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Michael, I had any piphony over the weekend a little bit.

Oh yeah?

It just, just kind of a, oh wow, like this whole growth stock sell-off in the stock market

is really starting to feel very real for how long it's gone on for.

And I was just the length, right, the length of time.

Oh, it's real.

So I was writing a piece and kind of trying to compare it, you know, I think everyone compares everything now to that.

Dot-com period for tech stocks because of the, everything got so crazy and people wanted to be like that.

It's, we're not there from in terms of like the rise up never got there.

So I looked, the NASDAQ from 95 to 99 was up 41% per year.

It's like almost 500% in total.

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