Investor's Edge with Gary Kaltbaum - 9/11 [09.11.2025]

Episode Date: September 11, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:26 and go pick up or delivery. Restrictions apply. See website for full terms and conditions. Investor's Edge with Gary Cultbaum. Straight talk about you and your money. Now from the BizTalk Studios, here is Gary Cultbaum. And welcome once again to Investors Edge. I'm Gary Colpom, your host.
Starting point is 00:00:46 A thanks for being with us today. Glad you here, ladies and gentlemen. Happy that you are listening. It's 9-11, 2025. Amazingly, 24 years, removed from that tragic terrorist event. Stunning. 24 years. Ladies and gentlemen, we had a very good day in the market,
Starting point is 00:01:24 but we'll get to that in a few minutes, and I promise we'll cover it in depth. But let's start by saying, in case you don't know, this is serious talk on everything that affects you. We'll do the markets, the economy, your job, your industry, debt and deficits and scams and shams and all the big news of the day that matters to us and hopefully matters to you. And of course, and this is very apropos right now, if you want to email us, just be nice and be respectful because we're going to be nice and respectful back. Whether you disagree with us 100% or not, the only thing we won't deal with is if you tell us you like,
Starting point is 00:02:08 Hamas, and you get the whole point of that. It's 9-11 today, so I remember exactly where I was when it hit, and it's kind of hitting home today in that I was standing next to a man named John DeBruill and very old friend of mine who just passed away in the last month, and I'm going to a celebration for him. on Saturday. I was just thinking about that today with 9-11. I remember where I was, where I was standing, and there are a few things that stood out.
Starting point is 00:02:58 And I'd even realize this. My son was in the office with me. And I completely, my son told me that I'm like, are you sure? He goes, dad. and my son was there in the office with me and the one thing that stood out, believe it or not, because everybody was having fits over it.
Starting point is 00:03:19 And this is not a rib. And as you know, we don't take on anybody with the markets, but Jim Kramer went on TV and said, his sources tell him it was a small plane that hit the World Trade Center. And I remember turning to John de Brulein saying, wait a minute, I was just there, I think it was about nine months before. That ain't no small plane.
Starting point is 00:03:48 And of course, the second plane hit. But I want to talk about, just so you know, 2,977 passed away. But did you know, since 3,767 first responders have died, 2388 of them had cancer. There's been 48,579 cancer certifications, and they're all linking 9-11. As you know, they were all helping out there. It's stunning. 343 firefighters were killed that day. Do you know they were running up the stairs?
Starting point is 00:04:40 while people were running down the stairs. And 409 more firefighters have died from cancer links from that. When you have a chance, you should check out the stories of these firefighters. There was a great 60 minutes piece on that. If you can go find it, check it out. And also read about, you know, he's the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnik, and I'm kind of sort of not thrilled with everything that's gone on lately. Go read up what he did for the families, the Cantor Fitzgerald, who was hit very hard at 9-11.
Starting point is 00:05:25 And we really cannot forget that there are those that would love to do many more 9-11s. And you know, when you get people complain about Israel and what they're doing, well, the bad guys, have said they're going to do a thousand more October 7th. So what are you supposed to do? What are you supposed to do as a country? You got to eradicate them. It's all simple as that. Anyway, that's some of the numbers on 9-11 and the tragedy of so many that passed away that were helping out after 9-11. Now, I had the Neil Cavuto, who's no long with Fox, asked me, I couldn't believe he did. The year after did the show on a rooftop overlooking the 9-11 site.
Starting point is 00:06:21 And it was such, the Treasury Secretary was on right before me. I remember Al Sharpton and the Mayor Koch were on right before me. And I remember going on with Neil, and I couldn't hear a thing he said to me in my ear. So I just ran with it. What a honor to be asked that. I remember that after the fact, and I couldn't believe because they had removed everything. And I got to tell you, it was a year after the, I think it was the year after. I couldn't believe how much real estate those Twin Towers took up.
Starting point is 00:07:13 They had removed everything. just rated a big wow. And now let me segue. Charlie Kirk was assassinated yesterday in cold blood by a stupid cowardly prick. He will be caught. They have pictures of a suspect. We don't know if that's him. But I think they think it's him.
Starting point is 00:07:41 they think he's of college age and I've been getting emails on it. I put out a little note on it today. I've never met him. Didn't know him but about a year ago. You know, every now and then I'll go on Instagram, just look at some things because I follow some weight trainers and things like that. And up came a video of Charlie Kirk. And I had never seen one where he's at a college.
Starting point is 00:08:11 in a tent just like he was when he was murdered. And you had people walk up to a mic and engage him. And he sat there while these young college students were walking up and F-bombing him and calling him the worst possible things you can basically call somebody. And he just sat there and took it and would say something to the effect of, is that what you came here for? Can't we have a good discussion or something? and you had some miserable kids that refused,
Starting point is 00:08:43 and then you had others that engaged, and they went back and forth with good dialogue. I thought it was fantastic, and by the way, I don't agree with everything about him. There's some things I quite disagree with some of his views, but I loved it. And when I say to you on this show, email me just be nice,
Starting point is 00:09:09 and if you disagree with me 100%, just be nice and respectful. We mean that. And I've watched a lot of videos now over the last year of Charlie Kirk, and he would go to colleges and gauge people that don't like him and disagree with him.
Starting point is 00:09:27 I thought it was fantastic. Fantastic. I don't think he swayed any of them. I think a lot of them thinks he's a racist, thug, Hitler, Nazi, whatever. But wow, and the other thing he did was the left doesn't realize this that, yes, he brought on a ton of people to the conservative side at these colleges. But do the left not realize? By doing that, you had a lot more people on the left engaged in politics.
Starting point is 00:10:07 He did the left a favor also. Anyway, back to the point. I hope they find this creep. I can't say what I would do with him. I'd be drummed off the air. You know what I think of these people. And most criminals, they're cowards. They don't face you.
Starting point is 00:10:30 Luigi shot that CEO of United Health in the back. Coward. And now you got another one. And now you got another one. wife, two young kids, 31 years old, very accomplished, very loved. I have a lot of friends at Fox that knew him well and loved him and I was watching my friends on TV today and I can tell how hurt they are about this tragedy, this murder. order. Up next, we'll close the book on that and then we'll hit the markets. Lots to say. I'm Gary. This is the one only Investor's Edge. Hi, I'm Gary Kallbaum, hosted a nationally syndicated
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Starting point is 00:12:48 At IBM research, what we always do is answer, is the future of computing, whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together. It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes. Building actual physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM.
Starting point is 00:13:17 I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point. How far are we from that point with Conton? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer.
Starting point is 00:13:44 That is one that can run a very, very, very. large, large problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, visit IBM.com slash quantum. At CVS, it matters that we're not just in your community, but that we're part of it. It matters that we're here for you when you need us, day or night, and we want everyone to feel welcomed and rewarded. It matters that CBS is here to fill your prescriptions and here to fill your craving for a
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Starting point is 00:15:21 called bomb it doesn't get better than this so uh quite the day let me uh put a little finish on this you know because of social media and people putting up videos amazingly i've watched people get into fist fights and beat the crap out of each other at least try to try to hurt each other because one person was pro-life and one person was pro-choice. And I'm thinking to myself, without me telling you what I am, if I was pro-choice and you're pro-life, okay, teach his own. If I was pro-choice and you're pro-life, people are out there hating and hating and hating over somebody's opinions. I have said all long and really do believe this, as long as you are acting in the rule of law, you're not harming anyone, you're not hurting anyone. And by the way, I was using the pro-life pro-choice.
Starting point is 00:16:49 This is an example. Let's put that aside. It can be any one of these political subjects to each is own. That's all. But there's also some logic to it. there are people that believe that men could be in women's sports. I don't. But I'm not going to beat the crap out of somebody who says men should be in women's sports.
Starting point is 00:17:21 There are people that think men should go into women's bathrooms. Well, I got news for you. If I had a daughter, I wouldn't be too happy about that. No, thank you. But I won't beat the crap out of you. But there's a lot of people out there that are just so. so emotional wrecks over what other people think and believe without any respect for anybody's opinion whatsoever. It's amazing to watch. And as I said, you can disagree with me.
Starting point is 00:17:52 One thousand percent. I'll shake your hand. Unless you like Hamas and anything else having to do with terrorism and crime and all kinds of crazy crap. And it's just amazing to me how many people are so mad. And now to the point of man is dead. And of course, you had your usual ass clowns. There are people celebrating out there. They're celebrating a man's murder. And people are stupid also.
Starting point is 00:18:32 they're putting videos up there of them celebrating. They're getting fired from their jobs, dumbasses. I saw one where I forgot what it was, but it had to do with a person who is supposedly what has to do with health and well-being of people and was celebrating. She was fired. And then the media.
Starting point is 00:19:06 They had this schmuck. On MSNBC, the body isn't even cold. Well, you know, he, he deserved it. No, he didn't. Schmuck. And to MSNBC, they fired the moron. But then I was watching CNN. You know who Anderson Cooper is?
Starting point is 00:19:29 Oh, geez. Controversial this, controversial that. This guy was 31-year-old man with two kids and he was just freaking murdered and you got to throw this controversial to you is not controversial to others so shut the hell up
Starting point is 00:19:48 and be an anchor and not an ass there's so much of that going on it's amazing it really is and as you know us I don't care left or right live and let live
Starting point is 00:20:06 live a good life vote who you want to vote for? I'm going to respect you. Again, unless you like Hamas. Anyway, that's my little take today of quite the day.
Starting point is 00:20:28 And we'll leave it at that. I appreciate your indulgence, me covering this stuff. And if you don't think this matters, well, it does. But as you know, we have a job to do here and the Dow was up 617 today. S&P 55, NASDAQ 157, NASDAQ 100, 143. Russell 2000 was up 44,
Starting point is 00:20:59 transports 223, advanced declines were strong. It's a good day. What's going on? Plunging rates, ladies and gentlemen. Cause and effect, plunging rates. cause and effect. You can go get a chart of the 10-year yield, and you will see over the last six, seven days, an absolute trouncing of yields. And as we have told you, markets usually like that. It also gives rise to next week.
Starting point is 00:21:35 The Fed will lower rates. There are people talking a half point, I don't know. But that's the story. Cause and effect. and on top of that, oil prices dropped the stick today. Then you had the Oracle News for the semiconductors and artificial intelligence and all that crap.
Starting point is 00:21:59 And we'll get to that in a minute. But today was a good day for banks and financials and insurance and economically sensitive. The transports, as I mentioned, the housing and housing-related, Another good day interest rates going down. Auto dealers had a good... A lot had a good day today. Let me put it that way to you.
Starting point is 00:22:28 I don't know how much more to say. The S&P went into new high ground. You know what we say about new high ground potentially begets more new highs. That's how it pretty much works and when you have strong advanced decline figures that's a lot of stocks moving higher even some weaklings had good moves today you know we've been complaining about the rails and truckers they bounced still not leadership but they had a good day in the doubt today goldman down up
Starting point is 00:23:08 15 that's uh 15 that's almost a hundred doubt points home depot with their crappy numbers up 10 that's 65 Dow points. Sherwin Williams, housing related. That was up about 70 Dow points. Travelers, the insurance company, I think that's almost breaking out. That was upset. I can go on and on. Caterpillar, which is with their 20% drop in earnings, was up eight today. That's 60 Dow points. I can go on and on, but you get the point. Up next. What else? I'm Gary. This is the one only investor's edge. Hello, hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Smart Talks with IBM. I recently sat down with IBM's chairman and CEO, Arvin Krishna. And I asked him, how can companies use AI to its fullest potential to create smarter business? My one advice to them, pick areas you can scale. Don't pick the shiny little toys on the side. For example.
Starting point is 00:24:34 If anybody has more than 10% of what they had for customer service 10 years ago, they're already five years behind. If anybody is not using AI to make their developers who write software 30% more productive today, with the goal of being 70% more productive, so we are not asking our clients to be the first experiment on it. We say, you can leverage what we did. We're happy to bring out all our learnings, including what needs to change in the process,
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Starting point is 00:25:58 We can't wait to meet you. Store hours vary by location. Hey, it's Ryan Sechrest for Albertsons and Safeway. It's stockup savings time now through March 31st. Spring in for store-wide deals and earn four times of points. Look for in-store tags to earn on eligible items from Celsius, Body Armor, Orahida, Silk, Capri-San, Bavarian Meets, and Charmin. Then clip the offer in the app for automatic event-long savings.
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Starting point is 00:26:44 The crowd is just on its feet here. He's a Cinderella boy. Gary Colbomb. It comes highly recommended. You're going to feel better if you talk to. And well, once again, to Investors Edge. Even Adobe is up in the aftermarket, and that's been a very weak, very weak software stock. They reported earnings.
Starting point is 00:27:19 I'll have to look them over in a little bit. I'm writing that down as we speak. Got it. Anyway, back on the markets. What have we always told you? Financials and semis. Well, semiconductors had another good day today. I'll explain that in a second.
Starting point is 00:27:41 Financials had a good day today. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, which is wild swinging, is back at the yearly highs. The banking index, let's see, the BKX, If I get it right, that's near highs. As I mentioned, Goldman up today, they were all up today. And you do not get bare markets when that crap happens. And I do know there's a lot of talk.
Starting point is 00:28:15 I know. I know there's a ton of talk of recessions and depressions and this, that, and the other thing. And I'm just letting you know, I've said it a thousand. times on this show. Just watch the market. It will tell you if we're going into recession because the market will start collapsing months in advance because that is always the characteristic of recessions in the markets. The markets flush it out and do its thing. And as you know, the job market is a little soft. There's some areas that are soft. We still worry about the ridiculous debt and deficits, which are obscene at this point, but the market
Starting point is 00:29:10 loves easy money. Always has, always will, unless you're going into deep recession slash contraction. And it ain't happening as of yet. And as I look at my screens, a lot of green, even my weakest areas, a lot of green today. They bounce the week also. And if the week is not going lower, things are usually okay. If things change, we'll let you know. Now, Oracle, interesting. It's down 20 bucks today. That was after going up.
Starting point is 00:29:57 What did it do yesterday? Let me get that number. Let's see. It closed at, come on, little guy. It closed at 241, and the next day yesterday closed at 328. That's $59.87 bucks, it was up. Gave back 20 today, but is actually off the highs of yesterday, which was 345. We closed just under 308 today.
Starting point is 00:30:27 So hopefully you didn't buy the highs yesterday. How's that? Because of that broadcom, AVGO was down 10. and a few others were down. I got to tell you, terrific. We'll let you know, we haven't done anything yet. We think there's a good chance that these things are going higher over time. But when things get a little too far away from their norm,
Starting point is 00:31:00 they got to settle down, they got to pull back. The other part of the equation of Oracle is they made some, Big predictions on numbers, so guess what? The makers of stuff had a very good day today. Lamb Research, equipment maker, up 8 today, 7.6%. K-L-A-C, up $26 today, up $2.86%. And boy, did that do a turnaround. Micron beats the hell out of me what's going on here,
Starting point is 00:31:36 but they gap that up again today. Do you know Micron was 126 days ago? It's 150 today. Something called Sandisk, which, by the way, just came back public in February. And its recent quarter earnings were down 77%, which sucks, broke out six days ago at around 58. It's 84.
Starting point is 00:32:04 These are data storage, memory card, flash drive companies, and whatever Oracle said, a big boom. So that list of names, the names like Credo and Arista Labs, Arista Networks, excuse me, Astero Labs, and others. Oh boy, we are going to be watching these suckers look for great setups. Gotta be careful about things that are extended. Let them pull things back. I got to. Anything's possible in these markets. You do know that.
Starting point is 00:33:04 Who knows what the next shooter drop out of the DC is on tariffs or whatever. but right now as I was doing my scans late in the day looks pretty darn good tomorrow's another day the other part of the equation that's quite interesting
Starting point is 00:33:28 is while there's some sentiment indicators that worry the living crap out of me overall there is not extreme extreme bullishness while we're breaking out into new high ground. Huh.
Starting point is 00:33:49 Quite the quite. Quite the quite. Anything troublesome today? Well, Netflix lost one of their big product people, dropped 44 bucks today. Netflix had a bad reaction to earnings in July and has been dead money now since May, but really,
Starting point is 00:34:13 hasn't done much wrong. It's just going through its own. Spotify was down also. They've been moving kind of sort of in sympathy of each other and is on the weaker side right now. Not a big deal. Carvana, down 11 bucks today. While some other, I got news for you. Ford that's had its problems. A breakout above $12. Probably going to get some legs. Gold, miners were strong again today, even though gold would drop. The GLD dropped a whopping 50 cents today. So gold strong, silver, silver strong. Commodities had a good day.
Starting point is 00:35:01 What's going on with the dollar? It continues to act like crap. But in case you don't know, you can look it up. A weak dollar helps our stock. A crashing dollar could be a trouble eventually. It ain't crashing. It's dropping. And that's your story.
Starting point is 00:35:26 I'll do a double scan tonight, hanging out with Winston. By the way, I had one radio listener complained because he heard Winston barking in the background. And I engaged them very respectfully, but to that wonderful listener and keep listening, People love dogs. That's all I can tell you. People love dogs. And especially Winston, the greatest dog on earth, had aggressive cancer three years ago, gave him six months, put him on chemo, couldn't get up on a bed two days later, cause of the chemo, took him off, thought six months, three years later. Did have one surgery to pull out one of the tumors.
Starting point is 00:36:20 and now nine months ago they found another tumor in a bad spot and they were talking about three months, four months, it's nine months later, and he's showing no signs of letting up. My dog, Winston, his hearing is a little bit troublesome these days, but that's about it. I got to really kind of raise the voice for Winston to hear me. That's okay. And that's a little bit of Winston, by the way. And to that, listener, thank you for engaging, and I appreciate the input. And we always try to do the best we can. Up next, this, that, and the other thing.
Starting point is 00:37:15 And whatever else. This is the one only investors at. Hello, I'm Malcolm Gladwell, host of Smart Talks with IBM. I recently spoke with IBM's new director of research, Jake Mbata. We discussed his vision for the future of quantum computing. At IBM Research, what we always do is answer what is the future of computing. Whether it's coming up with new algorithms, coming up with better AI, coming up with quantum, or coming up with just how do different accelerators go together.
Starting point is 00:38:07 It's our DNA to answer the question of what is the future. future. Isn't it a perfect problem for IBM because you kind of need to have a legacy of building stuff? Yes. Building actual physical machines. Yeah, it's why I came to IBM. I wanted the experience, the culture of building hard things that others have not done before. Where do you imagine we are in the timeline of this technology? There will come a point when it will mature. Right? Yeah. My cell phone is a mature technology at this point.
Starting point is 00:38:42 How far are we from that point with quantum? By 2029, we'll build the first fault-tolerant quantum computer. That is one that can run a very, very large, large problem. To learn how IBM is building the future of computing, visit IBM.com slash quantum. At CVS, it matters that we're not just in your community, but that we're part of it. It matters that we're here for you when you need us. or night, and we want everyone to feel welcomed and rewarded. It matters that CBS is here to fill your prescriptions and here to fill your craving for a tasty and, yeah, healthy snack. At CBS,
Starting point is 00:39:25 we're proud to serve your community because we believe where you get your medicine matters. So visit us at cvs.com or just come by our store. We can't wait to meet you. Store hours vary by location. Hey, it's Ryan Sechrest for Albertsons and Safeway. It's stockup savings time now through March 31st. Spring in for store-wide deals and earn four times of points. Look for in-store tags to earn on eligible items from Celsius, Body Armor, ORAIDA, Silk, Capri-Sung, Bavarian Meets, and Charmin. Then clip the offer in the app for automatic event-long savings. Stack up those rewards to save even more. Enjoy savings on top of savings when you shop in-store or online for easy drive-up and go pick-up for delivery. Restrictions apply. See website for full terms and conditions.
Starting point is 00:40:12 You're listening to. What are we waiting for? Well, what are you waiting for? One, two, ready, go. Action! In the Gester's Edge. With Gary Culpa. Da-da-da. What else that I want to tell you? You know what I want you all to be careful about? This is me, Gary, the product guy.
Starting point is 00:40:58 do you I have like Google workspace I've got some Apple things that I pay recurring subscriptions I just want to let you know
Starting point is 00:41:16 I'm not going to mention which ones but they sneakily raise prices on you with Nari a word to you. And now I got to go
Starting point is 00:41:33 and engage them. How did I go from paying $10 to $40? I'm letting you know I think there's a lot of that going on out there. And oh, by the way, your subscriptions to a lot of these streaming services, they're all raising prices.
Starting point is 00:41:53 Just letting you know. I swear I signed up for Sirius Satellite for $12 bucks each car that I have, but somehow I'm now paying 25. And I don't remember being told I was paying 25. So I engage them and they tell me, well, I have the premium thing. I go, when did I ask for the premium thing? Just let you know for all the peeps out there, there's a lot of that going on. just let you know
Starting point is 00:42:35 Google Workspaces I went from 10 bucks to 40 and when I looked on it they have five supposedly five people on there or five whatever I never signed up for that
Starting point is 00:42:57 so I have to email them and by the way it takes an act of God to get a hold of some of these people to get them to change these things also So I'm just letting you know this is going on out there. And we're not talking the big bucks, but it is the principle. And I can tell you flat out, if I can save $10 that I'm not supposed to be paying, I am going to do something about it, and you should too.
Starting point is 00:43:28 I guess that's the Dave Ramsey and me. And you know what I say about credit cards. Never pay interest. So I just want to let you know that's going on. And again, it's like all of them. Oh, and don't get me started with my storage unit that they hook you in for a low price and they don't tell you, oh, by the way, it's going up 30% for a months later. It would be nice if there was some full and fair disclosure. It's kind of like when you buy concert tickets and they give you a price and you, okay, good, good price.
Starting point is 00:44:12 and then you go to pay, oh, 30% fees. And they're nice enough to explain what the fees are for, but they don't give it up front. And now you have the airlines trying to lobby the White House into rolling that back for the airlines. And I'm thinking to myself, hey, Mr. and Mrs. Airline, don't you care about your clients, the passengers? Why not just tell them what they're paying up front the whole, the whole thing?
Starting point is 00:44:49 Why does it have to be this and then all of a sudden, at the end of the road, you have to go into six pages of things? Oh, it's 20% more. I don't understand people and some businesses. It's very weird. Just letting you know that's going on out there. And a lot of it's wrong. In other news, I think I mentioned yesterday, but I'm a memory. it one more time, they listened over at Cracker Barrow. They're being made fun of. They shouldn't be made fun of. They made a mistake. They corrected their mistake. Just like the president. The stupid Liberation Day tariffs, the insanity of it, they corrected the mistake within a couple of days. Leadership and smarts has more to do with fixing your mistake.
Starting point is 00:45:53 stakes, then your successes. So good on Cracker Barrel. I hope they are a great success going forward. Tremendous competition for the buck though. The restaurant, I mentioned yesterday. The restaurant stocks have been acting like the south end of a northbound jackass. And I just think the story goes, there's just so many of them. And the competition is fierce. I can And you've got to be careful location. You know, where I live, there's a Chick-fil-A on one very road with a lot of traffic. You've got to wait. I mean, it's double driving, but they just put another one just five miles away.
Starting point is 00:46:44 No wait. So this is what they all have to deal with. I would want to be in the restaurant industry. Tough road. wish them all well if I had any message to all of them good food good value good service
Starting point is 00:47:06 shouldn't be hard right good value very important that would be my message to the CEO of Starbucks who thinks they can charge whatever they want to charge you know Starbucks is very lucky somebody else hasn't come in
Starting point is 00:47:27 in a very big way there's some other fringe ones out there but not in the gargantuan way. What is it, that Brothers Coffee that's out there? B-R-O-S, Dutch Brothers. I know they're opening up a bunch of places. B-R-O-S.
Starting point is 00:47:48 They're up to 982 drive-thrus. I have not been in one. Starbucks, I don't know how many they have around the world. In New York City, they're like every corner. We'll keep you apprised. That all said, you have a great evening, drive carefully. When you get home, do like we do quite simple. Make sure you hug your family.
Starting point is 00:48:11 Make sure you hug your children. They will feel better. You will feel better. I promise they will be well. Have a great evening, everybody. Good night. This has been Investors Edge with Gary Coltbaum on BizTalk. To listen to past episodes or to get in contact with Gary, go to GaryK.com.
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