Reality Radio for a really great future.

We're talking real money.

Well, if you ever wanted proof that the stock market does not like surprises,

you don't need to look much further back than earlier this week.

We're going to talk about the surprise that shocked the markets, but heck, didn't shock me.

Hi, everybody.

I'm Don McDonald.

Welcome to Talking Real Money.

The radio show and podcast where we try really, really, really hard to make this whole process of dealing with money, particularly investing more sane, maybe more simple, certainly less dangerous and hopefully less expensive.

And I would have Tom with me,

but something happened to his power and his internet out there at the ranch in the midst of nowhere,

eastern Washington somewhere.

I don't know.

East of Seattle, something happens.

So Tom's been knocked out of commission.

So I need you to call me and keep me company while he's not here at 855-935-talk.

8-55-935-8-25-8-25-8-25-8-25-8-25-5. That's the number. Give me a call.

What am I talking about? The surprise. Well, conventional wisdom has preached that for AI to work, it takes a lot of resources, tons of chips, tons of money,

and that has benefited one company lately in particular, one in particular.

And that company's Nvidia.

And Nvidia, it's a story that has bothered me since the very beginning.

Because Nvidia is a company that made a very specialized product, a graphics processing unit to accelerate the graphical

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