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Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

It's Friday, February 9th, and we're talking about the perks of being in the in-crowd.

I'm your host, Dylan Lewis, and I've got Fool. com tech specialist Evan New on the phone.

Evan, what's going on?

Not much, doing well, how about yourself?

I'm doing okay.

Listeners might notice, there's a slightly different intro there. I almost tripped up over it as I was going through.

I did not say Skype. We're trying out a new service today.

One of our listeners, Patrick Bifuma, actually suggested it.

So if things sound good listeners, big thanks to Patrick.

If not, we will continue to try in our ongoing pursuit

to give you audio perfection by way of Austin Morgan. But I'm very excited. I'm very excited to just hear you

better. Frankly, Evan.

Yeah, I think I think it's going to be great.

So today we are talking about what it takes to be included in a major index and why it's important.

Evan, everyone kind of has their own take on this, but if you ask me, the S&P 500 is the definitive

gauge for what's going on in the overall U.S. stock market.

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