PCG Connect

Suzi McNair: 00:00

So my usual to go to's are or hit me with your best shot or I love rock and roll.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 00:05

Oh, okay.

Suzi McNair: 00:06

But again, the the wine is required. And I always stress to people that it's more about the performance than the voice because the voice would not carry me very far, but it's all about the performance.

Intro: 00:27

On today's 1 on 1, I interviewed Susie McNair where we learned about her new role as VP corporate controller, the secret sauce for how she preps for karaoke, and her coast to coast journey to get to performance contracting. So with that, let's get to it.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 00:47

All right. Well, today we have Susie McNair in the studio with us. Susie, tell us a little bit about your role here at PCI.

Suzi McNair: 00:55

I am the vice president corporate controller. And so my teams consist of accounting and tax, financial services, credit, buildings for corporate, risk management insurance, and fleet.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 01:12

Oh, so just a few things.

Suzi McNair: 01:14

Just a few things.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 01:14

Yeah, 1 or 2. Yeah. Now this is a relatively newer area for you. Is that correct? Yes.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 01:20

Yeah. You had a recent step up. Can you tell us about that journey and that experience?

Suzi McNair: 01:24

Yeah. So effective 10.1 is when I got the financial services piece and fleet and, the risk and insurance. And so those are all new to my plate. So spending a lot of time in the last couple of months, just trying to figure out who reports to me now. Sure.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 01:42

Yeah, that makes sense. And so previously, you were the head department manager over tax and accounting.

Suzi McNair: 01:51

I was the corporate controller. Okay. And had tax and accounting.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 01:54

Okay. And for those, definitely not myself, but for what does it say? Becky in Wisconsin or something. What does a a controller do?

Suzi McNair: 02:03

So a controller essentially is over the tax and accounting functions for the corporation. So I do things like make sure the financial statements are are published. My team does most of the work there, but, do a lot with budgeting and forecasting or monthly forecasts, anything financial. We do a lot of invoice approvals, PO approvals.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 02:27

So you're a little bit like an airport controller but for like finances.

Suzi McNair: 02:32

Yeah. Sure. Yeah. I always wanted to be air traffic controller.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 02:36

It seems like a cool job but also very stressful. Yeah.

Suzi McNair: 02:39

Yeah. Yeah. Probably not not the 1 for me.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 02:41

Yeah. So can you tell us a little bit about your very

Suzi McNair: 02:45

first job? Like My very

Roberta Coons-Redig: 02:46

Yeah.

Suzi McNair: 02:47

Like when I was a kid?

Roberta Coons-Redig: 02:48

When you were a kid. Yeah.

Suzi McNair: 02:50

So my very first job was, at a seafood restaurant. I grew up in Maine. Okay. And we I was a basically a food runner. So we had they ordered at the window and then we gathered all their stuff that they ordered and brought their food out to the window, called their number and and gave them all their stuff.

Suzi McNair: 03:10

So did that for a summer. Uh-huh. And everything was fried. So you went home feeling like you'd been in a grease vat for

Roberta Coons-Redig: 03:17

the day.

Suzi McNair: 03:18

It was fabulous. Yeah.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 03:20

So growing up in Maine, did you have like was it a very idyllic sort of childhood like all fishing and camping? Or were you more like the what is it Stephen King's name where it's always No.

Suzi McNair: 03:32

We were more of the the fishing and camping, which my kids would laugh at me because today, I'm not known for being an outdoors person. Sure. But growing up, we did. We camped. We we did all of those outdoor things.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 03:45

Yeah.

Suzi McNair: 03:45

But I don't like dirt or bugs. So it gets in the way.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 03:48

Yeah. When you're a kid, you're I don't know if just because you're close to the ground or whatever. It's like, yeah, you just deal with it. But then you become an adult and you're like, like, I can choose not to do that.

Suzi McNair: 03:56

Yes, I'm still close to the ground. But I just don't like it as much.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 03:59

Oh, okay. Good to know. So tell us a little bit about how Susie in Maine became Susie in Kansas City. How was your journey there?

Suzi McNair: 04:08

My journey, it was a it was a long journey, actually. So my senior year, I my parents transferred to California. So I moved out there, went to college in California, started my career out there with the State of California auditing for tax, spent 2 years doing that, decided being on that side of the fence was not my cup of tea. So, we picked up when my parents moved to Dallas. My husband and I decided, well, might as well go to Dallas.

Suzi McNair: 04:36

So we loaded our stuff up and had never been to Dallas and moved to Dallas. Mhmm. And spent 12 years there, worked in different facets of tax on the corporate side. Okay. Then I ended up losing a my job there because of they sold the company.

Suzi McNair: 04:54

And we decided to move to Missouri. So

Roberta Coons-Redig: 04:57

Wow. So literally coast to coast to south the right in the middle? Right in

Suzi McNair: 05:01

the middle.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 05:01

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. So, why Missouri? Is your husband's family from here?

Suzi McNair: 05:07

Yes. We have family here. His whole side his mom's side of the family is here. So we come up and visit a lot and just kind of like the slower pace than some of the cities that we live near and decided to give it a try.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 05:20

Oh, great.

Suzi McNair: 05:20

And we love it.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 05:21

Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's great. Yeah, I know. Your daughter Taylor, interned with the marketing team.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 05:27

And so we got to hear a lot about Westin. Yes. I've never been but I'm now interested in going to You

Suzi McNair: 05:31

need to go to Westin. Westin's a really cool little town. A lot of wineries, a lot of distilleries and

Roberta Coons-Redig: 05:40

Is that Apple Festival

Suzi McNair: 05:41

or something?

Roberta Coons-Redig: 05:42

Yeah. Yeah, that seems very exciting as someone who grew up in a small town but not 1 with like festivals and fun stuff.

Suzi McNair: 05:50

Yeah, they have a lot of festivals. We actually they filmed a Lifetime movie there a couple years ago. So have our own semi Hallmark movie filmed in Weston.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 06:02

Yeah. Was it like a more romantic Lifetime movie? Or was it like, I've been betrayed and I'm out to murder someone Lifetime movie?

Suzi McNair: 06:08

There was no murder. Okay. It was more about love and and that kind of stuff. Okay. A true hallmark story.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 06:14

Yeah, yeah. Warm fuzzies. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's exciting.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 06:17

Very cool. So, what year did you find out about PCG and get into the performance contacting?

Suzi McNair: 06:25

I've been here since 2, 006. Wow. So I started with PCG, as a tax manager. Mhmm. So I came in, we were a department of 2.

Suzi McNair: 06:36

Oh, yeah. It's a lot

Roberta Coons-Redig: 06:38

of work there in department of 2. Yeah. It was

Suzi McNair: 06:39

a lot of work. So, tax is now department of of 9. So yeah, we've grown a little since then. Just a little.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 06:47

Yeah, yeah. So as someone who worked strongly with tax and is connected to that world did the the flow of the like, you know, month end, you've got to get stuff. And then for each quarter, you've got to have all the numbers and all the books ready to go. Is that something you thrive on that regular rhythm? Or is it something that you've had to learn to, to enjoy?

Suzi McNair: 07:12

No, it's it's definitely something that I am used to. I mean, tax is the is very similar. Sales and use and property tax, you've got deadlines every month, every quarter, every year. Same with income tax. And so that type of schedule is very familiar.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 07:28

Mhmm.

Suzi McNair: 07:29

So moving into accounting was it was very different for me, but it was familiar. So like, just doing the the actual accounting piece and and looking at the financial aspect of the company was a little bit different. We look at it differently than we did in tax. But it's been a really good transition and, enjoyed really picking up that stuff and and digging into the more financial side of the company.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 07:54

Okay, that's that's good to know. So can you sort of expand on that? And just give us a brief description of like, the main sort of goals and things that your department does and then like challenges that you guys face?

Suzi McNair: 08:08

Sure. So as far as goals and and again, I might talk more about tax and accounting because that's where I've been Yeah. For so many years and I'm just getting my feet wet in the other groups. You know, monthly, we obviously, we we close the books, we do the financials. Quarterly, we prepare the board book for the board of directors meeting

Roberta Coons-Redig: 08:26

Mhmm.

Suzi McNair: 08:26

And, do a lot of reporting on the quarter end, which is a little different than the regular month end. We handle the external audit each year, which we're just now wrapping up for fiscal 22, which is exciting.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 08:40

Yeah.

Suzi McNair: 08:41

We are very involved in all of the ERP projects. So whenever there's a system change, both my tax and accounting team are very involved. So we get involved from the demo to designing the system to processes and understanding how the system is gonna work. We do a lot with testing. And so we're currently in the middle of, d 365 Okay.

Suzi McNair: 09:06

Transition. And so my teams are very involved in that. Part of that's gonna be a new tax software that they're implementing. So they're mapping 100 and 100 of code lines to make sure that the system can calculate the tax correctly. And so both teams are extremely busy and involved in those projects.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 09:26

Now an ERP system, can you break that down for the uninitiated?

Suzi McNair: 09:30

So essentially, it's the system that we use to track our business. So our ERP system today is Microsoft ax.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 09:37

Gotcha.

Suzi McNair: 09:38

And we're moving to their cloud platform which is T 365.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 09:42

Okay. So that's gotta be a pretty big challenge trying to obviously make sure that nobody's accidentally committing tax fraud.

Suzi McNair: 09:48

Yeah. I mean, it's it's a huge undertaking because we need to make sure that all of the financial data that flows through the system, whether it comes from a project or from the AP side, that everything flows the way that it should. Yeah. And works and calculates correctly. So

Roberta Coons-Redig: 10:05

That makes sense. Yeah. So in this sort of financial position which obviously touches so many things, do you find, because I'm assuming each branch doesn't have their own accountant, like maybe there's people over different areas or regions. But, do you find that you guys are regularly connecting with branches or maybe less so?

Suzi McNair: 10:26

Yeah. We we do regularly talk to branches whether it's the tax group or accounting or financial services. They're constantly in in contact with branches. We do have controllers that are over so every branch Sure. Has a controller, whether it's their own personal branch controller or regional controller Mhmm.

Suzi McNair: 10:44

That handles a lot of the day to day from project standpoints and and making sure that all of those costs are recognized appropriately. My team, gets involved in different aspects. So we do all of the cash application for the incoming money. We do all of the payments for outgoing money. Mhmm.

Suzi McNair: 11:02

And then we're responsible for pulling it all together at the end of the month and making sure it's presented correctly.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 11:09

That makes sense. So you guys really do have like, you do touch everything? Yes. Okay. Well, very cool.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 11:15

To sort of transition a little bit into just some fun things. Can you? I know from experience that you and your department go all out, for Halloween for decorating and dressing up. Can you tell us a little bit about like, the core value number 7, the fun part of your your teams?

Suzi McNair: 11:35

It is my favorite Yeah. Core value for those that know me. Yeah. We 1 of the things that I think is really important to building the right culture at PCG and and what's, you know, what I love about PCG is is the fun component and it's not that we don't work hard, but we we wanna be able to enjoy what we're doing while we're here. And Yeah.

Suzi McNair: 11:57

To me, part of that is is is looking for opportunities, whether it's Halloween or any other time of the year where we can kinda just add a little bit more personalization to the work day and and have a little fun with our team, get to know people a little bit better. So, yeah, we we we like, you know, it's kind of a team building activity to me to everybody comes together, comes up with their idea. I love to see all the groups, especially this year, we at least seem like there was a lot of teamwork that that went on behind the scenes and and so I really think that that's part of what makes CG a great place to work.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 12:34

Yeah. Yeah. It's exciting and, you you get that sort of spirit of camaraderie as people come together. Especially when it's like, oh, we need to get that done for tomorrow. How's that gonna happen?

Roberta Coons-Redig: 12:45

Yeah.

Suzi McNair: 12:45

But And we've always taken a lot of time to make sure we're, you know, we do a team builder every year. And a lot of times, we'll do 1 fun team builder and 1 that's more of a give back. So we'll find a charity event or something like that that we can do which a lot of the team members like almost more than the fun Yeah. Activity but really does bring people together.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 13:08

Mhmm. That's awesome. That's awesome. Speaking of bringing people together as the segue goes. Nice segue.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 13:15

Thank you. I happen to know from personal experience that you are quite the performer If there is

Suzi McNair: 13:22

a karaoke microphone. Yeah, there needs to be 2 glasses of wine and the microphone to be effective.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 13:29

Yeah. So tell us like what's your what's your go to karaoke song?

Suzi McNair: 13:33

You know, I kind of go to that 80s rock kind of genre. So my usual to go to's are or hit me with your best shot or I love rock and roll.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 13:45

Okay.

Suzi McNair: 13:46

But again, the the wine is required. And I always stress to people that it's more about the performance than the voice because the voice would not carry me very far. But it's all about the performance.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 13:58

Oh, yeah. Oh, that's, you know, that's 1 of the things that that's karaoke. Yeah, people people don't really care necessarily if you're, you know, Barbara Streisand, but if you're just standing up there, as someone who has done it before, not moving terrified, and they're like, Oh, please stop.

Suzi McNair: 14:14

Yes, we actually had some karaoke this weekend at 1 of our Thanksgiving outings. Yeah, quite the quite the marathon.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 14:21

Yeah. Now do you guys stick with like just the wine and the mic or do you get like lights and all that sort of stuff?

Suzi McNair: 14:26

We're at we're at a friend's house and they, you know, they just had the basic TV setup but win the mic but and the wine.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 14:34

Yeah. Oh, that's that's important for sure. So tell us a little bit about, you something that people might not know.

Suzi McNair: 14:44

I'm pretty open book. So I tell everybody just about everything there is to know. 1 thing we touched on a little earlier that, you know, it's that time of year for the Hallmark Christmas movie. And I am a sucker for a good Hallmark Christmas movie. So I will spend several several days or hours watching and getting caught up on all the new premieres.

Suzi McNair: 15:07

Uh-huh. And watch some of the old favorites.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 15:10

Okay. What are what are your go tos?

Suzi McNair: 15:12

Well, I don't know any of the names. Sure. But you know, there's some

Roberta Coons-Redig: 15:16

But let me guess is it for the plot. Is it a big executive city woman goes back to a small town rekindles?

Suzi McNair: 15:23

Oh, yeah. Yeah. And my my family are they're like, why do you watch this? The same thing happens in every single 1. And I said, yes.

Suzi McNair: 15:31

And if it didn't, I would be very upset.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 15:33

Yeah. You know what to expect. It's comforting.

Suzi McNair: 15:35

It is very comforting. Yeah. I could think that might be it. But I will watch all of them. Oh, yeah.

Suzi McNair: 15:39

Yeah. They're corny. They're cheesy. They're bad. But Yeah.

Suzi McNair: 15:43

I still watch them.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 15:44

Yeah. I used to work at Hallmark for a while. So I understand. They embrace it. And they know what people want.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 15:50

And they give it to them. So. Oh, that is very cool. Can you tell us a little bit about your your family and just kind of how how it feels now that there's like a second generation like your daughter was here for an internship.

Suzi McNair: 16:09

Yeah, that was pretty exciting. Yeah. When I started here, my daughter was 5 and my son was 7. Mhmm. So to have my daughter come in and and spend the summer here this summer, that was really cool to see because she would come in a lot as a little, you know, when she was younger and she'd shred papers and things like, you know, just empty people's trash and stuff like that and write on my whiteboard.

Suzi McNair: 16:31

So to see her come in professionally and and build her own relationships with people here is really, it was really cool to see that. So, she's a senior at Mizzou in graphic design. So she'll be graduating in June and then my son graduated last year and got married this past summer. So A

Roberta Coons-Redig: 16:51

lot of work.

Suzi McNair: 16:52

Yeah. Him and his new wife are both teachers. She teaches elementary music and he teaches junior high and high school band. Oh,

Roberta Coons-Redig: 17:02

so so you guys aren't fully empty nesters yet, but you're pretty close. Are you looking forward to that time or

Suzi McNair: 17:07

We're kind of empty nesters during the year. Sure. So we we we're okay with that. Yeah. It's a little quiet around the house, but we still have the 2 French bulldogs.

Suzi McNair: 17:16

Oh. They're our second children. Yeah. But they come around just enough to to visit and hang out and whatnot. So yeah, I'm not looking forward to being completely empty nesters.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 17:27

Sure. Are are you thinking you'll get more dogs or you'll be the sort of person who's like what what do you foresee from that?

Suzi McNair: 17:34

I don't know because I thought I'd always wanna get more dogs but then when you do wanna go travel or do something, you have to find someone to take the dogs. Yeah. And I don't have dogs that just can go anywhere because we've trained them not to be normal. They don't go up and downstairs. Oh.

Suzi McNair: 17:52

They don't wanna be out of the house that they would probably die at that. So I took them to like a kennel or something. Yeah. So we end up having to have people come over and

Roberta Coons-Redig: 18:04

Yeah, it's definitely it's more work.

Suzi McNair: 18:07

Yeah, for sure. As I get older, I'm like, maybe I don't need that.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 18:11

Yeah. But you know, Yeah, you're you're learning about about yourself that way. So in the in the time that you've been here as you've seen your your family sort of change, and your career definitely changed as the company has expanded. Can you give us just some maybe life advice or like for a newer employee like what what would you recommend to help them succeed at PCG?

Suzi McNair: 18:42

That's a good question. For me personally, I think some advice that someone gave me when I started was participate in everything you can. He's like, if you get invited to something go. And and I really, I think that's really good advice. And there's a lot going on here now.

Suzi McNair: 19:00

So it's probably a lot more than when he was here. So it's it's a lot of work. But I do try to go to everything that I get invited to because part of working at PCG and part of what I love is the relationships that I've built with people over the years. And I love going and seeing people and meeting new people and talking to new people about what the opportunities are for their futures when they're young and just out of school and build those relationships. Those those are what really matter.

Suzi McNair: 19:33

You know, you can work, you can do a job anywhere, but really having that family away from your family is is what makes coming to work every day worth coming to work.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 19:43

Yeah. Yeah, for sure. So you started in 2006. So I'm trying to think of embarrassing style trends from 2, 006.

Suzi McNair: 19:53

Well, I'm like just an embarrassing style trend.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 19:55

Oh, no. I kinda just I I kinda keep

Suzi McNair: 19:58

the same style year after year and I figured a decade or 2 later, it'll be back in.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 20:03

Exactly. I've I've lived long enough now that I'm seeing the things that I thought were cool in high school coming back. It's like, oh, bell bottoms and low rise, please. No.

Suzi McNair: 20:11

Yeah, you're like bell bottoms didn't go well the first time. I don't know why we would bring them back.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 20:16

Yeah, there's nothing like walking down the hallway and here.

Suzi McNair: 20:21

That or the 80s gymsuit, you know, the nice noisy gymsuit.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 20:26

Yeah, yeah.

Suzi McNair: 20:28

We had a little bit of that a world class with our 80s theme this year, you know, and it was like a flashback back to high school.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 20:33

Yeah, it was interesting. I got a peek at the presentation slides and some photos of certain LG members who are really rocking mullets. Yes. Yeah, it was a surprise.

Suzi McNair: 20:46

It's always it's always interesting to look back. Because when you're in the moment, you're like, there's no style here. There's no

Roberta Coons-Redig: 20:53

it's just the way it is.

Suzi McNair: 20:54

And then you look back and you're like, oh, there there was and It wasn't good.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 21:01

Well, you know, it's just it's it's, it goes out of fashion if your parents did it, but if your grandparents did it, it's cool.

Suzi McNair: 21:08

Yeah. Yeah. It's funny where my kids now they're they're they like go into my they'll go to my in law's house and they'll be like, can I have that shirt? Like really? You want that?

Roberta Coons-Redig: 21:19

There's like, oh, that's that. Oh.

Suzi McNair: 21:21

Yeah. Yeah.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 21:22

What is your favorite style from the past? I know you said your sort of style does it shift and change a lot but if you could bring 1 thing back what would it be?

Suzi McNair: 21:30

1 thing. You know, sweatpants. If I could bring that back to like make it and I guess it's still a thing if you're in college. But me, you know, maybe if we could bring that to the professional environment. Professional sweatpants.

Suzi McNair: 21:43

You go jeans and you're like, okay. Got that. What's the next step? Yeah. Swepty?

Roberta Coons-Redig: 21:48

Yeah. I don't know. Business casual sweatpants. Yes. I could see that.

Suzi McNair: 21:52

Really comfy pants?

Roberta Coons-Redig: 21:53

Yeah. Yeah. I had a friend who had a pair of I don't know if they're yoga pants or whatever but she they had like a white logo on the front and she blacked it out with the marker so she could wear them to the office.

Suzi McNair: 22:04

Nice. I think I thank COVID for if nothing like, you can't thank COVID for very much. But the yoga pants, I do thank COVID for that. Like, I would never have went outside in yoga pants. Oh, yeah.

Suzi McNair: 22:18

But now I have like 5 pair and I wear them wherever

Roberta Coons-Redig: 22:21

I want to be. Yeah,

Suzi McNair: 22:22

yeah. So good pants. Good.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 22:24

So here's a divisive topic. 1 of my friends says that leggings are not pants so you can't wear them like with just a t shirt. I'm a firm believer in wearing leggings forever but that's that's Yeah,

Suzi McNair: 22:35

I don't I have a couple pairs of leggings. I don't wear too much. I mean, I have like a long Like

Roberta Coons-Redig: 22:41

a tunic sort of Yeah. That makes sense.

Suzi McNair: 22:45

There's things I shouldn't wear out of the mouth.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 22:47

Well, you know, if we didn't do these things, how would people of Walmart like, you know, gotta populate that.

Suzi McNair: 22:53

I just don't want to be in that bit that picture. Yeah. Where you're like,

Roberta Coons-Redig: 22:57

Oh, wait, that's me. Oh, no, that's yep. Yeah. Do you have any holiday plans or?

Suzi McNair: 23:06

We do not. Just Christmas we like to stay home.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 23:10

Yeah.

Suzi McNair: 23:11

I tried now obviously my kids are older so I tried this year to sell them on. What if we went on a trip for Christmas? Oh. And we didn't celebrate with presents and all. Yeah.

Suzi McNair: 23:22

They weren't quite ready to give it up yet. Okay.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 23:25

So that that must mean it was a good good experience.

Suzi McNair: 23:27

I think that just probably means I need to give them like hardly anything this year. And then by next year, they'll be like, yeah, the trip sounds fabulous.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 23:34

Yeah. I feel like here's a lot of socks.

Suzi McNair: 23:36

There's socks, underwear and cleaning supplies.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 23:40

Well, if you could go on a trip, where would you go?

Suzi McNair: 23:43

Well, I just took my first trip out of the country Oh. In October to Mexico. Uh-huh. So that was a big step for me. So now that I know I can go international, if you can call

Roberta Coons-Redig: 23:56

You survived.

Suzi McNair: 23:56

Yeah. Mexico international. I guess it is. I would like to go someplace I have 2 places. 1, I would like to go to a place like Turks and Caicos or something where the beaches are a little bit nicer than Mexico.

Suzi McNair: 24:09

Sure. And then I've been watching, Below Deck is my new thing.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 24:16

Okay.

Suzi McNair: 24:16

And so I'm really would love to go to the Mediterranean.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 24:19

Okay. So is that the like remake of Overboard or whatever the I'm not familiar with?

Suzi McNair: 24:26

Below Deck is a reality show where they work on a yacht.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 24:29

Oh, okay.

Suzi McNair: 24:30

So I'd really like to be on the yacht.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 24:32

You don't wanna be in the show. Trainee.

Suzi McNair: 24:36

Okay. And having them cook me fabulous food and and then it also goes behind the scenes. So you see what happens behind the scenes. Obviously, it's like a big soap opera.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 24:45

Yeah. Oh, I'm sure it's like So did you hear? Did you hear? Yeah. Yeah.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 24:48

Okay. Any other, reality TV shows you can recommend?

Suzi McNair: 24:53

Reality TV

Roberta Coons-Redig: 24:55

Or TV shows

Suzi McNair: 24:56

that you're My, you know, Schitt's Creek is still my 1 of my favorites.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 24:59

Oh yeah?

Suzi McNair: 25:00

Yeah. That it'll always have a good place for, you know, in my repertoire of TV shows. I'm not a big TV watcher. So when I do watch 1, I if I find 1 I like, I get really sad when it's over and Oh. Then it takes me a while.

Suzi McNair: 25:15

It's like losing a pet.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 25:17

Yeah. Well, you spend so much time.

Suzi McNair: 25:18

Yeah. And then you have to, like, let those people go and it takes some time before you're ready for another 1. Yeah. Yeah. So Schitt's Creek I've been it's been like 3 years now.

Suzi McNair: 25:28

Yeah. I'm still not over it.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 25:31

Oh. Well hopefully, some more below deck can help you transition.

Suzi McNair: 25:34

Yes. I I have several seasons left still. So we're still good.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 25:37

That's good. That's good. Well, then I guess, here's to next year in the Mediterranean. Alright.

Suzi McNair: 25:45

Yeah. We'll shoot for we'll shoot for that.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 25:48

Yeah. Well, thanks again so much, Susie, for coming out I'm welcome. And, chatting with us. And, have a happy holiday. Thank you.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 25:57

You too. Thanks so much to Susie McNair for coming in today. Be sure to be on the lookout for more 1 on ones coming soon. Signing off from Lenexa. This is Roberta.

Roberta Coons-Redig: 26:09

Happy holidays.