Good morning. Welcome to the morning motivation. Happy Friday. This podcast brought to you by the Patriot

Gold Group and the Public Square app. Sorry I did not do a morning episode yesterday. Here's my excuse.

We're on vacation this week. My brother and his three kids flew in from London. My mom came up from South Carolina,

and we all met in my hometown, Skinny Atlas, New York for the week. And the one thing I wanted to do,

and yesterday was the day. It was wake up early and go to the Skinny Atlas Bakery. And you got to

wake up early. You can't mosey in at 8 or 9 o'clock.

Got to get early because they have a donut machine where you can see the donuts put on the conveyor belt,

dipped in the oil, fry up, and then be lifted out of the oil and come out crispy on the outside and melt in your mouth

delicious on the inside a hot donut they're so good you order them playing you're playing you don't

you don't you have to put sugar on you know to put toppings on top of it it's it's perfect just in

its natural state and i had to get them because my dad,

when I was a kid, would walk from our house downtown to the bakery, you know, for exercise,

maybe a mile or so, maybe two, and get a warm donut and then walk back.

And the entire thing would be calorie neutral.

But it was worth it.

So in honor of my dad, we all had to do that.

We had to get the kids up early and go.

And then once we were out of the house early, it was all,

it was over. The day was upon us. And I chose to be with the family instead of record the

podcast. Yes, I chose all of that over you. And I'm, I'm not sorry, but I thought you deserved

an explanation. But I will parlay all of that into a thought that is relevant to us here.

My dad, he passed away 10 years ago.

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