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Well, thank you, Erica. I appreciate it. And Scott, welcome back. Thanks once again for joining us. I think that we're a little off our normal schedule

because of the money manager meetings that we had last week. I think last Monday would have been

our two-week spot and here we are today. So I'm kind of fresh off of, you know, 20-ish meetings last week, and I'm ready to roll here.

So we have plenty to talk about.

We actually finally do have a little bit of volatility in the market, which has been nice.

And I'm sure there's plenty of questions that are out there.

Like Erica said, send those in real time.

She'll get them and send him to Scott while we're talking

questions at the Bonson Group.com. But Scott, I think you got a lot you want to go through with me.

So I'm just going to hand it right over to you, my friend. Well, David, thank you. As always,

and great to be back with you after a couple of weeks. And I think that's a great place to

start, David, was some of the

takeaways that you wanted to share from the meetings that you had last week. And maybe also

how the volatility and some of the uncertainty around taxes may have changed the normal course

of discussion at those meetings, which you have every year around this time.

Yeah, you know, let me actually first say, I wanted to point out that we did this call three weeks ago instead of two weeks ago for the reasons I just said.

And it was uncanny to me, Scott, a few days later, how much that followed the exact playbook

from another Monday, and I believe the month of July, where the market had hit some sort of

severe level of intraday distress in both days, three weeks ago ago and I guess it was somewhere around three months

ago the market was down over 900 points in the middle of the day and on both days it came way

off of those lows it still closed way down I think one day 500 and one day 600 but it came back

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