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Tracy Alawe. Tracy, remember when I said a few weeks ago that I thought we should do a semiconductor Odd Lot spinoff series.

No, not a whole, not a series, like a whole new show. The idea is a whole new show on the subject.

No, that's not what you said. You said you wanted to transform

OddBots into a semiconductor podcast. So this is the latest step in your plan to do that, I assume.

Yeah, so we're not going to do that and realistically I don't think we are going to have a new spin-off

Oddlots branded semiconductor show, but I do think but we are going to do some more episodes on the topic because it really

does just intersect with a lot of different themes.

They're sort of the pure tech question of their role in the economy, why different companies

are rising and falling.

It also intersects with things like national security and sort of economic strength and some of the

questions we've seen during the COVID crisis about say domestic manufacturing

and reliance on manufacturing in other countries.

So it's a it's a rich load to mine.

Yeah, well I mean you could go even further so it kind of gets to I guess the heart of a large body of economic thought, right?

How do you balance domestic interests with market forces?

So when the entire market is telling you to outsource manufacturing to a cheaper place and they can do it more

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