It's Monday, January 25th.

Welcome to Market Foolery.

I'm Chris Hill and I know what you might be thinking.

Maybe you've been looking at the news, seeing the weather in the Washington, D.C. area,

and maybe you're thinking, oh, they're not going to have an episode today.

Not with the office closed, and it is.

Fool Global Headquarters is officially closed today, but I'm happy to say that joining me in

studio for Motley Fool Rule

Breakers, Supernova and million dollar portfolio, Simon Erickson.

Thanks for being here.

I'm glad to be here, Chris. I would like to add I was personally humored

by the soundtrack you guys had on your Motley Fool money

show on Friday. I heard snow by the Red Hot Chili peppers. I heard ice

ice baby from vanilla ice. You guys were spot on for the soundtrack.

Props to our man behind the glass, Steve Broido,

for the winter themed music.

Usually it's money themed on the Motley Full Money Show,

but Steve went with the winter thing.

We're going to talk about Snow Zilla.

We will get to that.

But we've got earning season heating up.

And we've got a couple of companies merging because of course it is

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