Welcome into this week's real conversations.

Chase Porn Ben Craddock here with you.

On this Friday morning is the entire southeast is bracing for winter storm early 2026.

All the preparations, all the grocery stores without the main milk sandwich ingredients and all the things.

I've been prepping around here for the last

couple days for that so hope all of you by the time you hear this or having a safe a a weekend

that is having power hopefully we don't lose power we do not for very long as we're getting

ready to hunker down probably for a bit here on this weekend as we dialed into late

January already.

We're almost a month into 2026, which seems kind of crazy at this point.

So I appreciate all of you guys, as always, being here with us, Benjamin.

I've had a, I've had a very resourceful a few days.

Like I said, I've done the grocery stops.

I've done the propane stops.

I have secured a generator.

And by Sunday morning, when people hear this, they'll know sort of what the score is by now, but it's Friday afternoon.

You and I were kind of joking about it.

I am not a person that does a lot of forethought when it comes to disaster preparation, weather preparation. I'm the person who gets frustrated when they tell you to go in the hall or the basement during tornadoes. Look, it's my fault. I am admitting that I'm an idiot and that I should be more precaution. Like. I understand, or take more precautions.

I understand that.

I get it.

I just can't seem to get it through my head.

So I have been, I have been pushed and guided to getting us ready in the ways that I have

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