I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

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For the last few months, Lindsey Owen and our colleagues at the Groundwork Collaborative Think Tank

have been listening in on these phone calls.

We combed through and listened in on hundreds of corporate earnings calls.

These are the quarterly phone calls that, you know, CEOs and CFOs have with their investors and shareholders

each quarter after they release their quarterly report.

It's like a corporate pep rally, right?

It can be a bit of a pep rally. Yeah, boosting up the investors trying to juice the share price a little bit.

Lindsey's been looking for answers about our weird economy at the moment.

Specifically, she's looking for the origin of the inflation that's dogging all of us at the grocery store, at the gas pump, just about everywhere.

Are these corporations feeling pressed right now? Like are they like, oh, this economy man, it's stretching us.

The main takeaway that we had from these earnings calls is these CEOs are saying that inflation has been very good for business.

I'd like to welcome everyone to the Coca-Cola companies first quarter earning the results conference call.

Today's call is being recorded.

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