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Welcome to Animal Spirits with Michael and Ben there was an article over the weekend in Barron's preparing Berkshire for a future without Buffett.

What were your thoughts on this one?

I think that as Buffett approaches 88 this year, they said.

My prediction is a bull market in stories of giving advice to Berkshire. I'm sure that they've, wait, Berkshire or Berkshire?

You could stick with Berkshire. I'm going to take the traditional rap.

Okay, we'll call it my Midwestern accent.

He gave eight talking points about things that Buffett should do now to prepare the public I guess.

And I'm guessing Buffett probably just doesn't care. They probably thought about this stuff internally obviously.

I think Munger is what 95 probably. Buffett it's almost 88 they obviously have to have this

stuff figured out I would imagine and some of the some of the quick things that they talked

about were you know open things up to the public at a successor consider paying a dividend

buy back stock I don't know I'm guessing none of these things will actually

happen so it's kind of just an exercise in intellectualism, I guess.

Yeah, I thought some of these suggestions were okay,

others I didn't really care for.

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