Is it safer though? I mean, when I hear safer and risk-free, like there's still inflation risk, right? Like that's something that I think people forget is that the dividend or the yield isn't going to grow like it could with it's, you know, probably it's not going to get cut, but it's static, right?

Yeah.

And then there's the other issue is like, okay, so this money is rotating out of REITs into let's say treasuries, right? Because we don't really know where they're going, but we do know money is going into treasuries.

Now you're missing out on a great entry price.

So and if you're compounding, right, if you're reinvesting your dividends, you've missed all of these years of that compounding growth, especially at a cheaper price.

So, I mean, that's something to be said if you're going to bounce your money around a lot to chase yield, like you could be you're missing like the fluctuations.

So I think that's the first thing to just say straight out is some of these more higher yielding stocks are just being forgotten for higher yields because that's what will happen.

So what do you think? Or are, you know, dividend stocks just for retirees?

Is that right?

Yeah.

And the interesting part right now, and I know we're going to get into BDCs, and as you'll see, my favorite BDC is at a 52-week low.

So people are like, oh, you're going to throw it away? And I'm like, actually, I'm going to buy more of it.

So when you're looking at protecting your losses, if you're the fundamentals still look good and you still believe in the investment thesis, buy more when it goes down.

So that's kind of how you're kind of protecting your investment.

I like to say if it's keeping you up at night, you should probably sell it.

So what BDC would you be picking?

Any other things glaring jump out at you? Any other things you want to hit me on or things you just don't understand don't make sense to you?

So we've already talked about some trends that I like really love.

You've got AbbVie and Pharma.

You've got the MLPs, which we talked about with EPD and the funds.

One trend that I don't think people really recognize right now is BDCs, which are business development corps.

You have Aries Capital Corp, which I sold it probably a year ago.

I'd have to look.

No,

How do you set them on the path to to the straight and narrow?

So I have a free dividend quick start series.

It's like four videos.

You can get through it in like 30 minutes.

It's laid out to be like this is what dividends can do for you.

Right.

I said, like, you can build wealth with it if you've got time.

So yeah, Yeah, raising the rent is really difficult for them, if I understand that right.