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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odlots Podcast. I'm Tracy Alloway.

And I'm Joe Wisenthal.

Joe, do you remember that time I bought an actual barrel of oil or I tried to?

Yeah, I thought about that. You know, it's cool. We used to sit right next to each other.

I mean, now we're on the opposite sides of the world. That was fun. We didn't appreciate.

That was great. We actually got to work next to each other. I remember you bought some oil and

you kept it on your desk for a while. Yeah, well, I didn't really want to leave it in my apartment

because I'd heard and learned that crude oil evaporates into the air and it's not very safe.

So obviously, I took it to the office and I put it on the desk that was right next to you.

But the whole point of that. I survived.

Yeah. The whole point of that. Actually, you know, I heard that the little thing of oil

fully evaporated after a few years. It's totally gone now. It's kind of crazy.

Oh, man. Wait, where did it go?

Into the air. Oh, someone else at Bloomberg took it and then it evaporated. So I'm sure it's in

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