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Hello, Smart Money Tree podcast listeners, welcome to this week's show.

My name's Kirk Chisholm.

I'll be your host, and today I'm joining with Doug Higerman.

Hey, Doug.

Hey, Kirk.

Happy Friday.

The theme of today is conflict. Conflict in the data, conflict in the Middle East, because of course, you know, the last thing we've heard is that Trump said, the agreement is on life support. So, yeah, conflict. There's no conflict in Middle East. The war's over, didn't you hear? And it was over a month ago, Doug. You didn't hear the latest a couple days ago then? No, I'm going by a month ago, Doug. The war is over.

I am not paying attention anymore because the war is over. I'm just going to put all my money

in the market and watch it go to the moon. Forget reality, Doug. Come on. To the moon.

To the moon. Oh boy. Yeah, it has been a really, really interesting time since the war.

We're going to do a recap of a lot of it. I mean, getting a ton of questions about this.

And I think it's important just to kind of recap everybody. I will say, though, my announcement last week that they're here was correct,

that it was a distraction and that what they released was a whole lot of horse manure.

I didn't actually look through it. I just looked through all the other people that did

save myself some time and everyone had a clear conclusion. Whatever was released by the government

last Friday was, hey, I saw a light in the sky, but we don't have a good picture of it. Here's a

grainy picture of a light five miles away. Like it's basically people submitted stuff and the

government has it and there's nothing of value in there. Exactly what I assumed. I said,

this is going to be a distraction. And there was clearly nothing of value in there. Exactly what I assumed. I said, this is going to be a distraction.

And there was clearly nothing of value in there. There might be aliens, but we have no proof yet. So as my youngest son says, show me proof. I'm like, well, the government hasn't done that yet. So anyway, I do not have my tinful hat on because I have no need. Because there's nothing to see here. What I wanted to kind of talk through this week is to really give a breakdown of what's actually going on the markets. And I'll explain

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