Jon Quast

I've got to ask,

Lou, if you woke up in charge of TriArtisan tomorrow, would you be excited to go through with this deal, or would you have your eye on something else in the restaurant space?

Lou is speaking my love language by pointing out Waffle House, and now I am hungry for that chain.

I think that that food is good, and I would also concur that that would be the one that I'm going for here.

Next up, we've got some random calendar events, and that has our team here hugging bears.

You're listening to Motley Fool Money.

On the Friday show, we like to have a little bit of fun and, you know, we have a big holiday coming up.

which is Thanksgiving.

That's my favorite.

You can't beat gratitude, family, football, and pie, in my opinion.

But there are infinity of other holidays on the calendar that we hardly ever talk about.

It turns out that today, November 7th, is Hug a Bear Day.

I think for safety reasons, I'm obligated to point out, we're talking about hugging teddy bears, not real bears.

But, you know, we thought this would be an opportunity to have a little bit of fun.

There's a lot of fear in the market right now.

There are things that investors are betting against.

And so we're optimists here at The Motley Fool.

And so we wanted to go through some stocks where bear sentiment is running high.

And I want to ask both Lou and Emily, are these stocks that are beating down bears that we want to hug or should we avoid them?

Let's start with DoorDash.