But first things first, I think a lot of our listeners, a lot of our viewers know you

from being a prolific strategist and money manager over at BMO Capital.

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