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Okay, now it's time for that monologue.

People wealth there than me have insisted to me over the years that money is freedom.

Maybe the only freedom, you know if you don't have money you're trapped basically and I get it.

And up to a point I certainly agree with the with that idea I mean it's obvious enough if you have no mortgage if you maneuver a situation or you leverage a situation we have have no mortgage and no debt, then the badies can't get at you in a lot of the usual ways.

Because a person with money, well you might say they're out of reach of a great deal of the everyday stress that hobbles lives.

You know, when you get right down to, I mean I put down a lot of my, you know, not being awake, my state of

slumber that lasted for decades. It wasn't slumber exactly. A lot of the time I was just

preoccupied with, with, you know, paying the bills. Self-employed person.

I was looking out for the next contract and stuff.

So, you know, it was a preoccupation with servicing debt that kept me distracted from everything.

Anyway, that's another story. that kept me distracted from everything.

Anyway, that's another story.

So the more money you have, hypothetically, you're told,

than more freedom you have.

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