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Today is Tuesday, October 2nd. My name is Jeff Dollar. Today I am grateful.

It's Tuesday, October 3rd. My name is Jeff Dollar. I never make mistakes.

I just read what was written like Anchorman, like Ron Burgundy.

My name is Jeff Dollar. Today I am grateful that our studio at

Industrias is open and running and we had a successful first weekend with our new podcast.

My name is Cali Dollar and I am grateful that Ellie is taking so much ownership in her book

character day costume. Ellie has book character day at school this week and I asked her like I

couldn't none of her books have an overwhelming lead character. Like her good night, there's a book

called Good Night Train and there's a bunch of farm animals but not one central. But it doesn't

have to be the main character, right? I mean she could do, she could have gone as a bowl full of

mush from Good Night Moon. Yeah, but that would have been hard to do. We're an old woman whispering hush.

But so I asked her, you know, she's like two almost three and I said, Ellie,

what do you want to address that for book character day? Like who do you want to be for book

character day? And she said, I want to be Bobby and I forgot that Bobby actually her

stuffed in her favorite stuffed animal Bobby actually has a book. Yeah. So Bobby's accomplished a

lot in his two years. He really has. Find himself a new home with Ellie and end himself a novel.

He did. Got it published. Distributed. So I asked her and this is working out really well with

Ellie is you let her pick out online like what she wants. So I said, Ellie, you know, I picked out

all the stuff that I wanted and then I gave her like two choices, you know, my hey, do you want

these ears or these ears? I'm both what I'm great. So she kind of felt ownership of it and then

every day since then she's been like, okay, so I'm going to wear this Bobby spot here because

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