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

This is the Friday, December 29th show, the last industry focus of the year.

If you've been with us all week, you know that we're releasing a four-part 2017 awards show this whole week, and this is the final episode.

If you haven't caught the others yet, it's probably best if you go back and listen starting with Tuesday.

We're in the home stretch now, and the next award is not for a company or a person or a product.

Well it's kind of for a person I guess it's actually for a listener.

So no one loves the subject of this award more than Michael Douglas so I'd like to hand the mic over to

him to introduce this one. Thanks Christine.

Listeners of the Financial Show on Monday know that I tend to like to start a conversation

with our listeners by offering them opportunities to dig in more to different trends that

I discuss on the show and you know what it's something I'm

gonna keep doing so yes we wanted to talk a little bit about some of the best

listener emails we've gotten we've actually have a number of

nominations here.

But first, I thought we would pitch it over

to our man behind the glass, Austin Morgan,

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