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Find Bloomberg Surveillance on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Bloomberg.com. find Bloomberg I was thunderstruck. You have a good time over there. Where did you go? We had a wonderful time. You know what I did?

Which I did not expect Robert Albertson jump in here. We're doing the Rick Steve's tour guide. The coolest thing about Venice is going back to Venice. The first time you go you're all like you know yeah yeah yeah it's amazing.

And John I mean you grew up with all that stuff. Not all of us have the luxury of going once and then going back top how are the floods the

floods were serious I stay at the metropole which is an acclaimed hotel

very fancy place and they had they right in the hallway they had 18 20 inches

of water the greedy I didn't get to I couldn't

afford the martini there and the greedy had like three feet of water in the lobby.

Mrs. King sent me a very cool video of you.

How did she?

With a cigar and a drink of your choice and it looks like you were having a lot of fun.

Guys we will not be focusing on Tom Keene's vacation on the market.

It's like what do you do now?

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