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This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business and the Becker Private Equity Podcast. We're going to bring you eight quick stories this morning. We hope you enjoy this. And some of them are pretty much apropos of nothing, but hopefully interesting. First, MacKenzie Scott, MacKenzie Scott is the former wife of Jeff Bezos. She has gone and sold 23 million of her Amazon shares over the last year. She still has 58 million shares of Amazon worth 20, 30 billion dollars or so. But, but really not a reflection on her relationship with Jeff because Jeff is no longer really running Amazon, though brilliant and runs a bunch of different things, but more a reflection of trying to allocate out her assets and no longer having to have that loyalty to Jeff Bezos that she used to have and to Amazon. So more just sort of de risking and evening out her portfolio, balancing her portfolio. And she gives a lot of money to charity, so probably giving some of that to charity. So that's MacKenzie Scott of Amazon and Jeff Bezos. Second LVMH, the Louis Vuitton Mowatt Hennessey, one of the biggest luxury garments in the world, is absolutely surging today on great results. Way, way up. I don't think people really saw that coming. They've been having a hard time the last several quarters, but really surging today. Second, the markets are surging too. Earnings are way up and the hope that there's long term going to be rate cuts and also good earnings and the stocks are way up today. So that's, I think we're three or four stories so far. Fourth, more and more concerns about an AI bubble and an AI sort of Ponzi scheme. We'll see how this all plays out. I don't have a real feel for it, one or the other. I am largely an index investor and a Treasury investor and then some other real estate and more. Fifth, there was a tweet yesterday in on Twitter, but this guy, Kevin Sable, and it basically had the tagline in the concept, if you're over 30, you could still be successful. And then he gave a whole bunch of examples of people that are over 30, that successful. Taylor Swift, Tom Brady, Ronaldo and a whole bunch of others. And all I could think is somebody that's much, much older than 30 is. Has it really got to this where people say if you're over 30, you could still be successful? In the old days people used to talk about, you know, Colonel Sanders, a Kentucky Fried Chicken guy who started his business at some late age and got really successful. Is that sort of example. You could be older and still do well. But now this concept that you could be older and 30 is the age, it was enough to make me ill, actually. Finally, last Atlantis Jeep, just coming back to their Jeep Cherokee. I am going to take a look at it because I used to love the Jeep Cherokee is investing 13 million in the U.S. they just, they just announced 13 billion in the U.S. which is, which is a lot of money and plants. We'll see what actually happens. But they say they're investing 13 billion in the U.S. i don't even know how they can afford that, but we'll see how it goes. Thank you for listening to the Becker Business Podcast, the Becker Private Equity Podcast. Make it a great day. Thank you so much for listening.