Welcome millions of a million practical faithful podcast listeners. We are your hosts, Jason Kimber and Dave Still. We'll bring you along with us as we share live stories from our experiences living in small towns, or in Jason's case, an unincorporated community. That's true. Along with genius suggestions for solving world problems and a whole lot of last. This is the Small Towns Podcast. Alright, well, welcome back, folks, to another episode, uh another episode of Small Towns Podcast. Uh I'm Jason Kimber, and of course, the ever beautiful Dave Simmons. Thank you. You're very welcome. Well, you look good today. Thank you. Just as we were kind of coming. Oh, you know I'm sorry, we're not even official. Sorry. There we go. And we're on it. We're live. We are live. As we were kind of coming on to this uh episode, we were talking a little bit about um what were we talking about? Manure. We talked about manure. We're just like uh um Um the the the we're wearing the same clothes as we were the last episode we recorded. Yes. Look, just let people behind the curtain. Yeah, let's get the sausages made. We record a couple at a time. Yeah, like two minutes ago we just finished up recording uh a gray episode. I'm not gonna tell you which one it was because what if we haven't posted it yet? Who knows? We'll have to see what our future selves do. Yeah. Well, you just blew my mind. But kind of. And but it's important that we have kind of like a fit check. Yeah. Well, I was yeah, I was thinking maybe I needed a wardrobe change, but and maybe we should. I mean, maybe back behind the curtain we could um just see what's going on over there. Um and uh but I'm here to tell you most of the time you're gonna see me in a black t-shirt. Well, you look fantastic. Thank you. You're like the the people behind the scenes doing the work, but you're right up front. It's like stagehand left. Yes, stage hand left. Hey, because we have been known to forget. Yeah, oh yes, just remember um our partnership with Utah Public Radio. Sure appreciate them. If people want to go over to UPR.org, you can find our podcast there and a lot of other awesome content. Yeah, they have got some great content and some other good podcasts on there. So jump on and give it a listen. Um we've talked about this in the past, and I know that generally we try and and steer our conversation such that we don't date exactly like like oh, they obviously did this in September, which it is September, but today I've got to break those rules because today I just I just heard this on the radio. It's fine. Like two hours ago, one hour ago, before we sat down to re-throw some lace and pods here, um, I heard on the radio a couple of very interesting things. First and foremost, today, September 23rd, is actually National Redhead Appreciation Day. Really? It is so well thank you. You're I you appreciate me? I appreciate you. You're you're very welcome. I'm of course Heather, I'm married to a redhead. Yes, you are, and I appreciate her. As do I. Yes. And my sister Heidi, I appreciate her. I appreciate her too. And all uh all of her kids, all of them. Jackson, yeah, so Croix, Knox, Hendo, they're all redheads. All of her kids are redheads. Yeah, yeah. But you don't hand some little devils. But you don't have any redheads. No. No, I don't. You know they actually say it skips a generation. Okay. Like my grandparents on both sides, grandma Grandma Simmons has red hair. Okay. And Grandpa Luzley had red hair before he went uh Silver Fox. Oh, really? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I do think that none of their kids did. Okay. But I have tons of cousins on both sides with red hair. Really? Not not much in uh let's see, Heather's grandfather, uh, uh he was redheaded. But I think that concept, like, and I never got the the opportunity to meet him. He'd passed before Heather and I got married. But um when you said silver fox, like it is that when you have red hair, like I do think you you generally go to the silver, like kind of classy looking white. Yeah. When you're this guy, like I'm just going gray. I don't know what that is. Salt and pepper. It's a lot of salt, a lot of pep, a little pep. I go salt and paprika. Is how it works. Sounds delicious. Yeah, yeah, it is. Sounds delicious. I don't know, but yeah, they said, but they also say that redheads tend to not go gray as quickly. Oh, really? And I don't know if it's just because it gets lighter and yeah, because I don't really actually see any gray. I got a couple little flesh. Do you have some? Just a couple. I can check out my sideburns. Oh, I can see. Just get in there. Oh, yeah, I see it. I see, I see, I see that. I see it. I mean, you can just look from afar and tell that I'm salt and pepper. We actually uh you were obviously calling the football game the other night, and you and Nick, the Patriot Nick, did a great job. Um it's his nickname. I guess I gotta do it. Give it to himself. Can you do that? But he did. But I was actually at the game, and a gentleman who lives also here in the in the uh uh he lives in Providence, but he is actually from Grasscrick as well. So um he came up to me and he's like, Oh my goodness, he's like it, you look like David Kimberson right there, my dad. Because my dad always had a beard, and obviously in later years it got gray. So look at this guy. Do you feel like you r uh resemble your dad? Um, it's interesting when I have a beard, a lot of people say that I do. Because but before then, I almost always people would say I look more like my mom's side of the family. But I do think the the beard maybe and uh isn't interesting because I don't really know if I do, but people see a beard and they they associate my dad with a beard. So yeah, I'm gonna take this compliment. He was a handsome fellow. Just dappered. Just dappered man. Yeah. Um I I think I've showed you the picture. I was scrolling through like family history stuff one time and found a picture of my great-grandpa loosely, Byron. Oh, I have seen this picture. Yeah. And I looked at this and it like took me aback. Yes. I I I thought I was looking at myself. Like a mirror, I was really weird. But I've seen other pictures and and and I felt I there's still some resemblance, but that particular picture kind of freaked me out a little bit. That's but it was cool. Yeah, that's fun. I mean, and uh that same app, is it is it family search or family tree? I can't remember, but genealogical app, like it's cool because like you can you can search your ancestors and it'll tell you. I mean, that had to be like a hundred percent match almost for you, like look-alike. Yeah, it did. And then the other ones are funny too. There's like 1870s woman that's scowling. Why didn't they smile back then in pictures? I think it took so long to take the picture. Oh, I like the thing and they get under the hood, under the hood, and like there's some sparks and they pull the string or something. But it didn't seem like you feel like you could count that off a little bit. Yeah, it's gonna happen now, and then the lady's like, go ahead and smile. Smile, smile. What is happening is is they like, oh shoot, and then the person goes, oh, and then they take the picture. And the picture's taken, and now for generations that we have. Nine out of ten pictures I get taken of me, my eyes are closed. Yeah. Or or one of them is like, you know, halfway open and it's like National Pirate Day all of a sudden. But it's not National Pirate Day, it's Redhead Appreciation Day, so we appreciate you, and we're grateful for all the you and you and my my your fellow redheads. I don't know what else you call them. Yeah, I mean, I was gonna say, I mean, uh we're yeah, thank you. We uh we're we're good people. Um I I remember watching, I think it was Miss America one time, and she got asked a question, and I think it was a nationality question, and she said, My my my mother is Caucasian and my father's a redhead. I'm like, wait a minute. Wait a minute, wait a minute. I shouldn't should I be getting some sort of credits? Well I should, yeah, I hope they gave her an award. Um I don't think she won. I feel like today's pot is gonna be really random because I've just got thoughts going through my mind, and a lot of them are there, it's just they're fresh in my mind because I heard both of those, I heard that about Redheads today on the radio. And I I'm a channel surfer. Is today the day? Today is the day. September 23rd. We you know what? Well, let's go out for a treat afterwards. You buy them? Yeah, I'll buy it. Appreciation is for you. Do you get a day? I don't know. Like a quarter Belgian day? Oh, there should be. There should be a quarter Belgian day. And then I would like a waffle. Understandable. Or at least a quarter of one. I do love a good Belgian waffle. Um, but guess what? So you're not gonna believe this, but I heard it on the radio, so it has to be true. Okay. Bring it. There is a new fashion trend that's happening, and and the DJ on the I do a lot of channel surfing, so I don't like to listen to ads, so I was just back and forth. Yeah. And so this DJ said this is happening, it's kind of really taking off in China right now. And the concept is, and I think mainly I I hope, well, I shouldn't say I hope, I but I do hope it's mainly just for the ladies, and that's what he said. You you can get You got me real worried right now. You should be. They sell fake belly buttons. No, they don't. Yes, they do. Yes, they do. And you put them above your normal belly button, and then the ladies wear a high rise or high-waisted jean, and the uh it makes the illusion or creates the appearance of longer legs. Oh my goodness. What what have we done? So, I mean, obviously, you it's uh I don't know what we've done, but like obviously it's I'm assuming for the ladies, because I don't know a lot of guys that are wearing belly shirts these days. No, but you know what I did hear. I I a similar situation I heard on the radio or something, that men are starting to wear belly shirts. No. I agree with you. Okay. This should never take place. This should never outside 1985. Exactly. And you and I I was 12. Yes, and you died. You know that picture is actually on our social media, we've seen it. That is the last time anyone should have ever worn a belly shirt that's a man or a boy. Yeah, exactly. But you but if I were to check your fit, you had a nice belly shirt. You also had uh matching shorts. Matching shorts. They were very high, and tube socks. Tube socks up to the knees. But and then you have the stripes on the nice tinny runners. Vans. Oh, yeah. I think they might have been checkered vans. Or converse. They had some old converse that were not like the not like the high top ones. Yeah. They were low and they were pretty popular for a while. But similar to a van, like the same. Yeah, a canvasy. Canvassy. Yep. This actually could, we could go down a rabbit hole here of of just fashion. I know we've done this before, but like I I want to circle back to this concept of a fake belly button. I just, I don't want to think about it. Would you put lint in the fake belly button? Yes. As much as possible. And and like, don't you think, maybe from afar, but if you got up close, like I assume a fake belly button is pretty easy to spot. What if it pops off? Oh, all of a sudden you walk or you see a fake belly button on the ground. Or where's that thing going? Do you pick it up? No way. I don't know. It's kind of like you pick it, see a penny, pick it up all day long, you'll have good luck. Yeah, pick, see a belly button, pick it up all day long, you'll have stinky fingers. Exactly. Just smell like lint and from mundi cheese. Um, you you take it, you took it to a let's get back. Okay, reel it back in. We'll reel it back in. Okay. And it's funny that we're reeling it back in to a fake out. Belly button. It's an innie. It's an innie. Can you get an outie? Can you get a fake outie? You get different variations of belly buttons. I swear, I my cousin, I swear he was born like his kids, like he had an Audi. And then as he got older, I don't know like if it just grew around it, because I swear he turned into an innie. Really? Is that possible? I think they do that.

Okay.

Well, I don't know. I'm not a belly button guy. I'm not a belly button expert. But I can like can you imagine like a belly button expert? Do you ever think those words would come out of your mouth? No. Because if you're looking like if you're looking at my belly button, it's like you're looking at the eye of the storm. Yeah. And look away. It rem it reminds me of those things that people try to hypnotize somebody, like it's so nasty. A fake belly button. I I just let's hope it sticks to the Orient. I hope so. You just stay over the keep it. But they're selling them by the sheet. Apparently it's like stickers on a sheet. Just selling them by the sheet. Sheet loads. There are sheet loads of belly buttons being being imported into our country. There should be some sort of ban on that. That's how the terrorists win. They do. You're gonna win by belly buttons. Speaking of belly buttons, I know you've seen this before, and I probably shouldn't bring it up, but I'm gonna. Have you ever seen like a tattoo? Like I like it, like it must have been like on a Facebook like reel or something, I have no idea. A bunch of weird tattoos, and the grossest tattoo I've ever seen in my life is the is a ta cat a tattoo of a cat. But it's like a cat looking back over his shoulder. Over his shoulder, and the belly button is actually the cat's bum. It's it's it's distorted. I don't know. I I need to have a just a sit-down conversation with one of these people and say, you know what, what comes through your mind before you think, you know what would be really nice? Yeah, I'm I think I'm gonna get a tattoo of a cat looking over his shoulder. Yeah. And this my belly button will be the back side of it. Yeah, because I'm not listening I'm not opposed to tattoos. Like my brother has several tattoos, but all of his tattoos like have meaning. Yeah. They have meaning to him. Yeah. Um, but who like a kitty cat? I don't I just don't get that. But they know what though, there's people that you I'm sure they're very great people. I'm sure they are. Just don't have any fashion scenes. Do you the ones that you you did? They look in the mirror when they put that on and say, Yep. Yeah, that's it. That is the that is the crushing it. Yes. Mic drop. The people that have the belly shirts with the button, the tent the sticker of a belly button. Like if you want longer legs, don't you think you should just maybe wear high heels? That would help. Maybe you, but maybe if you pair that high heels with a nice fake belly button, it's like you're all that you're daddy long legs. Yeah, I hope that's it. I hope it stays. I don't I don't think that's a trend that we don't need that at all. Um let's see here. Oh, I was gonna ask you one other Yeah, I was gonna ask you another question. Okay. And this is not a religious podcast, but I would like to just ask you, if I were to say to you, Dave, what is the law of the harvest? Feels religious. Do you like? I mean, are you familiar with the term? Well, yeah, I've heard the term. Okay. And I'm not sure I know what it means either. I mean, I'm definitely taking it a different direction, but I would think you were gonna take it in a different direction. Because I do think it has uh roots in Judaism. I think so. Yeah. Oh, it makes oh I like I even like where this is going, yeah. But if you're gonna get into pumpkins right now, no, not even. You know I have a problem with pumpkins. No, and we are getting close. We've already we've already discovered on this podcast that it's September 23rd. So I've never found one reason for a pumpkin to exist. Live a little over a month is Dave's favorite day of the whole year. I'll hunker down, don't worry. Yeah, you will, and it's fine. I mean, I'm gonna bring you tell me what you're talking about. Okay, so what I'm gonna talk about. Yeah, I feel like it's a trick question because I'm gonna tie this back. Well, we're gonna be able to tie this into small towns as well, because uh a couple weeks ago, you and I were at an event together, and it was fantastic. It's one of my favorite events of the whole year round. It's the uh Ridge Land High School, local high school, uh homecoming parade. Um you won't believe I wanted to talk about this too. Oh, you did? I did. Okay, okay. Is it is this a good This is great. Okay, let's do this. So because you were the star of the show. Oh, come on. Now listen, stop stalkle some more. Stop. Um I love parades. Yeah, you do. I didn't know you did, but you sure do. Go on. Yeah, so we're gonna come back to the law of the harvest and how it works. But growing up, you know, on Groundstrick, we had there we still have we have one parade every year, and it's at the 4th of July, and it's fantastic, right? It can't be long. No, that's why I mean because I love parades, but I like a short parade. Okay. Okay. I mean, I don't mean too short, but you know, just a nice I don't need to be there for hours on end. And I like a lot of candy. It's not so much that I'm gonna eat the candy, I just like this is where the law of the harvest comes in. So, like, we were down at Ridgeline Homecoming Parade, again, maybe a couple weeks ago. And a fantastic parade because it's all the sports teams and the clubs and the band, and it's just fantastic. And they got a lot of candy. We were towards the tail end of the candy or the parade, so obviously candy is running scarce, and so I had to really You worked the crowd, I had to work the crowd. I think it's called the Law of the Harvest. It wasn't the crowd you were working, you were working the paraders. I was working the floats. Yeah, anybody who was passing by, you guys, I've never seen its equal. I mean, I've been to parades, I'm not a big parade guy. I I which there's not a huge surprise. I mean, you because there could be clowns at a parade, there could be face paint in a parade, and that's not you. Yeah, I'm gonna take a step back from that. Yeah. The whole idea behind parades to me seems so opposite of what we've always been taught, or or even have taught our children. Because get this. What I want you to do in this parade right now, I want you to go and pick up candy off the ground, need it. I want you to take candy from strangers, you're gonna dart out into the road and and you know, try to get candy. And if there's another kid there, you fight him for that, and you get the candy. Everything we've ever taught our children not to do, you ask them to do at a parade. Get thrown out the window at a parade. But you were work, I have never I mean, uh if if if you want can't candy, folks, go to a parade with Jason. Yeah, because I these words escaped your mouth. Please share. I gotta back up because you he's screaming this. They can't hear me, they're on every float, or they weren't always floats, cars, yeah, walking by trailers with people on it walking by. Jason is cheering for them. And this came out. I get I yeah, okay. I know, I think I know.

Okay, yeah, it was yay!

Multicultural social club. I just like them to know that their efforts do not go unnoticed or unappreciated. You were the best parade I have ever been around. Well, I uh I've gotta come clean here because I actually learned from the best. Who? Like if you're you have a parade mentor? I have a parade mentor, and he is like, we're talking like Star Wars fans out there. He like Padawan? Yeah. Or Parawan in Utah. Padawan, yeah, exactly. He is like, I would be his Padawan because like his name is Curtis Koch. I went to Utah State with him. He's one of the best guys you will ever meet. He's just he's just solid, right? And I saw him, I usually see him at least once a year, because usually he comes up to Utah State University Homecoming and there's a parade. And last October he was here, and um I mean I've seen him work before, but he had his boys with him this this year. You've seen him work, I've seen him work with the work the parade. And like he is doing that as well. And it's kind of like, oh gosh, I need to know what his he told me a phraseology. I can't remember what it was, but I'm gonna maybe text him and find out what it was. But it's like you gotta work, it's the law of the harvest. You gotta, you gotta hunt and then then you gotta gather. Gather. All right. Well, hey, there's something to it. Yeah. Because we got a lot of candy thrown our way because of your efforts. Yeah, well, and I you know it's not so much. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love candy. It's not so much that I want the candy, I want I want the people to feel appreciated. But I also we had a lot of kids around us. Like my two girls were there. You had some nieces and nephews, nephews, and and I think Ollie was there as well. Yep. So Ollie was in the parade. He was in the parade. Yeah. But I uh Susie told me this. We were talking about this. She shared with me an idea, and I think it maybe it came from Griff, I don't know. This is gonna make my parade go up the next level. He told me too. Great idea. It's such a great idea. Like you've got to get one of those um basketball hoops, like those nerf basketball hoops that go on the top of a door, and you hold it out there, and I guarantee it, at least at a height. Well, I actually think any parade, people are gonna throw you candy to try and get it. Make the basket. And then under the hoop underneath it is a basket that's you're filling up with candy.

Yeah, absolutely.

Genius idea. I'm not sure who came up with it, but I like it. So I'm gonna try it. Um I'll probably you know, there there is another print coming up with USU Homecoming, but I might save it. You might get drilled though. Yeah, exactly. I mean, if you're gonna hold it there, they're gonna be pelting you with stuff. Yeah, for sure. But I listen, I just work some goggles. I'll work some goggles and maybe a helmet. Catcher's mask. But is there any candy that are you do you like candy? Well, sure. Yeah, who doesn't? Um, but I actually love But I'm not gonna I am not gonna bend over to pick up Laffy Taffy or any type of taffy, salt water taffy. That's garbage. Are you kidding me? No, listen, there's some that are garbage, but if you Huckleberry, uh orange, watermelon, blue raspberry, I am all over that. Like I will push little kids down to get to that. You'll I I you'll push children over for it. You might think about it. Yeah. There's not much I I remember. I told you one of my New Year's resolutions was not to bend down to pick up anything for a whole year. Anything. That's true. That's true. That's why you have your gatherers, though. That's why we bring up kids. And then you bring them to me. Yeah. I'm the silvered bat. You bring it to me. So uh yeah, I'm not gonna I don't even know if I'd pick up a Snickers. Are you kidding me? Yeah, maybe I would. I would. I would. I mean I would. Although everyone out there needs to know that you called it a Snicker. That's a Snicker banana banana Snicker shake. Yeah, it's a Snicker banana shake. But a ban s at the end. Snickers. Snickers banana? It just feels like it's a mouthful. That's a delicious mouthful. You ought to try that next time. Go to Arctic Circle, go anywhere that a fine shake is made and get a Snickers banana shake. It'll change your life. I'd rather just have a Snickers shake. But what's like it's like a it's like a banana split. You got your chocolate, you got your caramel, you get your nougat, throw some peanuts, banana? I don't know. Your palate is definitely more sophisticated than mine. That's a that's one word for it. Coming out of Grass Creek, you're gonna have to eat possum. Yeah, you're gonna have to eat raccoon. No, I'm not eating any. That's an ass. I bet you ate some. No, I've never eaten possum raccoon. I've never even seen a possum. You haven't? No. Huh. Weird. They say when you're playing possum, you're like faking dead. Did you know that? Yeah, I used to do that every time, like the girls would cry when they were babies at nighttime. You play possum? Oh, and Hillary, oh, he worked so hard. He must be so sleepy. I'll get up. Um, back to parades for one minute. Have you have you ever been in a parade?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yeah. I've been in a lot of parades. Again, probably not a surprise to you, but like coming to Utah State, um the group that I was a part of, we were always in the homecoming parade. And then right after my first job out of college, uh for 10 years, I worked at Wells Fargo. And we would almost every year have the stagecoach show up. The Wells Fargo wagon. The Wills Fargo. Because it's a coming, yeah, you know, you get it. Oh, I know that was song. I know you could sing the whole thing in the world. Yeah, I could. I could. Um I and usually my boss would ask me to be in charge of it, which was fine, but it was actually quite an ordeal. Like I had to find a spot for the horses to poop. Well, that was part of it, but they'd come in the night before, so I had to get a stable for them somewhere. I usually go down to the fairgrounds, had to arrange, you know, um uh hotel stays. It was it was actually quite an ordeal. I'd meet the stagecoach driver early, early before. Horses stay in hotels? Well, I mean the the people that drive them, yeah. The horses were in the stable. Okay, right, right, right. Exactly. And so, but part of that is like you also had to arrange, if you're in the parade, you had to be the arrangement for somebody to pick up the poop, pooper scooper. Yeah. And I tried to, I remember one time I talked a coworker's son into doing it, which was nice. I think he gave him 20 bucks. Um, but then all of a sudden I'm like, there's a lot of horses in this parade. Why why am I the only one picking up poop? Because you you told us that we had to have a you know the parade box. He should only have to pick up the money. My horses from my horse. Yeah. And then we wised up a little bit and were like, you know what, we ought to just get like a dignitary. Like a lot of times we'd have like the university president ride on top of the stagecoach, which would ensure that we were at the front of the parade. So I don't care. I mean, I so I just walked right behind that, the you know, the stagecoach and picked up just that. You pooped, you were just I did I didn't poop, no. But you were the pooper scooper? I a couple years, yeah. You didn't paint your face like a clown, did you? No, that's I don't know. Because I've seen those. Like for some reason they think they should have no clowns picking up poop. I only had to no, I think I did it once or twice because usually I I want to be handing out candy, not horse biscuits, but a bumps. But so but a couple years I had to do it because nobody else would do it. Um but like it borrowed my buddy's four-wheeler and just had a five-gallon bucket, and then I would just wasn't a lot of poop, but yeah, you know, because think if you at the marching band. Any poop is a lot of poop. And if it's a horse, it's even more. Yeah, yeah. And you don't want to march through that. No, that's gross. So I mean, I wasn't happy to do it. And when you're marching in the band, you're really not looking down. No, of course. You can't look down and see what you're walking through. You gotta keep your head up. But you would feel that. You would feel that you would hear it. You would, it wouldn't be good. You'd slip and fall. Oh man, it would be like a a comedy of errors. Yeah. Um, yeah, I like parades, but listen, I'm I'm gonna work my hardest to get the candy. I love the saltwater taffy. I love the bit o' honeys. I love it. I mean, those will break your teeth. You need Mark, your bro, your brother-in-law, around.

Yeah.

If you're because he's a dentist. He's a dentist. If you are gonna eat some bit of honey, I would guess he would say, you know what, Jason, steer clear of the bit of honeys. Yeah, he would say that, but I'm gonna be like, no, no, don't boss me. No, I'm not, you're not the boss of me. I'm gonna eat that bit of honey. And it's gonna take out a couple teeth. My teeth seems worth it. Oh, buddy, okay. Well, we've talked a lot. We've talked about parades, we talked about National Uh Red Hat Appreciation Day. So again, thank you for your. Is there any point of a parade besides the candy, though? Like, because when you see the Thanksgiving Day, Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, they're not throwing candy. There's no way they're throwing. No, they're not throwing candy. I don't even think it's probably legal. Well, it's not. In fact, they I remember being part of the Utah State uh University Parade because, you know, sadly, you you can read a lot of news articles that like you can have injuries when you got kids running. You know, you kids running into the, like you said, into the traffic. And so I remember they would say, you can't throw the candy, you gotta pass it out. So, like, of course, we were there only not any of that too many people were in the stagecoach, but you couldn't throw it from the stagecoach. You had to have your workers, your worker bees walking, and we would like hand it off, or kind of just throw it on the ground to them. You know, you it wasn't like hucking it. Pick it up. Just throw it, pick it up. Yeah, I know if you're not if there's not candy involved in a parade, I see no point. No, and sometimes I will say there's one criticism of some parades is that it just turns into a big like advertisement. And and it's not even a float. Let's say it's like a work truck with people standing in the back. Yeah, waving because of their insurance company. Exactly. And I listen, I appreciate the effort, but how about a little crit paper? A little decoration and candy. Yeah. Would it kill you to string up some chicken wire and crit paper? I don't think so. I don't think so either. Yeah, I think if you're gonna be in the parade and you don't bring candy, you shouldn't be in the parade. Agreed? Agreed. Can we agree on that? Listen, and I I dumb. And Jason's gonna cheer you on. I will cheer you on. And you will feel better if you're in a parade and I'm present. You you are the parade man. 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.