Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life. Hello, Smart Money Tree Podcast listeners. Welcome to the sweet show. My name's Kirk Chisholm. I'll be your host. And today I'm joining with Doug Hagerin. Hey, Doug. Hey, Kirk. It is good to see you. It's been a couple of weeks. Good to be back. Yeah, good to have you back. You guys had a good Thanksgiving, huh? Your team did okay? We did okay. You know, so, you know, for those out there, some will be offended, some will not. But, you know, I live in Minnesota. There's lots of woods and there's lots of big animals walking around. And so Wisconsin opener was right before Thanksgiving. It's a good year, lots of deer, lots of good time with family. And then on top of that, I was going to fry a turkey, which I have done before. It takes a lot of time, a lot of things have to go into it. And honestly, the results in the past have been okay. Most of the time, it can't seem to

get a turkey to thaw out quick enough, even if it's in there for like two months. It's still frozen in the middle. You don't want to drop an ice bomb into a hot friar. So that's always a big one. Now, we're starting to be able to get more turkeys. It's more common to get them these days where they're not frozen. But still, I'm coming back from Deer Camp. I'm like, you know, I don't,

don't have time to get all this. What might cost? get them these days where they're not frozen. But still, I'm coming back from Deer Camp. I'm like,

you know, I don't have time to get all this. I'm at Costco picking up some different items for Thanksgiving.

I had in my cart a nice organic, refrigerated turkey that I was going to fry, and I turn around,

and I see that Costco has smoked turkeys, whole smoked turkeys, six to eight hours.

It's the best turkey I've ever had, Kurt. We brought it home, we baked, you know, warmed in the

oven for four hours, already pre-cooked from the smoking. It's the first time that my family and

the history of Thanksgiving has literally devoured all of the leftovers. The little public service to all of

you out there that want to save a little time for Thanksgiving, let someone else do the cooking

for basically the same price as a cost to buy a raw turkey, but what, 10% of the work and

better flavor. Locally, we used to have a turkey farm, a few towns over, and we used to get a turkey

there every year, and it was great.

That would be awesome.

Brought the kids there.

You know, there was like cages and cages of turkeys and they're all running around. It was free range turkey, right, Kirk? Yeah, free range. It was good experience. You know, it was organic. It wasn't, you know, it was just like basically a house where they had, you know, turkeys in the backyard.

You walk into the cellar and, you know, it's clearly they're

killing the turkeys down there. But it was a cool place. And we used to go there for years and you could get turkey sausages. You can get everything. Oh, nice. Off season, we'd go there all the time. they sold that. I guess they got too old. The kids didn't want it. So they sold the whole place. And, of course, they shut it down, which is unfortunate. So now we just go to the grocery store, which is where turkeys come from, right? They come from the grocery store. So we did that. We did good Thanksgiving. You know, we had my in law's over and that was fun. We all had a good time. And it was a good time. Started putting in my rink. nice it's not yet it's got cold enough early enough this year to actually do that

it did and I wish time and it was a good time. Started putting in my rink. Nice. It's not only got cold enough. It's got cold enough

early enough this year to actually do that. It did. And I wish I had finished it last weekend, but I have to tell you, I was feeling my age. We have a new yard. You guys know, listen to bought a house a few months ago. And we got a new yard. And where I want to put my rink is not perfect.

Somebody decided to put a mound

with a few trees in it.

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