Ryan Knudson

So it doesn't really matter, even if more and more people pour into the market, the market can still go down, obviously, because if something spooks people or if their corporate profits go down, people are going to sell and therefore the market goes down.

Any last words of wisdom heading into 2026?

So that's your one prediction is that we can't really predict anything very well.

Brings us back to just buy and hold.

Jason, this has been so much fun.

I really appreciate your time.

That's all for today.

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A quick heads up before we get started.

This episode discusses suicide.

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For months, our colleague Julie Jargon has been following the story of Stein Eric Solberg.

Stein Eric would share his conversations with Chad GPT on social media, where he called himself Eric the Viking.

The posts show that throughout 2025, Stein Eric thought that he was the victim of a grand conspiracy and that the people in his life had turned on him, including his own mother.

Ultimately, Steineric's delusion ended in tragedy.