Hello, and welcome to an all new edition of what are your thoughts? I'm here with Michael

Batnik as always. Michael doesn't know what I'm going to ask him. I don't know what he's going to ask me.

Stick around. Let's see what's happening.

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in this podcast. Okay, here we go.

Did you get a tanning salon in your house? You look, you look dark. No, I've been on, I've been on the bike a lot and, and the pool opened I'm getting I'm getting color I'm getting

call it's I mean what else what else there to do all right let's get into this

your post was awesome about what's the catalyst and like people will be studying some of these

stats for years to come but you make the point that April was the best month for stock market returns in 30 years and there was absolutely no

what you would call catalysts to explain it so somebody who doesn't live through

this and reads about it 20 years from now, they're

going to be like, I don't understand.

And I just want to read this one part and then have you react to what you yourself said.

I just think it's so amazing. In the five weeks from February 20th through March

19th there were 1.1 million jobless claims and the stock market fell 29%.

In the five weeks since and the stock market fell 29%.

In the five weeks since, there were 26.5 million jobless claims

and the market rallied 28%.

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