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This is the Small Towns podcast. Uh, vocabulary can be, uh, an interesting thing. I mean, I'll be the first to admit that I have been known to mispronounce words. I've been known to make up words, and probably a whole host of other egregious, if you will, vocabulary full pop. Yes, I'm sure. Sure. The thing is, Jason, is if you grow up around here, especially out in a place called Grouse Creek, you're gonna hear some bad grammar.

You're gonna hear some words that somebody just decided that that's gonna work, and I'm okay with it. Hey, look, somebody had to make up a word at some point. Absolutely. And, and who is to say, I mean, who is the word police? You know, me. I, I'll, I'll be that guy. Okay. I think this would be a fascinating topic of discussion, but I do think before we even jump into different words, and, and I'd like to share a few, well, one particular that I've invented, That I am going to start a very strong campaign to Mr.

Merriam Webster, if you will, to get admitted to his book of words. Okay. Well it goes through me, just so you, okay, well, I mean, that's good. Yeah. We're gonna start here. Okay. And I will give you my blessing that we can take it to Miriam Webster. Thank you. Well, I mean, we, we got a close relationship, so that's gonna be good.

But I am actually, I have pulled up miriam webster.com. You have not seen this? Nope. I have not seen what you have there. So I've got a word here. I would like you to read. The word that is shown. And then I would like you to read, there's two ways to pronounce this word according to Jason Kimber, according to Miriam Webster.

So if you would please, yes, here I go. Okay. The word is creek. Thank you spelled C R E E K. Definition, a natural stream of water, Norway. Oh, you're going a little, you're going a little too far. Okay. Um, right below Creek, you'll see there's a couple of pronunciations. Oh yeah, there sure are. Yes. Thank you. Go ahead Creek and, or this really hurts.

Oh yeah. Just let me just hear it. Just say it slow. Okay. Crick. Thank you. Uh, can I push this little. Oh yeah. The guy on there just uh, said it the same way. But you know that part of the internet might not be correct. Oh, I've never found anything online that isn't correct until maybe right there actually, you know who actually brought that to my attention the very first time?

Probably somebody from Grouse Creek. Yeah. I would imagine his Mick Warton. Really? Yeah. He was one of my teachers growing up. He and his wife actually were, uh, team teachers out there. I was taught by some wonderful, wonderful teachers. First of all, I. Carol Warton different than the Carol that I just mentioned.

She taught me K through four. Are all the kids in K through four in the same room being taught at the same time? Yes. It doesn't make any sense. Yeah. Uh, no. I mean, it makes a lot of sense. In fact, it's fantastic. K through four, probably about 10 of us in that room, you know? So how do you teach the case and the fours at the same time?

It's genius. And, and you've gotta hand it to these teachers because. You would typically have. K through four would have one teacher. And from my experience, Carol Warton was our K through four teacher. Uh, she was the head teacher as well during those years for me. And then there was another teacher, and that teacher would teach five through nine or five through 10.

And then of course, in the same classroom. In the same classroom. So you had two classrooms? Yeah, two classrooms, little room and big room. Okay. Makes sense. Yes. And then, and then of course you'd have other small room and a library. We're gonna talk a little bit about. The library or library or library, depending on, I'm pretty sure it's never library.

Yeah, yeah. I've pronounce both ways and I'll, I'll agree with you there. There's really is only one way to say that one. Yeah. But yeah, so she would teach, we'd either go to another room for maybe a teacher's aide to maybe teach math or something along those lines, but we would just go up to the desk or or her desk and she would teach us math, and then she would have other work for us to do, maybe board work that she would create every morning for the rest of us to do while other work was being done.

It's hard to explain and it's hard to kind of. Envision and paint the picture. You really can't even do it justice on one podcast. The logistics of teaching in a scenario like that is amazing. And it's impressive. Yeah. I mean, because to be able to teach a kindergarten or something and then be able to teach the fourth grade something, or for that matter, the fifth graders and the ninth grader, you'd have to have some pretty good scheduling sit up, these guys are working on this, these guys are working on this.

I don't know. And maybe, and we'll jump into some details with that maybe a little bit later. But, uh, I was, uh, Listen, I was taught by the best. And give 'em all. Give 'em all. Shout out. Well, you know, we're gonna get into some things that maybe might make people think maybe you weren't taught by the best.

No way, buddy. Let's just jump into one. No way. Let's jump into one. Okay. Let's jump into one. Folks. I'd like to take you back about a year or so and so That's not very long ago. Okay. It was a year ago. I know where he's, I'm afraid I know where he is going with this, but I do, before we start this, I had the best teacher, so none of this is on them.

It's on you. It's on me. I'm gonna own this. You didn't, you didn't pay good enough attention in class. Perhaps it's very possible. Or maybe I, maybe my brain or maybe my mouth just goes faster than my brain can process. Well, that's possible. That's true. That's possible. And look, I'm also gonna say, well, we're gonna bring up some things here in this.

We all make mistakes. I am. I am just as guilty as anyone else. I'm sure there's some grammatical errors that come outta this face here and there. Sure, sure. But if they do, they're probably better if I say it the way it should be. That's the way it should be. Yes. Okay. Alright. So flashback about a year or so ago, uh, as people do, we decided to hop in, my wife and I, Jason and his wife, and another couple.

We decided to get in our minivan and drive up to the border yes, where one can buy lottery tickets. That was back when the. Wasn't it the Powerball or something was Yeah. Like crazy. Like gross amount. And I, to this day, I can't believe that we're not like multimillionaires. I know. I thought for sure we'd win.

I, I mean somebody has to win, but why not me? Why couldn't it be us? Should have been, should have been. So we're driving. I feel like I still remember where we were on the road. We were just right over there. Seems like we're always by the golden arches. Yes. It's very strange. It's like I feel a kinship with the golden arches.

We're close. We're just past that. And Jason. You know, he was telling us a story. You lost me when you said, I don't even know what the story was. I, but you lost me when you said the word potato and that's with a beep. Yeah, so I let it slide once I'm thinking, oh, you know, he just said it incorrectly that time incorrectly.

Just, you know, he is going too quick. He said potato. So the story continues and maybe another minute or two later he says potato again. Folks, at that point, I gotta call you out on that. He and he did. He, he did. I said, Jason, did you say potato? I. And you hesitated and you owned it. Yes, I did say potato.

Yeah. But why on earth would the word potato ever escape your lips? That's a fair question and And I don't recall it being quite so kindly. Me. Me? No, actually I take that back. It was quite kindly, but I do remember. Obviously you were driving the big juicy van. Yeah, and I was kind of, let's see, I was in the second row.

Yes, you were. And so I can actually still remember back of your head and it kind of like tilted to one side. You're like, uh, uh, what? Like left hand, like finger went up kind of like, uh, wait a minute. Did I hear potato? I wonder if everybody else heard it, but just we're just too darn nice to say something.

I'm wondering if the two in the backseat thought That sounds about right.

Love you Cray and Jenny. Yes. Uh, but I can see Cray saying, yeah, that's sounds, that sounds about right, about the way that works. Like I think, uh, he's like, Jenny, how are we, how are we on our store of potatoes? Do we have red potatoes and brown potatoes? We got 50 pounds of potatoes. The left. I don't really have much of a defense on that other than I think perhaps, again, my mouth was going faster than my brain could compute.

So you do understand it's a potato. It's a potato PO potato. Was it the first time you'd said potato in your life? I wanna say yes. I would like to say yes. I want to say yes. I don't think it was, and I'm going to say yes. And really the only thing that I can really fall back on is, I will tell you this.

When I was in the, Ooh. Audra, you may have to help me out on this one, but when I was in, I hope you're listening, Audra. 'cause you're one of my favorite people. That's a shout out to my friend. Audra Oman. Lloyd Patches Oman. Yes. Yes. The owner of Patches, Oman, the owner of Patches, Oman. She, one of my dearest friends growing up love her death.

Even though patches would come after you. Yeah, patch would come up. I don't, I mean, patches didn't love me. Abria and I and her whole family consider them. Some of my favorite people. Well, patches was a dog. Yeah, exactly. And and maybe he just had a, a particular Mississippi leg hound in him. Exactly. He liked my heels.

I don't know. But Audrey and I were in a spelling bee box. Elder county. Of course, we crushed the grassroots elementary. I. No, there's only exactly, I mean, you don't have to beat many people in there. She was, she was the, she was the champion and I was runner up. So we actually came into the, uh, so if you're runner up, you probably spelled potato with a beat.

With a beat. Got it. No, no. And I, I don't think that's the word I got out of, but, uh, I did well, I mean, I did well, so we came in here, so I, I like to think that I. Am an above average speller. So if you were to ask me to spell the word potato, p o t a t o and am I gonna throw an E on the end? I don't know.

Potato. Potato with a P. So I'm gonna give you potato dinging. You got it. Thank you. Um, are there other words that we struggle with? Well, there's lots of them that I hear around. A lot of it's grammatically the, we was coming up the other side of you wasn't, that's not correct. We was, yeah, we was, is not correct.

I for sure, I for sure said that. Well, on our podcast a while back you used them, them, something or other. Yeah. Yeah. So we get a lot of that in Crash Valley. Yeah. I can't help it. There's another, have you ever heard of the term refrigerator? Yeah, I've heard of the term fridge, yes. Have you ever heard of the term refrigerator?

Just refrigerator, yeah, just refrigerator. Gotta fall somewhere in the middle of those two. I feel like it would work, but I don't know. I've heard of that term before. I also, one time heard a, a man grown man say, oh, it's a mute point. No it isn't. It's well, it feels was quiet. It was very quiet. It was a very quiet point.

It was a very quiet point. So quiet. You couldn't even hear it, couldn't even hear it. Had to read its lips. It's not a moot point, but it's a moot point. It's a moot point. You know, we grew up in my family, bless my mom. There were words that in her mind didn't come off. I dunno if the word is sophisticated enough or just clean.

Sure. You know, CRAs, crass. Crass. That's that's the word. You know, you don't say especially bathroom words. Yeah. You don't say poop. Yeah. I mean, to me that's kind of a nice, cute little word. Yeah. Poop. Yeah. Or ppe, stuff like that. Okay. You don't say that. So we grew up and it wasn't weird to me until I realized, It was weird, which was later in life the word for poop was Bumps.

Bumps. Wait, could you use that in a sentence for me? Yes. Here I go. Mom, I really need to go bumps. No, no. Yes. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. Okay, honey, it gets worse. Okay. You don't have to go peepee, you have to wet. Now it's kind of even grosser. That is grosser. That's, do you need to wet or do you need to go bumps?

Uh, probably both. I feel like I call, I'm calling Jan out on that one. So I did the, just not too long ago, I said, mom, I. Where on earth did you get that? And she thinks that one of her sisters who had children before she did, had started using those same sorts of words. So as one would, I got on my phone and, uh, texted my cousin, Kirk, and I said, Kirk, did you, if I say the word bumps or wet to you, does that mean anything?

And he immediately knew exactly what they were. You knew. So we're thinking Aunt Susan was the one that came up with bumps and, and it very well could have come from even her, her older sister, aunt Judy Ann. I think it's definitely a loosely side thing that, okay. That's my mom's maiden name that we're coming up with bumps and wet and stuff like that.

But to this day, I think it's so funny, I tell my kids if anybody needs to go bumps, just lemme know. We'll, we'll pull over. I uh, I heard an older gentleman say one time that he had to go let some water out. That's one way to say it. That's actually you've heard see a man about a horse. Oh yeah. Which I mean, still doesn't make sense.

Yeah, I don't, uh, does it mean just don't ask me. I don't know. We're probably not understanding. The full probably means something that we don't get, I don't know either. But it's funny how families will have certain words that make sense to them. It don't make sense to anyone else. You don't realize it, you don't realize it.

But then I also wonder a little bit, and this could be, uh, and again, not trying to be offensive in any way, shape, or form, but I also wonder sometimes over different languages. Mm-hmm. So like sometimes when our girls were little, and let's say they pick something off the floor. And they put it in their mouth and immediately 'em Oh, kaka.

Kaka. Yeah. I think that means something different in a different language. Oh, I think it does too. I don't think there's any getting around it. Yeah. And so I'm like, if you think about that, like would you say the translation of that to your daughter? No. No, I don't think so. No. And I'm not gonna get hung up.

I'm not gonna get off in the weeds about that, which is the place you like to be? I, I spent a lot of time there, but yeah. A lot of different words. Um, well, you know, but you can get yourself in trouble. So I have a friend who in their family for the male anatomy. Okay. You see where I'm going? I'm picking up, putting down.

They use the word piggy. Okay. So, okay. You know my piggy itches. I know. I don't know, but you know, so you gotta be careful. You got to, so we, that's the word we've used in my family. Really? It's piggy. Yeah. But somebody says, this little piggy went to market. This little piggy statement. Those are toes. Yeah, those toes.

You gotta make sure that there's a, yeah, there's a difference between, between. There's a problem you don't, wee wee wee all the way home with certain pigs. Maybe you do. I don't, I don't know. That's, um, Hmm. Yeah. So that could be problematic, but it's a cute little word. It's a cute little word, but again, we're talking about everything from familial to regional dialects, things of that nature.

You gotta be careful. You really do. Gotta be careful. When I married into the Swenson family, there were a couple of words. That I picked up on and, and I absolutely love. In fact, we were, I almost said we was. If you would've said we was in this podcast, we would've been fantastic. I might've left, I should've said it just for fun.

You might've heard rustling of papers and I would've left. And then a slamming at the door. Uh, folks we're out. Um, well, I guess we're done. We were having a, uh, a social get together. Uh, Josh, maybe a month or so ago sitting at this very table, we had some just delicious, uh, bottled cokes, if you will. Not the best way of drink of Coke.

I prefer a McDonald's Coke. Oh, they're so good though. I do like a bottled coke. If it's chilled. Yes. But again, I will, if we're gonna rank the cokes, ba up, ba ba, ba back to McDonald's. I do lots of, lots of ice, extra ice at the McDonald's Coke in the fountain. But close Second is an ice cold. Bottled coke.

Yeah, very good. In a glass bottle. In a glass bottle. Not like a two liter, two liter plastic. Well, I dunno about sick. You don't have to say sick. No. Sick. No, I'm gonna say sick. It's still still pretty good. You take that tap off on a plastic one and then the fizz is gone and it, you just will dump that down the drain straight to the toilet.

I hate it. Yeah, it doesn't matter. I just. Said Heather, and we were all sitting around this very table and I said, Hey, he uh, passed the church key. And I think a few people gave us a funny look. Like, what are you talking about? Well, in Heather's Family church key is bottle opener. What? I don't even know know.

I mean, I don't know where that, I don't know where it came from. I'd like to kind of get to the bottom of that. You still don't even know why it's called a church key. No, I don't know. But I mean, everybody in your family says that. But I can hear her dad, Phil. He used to say that all the time. You know, you know, pastor with church came.

And you knew immediately that it's the bottle opener. Yeah, exactly. And Heather passed me the bottle opener. It's fantastic. Another, I just, just one more. I kinda got caught up in this one, one time I was at Sam's Club. Mm-hmm. Oh my goodness. Well, you gotta buy in bulk. We gotta buy in bulk. Yeah. And the best thing about.

Not only the best thing about Sam's Club, you buying bulk, but you know those delicious rotisserie chickens? Oh yeah. At Sam's Club, they're moist. Oh, mo. Moist. Which is a word my sister hates, by the way. Yes. Moist. We should think of a different word for moist. How about juicy? Exactly. So you had a juicy, juicy.

Rotisserie chicken. Rotisserie chicken. Well, Phil, again, my father-in-law, he would always refer to those. As baby turkeys. Well, I mean, like we could get that right. Sure. They're little. They're little. They're not as big as a Turkey. No, but they look very similar. Very similar. Very similar. And I walked up to the counter.

Oh no you didn't. And all of the rotisserie chickens were gone that were all boxed up. But I could see a fresh batch doing what they do, spinning on the spit, spinning around. And I. Oh, Dave, I said to the lady behind the counter, I said, and I quote, I quote myself, I love when people quote themselves, and I quote, will you make sure you say close quote at the end?

I said, so I know when you're done. Quote, Hey, can you give me a time on when those baby turkeys are gonna be done? Close quote, did she look at you? She looked at me and she smiled. She's like, oh, poor guy must be from Grouse Creek, from Creek. She's like, those are actually chickens. Okay. Um, yes, I know they're rotisserie chickens, but like, and then I felt like I had to go into this big fullon explanation.

Yeah. But my father-in-law's just kind of a fun family joke because they're like tiny chickens. So like we call 'em baby turkeys. You know what I bet you did that day is you have, I bet her family now does that. I hope so. Yeah. I hope so. We gotta start somewhere. Exactly. It's a grassroots program and it's.

I might start calling 'em baby Turkey. I wish you would because they're the best baby Turkey ever. They are delicious. Do you think they brine those? Oh, I, I got into smoking meats a little while back. I'll smoke anything. I'll smoke a buckle. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. I, I'm a chain smoker now, but, uh, So I, we did a couple, we did a Turkey for dinner or for Thanksgiving.

Oh my God. I think the good people at Camp Chef or Trager need to use me as their spokesperson. Oh, they should? Yeah, because, but we b brined it. You gotta brine them. Oh yeah. I'm actually a big fan of the brine. Yeah. And my kids came home, they're like, what doing? I'm making a brine. And they thought it was the funniest thing ever.

But dad's making a brine and that's the important part about that. It's just Sam's might, Brian, those baby turkeys. I hope they dorine. I don't tangent here real quick. I'm looking for, this actually works well with our vocabulary, our lexicon. Mm-hmm. Broadcast or what? Wordsmiths. Wordsmiths. What is the second most important thing that you do to your Turkey once you're going to smoke it after you've brined it?

I'm looking for a word I. You got a spatch cock. Okay, that's what I'm looking for folks. You got a spatch cock. You introduced me to that term. It's, I don't like the term. I don't either, and I don't even quite, I think it means you just like crack it like, well you gotta cut the backbone out. Oh gosh. And I, and I don't have good enough tools in the kitchen.

I had to pull out tree trimmers. I look, I sterilized them, I'm sure. But there was only one way to get through that backbone and it doesn't sound good. And then once you get that backbone out, you turn it over and you give it one little. Crap. Kinda like you're giving it like the, the, the, yeah. The, the the C P R C P R Breath of life.

Yeah. Well, I don't think she was you, she was coming back. You, we have words in our family that if I was to say, this is what one of my kids would say, you're gonna look at me like you're crazy. Okay. Oh, cokey fine. Okay. Attached. Yes. Yeah. So. Yeah. Uh, means I want Okay, fair enough. You know, hopefully he's being a little more polite.

Like, I would like, yeah. Father, please, man. K Fah is a Turkey sandwich. You know, when I say that to you someday, you'll know exactly what, oh, K Fah. I don't know how you spell that. Well, you don't, yeah. In fact, half the stuff that is said in my home, I elect my kids, or even Susie, how would you spell that? And there's usually like three E's in a row.

A word ending with an a h a, like, no, stop. Uh, stop your whining. How about that? You know, you know something that my mom used to say, and this is endearing to me. And then so sometimes I still say it this way and don't get me wrong. I feel I said the word potato, not once, but twice. Yeah. So I feel like I've got a lot of room here.

Sure. So I'm not making fun. I'm just stating a fact. Yeah. My mom used to always refer, it was never. I'm going to go to Walmart, I'm going to go to Walmart's, plural, as if maybe she was gonna go to more than one Walmart. I'm not sure. Was it Walmart's or the Walmart's? Interchangeable Either. I'm gonna go to Walmart's 'cause I like that.

I'm gonna go to Walmart's. I feel like you might've told me this because years ago, or we've been saying the Walmart's ever since. Yeah. Yeah. I like it rolls off the tongue a little better. And it could mean that if this Walmart doesn't have it, we might have to go to the North end. The the North Walmarts.

That could be at both Walmarts. Exactly. In fact, I wouldn't mind, uh, Maybe starting once again, another grassroots letter writing campaign to maybe shake up their marketing a little bit. You think old Walmart will be okay with that? I hope so. We'll just go right to the top. Hey Sam. Hey Samuel. We go to the Walmarts and change it all up.

My dad used to always referred to Napa Auto Parts as Napa with an m m as almost as if, uh, it was founded in the city of Namp, Idaho. Well, that would make sense. It would. Those guys, they just. Don't hear the difference. Yeah. My, uh, my wife's grandpa and grandma, great people mm-hmm. Both have passed, not great on the grammar.

Okay. In fact, to where I would, you know, affectionately to, at least to her, Susie is referred to them as grammar Jardine. Okay. Grandpa Jardi. Yeah. So one, one Christmas, we were down at my in-law's house and they came in and grandpa, great grandpa Jardine said, Who come to you now? What he meant, Jason was, did Santa Claus to my children.

He was saying this to the children. Oh, okay. Sure, sure. Who come to you? So, I'm looking at the kids. The kids are like, I don't understand a word. You just said 'em. They wanna know. Santa showed up last night. Oh, okay. Who come to you? Santa did. Yes. Shortly thereafter. Great-Grandpa handed us our gift from him and he had to save these words.

Anytime you give a gift, And have to say these words, you know it's gonna be an awesome gift. Yes. He said, you're gonna wanna get that in the freezer as soon as you can.

Oh my gosh. You got, I love that. Know with a guy that's smoking meats. I'm like, you bet. I'll get that freezer. The freezer, like see it. That will be in the freezer in no time. See, I had, there was a lady, um, they only lived in Grouse Creek for a short time, but I remember one time I was referring to my grandmother and I said, my grandma, I.

She's like, what? I said my grandma. Oh, she made fun of me. She's like, it's grand. I said, I'm aware how the word is spelt. Yeah. Thank you very much. But she wanted that D in there. She did. And I'm like, listen, listen. Sometimes words, there's an emotional component to it as well. Yeah, well, absolutely. And, and regional.

Regional. Yeah. You know, 'cause here I'm not gonna go outta my way to say mountain. It's a mountain going up the mountain. Yeah. Or uh, up Cinnamon Creek. Yes. I still stand by this, Dave. There is a word that I, I think I invented. Okay. Yeah, I think I invented it. And I think it works really well as a verb. It already is a verb, but I think it makes it even a, you can't say an action verb 'cause that's what a verb is.

I get that. Yeah. Okay. But just a better verb. Okay. Okay. So work with me here. Um, we were having dinner up at Heather's parents' house. I can't even remember what we were talking about exactly. I was going to use this word in a sentence and I just spit it out quickly. The moment it left my lips, I knew that I had said it incorrectly.

My mother-in-law taught business English, so I knew, yeah, you knew it was. I just tried to move on real quickly. But again, much like your head kind of tilted in a van. Mm-hmm. When I said potato mm-hmm. She was just like, ah, wow. Tonight, wait. And she said to me, Did you just say alphabetize?

That's a good word. I said I did. I did. Thank you for saying that. Yeah, 'cause because I Words are better. Yeah, it is better. Because I realized that if you're going to put something in alphabetical order, you would alphabetize it. Right. Why couldn't you also alphabetize it? You could. Yeah, you could. It's just regional.

It's just regional. Yeah. You alphabetize it. Maybe put a different accent on org. It's like, I'd just like to alphabetize this list. As opposed to That sounds fine. As opposed to alphabetize. It sounds fine. I remember having to read out loud in class one time and the word omnipotent Oh yeah. Came up. Yeah.

And I read it as omni potent. Oh yes. And all the kids in class laughed at me. That's ridiculous. Yeah, I think so too. That's ridiculous. I mean, I, you're pretty potent. I mean, and omnipotent person is very potent. Yeah, they're omni potent. I think. Lemme put a word in front of you right now, please. Okay. Read this word, amphitheater.

Amphitheater. Amphitheater. Is there a P in there? I see it. I see a P. Yeah, there is a P. There is a P amphitheater, but there's a pH. I'm pretty sure the H is silent. It's just amphitheater. It's almost as though it's an F. Look it up. Am I'm telling you. Look it up. Am amphitheater. There's no P sound in that word.

Amph. Amphitheater. Amphitheater. Amphitheater. How about we do this on this one? This is gonna sound like a shameless plug, but I need our listeners to check out our Instagram page, small Towns Podcast. You can go to Instagram Small Towns podcast, or go to the website, small towns podcast.com and just help us know is amphitheater.

Folks. Look it up. When you read how it's actually pronounced. It's out with an F so you can under it's amphitheater. It's amphitheater. Let me give you another one. Oh, please. The word is width. The word is depth. Okay. But when we're talking about the word height, there is no th at the end of that. Like, what's your height?

No, it's not. It's What's your height? That one gets me all the time, too. Now most people say it incorrectly because we're used to saying width and depth and everything, but when it comes to height, height, there's just a T at the end. What's your height? Right? Most English teachers will hate what I'm going to say next.

You gonna say we was? No, I'm gonna say, but height just doesn't sound right. I know. There's certain things, there's certain things I'm like, I know, but it's stupid so I'm not gonna say it that way. Uh, one time now, I think Heather would be okay with, I shared this because this is kind of funny thing. But we, we were picking somebody up at just kind of a local apartment complex here in town.

Mm-hmm. I've never been more aware of my speech than in this podcast right now. Right now. I know. I'm feeling kind of uncomfortable. Yeah, me too. I'm so nervous. I know My mother-in-law's gonna listen to this. Yes. And she's gonna be writing down also. She's an English teacher. Was an English teacher as well.

Yes. And she's gonna, she maybe she gonna send this one back with a bunch of red marks through it. I think that everything that is gonna show up on our Instagram page or on our website, probably gonna be written by, Santa or my mother. Yes. And we welcome those companies. Yes, we do. Well, there was a huge banner across it.

It was, it was just as the students were getting ready to come back to Utah State and it said, uh, it was Oak Ridge, I believe, and it was Oak Ridge and Heather read this sign is what is the epitome of summer? And I said, um, I think they're referring to the epitome, epitome of, of summer. It's happened to all of us.

Yeah, it has. It has. And we call omnipotent, omnipotent. Epitome. Yeah. Alphabetic size. Potato. Potato bat. Yeah. There's plenty of 'em out there. And, uh, they, they, a lot of things like that get stuck in my head though. Like, I can't get rid of 'em are certain words. Mm-hmm. I, I don't know what's been going on in my head for the last couple of days, but I have the word vitriol in my head.

Oh, why would I have that word in my head? I don't know. Because that's kind of like, that's an angry word. I know. I'm not angry. Yeah. I'm okay. How about, do certain songs stick in your head? Oh, for sure. Absolutely like that. You just, you hear 'em and you're like, oh, great. That's there for all day. Nothing's gonna change my love phone.

You like, I can't. Oh, great. You know, we, maybe what we need to do right now is, is an apology of, of upfront apology. You're gonna have things stuck in your head. Listeners for these next, here's one that I always gets stuck in my head. Some like it hot, some like it hot. I, I don't know what that is, that it will be in my head.

Yeah. For a long, long time. I said something similar to this, to my brother-in-law one time and he sent me a text saying I can't get some like it hot outta my head. Problem is, is the ones that get stuck in my head, Jason, between you and I, they're not masculine songs. I know. I mean, I want it to be something cool.

Yeah. But. I love it when you call me seniority. I cannot get that thing out of my head. Well, well that's probably okay. Like sometimes the songs that get stuck in my head, the song gets stuck in my head, but the wrong lyric gets stuck in my head. Oh yeah. Like. Gimme a beach bonus and free my soul. Like I don't think it's the beach boys.

It might be. It should be. We should be. And see, that's the thing. We need to change things. We should, I think it should be up to you and I to change the world. I, I think I told a nephew or a niece one time, there's a Imagine Dragon song that's uh, Oh, great. Now that I'm thinking of it, basically I, I threw my name into it instead of what the word was.

That's helpful. And so now every time they hear it, they think of me. Yeah. So let's just do that. That's, and a lot of things, I'm in a. Throw my name in and say it incorrectly, but now they can't think of anything but me. It's subliminal advertising. I think it's a fantastic idea. I'm on top of the world, Dave.

I'm on top of the world, Dave, blah, blah, blah. I'm on top of the world. Dave. Dave. Yep. So now anytime anybody hears that song, you're gonna think of me. You're welcome. You're welcome. Think a day. That's what I say. Thanks again, folks for listening to another episode of The Small Towns podcast. We're pretty sure we've changed your life for the better.

If not, Well, we'll try again next time.