This episode, I'm sure it's going to be hard to hide your just gleaming smile talking about your favorite topics.

We'll have to, the Christian perspective is some repenting, you know, so we'll.

Idolization.

That's right.

We'll figure it out.

We're going to talk about one of your favorite topics, Jason. Oh, love it. We're going to talk about one of your favorite topics, Jason.

Oh, love it.

We're going to talk about stocks.

You know, last week we talked about Bitcoin and a digital currency.

I think it prompted listeners to ask about, hey, what about the stock market?

That's kind of an invest, you know, investing.

Yeah, I'm certainly,

I'm certainly more in my wheelhouse with stocks than I am with Bitcoin. Yeah. Joe, what's your,

what's your level of comfort with the stock market and the topic? I feel, I feel pretty good.

Okay. And that's just because I don't know much about it. So therefore, I just wanted the basics so I

can be a good steward. So I wanted the easy button. So I feel like I know some basics.

Yeah, cool. All right. Well, play dumb for us a little bit. What is a stock? A stock is technically a ownership stake in a publicly traded company.

Beautiful.

You can have stock in a private company, but generally when we say, and that typically comes out in like employee stock

programs and stuff like that. But generally speaking, it is publicly traded. It's a corporation.

And yeah, so if you have, if there are 100 shares of Apple stock and you own one, then you own 1% of Apple. And that as an owner, you are entitled

to 1% of the profits that they distribute and stuff like that.

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