Welcome in to Real Conversations.

Chase Martin Craddick here with you today in our normal time slot on Sunday morning.

Got to hear from us twice this week, doing a little catch-up after spring break took us both on some travel, some travel difficulty that we discussed last week.

But, you know, Ben, I thought that I got done it. Maybe it was just me because I outlined the entire Austin story. And I felt like I was, like, complaining and griping and frustrated and whatnot. So I'm going to be a little happier today. I'm going to be more positive today. I'm trying to see the sunshine outside. I mean, we're recording this thing at 9.58 on Friday morning, and it is,

it is just gorgeous. It's in the mid-70s, sun shining. You're happy today. We got plenty

going on here as we're getting, as we're getting going. So, you know what? Little, a little,

a little more optimistic show today. I tell you, you too i don't think we talked a lot

about this i mentioned on a couple different podcasts but and i wrote about it around the horn on

thursday when i did that i've had several events this week i think i told you it did

empty bowls on uh on t Tuesday where they were raising money

for the Oxford Food Pantry. Again, give Monty Oaks and his team a ton of credit for that. I'm

pretty sure they set a record for the amount of money raised for food insecurity in Lafayette County,

which is a very real thing, things that you just, you know, the image that you see on the square is not the entire town and the entire county.

So it's a great resource and a great thing there with that.

And then we had Walker Jones talking to students on Tuesday night with the PRSSA group there at Ole Miss.

Really appreciate his time.

Keith Carter and I spoke at the Ole Miss Business Insurance Symposium on Thursday.

Had a great time there.

Thanks for all the audience support and all the help and assistance with that.

I tell you, Ben, there's something to the week where I kind of wanted to stop and look up and go,

all three of those events in different ways

really cool in that they all were distributing, you know, delivering information.

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