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It's Friday, December 10th and we're talking about stocks with monopolies. I'm your

host still newest and I'm joined by fool.com's most miniscule

momentum man of monumental mystery Brian Feroldi Brian what's going on hey

Dylan how's it going I think this has got to be a fun episode and importantly we're going to be talking about

tech monopolies not named Facebook I mean Meta yes I think that's one of the signs that you are becoming pretty close to monopoly.

If you change your name into something that suggests an umbrella brand, you're heading into

monopoly territory, Brian.

Interesting enough, two of the three companies

we're going to highlight have changed their name,

so maybe it's time for the third to do the same.

You had pitched this show idea, and I loved it.

And I want, before we even get into some of the businesses we're going to be talking about, to just

kind of talk through why you wanted to talk through this concept and why this is a hopeful perspective

for people to have when they're looking at businesses.

Monoply's tend to get a bad rap and I understand why especially if you look at history.

Monoply tend to be extremely bad for consumers.

Some of the famous ones were like AT&T, which was broken up in 1982,

Standard Oil, which was broken up in like the 1910s or 1920s and there are reasons that there are laws on the books that prevent monopolies from existing and abusing their power.

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