And it's important that like, whenever we get to go hang out as a company, we have fun together. Like we enjoy being with each other during the whole Coronavirus thing when life has been so locked down. The people here have just said, “Well, you guys are our people. We're going to hang out with you.” And so it's not uncommon for on Friday night for people to be up here till the wee hours of the morning, just spending time with each other and for you to be able to like, look at someone at five o'clock and say, "I still want to hang out with you." That's a really big thing. You know, there's a lot of people at work that, you know, that time clock rings or whatever, and they're just getting the heck out of dodge, you know? So look around at the people that work here and see them smiling and hanging out and having a good time together, seeing like 12 people leave and go to the same place for lunch regularly because they enjoy each other. It's just, it's awesome. That's great. Marshall Atkinson You know, how many companies out there at five o'clock looks like the beginning of the Flintstones where people just fly down the dinosaur neck to get in the car and race away. Brett Bowden Yeah, seriously. And I'm not saying that doesn't happen sometimes, but it is cool that the fact that they would linger to hang out with each other or just, you know, we've, we've got the, we've got the few people here. You need the people that are good at creating community. Those are not you. Like, I can only do so much because I'm -- like for people listening to this Marshall and I are very tall people, big people, and big people are intimidating, especially when you're in a leadership role. So I cannot be the person that is always creating the lovey-dovey, fun, fluffy culture, because there are people that are intimidated by me. And so I can do my best to say, you know, high five people, and say hi, and talk to people and get to know them a little bit better, but I cannot ever, know all of my employees well. So you need to have those other people that work for you that are kind of doing the, like what day's everybody's birthday and they're planning the stuff, you know, they're bringing cupcakes and they're providing candy and they're, they're making notes for each other. You need those people on the team, to kind of help posture that culture and perpetuate the culture. We absorbed another company a few weeks ago and it was cool because the company was very similar to ours. Very similar cultures are, as we'd known them for a long time, and when we brought them in, they just fit right into the fold, which is, which was fantastic, but it was cool. Like one of our, one of our employees made a big sign and hung it on the wall.
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