Welcome, everyone to the Main Street Business Podcast.

Excited to be with you today for our live open forum.

I mean, it's recorded.

I know you listen to it recorded, but Mark and I are answering questions live between the two of us.

I don't know.

There's no script.

This is legit.

Yeah, unscripted, obviously.

Yeah.

Edit out a few dumb things we each say in every podcast.

But thanks for being here.

We are going to get into your questions.

We've got a lot.

And this is post-election day, so I don't know. Are you a little groggy, Mark? Did you stay up late watching it? I did. I don't know why. Well, actually, I had lots of work to do. So I wasn't exclusively watching NBC. I'm a huge Savannah Guthrie fan. That's for you, Savannah,

have me on the show someday. Yeah. But, um, Arizona, University of Arizona graduate.

Oh, I didn't know that. Arizona girl. Yep. Yep, she's, she's awesome. But I, uh, no, I was up till 2.30, which was 4.30 Eastern. So I was, you know, I was on the cutting edge,

but got three and a half hours of fitful sleep waking up to a new day, new norm, which do we

even know who our president is yet? We don't know, do we? Yeah, I don't, I know. By the time

you're listening to this podcast, we may know. But there may also be a lawsuit. You know, this could be a Bush v.

Gore, all over again. Who knows? Just a lot nastier and messier probably. Yeah. Well, I know all of

you must be sick of politics as I am. So we're going to jump right into the issue at hand. And that is helping you make more money, save more money, protect it, live the American dream, find time to do what you love. And if you're a workaholic, we want you to work more. If you're a playaholic, we want you to play more. So we're going to just try to do it all.

Yeah, we just want your life to be better, you know.

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