We've got a misunderstanding and an overreaction. No, we're not gaslighting you. You're listening

to Motley Full Money. I'm Ricky Mulvey joined today by award-winning podcaster Jim Gillies.

How you doing?

I'm not sure I'm award-winning.

Well, I'm part of a very large collective, I guess.

We're going to add this to everyone's email signatures.

Fantastic.

But I wanted to talk to you today, mainly because I hadn't talked to you in a while.

And it is Big Tech Earn earnings week. We had Meta, we had Microsoft

we could talk about. You're making me look at earnings from boot retailers and

airplane leasing companies. Why sir? Why?

Because I'm not a I'm not the world's biggest tech guy. I don't know if you've known noticed that. I will say I've got lots of exposure. I've got about 40% of my family's money in in index funds

and of course the magnificent seven have really been driving the main index so but you know my take on it is look

I'm going to add precisely nothing to the conversation about Microsoft or Meta or pick pick your large tech company because

there's so many eyes staring at those types of companies.

I'm going to, my incremental contribution is going to be negligible at best.

But where I believe I can add value is in the small the obscure the unloved the misunderstood

Hence the tickers I threw at you today perhaps perhaps some Halloween theme obscure spooky spooky, misunderstood.

Let's go to the barn.

Western retailer called Boot Barn

with more than 400 stores.

Announced pretty solid, quarter two earnings.

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