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Hello, Smart Money Tree Podcasts, listeners. Welcome to this week's show.

My name is Kirk Chisholm and I'll be your host.

Today I'm joining with my good friend Doug Higran. Hey Doug.

Hey, Kirk, happy Friday.

Happy Friday. It's funny. We

labeled next week, and just for the listeners, for those of you follow us live on these episodes,

we pretty much label our episodes a week in advance. We're just guessing on what the topic's going to be,

so sometimes we're really off. And we labeled next week the one we probably should do for this week, which is I won't get into because I don't want to ruin the surprise called I Was Wrong.

I don't want to get into that this week because I don't want to spoil it.

But I do want to share this one image.

So Jerome Powell spoke this week and the markets reacted in a big, big way.

So I don't know about you, Doug, but this concept of the simulation.

Have you heard of the simulation before?

I have heard of it, Kirk, but I'm sure a lot of people haven't.

Okay.

Well, the concept of simulation is actually more of a philosophical thing.

So there's some techie geeks out there that came up with this and it's really hard to dispute.

So it's kind of interesting.

It's like saying, does God exist? And it's like saying, are we living in a simulation? Anyway, if you haven't looked it up, look it up. It is fascinating.

It kind of like blows your mind every time you think about it. And every once in a while, I just think, are we living in a simulation? Maybe I'll spend two minutes and describe it for

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