Ben when I first started gardening. It's not my third season of gardening. I had...

Since you went pro. Yeah, I'm still in the I'm still in the minor leagues. I had I set up my

zucchinis next to my cucumbers. And you have you ever grown cucumbers? I've never grown anything.

Well there you go. So I grew my cucumbers and I was like I don't know what it was. I grabbed

them and I threw it out. I thought it was like a demented zucchini. So obviously I'm not a farmer.

Listen, I just... Do I grow basil? Yeah, I grow basil. I'm not going to go out and buy a farm,

find the tractor, find the farmer, do the irrigation, but I know a company who can. They go by the name

of Acre Trader. We actually had on the CEO, Cardinal Lawy a few months ago. If you want to go ahead

and check that out. That was a very interesting episode. So go to Acre Trader.com. If you're interested

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I want to read you the last 12 years worth of S&P 500 annual returns calendar year.

Cherry picking are we starting to show that way? Yes. By the way, I tweeted this out yesterday

and someone goes, oh, so I see you didn't include 2008 in there. There's a reason for that.

All right, go ahead. All right, 2009, 26 percent, 2010, 15 percent, 2011, 2 percent, 2012, 16 percent,

2013, 32 percent, 2014, 14 percent, 2015, 1 percent, 2016, 12 percent, 2017, 22 percent, 2018,

the only down year down 4 percent, 2019, up 31 percent, 2020, up 18 percent, 2021, so far,

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