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Honoring Our Veterans Year-Round: An Inside Look at Wreaths Across America
Episode: Wreaths Across America – Honoring Our Veterans All Year Round
Join us as we pull back the curtain on the heartwarming work of Wreaths Across America, a phenomenal organization touching the lives of veterans around the world. We sit down with the inspiring Courtney George, their manager of transportation and industry relations, who offers an insider's perspective on the massive impact of their program. Courtney shares her journey with us - from being introduced to the organization through a carrier, to now being at the helm of transportation, demonstrating her deep-rooted passion for honoring our veterans.
Courtney unveils the vast logistics behind this massive operation, notably the commendable truck drivers who donate their time and resources to carry the wreaths far and wide. Their task is not just heavy but also touching - delivering an estimated three million wreaths to over four thousand locations, both domestic and international. Beyond wreaths and work, Courtney gives us a peek into her personal life, spilling some fun facts about her time at Alabama and her adorable dog, Lucy. Tune in to this episode, as we celebrate the extraordinary people at Wreaths Across America and the meaningful work they do all year round.
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Trey Griggs:Plus, it's a big week. We got the Edge. Tomorrow. That's at 1 pm central where we have our good friend Eric Krueger from Navix. We're gonna talk about what they're doing for cash conversion and freight audit in the industry Freight brokers. You gotta show up for that one tomorrow. It's gonna be a great show. And then Friday we got we're On the Street again. We're just gonna be talking about all kinds of crazy stuff what's happening out in the marketplace, what's going on with California and the weather, and just a lot of fun stuff on that show. So make sure you come back for all the episodes this week on the Beta Podcast Network Standing Out, iron Minds, which will start soon, the Edge and Word On the Street.
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Trey Griggs:Also, before we get the show started today, gotta give a thank you to our sponsor, spi Logistics. For all the freight brokers out there and the freight agents or people thinking about becoming agents, make sure you check out SPI Logistics. They got the back office support, admin, finance, it, sales, tech systems everything you need to be successful as an agent. Check them out at successspi3plcom. Successspi3plcom. All right, it's time to bring out our guests for today's show. She is doing a lot of great stuff when it comes to wreaths across America, killing it out there. Love talking to her, love having her on the show. Please welcome the manager of transportation for wreaths across America, our good friend Courtney George, in the house. Yeah, love the music, love the music.
Courtney George:What's up my?
Trey Griggs:friend, I'm in.
Courtney George:Atlanta girl, we've got a wrap yeah you got to have an Atlanta artist.
Trey Griggs:Dirty South, that's right. I love you, I love you All right, right there. Love that Love that? How are you doing?
Courtney George:I'm awesome. How are you today?
Trey Griggs:It's great Love having you on the show and George getting to know you over the last probably almost a year now. It's probably been about a year since we first got connected and started talking about what you do. So go ahead and introduce yourself and talk about what you guys got going on.
Courtney George:Absolutely. I am Courtney George. I am the manager of transportation and industry relations for Reads Across America. So basically I am the person who is in charge of making sure. Last year we delivered 2.7 million Reads to over 3,700 locations.
Trey Griggs:Say that again for the kids in the back. How many Reads?
Courtney George:2.7 million.
Trey Griggs:Man, that's incredible To over how many locations 3,700. 3,700 locations. These are cemeteries across the country. What are the locations? Is it just cemeteries or are there other locations as well?
Courtney George:So we do basically cemeteries, whether it's a national cemetery, whether it's your local cemetery just down the street. And then this year we're really excited. Pre-covid we were delivering and placed Reads in Normandy and Luxembourg and in Belgium, and this year we are going to be able to go back and place Reads in Luxembourg, belgium and then in two locations in the UK, which is really awesome that we're getting that opportunity.
Trey Griggs:Wow, so this is international. Now this is really just expanded to become global.
Courtney George:It is. Our goal at Reads Across America is to make sure that every veteran has a Reads. That is our goal, whether it is domestic or abroad. So I love this year. When I pulled up some numbers Before I came on today, I went we're right at about 4,000 locations instead of the 3,700 for this year, and I'm going to guesstimate again. I'm guesstimating. I don't want to get anybody to hold me to the fire, but I'm going to say at least 3 million reads this year.
Trey Griggs:Wow, that is just tremendous and you know it's funny. I didn't know about this until last year. I was working with a client who's very involved with Reads Across America. I started to learn about what it is and it's one of the things. I'm almost ashamed I didn't know about it being in the industry, but it's like we got to get the word out there, we got to let people know about this incredible event, and I have a pretty famous cemetery pretty close. We have Jefferson Barracks about 45 minutes from our house. There, a big Civil War cemetery and other veterans as well are there or laid to rest there. So I'm excited to get my family involved this year. How did you get involved with Reads Across America?
Courtney George:I got involved. I worked with a carrier that hauled for them.
Trey Griggs:Okay, and you worked with a couple, which one I know?
Courtney George:I started the program with SIA.
Courtney George:I will say I had the opportunity there and then also when I worked with Knight, they participated, so I knew about this.
Courtney George:I knew a little bit about it because it was early on at night when we started and so when we wanted to get involved at SIA, I said I'm going to fly up to Maine, I'm going to meet with them, find out what they need, figure out where we can plug in, really help them throughout the logistics, like where their pain points, which could be areas that we shine. So let me make this an easy thing for them. And so I was really lucky to be able to go. Okay, this is awesome, and started by just getting SIA involved and then helping out the New York City event and slowly it grows more and more. I became a co-location coordinator for Long Island National, which is kind of crazy because I live in Atlanta, I love the people of New York and Long Island and they're just some of the most wonderful people and through trucking I got this dream job, which is to be able to work with trucking companies every day and still work with drivers, and I get to do one of the most rewarding things in the world for me.
Trey Griggs:Yeah. So you started as a participant and then now you get the chance to really organize it, and I can just sense the passion. I've talked to you about this before. Obviously, this is something that you're incredibly passionate about it. What is it about this in particular that just gets you up in the morning, gets you really excited.
Courtney George:I mean, I would say that there are a couple of things that get me up in the morning. I one come from a military family.
Courtney George:My both of my grandfathers were in the military, my brother-in-law is you know, active in North Carolina and so for me, you know, seeing and knowing and my sister going through a deployment with two young children and kind of seeing how grateful I need to be for our military, I think is one.
Courtney George:And then two meeting the people that you meet through Reyes Across America. I tell people often it's not a mistake you meet somebody laying your wreath and you meet a Gold Star family and they tell you the story about their son or their daughter. I have my favorite Gold Star mother, emily Toro, out of she's, out of the bra, she's a tough one and she always. She truly inspired me when she said don't ask me how he died, ask me how he lived and I'll tell you his story. That is that resonated with me six, seven years ago and going, oh my gosh, I did something that was very small. I was really standing at the end of my truck helping hand out some boxes and just through a small interaction she said something that really sparked and kind of ignited the passion for me.
Trey Griggs:Yeah, that's amazing. That's incredible. And now my grandpa served in the military as well. He's laid to rest in Lawrence, Kansas, but close over there in Kansas. I can't think of a top of my head right now, but he's laid to rest over there. So now I'm thinking about it as a family member. Do family members lay wreaths at their family members' tombstones? Is that typically how families get involved? Do they just go and lay them at any tombstone, or what does this look like for people that want to get involved?
Courtney George:So it can be either, or. So if you were a family member and you want to place a wreath for your loved one, you can sponsor a wreath for your loved one. It is a $17 sponsorship. All you have to do is go to wreathacrossamericaorg look up the cemetery. As long as that cemetery participates, you can. You know that's an easy way to place a wreath If you don't have a loved one that's there or that's close. Say, you have young kids and you still want to go out For you. Troy, you mentioned Jefferson Barracks. You can go out and lay wreaths. People donate, their groups that spend so much time you know fundraising so that they can place wreaths in areas like Jefferson Barracks. What that does is allow a family. You mentioned your grandfathers in Lawrence Kansas. Maybe you can't get out there, but you know somebody else is gonna place a wreath for him and that still is something that makes you feel good.
Courtney George:I know it's people get you know as they move. Maybe they can't get out, maybe the weather doesn't permit them, but they know that their loved one is still remembered. We have a saying at Wreathacross America the person dies twice once when they take their last breath and then the second time when their name is said last. So as we send people out to place wreaths, we ask them to save the names. That's something that for us, is really important. That person is remembered every single year.
Trey Griggs:Yeah, I love that. And this year's event is on Saturday, december 16th, is that correct?
Courtney George:Absolutely, it will be at. We have a ceremony that starts at noon Eastern time. It'll be 11 o'clock central, 10 o'clock mountain nine Pacific, so we all have a ceremony that happens at the exact same time, which makes it really a neat thing.
Trey Griggs:Yeah, that's really cool. So it's all. It's really unified in terms of doing things at the same time and doing them together. And people just go to wreathacrossamericaorg to get involved that's to donate a wreath like $17, but how do they get involved? Maybe participating? How does that work?
Courtney George:So all you have to do is click volunteer and you can sign up for whatever location you want to go to. So you may sign up to go for you to Jefferson Barracks here in Atlanta. I might say I want to go to Georgia National. All you have to do is go volunteer. You'll get messages through the system. You can get emails, you can select a text message, and so those messages are going to say hey, we will be placing, you know, wreaths, we know that there is rain or snow or whatnot. They may send out a message, hopefully not that you know, hey, because of whether we aren't going to be able to do it today. But our goal is typically, you know, first soldiers went out there and they served in all types of weather. We're out there placing them.
Trey Griggs:Nice, that's awesome. That's really cool. I love that. Can we talk about the drivers? Can we talk about the drivers for a moment? Can you hear me that I freeze a little bit?
Courtney George:I love our drivers.
Trey Griggs:Let's talk about drivers.
Courtney George:I love our drivers. I love drivers in general, but we have, I will say, the best drivers. Prior to working at Ries Across America, I was a director recruiting and I tell people, if I had the retention level that I have at Ries Across America, I would have put myself out of a job. We have the most amazing drivers that come up every single year. They are the ones who come in and we have moving and storage guys. They magically come up and somehow shrouded in darkness, we have a specific area set for them to load and they all physically load each other's trailers. It's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Courtney George:There's a driver Steve Meyer, for Hampton Roads. It kind of organizes that and it's outstanding. But we rely on the donations of companies and of drivers and we spend a lot of time making sure that the driver has an amazing experience when trucking. We talk about final mile a lot. For us it's the first mile, so we have a first mile program that if you were a driver and you pick up in Maine, we take you out to do a couple of different things. One we get you loaded. Our average loading time last year was 23 minutes.
Trey Griggs:Not bad. Industry-wise is pretty outstanding yeah.
Courtney George:I give so much credit to Rob and the team that does loading that they have it down to that science.
Trey Griggs:How many drivers are we talking about here? I mean, how many drivers? And they volunteer their time in their truck, correct?
Courtney George:Most of them volunteer their time in their truck we have. Last year we did about a little over 650 loads. This year I'm going to say we're going to hit 725.
Trey Griggs:Wow, that's incredible.
Courtney George:So they volunteer their time or their company will allow them to volunteer. We have a lot of owner operators that spend all year getting ready just to haul that one load, which is outstanding because I'm going. This is leading up to Christmas. You're normally trying to get stack some money because you've got Christmas, You've got New Year's right after that and they take a week, close to a week, some of them, to come up to Maine pick up and then deliver and some of them will do 10, 11 stops for me, which is just outstanding, what they're willing to do.
Trey Griggs:Yeah, and I've seen some of the trucks that are wrapped in military colors or different military brands that are participating. So thank you to all the truck drivers that are out there doing that. I absolutely love that. And somebody has to make all these reefs. So are these reefs all made in Maine? Are they imported? Like? Talk about that, because that's also another. I mean 2.3 million this year, 3 million reefs that's a whole lot of reefs to make.
Courtney George:Absolutely, they are made out of Maine, they are sourced right there where we are located. The history is is that about 1992, one of our founders, moral Worcester, owned a reef making company it's called Worcester Reef Company and he had 5,000 extra reefs left over and he had won a trip to DC when he was a boy, as a paper boy, and had dreamed, after seeing Arlington, of putting the reese out in Arlington. So 5,000 Rees is about a truckload. And so Jim Kraut, who is a driver, he offered their services. They got with Congressperson because you know, you can't just magically show up at Arlington National.
Trey Griggs:Cemetery and be like hey, I'm going to put down 5,000 Rees, this is not how that works, but that's really how it started.
Courtney George:And so, very quietly, for many years the family just went down every year and placed 5,000 Rees, and Wayne Hansen, who's chairman of our board, has one of the most touching stories. Where they were, he was placing the last reef and there was a parent that came up and said what about my son? And I was like, if that doesn't gut you, I don't know what will. And so in 2007, there was an iconic picture that was taken of the Rees covered with snow in Arlington, and that's when the non-profits started to really be able to grow and expand. For us to be able to go from one location in about 2007 to me going, I've got over 4,000 locations this year. It's one of the coolest things I give.
Courtney George:Sharp transportation out of Utah stopped up and they wanted to haul the Rees that went not just to Guam, but they go into the Punch Bowl, all five cemeteries that we have in Hawaii. They wanted to haul the ones that went up to Alaska and get them from Maine all the way over into California and into Washington, and that says so much. Yep, look at that picture.
Trey Griggs:Yeah, look at that, that's just amazing. Just seeing that, wow, that's incredible. And so we got about three, I guess four, almost four months, a little under four months, you're probably counting down. I can imagine it's just everything that has to get done between now and then.
Courtney George:Absolutely. We are counting down, and so now I mentioned that we had 650 loads last year and we're going to be at about 725 this year. So I tell any driver or any company hey, give me a call, I can find a load that'll work for you or that'll work for your driver.
Trey Griggs:I am probably You're like the perfect fit for this job, Courtney, like really, because I mean you're all about moving loads. You've done that in the past, you have that experience and now you're getting to help drivers move these Rees. That seems like an absolute perfect fit.
Courtney George:That's a great fit. I had a really good mentor His name is Benji, elder that works for Updike when I started in this industry.
Trey Griggs:I know Benji yeah.
Courtney George:Yeah, he's. I'm excited I'm talking to him on Friday and I was like you know. One of my favorite things about Benji was that he made sure that I understood the business and the company and how trucking really worked. I was super young, right out of college, and he's the person he really set me up for success in this industry and he's, to this day, one of my biggest cheerleaders. I'm talking to him about loads out of Phoenix Friday. He doesn't. He doesn't know how badly I'm going to say let's take more than one.
Trey Griggs:But you know.
Courtney George:I will, it's such an honor. And to go hey, send me one of your veteran drivers. You know we love veterans that pick up for veterans.
Trey Griggs:I'm sure they really enjoyed too.
Courtney George:Yeah, they love it, especially if they pick up in Maine. We allow them. We have a dog tag program that they can place a dog tag in the 66,000 acres that exists. That's where we get the brush to make the breeze, and so, as they tip, it's called tipping. So it's these little scissors, that kind of tip, and a tree is cylindrical instead of the normal triangle you and I would think of, and so they put dog tags out there and out there. Right now we have over 18,000 dog tags. Remember, wow, wow that's incredible.
Trey Griggs:That is just absolutely incredible. What an amazing organization. I'm so excited to be connected with it now and looking forward to participating December 16th. For those that are wondering out there and you can always go to wreathacrossamericaorg to learn more to make a donation for one wreath or 10, doesn't matter. As many as you want to donate and volunteer, go to your local cemetery, or maybe one that's really meaningful to you, and participate December 16th this year. That's very, very exciting and that's recording. We got to transition just a little bit. First of all, I learned a couple of things about you that I want to talk about. First of all, you're an Alabama grad Roll Todd Roll, todd Roll, todd.
Courtney George:I'm very proud. I'm glad I was down for Rush this past weekend, so I'm oh you're still very connected with campus and what's happening there.
Trey Griggs:Are you from Alabama or did you just go there?
Courtney George:No, I just went there. I went to a small private high school in Virginia that like to send you to even smaller schools up in the Northeast and I don't like cold weather which is funny because I go to Maine for about a month every year in the winter but I wanted to go to a big school and so I started flying down in the SEC area and my mom kind of drew the line. She was like look, you're not going to LSU too far.
Trey Griggs:You're not leaving Alabama. That's as far as we can go. I've heard Alabama is a great school. I've had a lot of friends from St Louis go to Alabama, talked about the experience. That was really good. You enjoyed there. Did you go to the football games? What was the best part of being in Alabama grad?
Courtney George:I mean I went to all of the football games. We were not great when I was there. We were.
Trey Griggs:you went to the first half. Let's be honest, you went to the first half of the football. It was probably accurate. Generally, the game was over by half time.
Courtney George:The neatest part was that my sorority house was across a one way street from the student entrance. So we could just, you know, you could just kind of walk.
Trey Griggs:Well, tailgate right after the game, before and after, that's perfect.
Courtney George:We had. It was a great time, but also got an amazing education and really taught me a lot about networking, getting to know people. There are so many soft skill lessons I learned while I was at Alabama that I don't know that I would have learned at other schools.
Trey Griggs:And you do a pretty good job of it these days. Thank you. Networking is your thing. There's no doubt about it. Also, I learned that you like to dress up your dog and your dog eats. It is that right.
Courtney George:Yes, 100%. I love to dress up Lucy. She is not a fan.
Trey Griggs:What kind of outfits I mean? Maybe seasonally, halloween, thanksgiving, christmas, maybe sweat or something like that. What else? Football?
Courtney George:in the forms. What else it does not matter.
Trey Griggs:This is your thing.
Courtney George:Football jerseys yes.
Trey Griggs:If you find an outfit that will fit, you're probably gonna buy it and try and put it on.
Courtney George:Yes, we have probably, and she gets cold, so she probably has about 23 coats.
Trey Griggs:Wow.
Courtney George:For no reason. I mean for absolutely no reason.
Trey Griggs:That's more coats than some small towns. I mean that's a lot of coats, I know trust me.
Courtney George:I had to order two new colors this week because we have family pictures for the Christmas card this weekend.
Trey Griggs:So listen, there are dog owners and then there are dog lovers. You are a dog lover. Yes, I'm more of a dog owner. Don't at me, don't judge me. It's just I didn't grow up with pets. I got one for our kids. We're dog owners. You're a dog lover. Clearly I can tell.
Courtney George:Look, she gets what she wants. I make the joke that I pay the mortgage. She runs the house.
Trey Griggs:I feel that way with my kids. So we're in the same ballpark, same thing happens. I'm just an ATM machine these days. That's how it works. Okay, we like to have a little fun on the show, courtney. So a couple of things. First of all, we like to look at the national day just to have a good time with that. Do you know what today's national day is that we're celebrating? It's kind of a weird one, but it should be a well-known one. Actually, what do you think?
Courtney George:I have no idea.
Trey Griggs:It is National Tooth Fairy Day. I know National Tooth Fairy Day so we don't wanna spoil anything for any kids that might be watching. But yeah, tooth Fairy, what's the most amount of money you got from Tooth Fairy growing up?
Courtney George:Oh, I would say a dollar. My parents were totally stingy.
Trey Griggs:A dollar. They were stingy A dollar, though that was back in the day a little bit. I mean, I'm not gonna ask your age or when you grew up, but that's still a decent amount of money. Like when I was growing up it was like 10 cents, maybe 15, 25, if you were really good, a quarter.
Courtney George:I was like I think it was a dollar and it was a molar.
Trey Griggs:Mm nice, nice, A dollar. Yeah, it's gone up. I'm just gonna tell you that it's gone up. I've heard it's a little bit more than that these days. But a dollar from the Tooth Fairy, eh, that's not very good money for the work it takes to get that Tooth Fairy out. But anyways, national Tooth Fairy Day.
Trey Griggs:Everybody Wiggle those teeth lose. I gotta tell you a fun fact. I didn't lose my first tooth. I was nine years old, no joke. Fourth grade, fourth grade. My daughter was in second or third grade when she lost her first tooth and she still has two to lose. She's 15. She can't get braces on until they come out. I mean, it's like, which is a problem here? It's the DNA is not good over here. We got the bad teeth, dna over here, that's at work. So we got some teeth still to come out. So then, the older they get, the more expensive they are. Tooth Fairy, anyways. So National Tooth Fairy Day Also.
Trey Griggs:We like to talk about the random question of the day. Now listen, courtney, this question is I haven't seen it. It could be funny, it could be serious, could be a good question, could be a dud, I don't know. Let's see what it is. The random question of the day today is what was your dream job as a child? How about? You're doing your dream job, okay. What was your dream job as a child? Was it this or was it something else?
Courtney George:I mean stay at home dog mom was not really an option then, but it's a decent gig. I mean, it's pretty good gig.
Trey Griggs:It is.
Courtney George:I would have said I probably, as a kid, would have wanted to be like an orthopedist or something like that.
Trey Griggs:Really. Yeah, I don't know. You were really on the medical track in the series Wow yeah.
Trey Griggs:Yeah, I think I had zero idea what I wanted to be as a kid. I didn't think in those terms. I don't know why, I was just out playing Probably something in sports, but I know that my senior of high school I decided I wanted to be a teacher and a coach and I did that for a while. I did that for about seven years and I loved it. It was really fun. I was a physics teacher and coached basketball and baseball and golf and softball Softball is one of my favorites to coach. It was a great, great time. So that's what I wanted to be when I was growing up. That's pretty good.
Courtney George:I'm from the family of teachers. And my dad was like no.
Trey Griggs:No, you're not doing it. Yeah, I loved it, but I just didn't pay anything, unfortunately, so I had to move on. But that was a good one, but it's not really a dream job. I don't know a dream job it's a good one, I don't know.
Courtney George:Probably something in sports, If I could have picked my dream job I'm doing. You're pretty close.
Trey Griggs:You're pretty close, I'm telling you. You've hit the jackpot with this one, which is awesome. Love to hear that. All right, well, that's a pretty good question, not a bad question. Today, if we're in question of the day, let's finish up with this. First of all, what is next on your play for Reads Across America? What do you gotta do tomorrow, next week, like what's urgent? What are you working on?
Courtney George:I'm literally working on filling loads, calling carriers that have been on their loads and say hey, did you get the load confirmations I've sent you?
Trey Griggs:Really, so they live in early. Are you scheduling loads for like November, december, or are?
Courtney George:they taking early. I'm scheduling loads for November, December now.
Trey Griggs:Wow, so you're way in advance of everybody else in the industry.
Courtney George:Yeah, so my lead time is. A little longer, a little bit longer, but I also wanna go. Hey look, things happen trucks are gonna break down right. I've got a. I've got a half plan.
Trey Griggs:It's just come up. Yeah, exactly.
Courtney George:Yeah, do you. Last year I joked. I was like we got to New York and we had some that didn't get delivered somewhere and I put them in a U-Haul and the people who introduced you Help drive them across New York. About an hour and a half away, and so that's great. I say you serve and succeed is our motto this year. They definitely served and succeeded, and when I said oh goodness, we're in trouble, I need some help.
Trey Griggs:Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the farthest trip that a driver has to make? Does somebody drive up to Alaska from Maine?
Courtney George:No, we, we are really lucky Matt sin, who does truck Matt's in, who is Shipping containers, boats, all of that, so they will take up through, they'll do we have them do Alaska, they do Hawaii, they do Guam, probably the furthest yeah, okay, but the furthest truck drivers like probably Seattle, la, San Diego, something like that. I was gonna say Maine to Carson. California is really our longest.
Trey Griggs:Yeah, that's a long.
Courtney George:Longest run that happens and that that's one of the earliest. We put that in a refrigerated One so we can keep. A lot of people don't realize the, the reaser, alive product.
Trey Griggs:They're real. They're like Christmas trees. That's right yeah. I know live for a while.
Courtney George:They, they smell so great. It's funny, after a while you don't smell it. When you smell it every day, when I go up to Maine, I'm like, oh my goodness, it smells so good. And they're like what are you talking about?
Trey Griggs:It's just used to it, that's right. Absolutely that's awesome. Well, thank you the truck drivers. Thank you to all the people that make them up in Maine. Thank you to everybody volunteers and Courtney, thank you to you for what you do for recent across America. It's very excited. Before you go, I got to ask you Do you like the coffee mug or do you like the water bottle? We're gonna send you one for being on the show today. Which one do you like?
Trey Griggs:coffee mug coffee mug it is. We're gonna ship that out to you and you'll get your standing out coffee mug. So thank you for being on the show today. We appreciate you're gonna come back after the event and maybe we'll do like a post event Episode when we talk about it. That'd be great.
Courtney George:Tell you about the best things that happen. That's my favorite part about reads. That would be awesome, cool.
Trey Griggs:We'll have you back on the show soon. Until that time, have a wonderful holiday season. Let us know we can help out and wait for the event December 16th. Everybody reads across Americaorg according will see real soon. Everybody, make sure you come back on Thursday as well for another great episode of standing out. We got Nate Indica of in veyo joining us. Check them out at invocom. It's gonna be a fun show. Plus, he's got great hair. Look at that. We're gonna have two faux hawks on the show. Can't believe it's gonna be dynamite. Until next time. We'll see you guys soon. Thanks to our sponsor, spl logistics. Check them out at success dot SPI. Three pale calm and until next time we'll see you guys. Peace out, stand out of there. You.
