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Take Ivy.

So we've had a couple of entries in the omnibus that reference style, fashion, clothes. Yeah, I think people enjoy you talking about clothes. Your

natural enthusiasm comes out even though they can't see what you're wearing.

Right. I wish that people around my own house were as excited about hearing me talk about

clothes as future links seem to be.

But you can pull rank, you can say, hey, you guys are bored with this endless monologue about

this endless sartorial monologue but I have 40,000 listeners yeah who can't get

enough of this that That's right.

And then you just slam the door behind you and walk out.

Take that, I say.

Well, a lot of the conversations we've had around clothes have have sort of

orbited the idea of preppy style and preppy style.

Why do you think that is? Is that meaningful to you?

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