Small Towns Podcast
Small Towns Podcast
E26: Special Guest Star Crae Williams. Hometown: Peoa, Utah
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SPEAKER_01I could do I could use a little bit of learning on stitching.
SPEAKER_00Some learning. Some learning. I know Dave actually actually has done some sewing in the past.
SPEAKER_01Well, I don't know. I told Susie she has a hard time finding shorts that are the length that she wants. I'm like, just find the and that fit right. And I'm like, just find the pants you like, cut them off, I'll hem them for you. Like I've never ran a sewing machine, but how hard can it be? It can't be that hard. No, I'll I'll hem those things right up for you. I mean, a t a stitch in time saves and I don't really know what that means.
SPEAKER_00No, I don't, nobody knows. It's like put your sorries in a sack. Nobody knows what that means either. Um, it's weird when you're doing podcasts like this because I don't think I can say last time, because again, it depends on how we release these, but more more likely than not, it'll be last time we we called a friend.
SPEAKER_01Yep, called Ryan Dunkley last time, had a fun conversation with him, but we have a real treat for you tonight.
SPEAKER_00Oh boy, do we ever. Um those of you might know this gentleman, his name is Cray Williams. Now, Cray is just a scholar and a gentleman whose brilliance is only uh exceeded by his good looks. Um, according to his wife Jenny, maybe. Exactly, exactly. Just a just a champion of a man. He grew up in a small town. Yeah, Cray grew up P Pioa? I think it's Pioa. P-E-O-A? Nobody knows. I don't know. I don't think any of you know POA. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Even people in Biola don't know how to spell it.
SPEAKER_00He says like it's kind of a bipark city. Okay. It's back in there. Yeah. It's back in the list. It's back in there. So we're gonna call him and just kind of get his take. Let's see what's going on here.
SPEAKER_01You got you're dialing him up? I'm dialing him up. Okay. Oh, yeah, he's on. Well, make sure you put it on speaker. He's on speaker. Alright, crank it up.
SPEAKER_00You're supposed to say, don't boss me. Don't boss me.
unknownHello?
SPEAKER_00Hey, buddy, how you doing?
SPEAKER_02Hey, you know me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, we do know you. Yeah, we do know you.
SPEAKER_01You're probably in that uh lounge chair in your underpants. Is that possible?
SPEAKER_02I mean, have you got a camera on me?
SPEAKER_03Amazing.
SPEAKER_00Our viewers, I tell you what, our viewers, our listeners, our listeners are gonna wish they were our viewers. Yeah, we'll just paint the picture in their head for them. Buddy, you're actually um we're live right now. We're live, we're back. Um We're live?
SPEAKER_03Alright.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And and uh Dave and I have uh thought we'd come up with a new segment. Uh we haven't got a catchy title. Yeah, we gotta come up with something. But it's like, you know, go. Calling our fellow friends who are from a small town. Now give us give us a little background, Craig. Where are you from? I mean, we said POA, but we're hoping we say that right. Oh, it is POA.
SPEAKER_01Now, question, do you actually know how to spell it?
SPEAKER_02Oh you you have to be a legitimate P. One. I mean, make sure you conjugate that correctly, but yes, so it is P-O-A.
SPEAKER_01Well, that's a P-O-A. Wait, P-E-O-A? P-E-O-A. There's like a lot of vowels. Can I buy all vowels?
SPEAKER_00I was just gonna say, there's more vowels, like, I mean, are there very many? I don't want to ask a dumb question, but like, how many towns are made up of primarily vowels? Well, I think that's something to Wikipedia. Probably later. Can you give us a population of POA, buddy?
SPEAKER_02Oh, I I could go through and you know, I'd do a headcount on everybody on all the houses if you wanted, but that sounds like grouse creek.
SPEAKER_00Let's let's just go 250, maybe when I at least when I was growing up there about 250, and it's been a hot minute since I lived there, so that's huge, buddy. That's like that's like more than double the size of my growing up Grouse Creek years.
SPEAKER_02Well, according to we did have, you know, two roads. I mean, not like Grouse Creek.
SPEAKER_01What did you guess? What did you guess just now, Cray? What was your guess on population? 250?
SPEAKER_02250.
SPEAKER_01Get this. So the World Wide Web in front of me here, it's an unincorporated census-designated place in southwestern Summit County, Utah. Um the let's see, it's elevate okay, we don't care about the elevation. The population was 253 at the 210 or the 2010 census.
unknownSo close.
SPEAKER_01So good.
unknownThere must have been three births I didn't get.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I didn't get invitations.
SPEAKER_01Well, they were all illegitimate. All the births were illegitimate.
SPEAKER_00You just didn't know about them. You just didn't know, buddy. You just didn't know. Um what does a guy do for fun in POA?
SPEAKER_02Well, you know, there's there's just a smorgasborg of fun activities to do.
unknownI mean mainly mainly toilet paper in people's houses.
SPEAKER_02I mean, you know. That was about it.
SPEAKER_01I mean what about firearms? Do you carry firearms around just cuz?
SPEAKER_02Oh, I mean, you I mean you had the rack in the back window, I mean, with a couple in, yeah, driving around, you know it.
SPEAKER_01This is pretty sweet. Now, what did you get why were you guys there?
SPEAKER_02So my dad just my family just settled there way back when, and my great grandpa was um a coal miner down in Colville. And my grandpa, he was a miner over in Park City, and my dad worked at a place called the Udala and down in Ownship.
SPEAKER_00So So your dad was a coal miner, which would grandpa was coal mineral.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Because I I can't help it. I immediately went to Tammy Wynat. I think it's Tammy Wynat, coal miner's daughter. I could I can't help that. I can't help that. Why I don't I don't have any idea what you're talking about right now. Well, it's like a movie. Oh no, Loretta Lynn. It's Loretta Lynn. Coal miner's daughter. You gotta Google it.
SPEAKER_01I don't know if I want to Google it. I have you're speaking Greek right now to me. I have no idea what you're talking about.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, let me speak a little bit more Greek to you. Radiator.
SPEAKER_01Funny. That's real funny.
SPEAKER_00Stanley Phillips screwdriver. That's real funny. Oh, buddy Pioa, that is that's beautiful country. Um and you still have family there, so you still make the uh you make the pilgrimage out there every once in a while, yes?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, every once in a while. We head up and put our put our cowboy boots on and go out and read round in the in the manure.
SPEAKER_00Manure. In the manure. The manure. This may be romanticizing it just a little bit too much, but it seems like a a month or so ago you went out and participated in a good old-fashioned family barn raising. Barn raising? Seems almost Amish, but yeah, he did it.
SPEAKER_02Well that was that was yeah, it was a little while ago, but yeah, we my my dad's barn. He it got a little too much snow on it, and so obviously that equals disaster, and down it came, so we had to go and rebuild it.
SPEAKER_00So Dave, could you build a barn? You bet. Why do you laugh? No, Cray's laughing right now, too. No, listen, I'm laughing because I'm la I couldn't build a barn either. In fact, if you and I had to build a barn, who are we gonna ask for help? Cray. Cray. He's a builder by trade.
SPEAKER_01In fact, you want somebody to build you a spectacular home, you call Cray Williams. Hey, let's give him a shape. Let's do what's the name of your Stonehaven. Stonehaven construction. Folks, the man knows how to build a shelter. Yes.
SPEAKER_02Hopefully I don't let you boys down. Hopefully my house stays upright, and so at least you know you're not making me a liar.
SPEAKER_00Hey, listen, uh, any big bad wolf can huff and puff. That thing ain't going anywhere. Nowhere. It's not going anywhere.
SPEAKER_01Those pigs inside that thing, and you can tell your daughters I said it, they're not going anywhere.
SPEAKER_02Not unless Jason Kimber's throwing a tennis ball trying to throw it over my roof.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god. Yeah, that might take a window out.
SPEAKER_00I'll tell you what, I did about take a window out, and I threw with all my might.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh, that's such a funny story. I do love that. Craig, you you guys grew up, um, did you grow up working at a mink farm?
SPEAKER_02So yeah, we had we had beef cows and mink farm and and a dairy as well. So I grew up doing all three.
SPEAKER_00Mink farm? Dairy?
SPEAKER_02I didn't really I didn't really like enjoy the mink too much. They were mean and smelly, so yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh boy. Do you ever have to punch one in the face?
SPEAKER_02No, no. There's no reason to punch a punch somebody in the face.
SPEAKER_01I mean to Well, a mink if he's rude.
SPEAKER_02You know.
SPEAKER_01Tom Cruise punched a horse in the face on the on a movie I saw once. He said, I do not wish to fight you or something. And then he punched the horse in the face.
SPEAKER_00That was uh far and away. Yeah. Far and away. Yes, he punched him in the face. Speaking of movies and minks, I don't I don't I don't think this is real plausible, but um I think I I think it was either Ghostbusters, I think it was Ghostbusters 2, which wasn't a great show, but I'm a big fan of Ghostbusters. But uh this lady was like wearing a mink coat and like all the minks came alive while she was wearing a coat. Well that doesn't sound good. You you could get bit in places you didn't know you had.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, to chew your face off. Yeah. So Craig, tell uh you gotta have a story or two from growing up in that town that maybe you tell your kids and they're like, Dad, that that can't have been true.
SPEAKER_02Well there was there was a lot of mischief growing up, let's be honest. I mean, you had to you had to basically create your own entertainment. So, I mean, we would always just, you know, go out and there was we usually in the fall we'd always get apples and load them up in the back of the truck, and then we'd go out and proceed to appling cows and stuff. Granted, they were just apples, they weren't hurting anything, but yeah, we used to we used to do that.
SPEAKER_00What is it what walk us through appling a cow? You use that almost as a verb. What does that mean? Well, you I've got an idea.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you you got a driver, of course, in the truck, and then you've got a couple guys in the back, you know, with arms full of apples, and you just driving down the road and you see a cow in the field and you just try to lob the apple out there, see if you can hit it.
SPEAKER_00You say to the cow, hey, best it get running. So it really isn't a game for Jason. But you were rude to me. No, that's true. I'm I'm about taking it. You got that back. I mean, because like I would like I probably couldn't even throw the apple, I wouldn't be able to get it out of the truck. No. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree with something.
SPEAKER_01He tries to throw an apple out of the truck and it hits the driver. It doesn't fall far out of the truck, right? I throw it out the front, we run over it. Oh man. Did you ever go cow tipping? I've always heard about cow tipping, but I've never seen it happen.
unknownBoy, you know.
SPEAKER_01Kind of like a blue dart. People talk about them, never have seen one happen.
SPEAKER_02You're trying to convince her that, you know, that's legit. So, but never tried it.
SPEAKER_01You've never tried to cow tip.
SPEAKER_02Never tried to cow tip. Do you think it's real?
SPEAKER_00I don't know. I don't I mean, because I've never tried I've heard of that, but I don't. I mean, you're not gonna tip a cow over. Apparently you can. They say you can. Maybe we'll have to do some. Well, and and like the like unless you're like stealthy, like even if it was like sleeping standing up, it's not gonna be like in a deep REM. It's gonna be like, I I hear you coming, Jason, I hear you coming.
SPEAKER_02I mean, you're yeah, you know, you're you're dealing with 1800 pounds or something, so you're gonna have to put a pretty good shoulder into it if you're gonna tip it over.
SPEAKER_00So especially if it's got horns. Oh, you mess with the bowl, you get to. You just get to run them. Yeah, I don't I don't think that's a real thing. Although I want to back up one little bit, and I don't I mean, in in honor of uh this being a family show, I and we can we can dedicate an episode to this, but I I take Umbridge with one thing that Dave said earlier. Blue darts are real, and I have done one.
SPEAKER_01I don't believe they've happened. Cray, have you ever had a blue dart? Done a blue dart?
SPEAKER_02Um, I have never personally done it. I'm I'm a I'm a man that's got quite a bit of body hair, so near me, that's that's not gonna be a good combination.
SPEAKER_01Listen.
SPEAKER_02Well, you don't put you don't put hairspray down anywhere around there, do you?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I did one actually while I was driving my car. I was driving my 1990 Ford Escort. Okay, had some friends in there. That that is not wise. No, it's not wise at all because first of all, I'm driving and it just kind of like billowed up from my seat. You know what I mean? It almost got my eyebrows.
SPEAKER_01That there's gotta be a violation for that, a citation of some kind.
SPEAKER_00Pulled you over what's going on in it. Well, blue dark. I I mean, we could we might have to do a fact check. Not a fact check because it just simply happened, but like um we talked, we did a skiing story about Amber, my cousin Amber one time. She was there, she was in the car with me. So she could value it. I think Mandy was there. Uh, but it was like a real rainy day, and it was just, I mean, it was a bad combo. I mean, I'm driving down the. Was it a Monday? They always get me down. Rainy days are Mondays, they'll get you down. So I I didn't want to digress, Craig, but yeah, blue darts are real.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, hey, hey, I've I'm I'm proof. I've I've seen it happen with my own eyes, so.
SPEAKER_00I'd I'd like to see one someday. Okay, well, we'll we'll do one.
SPEAKER_02In fact, me it might be fun to there's not a lot of you got teenage boys. How are they not blue darting?
SPEAKER_01Hey, I raised sophisticated young gentlemen.
SPEAKER_00Well, well, well, cray, man, this is awesome, buddy. Listen, I think for sure, like once we release this, published this pod, drop this pod, I mean the fans are gonna just clamor for a little bit more cray. You know what I mean? I think so too. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02They're gonna be wanting a lot more account tipping, apparently.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Buddy, thanks for taking the time tonight.
SPEAKER_02You know what? Anytime, fellas, anytime.
SPEAKER_00Alright, we'll see you, bro. See you, Cray. What a guy. Yeah, I tell you they don't come any better than Cray. No, no better than Cray. You need some help, he can do it. Listen, I mean, we joke a little bit about this. I mean, I I tease you about the radiator and the radiating. It's understandable. Anytime I have a problem, like my my uh weed eater wouldn't work, what do I do? I go and see Cray. Uh every time, and my weed eater doesn't work a lot. Yeah, I hear you.
SPEAKER_01And I bought a good one. Yeah, I want to throw it like a javelin over my roof over my fence pretty much every time I use it.
SPEAKER_00I I called Cray as early as like last week because I couldn't uh get one of the drawers out. Like you know how you just can remove a drawer from a bank of drawers? I couldn't figure out how to do it. Seems pretty straightforward. Was there a little latch? There was, I missed it. I might have been able to help you with that one. You probably could. I should have. I thought you'd break it. Um have you been to Pioa? Yeah, actually, it's so I was just gonna say it's funny that we would call Cray tonight because just last Wednesday, so um a week ago, a week ago, I actually traveled to Camas, and I didn't realize this on the way to Camas, Utah. I drove straight through Pioa. Now, I tell you what, this this was this put a smile on my face. This was a this was a small town story um happened in Camas. Okay. And I was talking to Cray about this actually the other day. There's a 7-Eleven in town, and apparently that's a new 7-Eleven. It wasn't there when he was growing up. You don't see a lot of 7-Elevens pop up that are new. You don't. You see them go under. Usually you do, but it was because like Mavericks are basically the 7-Elevens of our youth. Yeah, yeah. Maverick's taking over the world. At least here in Utah in the West. But um, it was a nice map, it was a nice 7-Eleven. I was going, this is gonna be a whole other podcast, so just a little teaser. I was going to buy a tote goat, which is a motorbike. Motorbike's maybe too strong of a word, but it really is kind of like the little motorcycle, like what Harry and Christmas Lloyd uh wrote in Dumb and Dumber. Um, and I had one that was my first one as a kid growing up, so there was one for selling KSL, and it was in Canvas. I went and I bought it. Uh, we'll have a whole podcast uh dedicated to nostalgia here in a little bit. But I had to go to the bathroom. So I saw 7-Eleven, pulled over, walked in. I'm stepping up to the urinal, about ready to go to the bathroom. My back teeth are floating, and it'd been like a two and a half hour drive. It's time. It's time, yeah. And I'm sitting there just trying to do my business in peace, and right through the stall next to me, I hear this guy all of a sudden, hello? He said, hello? And I was like, I don't think he was talking to me because who's that friendly while you're going to the bathroom? I'd like to do that one day. Yeah, let me know.
SPEAKER_01Somebody walks in, I'm in the stall, I'm like, hey buddy, how are you doing? How's it going?
SPEAKER_00Come here often. Well, so he says hello, and I'm thinking, well, he's not talking to me. And then it became evident very clearly that he was actually on the phone. Dave, have you ever taken a phone call? No, me neither.
SPEAKER_01Never. I might knock out some texts or emails. Oh, for sure, for sure. I can conduct a lot of business. And most assuredly, never in a public bathroom.
SPEAKER_00No, you want to get in and out of those as quickly as possible. In fact, I kind of have a rule. I don't um I don't like to sit down in a public bathroom. No, no. I mean, I'll hold. I mean it's gotta be an emergency. Emergency, and we've all been there. Right. But I I mean, as a general rule, I don't like to go to the bathroom. I don't like to go number two in a public bathroom. No, nobody does. But this guy was obviously doing his business. He's like, hello? And I'm like, I smile because I'm like, he who who's who's taking a call on the toilet, a public bathroom? And then he says, Dave, out loud, he says, hey, um, I'm actually in your bathroom right now. So he he's calling the front desk. He's calling the 7-Eleven front desk. He's like, I'm in your bathroom right now, and you don't have any toilet paper in here. First of all, I applaud him for his courageous ingenuity to call. Yep. Because uh What are you gonna do? Well, I might have used him a tube sock. I don't know. I might happen. Yes.
SPEAKER_01My parents have told me a story about one of their friends who had an emergency.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he had to use his sock. Because I don't know if I would have had the wherewithal to think, I'm gonna call the ladies or the gentleman up front that's running the till. I don't think I would have either. And so he says, hey, thank you. Meaning they must be right on the way. So this was happening all super fast. And kudos to 7-Eleven and Canvas because they just they they were Johnny on the spot. All of a sudden, they start bringing in a roll of toilet paper. Well, I'm still going to the bathroom. You're still standing at the urine. Well, you are 45.
SPEAKER_0144. You're 44 years old. It takes a while. You really get it coming.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and so she's like, Oh, I'm so sorry. And so she backed out, and there was a guy there, and he brought it in. But like this roll of toilet paper, Dave, I kid you not, it was like a block of like a big old block of cheese. It was like so huge. I don't know how this my newfound friend in the stall was gonna navigate this. Gotta roll it along the way. But he did that. He like, I mean, he he literally made a quick phone call.
SPEAKER_01He made a quick phone call. You know what it tells me is he rushed into that stall super quick. Yes. Because if I ever have to go into one of those, first of all, you're it's an emergency. It is for sure an emergency. But you would still hopefully be able to take a little time to do a little housekeeping. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, for of course. You're gonna make you're gonna make a seat. Yes. You're gonna make the seat out of toilet paper. Now, it tells me that he he jumped on that seat super quick. He had no time. He had no time to even look around and get his bearings. Yes. So in a way, I feel kind of bad for the guy.
SPEAKER_00Because we've all been Oh my goodness. We've we've been there where like it's it's like literally touching cloth. Like, you're not going to make it.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, it's your prairie dog, and there's no getting around it. I don't think your mom's gonna like this podcast. No, gear. Sorry, sorry. Well, when we first started this podcast, I think we there were some stories that came out, yeah similar stories, and she said, I I just think you guys are talking a little bit too much about poop. I'm like, well, mom, I'm sorry. There's stories, and and I have a story that still haunts me to this day. Please, it feels like it's the right time to shoot. I have PTPD with it. I mean post-traumatic poop disorder. PTPD. Yeah, I have severe PTPD with that. Here it is. This happened. This happened. I am, I want to say 16, 17 years old. Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_00I'm have I told this story on the podcast? I don't think you have. Well, if it's the one I'm thinking of, because I've heard it, but I don't think you have. And if you have, it's worth it.
SPEAKER_01It's worth a repeat. Okay. I'm at Nordstrom, okay, with my mom. So that's not close. It's not around here, so we're we're out of town. And uh back in the day, Nordstrom had um well they might still. They have the escalators, and underneath the escalators there's a place where probably mostly the men sit. While their wives do the shopping. Yeah. There was a I remember a grand piano or something there where somebody would come and play it. Everyone's a classy place. Nice, yeah. So I'm sitting on one of those chairs and just kind of waiting for my mom who's perusing the shoe area. I I don't know why I feel like I've told this. Anyways, I look out into the greater area because you can see the mall. Uh-huh. The the bigger, you know, the big area of the mall from that seat. And I'm just kind of watching out there, and an older gentleman catches my eye. And he catches my eye because he's wearing an interesting outfit. He was wearing a uh a button-up dress shirt with a swimming suit. Wait. So picture that, right? I mean, it's it's I mean it'll catch your eye.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, button-up dress shirt with swimming trunks on. Yes. Okay.
SPEAKER_01And and he's for a guy his age, he's moving. He's motoring through there. He's got a little, he's got a little pep in his head.
SPEAKER_00He's he's okay. Okay. I it's in my mind.
SPEAKER_01Okay, so I'm watching him and he's getting a little closer, he's getting a little closer, and by the time he gets pretty much in front of me, I hear gas passed. Does that make sense? I hear I hear a little and I think, and my first reaction is oh the po I mean I wasn't laughing at it. No, you're an older gentleman. Yeah. I thought, oh, the poor guy, he is, he's gotta go. And he just passed a little gas. And he is, he's hurrying. Yeah. He needs to drop the kids off at the pool. He knows his mission and he has chosen to accept it. He needs to get there fast. And he's got some pep and stuff, a little pucker. You know, he's puckering behind. And so after that, that after the gas was passed. I'm not kidding you right now. Okay. Fecal matter. Oh no. Falls on the floor right in front of me. Oh. Like a big old Hershey kiss that was given away on Valentine's Day. That had been left in the car just a little too long. Yes, a little too long. And now he's not gonna stop. No. You're gonna go. If you have just dropped anchor in a Nordstrom on the floor, you still keep going. I think you just walk away.
SPEAKER_00You pretend like you're gonna be a little bit more.
SPEAKER_01Well he did. He was scooting. I mean he was shooting. I just sat there with my eyes just open. I'm just dumbfounded what I just saw. Like this, you can't believe this happened. Yeah, and and I'm looking at the the the excrement. The excrement on the floor. I'm looking at the man, looking at the excrement, looking at the man, and he's gone at this point, and I have I can't believe what I just saw. Now I get up and I maneuver around it. Because I'm not gonna go step over it.
SPEAKER_00I'm not gonna- It's like, mother, may I take one gigantic step forward?
SPEAKER_01Yes, you may. I went around the thing to go find my mom, and I found her, and before I even said anything, she looked at me and she said, What's the matter? You look like you've seen a ghost. I'm like, Mom, I just saw a man poop on the floor right over there. Oh, I I no wonder I have the PTPD. Oh, yeah, that's it's a traumatic moment for a 16, 17-year-old young man. I'm assuming this must have been like a liner-less swim trunk. Yeah, because you some some of those swim trunks, they're gonna catch you, they're gonna keep you all in there. Keep that in there. No, it didn't. He must have cut them out. I mean, sometimes those aren't comfortable. Yeah, they can be uncomfortable. It blesses heart. Bless him. Bless him. Bless his heart. I mean, uh, but he made the right call. You don't, you just get out of there. You don't stop and whoops. Oops, a daisy. Look what just happened. Looky there.
SPEAKER_00Would you look what I just did on the floor of the Nordstrom? I I don't. It's funny, you start talking stories about like this, and everybody's got like poop case.
SPEAKER_01Like I've I've said it, I think even on the pod.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Every grown man has had an accident once or twice. Yeah. And it just happens. So folks out there, don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed.
SPEAKER_00I mean, it happens, you know? It happens. I had a meeting in Salt Lake one time, and I but it was a meeting that I could not miss. And so I left here again at about an hour and a half drive. I I there was no way I could get out of it. I had to be there. So I was like, I drank like a gallon of Peptobism. I didn't think that was gonna do it. Um but I just wasn't prepared. So I actually took a towel and a change of clothes. Just in case. Just in case. Now I did, I mean, you know, spoiler alert, I made it just fine. Coming back into the valley. Oh boy, I mean, it was a rush to get home.
SPEAKER_01That's a good name name for an adult undergarment, just in case.
SPEAKER_00There was a there was there was a great Saturday Night Live skit. Oh, it's been several years ago now, but it was like it was like it was it was it was a product called Oops, I craft my pants.
SPEAKER_01Well, I mean, like I said, it happens.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I I I My mom doesn't like the word craft.
SPEAKER_01No, so I'm so sorry, and neither we don't let's let's let's end this pod on a more positive note. Yeah, I apologize to the what do you got? Well, I I don't oh yeah, I don't think I have anything more positive than that. Folks, we're just gonna end this pod with you thinking about the things we just had to talk about. We do appreciate Craig for joining us today. That's that's that's the best part of the pod.
SPEAKER_00That's the best part of the pod. I think we're gonna make that maybe a regular occurrence.
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