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risk reversal podcast. I'm Dan Nathan. I am, Guy, Dyehamey. There he is. We're doing it here. Guy,

we have a little vibe session. This is what we do Wednesday afternoons for the Thursday morning drop.

Vibe, vibe session. Yeah, we structure a lot of things. I learned about vibe coding recently. Yeah, you did. That's a thing. I don't know what it means. Well, if you were like one of those old nerds, he used to like coding, code and code and code all night, you don't shower, you just drink Mountain Dew all night, that sort of thing. You get all hopped up. Do the do. Now these, some of these models are allowing for you just to do much less coding to get the same out. So you watch it code. Possibly. Possibly. Okay. We got three things to do today, guys. We got a lot of market volatility. We're not going to bury the lead because we're going to get right to that. But the other things we're going to talk about

is we have the Fed Minutes out today. We have the Jackson Hole, Kansas City, Federal Reserve,

confab. That's Friday morning Fed Chair Powell speaks at 10 a.m. And then let's kind of talk about

retail earnings, what we are hearing from these

companies. This is the last batch of earnings that we've got during this season. Retail week,

so what have I learned? Well, I learned what I think I already knew about Target is in a word

they suck. And this is something we've been saying for a while. And I know we've talked about

the Who earlier in this week with Elizabeth Thomas, but meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

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