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And I'm John David.

J.D.

Hey, Bo. Good afternoon, dude.

Man, good afternoon to you, too, sir.

How are you doing today?

I'm doing all right.

I'm running on fumes. I'm going to be honest.

Yeah, it's Christmas time at the Squire. That is exactly right, man. It is exhausting. Yeah, everything's obviously, you know, we're thrilled about the holidays and, you know, sales being up and all that kind of stuff. That's fun and connecting with friends that are, you know, visiting, you know, passing through and all that. But, but yeah, we're tired, man. These long hours get kind of old. I tell you what, though. I mean, like, I definitely, you know, I feel for you. I feel for kind of the, the hashtag retail life. I do have a question. I don't know if I

asked you this, because we've talked about it many times over the years about the whole different

tension between when is the appropriate time to deck the halls. Do you do it before Thanksgiving?

Do you know after Thanksgiving? Yeah. And I'm kind of curious what what personal, you know,

household decisions notwithstanding when when it came to the Squire, what was your mindset? When do you start deck in the halls of the Squire?

Well, normally at the Squire, we do it on Black Friday. That is when we do it. It's like, okay, well, Black Friday, it's, it's, you know, time to be festive. And it just is kind of a nice natural dividing line for us. Yeah, this year, it's been so crazy that I haven't even pulled out the, like, big rubber made container that, like, holds all of our, like, Christmas lights and, like, you know, the fake tree and all that. I mean, so the Squire just looks kind of scroogeish right now. Oh, man. Kind of grinchish, yeah. It's, you know, other than the smiling faces behind the counter, it's, you know, it's looking a little Spartan. We haven't gotten to our festivities, our festive, you know, accoutrement yet. I got it. Well, man, in the York House, we're starting to ramp up big. We've got, uh, we've got Christmas caroling tonight. Uh, we've got gingerbread. There's, there's some sort of gingerbread house event, apparently in Houston where they've got like architecture folks. Like, yeah, they actually go and they like design these elaborate gingerbread concoctions. And you go and you kind of watch them as they put it together i don't know what to expect

but it sounds pretty cool yeah yeah yeah so we're going to check that out this weekend as long as you

can eat the final product that who cares yeah yeah i mean like i'm always of the mindset that if you're

going to do gingerbread it needs to be fully edible by the way has there ever been a gingerbread blend from the country squire?

No.

Not yet.

I think I just saw the light ball.

I was like, man, that, not yet, Bo.

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