Hello and welcome to group chat. I am Justin Verrier and joining me for this Festivist extravaganza.

We're actually recording on Festivist, which is

appropriate. Rob Mahoney, J. Kyle, man. Rob, do you have your poll handy? What do you got over there?

Well, yeah, where's the Vasily Michich poll? You're the pole man, typically, if you'll, if you'll pardon the

expression. Is that like a stick man or is that something different? Yeah. Quite a pole, man, J.V. No pole, which was actually a broom, just happened to be around. And the Vasili Mietzsche photo, which was, I believe, black and white and just had all those lines in it that you get from just like a shitty printer. I don't know where that is. It's somewhere.

I definitely wouldn't throw out just like an artifact like that.

I hope not.

That's a piece of group chat lore.

We could auction that off to the highest bidder.

Well, today is Festivus, but also MBA Festivus, which we always do in preparation for the Christmas Day slate.

You'll probably be hearing this on the day after

Festivist, which is unfortunate because we will be already tuckered out because we celebrated

so hard. Just quick bit of like housekeeping here before we move on here. We're on a holiday

schedule a little bit. So we'll be recording on Sunday as per usual, but the following

we won't be recording again until the following Sunday. And for that episode, we're going to do

a mailbag. And so if you have any questions, preferably like big picture, evergreen sort of topics,

not like your trade best ideas, which we can get a lot of, which are fine, but, you know, there's

only so many of those we can, we can address, send those to, what was the email again?

The email is ringer group chat at gmail.com. And as usual, I read every email that comes

into that inbox. Every, every subject invites to your social events, recipes, your trade ideas.

Like, I don't know what's wrong with me, but I will read them.

And in this case, we will read them for content.

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