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week it is. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Go.

I can't believe you let me get that far into looking at the stocks before telling me it's Saturday. You probably told me a hundred times and I didn't see it.

All right. Well, today, given that it is in fact Saturday, Owen Shroyer will be hosting right after the show a Spaces. So you've got to be on X. I think you have to be on X to use Spaces. It's audio only. And you can find it by looking at my X feed or I've retweeted it or Owen Shroyer. Just look for him and you'll find it. So that's right after the show.

So I saw a quote. The Wall Street Journal had some video of the United Airlines CEO, somebody named Scott Kirby, an excellent first name. Somebody asked him for the best career advice and his career advice was don't have a plan. Meaning don't have a goal. And he said that in his career everything good was unexpected and he was ready for it. But if you have goals, it puts blinders on you.

So when he says he was ready for it, I looked at his resume and it looks like he

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had made sure he knew a lot about airplanes. So I think he'd been a mechanic and then he'd taken some other more advanced college courses. So yeah, he was ready for it, but he wasn't ready for everything. He was probably ready for anything within that domain. I'm seeing a meme that Putin has offered to negotiate a peace deal between Trump and Musk. Well, we don't need that anyway. So the only th…

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