Welcome to the Dividing Cafe weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio

and dividends in your understanding of economic life.

Well, thank you, Erica, and I'm going to turn it over to my co-host, Scott Gam.

It's funny, we've been doing this for over a year and every single one that we've

ever done, I had some kind of, you know, margin beforehand. Even if I had meetings that morning or

other things going on at the market, I always had like five minutes or 30 minutes or something

sitting at my desk getting set up and this and that.

And this is the first time that I literally am sitting down in front of the camera for you all running from a meeting I just had here in Midtown Manhattan.

And so in fact, Scott, I would love to even make a few comments about the meeting I just had later on

that are maybe a little more peripheral to some of the stuff we're going to talk about.

So I'll let you approach that.

But yes, audience, for those who can't tell, I'm sitting at our office in New York City. And Scott Giam,

who continues to graciously co-host this national call, is going to lead us. And you all are free

to send in questions real time throughout the call to questions at thebonsongroup.com. With that, Scott, over to you.

Well, David, thank you very much. And as always great to be with you. And before we begin,

David, as many people watching may know, it was an exciting weekend for you and your team,

the sixth year anniversary of the founding of the Bonson Group. So congratulations to you and your

team on that. And, you know, just a very exciting time for you guys. Thank you, Scott. I guess I

should clarify, it's the six year anniversary of us as the Bonson Group being independent. We, of course,

existed before that at Morgan Stanley.

And so I sort of view it as the 2.0, you know, phase, but, but us as an independent fiduciary

entity, April 2nd was the day that we walked out the door. And so we celebrated that six-year

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