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Welcome to Animal Spirits, the podcast that takes a completely different look at markets and investing hosted by Michael

Batnik and Ben Carlson two guys who study the markets as a passion and

invest for all the right reasons. Michael Batnik and Ben Carlson

work for Ritholt's wealth management.

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and do not reflect the opinion of Ritholt's wealth management.

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in the securities discussed in this podcast.

Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben.

So last week we recorded the podcast from Austin, Texas,

and after that recording, we decided to hit the streets of Austin and we use some of those

tech scooters. What do you even call them? Scooters? Ride-share scooters? Well

they're like the electronic scooters that are in some of the bigger cities now.

I think they started in Silicon Valley and moved around a little bit.

And you take out your phone and you scan in the barcode and they cost, I don't know, like two bucks

a ride basically.

Very cheap. I felt like a giant tool

riding it for the first time you know it's funny I'm I'm much more self-conscious I

think in public and have like the sort of social anxiety maybe social why would you get social anxiety on the ride shooting, ride scooter.

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