Welcome to the Dividing Cafe weekly market commentary focused on dividends in your portfolio and dividends in your understanding of economic life.

Thank you, Erica, and thank you again, Scott, for joining us. This is exciting for me, even though I think we've done you know three or so of these calls

these video calls over the last couple months this one's particularly exciting because

it's the first time I'm actually back in the real office here in Newport Beach and

back in my daily uniform of suiting up and coming into work.

And about half, a little bit more than half of our Newport Beach office folks are back in today.

So we're doing kind of a soft-phased reopening of our California office headquarters,

which is a lot of fun.

It's been two full months of quarantine. And so we're happy

to be back here and hope that this call will be really beneficial for you. I'm going to turn

things over to Scott Gam. We got really great feedback from a lot of you after Scott's role in the

last call. And I do want to give a

little more information on Scott and why we've brought Scott in. Some of you may recognize Scott

because he interviewed me a lot of times over the years in his past jobs, first at the street.com,

which is one of the leading online financial portals on the entire net.

I mean, it's been a financial web star site for a couple of decades. And Scott was an anchor

there before going to Yahoo TV. And I think he interviewed me on the floor of the stock exchange at least three or four times.

He has started his own company and works with the Bonson Group in a lot of our media relations and content distribution.

But Scott is a markets guy. He's an extremely thoughtful guy. He's become a friend. And the Bonson

group thinks very highly of his work. And I feel, as is perhaps evident in this very monologue right now, that having Scott involved helps edit me and focus our content to be a little bit more digestible for you.

So I'm going to turn it over to you, Scott.

Thanks for being willing to do this again, and we'll have our conversation.

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