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Behind the Byline: Meet SR Wheeler, Trimont's Conversational Reporter
Okay, and we are on. Welcome to yeah, that's better, welcome to Newsmakers Podcast. I'm Mike Ennis, I'm your host today. I have with me the what I was just saying a minute ago, the Clark Kent of Trimont News Reporting, and that is Shea Wheeler. Shea, good morning, good morning. I know it won't be morning wherever people are listening, but it doesn't matter, it's morning here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, people are listening, but it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:It's morning here. Yeah, you know, and you go in the paper. Your byline is SR Wheeler.
Speaker 2:Yes, Okay, that stands for Shekaroo Wheeler, which is a cool, not that cute Shekaroo.
Speaker 1:I like that. Yes, so you condense that to Shea.
Speaker 2:It's a little easier. Yeah, it is You're right.
Speaker 1:All right, excuse me, I don't know what's going on. I got a little bit of a cold or something. It's all right, okay. And so we're sitting here and we're talking about different things, and I had just asked you a minute ago what was your favorite type of stories to write, and you said Fiction actually, which is interesting as somebody who writes for the newspaper.
Speaker 2:Um, I actually used to write like children's stories for sherry frank, uh, who is the owner of the good friend of ours the co-owners of the um minnesota southern home decor magazine, uh, which just had its last issue this past summer. But I used to write for her children's magazine and I had little like 400-word little raw stories. I called them that I put in there and they're semi-educational, just like short stories for kids.
Speaker 1:Okay so, and I just asked you a minute ago if you could write some of those for us and you said you could. Yeah, we would love it. We have a children's page. You know a pet and kids page Cute. We have pet stories and we have a lot of puzzles and stuff on it, and then we also have children's things. So we're trying to reach out to kids because that is where it's at. They're coming up and they don't read newspapers anymore. Not like, not like uh when I was a kid growing up and uh.
Speaker 2:So I'm not gonna save the whole world, but if we get two or three kids reading the paper, that'd be great yeah, no, I know like for sure the comics page brings in some kids, because that was what me and my sisters were. Okay, we're on growing up. It's just like the paper would come in, and if my mom didn't get to it first, we were like shuffling the pages around and we'd grab the comic strip and then she'd get mad at us because all of a sudden her paper's out of order she's an organized person no, she just doesn't like having to reorganize.
Speaker 2:Oh, I see, okay, gotcha all right.
Speaker 1:So any big stories, you're working on.
Speaker 2:Let's see. This week I went to the commissioner meeting the county commissioner meeting.
Speaker 1:Those are always fun.
Speaker 2:I actually really enjoy them.
Speaker 1:Oh, do you.
Speaker 2:I think it's entirely because the level of organization is so nice. Okay, and it's not something I come across very frequently in this area.
Speaker 1:Yeah right.
Speaker 2:But this week at the meeting were a couple of like key things that I think I'm going to write on. Okay, the first one is um, the um, minnesota, the oh, my goodness, let me start that over sure, the minnesota, the minnesota department of transportation, okay, came and did yeah okay, they came and did their annual report to the county on sort of like what's going on, and while there they gave like the full, like comprehensive plan of all construction in our district for the next four years.
Speaker 1:They did that in one meeting, yeah.
Speaker 2:And it was in the last stretch of the meeting and at that point I was the only reporter left there and I was like, oh, you got it. This is my information.
Speaker 1:So you got lots of things coming up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was able to get a hold of one of the packets where they have like the full map and all the lists. Oh sure and everything. So I'm very excited to have that. Oh yeah, and I might try and scan that map in.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:If you want to use it as an image, it might work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sweet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so there's that. And then are you familiar with Andrew Hafner?
Speaker 1:I'm not.
Speaker 2:He is I believe he's 19 years old.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:He just graduated from Fairmont High School last year.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And he's going to MSU Mankato.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And he did a summer internship with excuse me, with the county. So martin county has a program where they will pay for an internship for any team that comes back to the area, for whatever small business or whatever. In case the business can't pay for their internship, okay, the county will pay for it, and it's a form of like trying to get kids to come back into the county.
Speaker 1:Sure Okay.
Speaker 2:But Andrew is the first person who has done his internship with the county and his internship is coming to an end this next week, so he was at his last commissioner meeting and so they sort of recognized him, oh so so you're going to have something on that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, for next week or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so so you're gonna have something on that, yeah, for next week or something. Yeah, okay, I had him send me a picture of him on his internship.
Speaker 1:Okay, great, good, good. One of the things that I've told uh shay when she writes and I've always enjoyed it is your headlines. I, I, I'm a headline person, I love headlines. Uh, you know, I make one of the other reporters.
Speaker 1:She came to me one day and goes Mike, you used a headline I wish you hadn't used. I put my headlines out of the story. I find a line in the story that I'm going well, that's cool, I pull that out and I make that the headline. She said you focused on something I was kind of hoping we could hide. I said no, not going to happen. If you wanted to hide, it is, you know, if you just put on there um, uh, caught big fish at the lake, who cares? But if you say I caught kind of wail, that's going to catch some attention. So, anyway, yeah, so I enjoy your headlines always and then I get into the story and I think you're a good writer.
Speaker 1:I like to read what you write because I think it's very conversational. Well, thank you very much. You're welcome. I'm a conversational type person and I don't like I use you're going to hit me, but I use ai just for grammar. No, no, just just to check grammar, you know, because it's quicker, this will put it in there. Let it check the grammar for me and then move on, and it'll. It'll want to correct verbiage, right? Yeah, it wants to clarify things and I hate the way it writes.
Speaker 1:It sounds like it's AI well, that's because it is it doesn't sound like you and I just talking, you know and I'm so. I always say ignore, ignore, ignore. Leave the story alone. Just check where my periods are, my commas, make sure that's all in the right places. That's all I really care about, but anyway. So I like conversational language.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think a part of the reason I write like that is because when I was in high school I was a competitive speaker and I wrote my own speeches and things like that and a lot of the critique I got from one of my coaches was that I sounded like I was talking to people, not talking with people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And so I developed my um like writing format based on telling a story, not talking. So it's yeah.
Speaker 1:I think it shows. Thank you, yeah, that's meant to be a compliment too. You know I like to read something that's it's like I'm just talking to you, like right now. You know I want to read the story and not have to sit there and go. I got to look up the words, see what they mean. I'm not into that too much. So you're a Fairmont High School graduate, right, I am Okay, we won't hold that against you.
Speaker 2:I high school graduate. Right, I am okay. We won't hold that against you. I know I'm sorry. No, that's okay.
Speaker 1:23 yeah, okay so that was just like two years ago.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, how you liking college um okay about that much no, I, I'm really enjoying it. Um, I, it's really nice going to the University of Minnesota, especially in the Twin Cities. Okay, my older sister went to Northwestern.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Not Northwestern, like Chicago, but the University of Northwestern St Paul, which is a religious college. Oh, okay, western St Paul, which is a religious college. It's only 15 minutes away from the? U. It was really nice I was able to compare her experience with my experience, because the U of M was actually the last place I wanted to go. I applied everywhere else, but I did not apply to the? U until August of the year I was supposed to go to college.
Speaker 1:Right, okay. I didn't want to go to a school that thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the? U is colossal yeah spanning minneapolis and st paul. What?
Speaker 1:is it 30, 40 000 students? 60 000 students oh really no kidding, annually okay, wow yeah, it's big. So why'd you go then?
Speaker 2:So I was originally going to go to MCAD, which is the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, because I'm an art major.
Speaker 1:Okay, I know Art like painting and drawing art. Yes, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, visual arts.
Speaker 1:Okay, visual arts.
Speaker 2:I'm actually part of the Bachelor in Fine Arts program, which is an application-based program, so I was very excited.
Speaker 1:What's your plan then after college? How are you going to use that? Good question, right? Well you could probably teach. I'm going to guess.
Speaker 2:I could teach, but if I just wanted to teach, I'd probably go into art education.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:At the moment my plan is either to become a working artist or take that experience in the art world.
Speaker 1:Don't they call those starving artists? Yeah, that's, yeah, okay, get used to that, right, yeah, yeah, no, no, go ahead, yeah, yeah no, no, I'll go ahead.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, no. Um, I really enjoy looking at things from like a business perspective, which makes me wonder why I didn't go into like the business schools, because I'd be making more money after I want to create um what has been referred to as an artist agency, uh, digital artist agency okay um, that has three tiers to it. Online, uh one, where in which consumers can go to it and buy artist products okay um.
Speaker 1:A lot of the issues in that artists are having in the art world right now is with ai oh yeah sure an ai generated artwork oh yeah, I'm sure of it yeah, which is not great, uh, um I don't want to paint it on my wall. Signed AI.
Speaker 2:It's just an aerial font At the bottom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hang on, sure, the thought's there, it's coming.
Speaker 1:Okay, we'll just keep talking, it'll come back.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:We're talking about the three elements. Yes, okay.
Speaker 2:The first here, because it is like a consumer-based thing where people can come and buy the artist's product.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:One of the major advantages of AI is that it's fast and it's convenient.
Speaker 1:Oh sure.
Speaker 2:So if we make a situation where in which artists can be, fast and convenient. All of a sudden, you can compete, yes, and that we can only compete if we have enough yeah right.
Speaker 2:So, um, I want to create a scenario where in which consumers can access the artist for quick commissions, um, where artists can get in touch with the consumers, but I also want a scenario wherein which artists can get in touch with corporations, which is the second and third tier. Um, the second tier would be the artists where they would have, like, a monthly subscription, because I don't like the way other artists based like sale websites are like functioning, uh, like with etsy, uh, which is the most popular one I know of at the moment is like they take a portion of your sale, which makes sense yeah, they have to do something um, but I would prefer to use, like maybe a $5 monthly subscription-based format.
Speaker 2:I think that would be.
Speaker 1:And then they sell whatever they want for that $5. Yeah, yeah, if you have enough subscribers, you're in good shape. Oh, yeah, yeah, now these would be subscribers. The artist is the subscriber? Yes, okay. What about the buyer, though? From that side of the?
Speaker 2:Well, I don't think that people would pay for a subscription where they can.
Speaker 1:Where you're charging them to come in and buy yes, kind of like the Costco yes thing. I got to pay to go buy something. You know that makes no sense sometimes, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and like it makes sense for Costco because they have cheaper products.
Speaker 1:Right In some of the places because they're a warehouse Right.
Speaker 2:It doesn't make sense to pay to go buy something that's probably going to be more expensive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably so yeah yeah yeah, you want your customers coming in Right, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so that's the first issue there, which is why subscription-based format for.
Speaker 1:Now is this new. Have you designed this, or is this already out there?
Speaker 2:This is something I've designed and come up with and developed.
Speaker 1:Have you? I don't know copyrighted or patented or anything Not yet, but it's in the progress. I've got to say you need to do that because this is a really good idea. Yeah, and I can see where it can be very beneficial.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah. And then the third tier would be a more expensive subscription. That would be for the corporations, where they would be able to have easy, quick access via quick search results to different artists' portfolios.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:So if they're, let's say, disney, for example, Okay. They need a new animator and they need somebody in a specific style, somebody who works in this format, who does this at this amount of time?
Speaker 1:You're almost an employment agency at that point.
Speaker 2:Yes, someone I'm related to like compared it to a talent, like search.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right yeah.
Speaker 2:So they want that person they can go into, like this, their subscription, like wherever they're going online, and they can search it up and they can find this many artists who do this style of animating, who work in this way, this quickly, and this is their usual.
Speaker 1:So you'll charge the corporation to be a subscriber and your artists who sign up they can do that for free, correct?
Speaker 2:Yes, Okay, gotcha, the artists who sign up will be able to put their portfolios out there.
Speaker 1:Yep, yep.
Speaker 2:And then all that information as well they'll be able to Like. The subscriber-based format for the artist is so that they can sell things and have their information out there. I want it to be easier for smaller artists to get in touch with corporations, because there's a really big disconnect there at the moment where it's like if you want to work for disney or nickelodeon or wherever you have to um, get a degree, you have to get an internship there for free and you probably will not be paid um I like them.
Speaker 2:I like the plan so far no, I'm not sure that's entirely true. I know for sure disney does paid internships they haven't paid. Yeah, okay, I think nickelodeon does too, and I okay I don't know. I'm assuming unfairly that is okay, yeah, yeah but um but still though, yeah yeah, I just want to be able to have will this be global? I would like it to be at. At some point it would have to start in the United States and probably Canada Do you have a website, yet I'm working on it.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say, yeah, get your copyright.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because this is probably my last year at the university, I'm going to try and use university resources to get it done. There you go. I'm going to see if I can get in touch with a couple of computer science majors to put together the website on the coding level.
Speaker 1:Oh sure.
Speaker 2:As well as the subscription-based level, and then I'm going to see if I can get funds from the university.
Speaker 1:Yeah, get a couple of partners there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, to fund the project or at least the startup of it, Because that's the expensive part.
Speaker 1:It is, I know. Yeah, well, I'm really proud of you. That's terrific, thank you. That's terrific.
Speaker 2:Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome, it's my five-year plan.
Speaker 1:It's your five-year plan. Okay, this come to you in the sleep of one night.
Speaker 2:It's something I've been developing since not long after I graduated high school.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:It's something that I wish I had access to.
Speaker 1:Eons ago.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's like do you know how nice it would be to be able to just go and just put together like my portfolio, put it up there, put all my information up there, and be able to sell my stuff same place. And then one day, randomly, while I'm just selling stuff, I get a message from whoever they're just like hey, I saw this, I need you to make a prop for a really good TV show.
Speaker 1:We're doing Sure Right, yeah, and there's nothing out there already.
Speaker 2:Not that I know of.
Speaker 1:Okay alright, because you see that with a lot of comedians and stuff, they have a big clearinghouse type of a thing where they sign up on a website and then if you're looking for a comedian and you want this type, this style, you can go there and you can find your people and in what region you're in. So it's kind of the same kind of concept.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it would be really beneficial because it wouldn't just be people who make pottery or paintings. It would also be dancers or musicians.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:Because it's just like a creative cloud.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sounds good. All right, so let's go back to Martin County for a second. So let me see, this is August. I think it's 7th, isn't it 8th? 8th, I think Is it Thursday or Friday, thursday, thursday. Okay, it's the 7th, because yesterday was the newspaper. It came out on the 6th. It's the only way I know I keep track of things. I'll trust you. I go off every Wednesday. I know what the Wednesdays are Anyway. So today's August 7th, this weekend, next Monday starts lots of things the fair, also football practice. I know Martin County West, yep, yep, they start football practice already.
Speaker 2:Interesting, because I've seen the kiddie football out at the high school already. Oh, have you? Oh yeah, I was going there for the opera House show, oh sure Okay. Fairmont Community Theater. I was driving out there and I was like you have to go really slow because there's kids running into the street after a football.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and then also you've got Heritage Acres. That's this weekend, right? Yes, and you're one of the performers. I guess you call it, or do you call it that?
Speaker 2:I'm not sure what I call it. I just get a text one day and Jerry asks me hey, can you be the school mom? And I say yes, and then I go out there dressed in my long skirt and frilly top and I stand out there and I say, oh, clearly the adult in this family needs to sit in the front row, because that's where all the naughty kids sit.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have to come out.
Speaker 2:It'll be fun.
Speaker 1:You're going to write us something about it? Sure, some kind of story for the paper. Okay, yeah, we'll be out at the fair this weekend. Not this weekend, but starting next week. Kenny and I are going to go out every day and take pictures and meet folks and see what trouble we can cause. Maybe I'll get my glasses by then Maybe your photos are fine.
Speaker 2:Thank you, For context, for everybody listening. I noticed a trend in the photos I was taking earlier this year where I would be taking the pictures and they'd be perfectly clear to me, and then I'd pull them up when I got home so I could see them and all of a sudden it's focused on the background and not the person, it's focused on a plant. And then my mom looks at me and she goes can you read that? She just points to something on a wall and you're going nope, no.
Speaker 1:That and you're going? Nope, no, that was our first indication, right? Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. Cameras, too, sometimes will focus on, like you said, something in the foreground or the background that you're going. That's not what I want. It's a little bit like your phone It'll autocorrect. Yeah, oh, my goodness, I hate that. I'll send a text to somebody.
Speaker 2:I'll read hate that, I'll send a text to somebody and I'll read it later and go. What did I write? Oh yeah, no, my family has, like we've got like a list of just like random events where our auto-correcting doomed us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, right.
Speaker 2:The worst one is one of my aunts my aunt Becky Okay. Her kids all go to like a private Christian school.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:She's like in a group. She and my aunt sarah are in what they originally called a thespian club okay and then they called it a script club okay and now it's just called actors guild. Okay, every time the name was changed it was because of my aunt becky because, she tried to invite somebody using autocorrect, and so all of a sudden, the christian elementary school's headmaster's wife is being invited to lesbian clubs or their pastor's wife is being invited to strip clubs. Now they just invite them to actors guild.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you have to be careful, don't you? Oh, yeah, yeah. But at the same time, it's one of those things where it's like, how can you mess that up? Right, you have to be careful, don't you? Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:But at the same time it's one of those things where it's like, without it, I'm not sure my text would be any more legible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know my mother, who's turning 91 here real shortly. She's legally blind and she's really having trouble seeing. And she finally quit writing on Facebook because some of the things that she would write I'd be late, I'd go mom, what are you saying here? It would just be, it was just garbled and my cousins were writing going Aunt Marilyn, are you okay? And mom was holding her key down and then she'd just write. She had her fingers in the wrong places and and she was writing just who knows what. Oh no, yeah, it was pretty rough. So she doesn't write on Facebook anymore because she just can't see it unfortunately.
Speaker 2:To be fair, I know a lot of people who can see and they still don't know.
Speaker 1:That's true too. I got Mom a new phone about six months ago. It's working out really well. It's called a Raz phone. Oh, months ago, it's working out really well, it's called a Raz phone. Oh, interesting, yeah, and I control it. Oh, I add, she complained one day she had an Apple phone.
Speaker 1:She complained to me. She said Mike, I can't read the numbers and I can't find my contacts. There's too many buttons, you know. Yeah, she was always blocking people or whatever, and this is a common problem for 91-year-olds. Yes, and she has a case of dementia, along with the blindness, so it's really a challenge for her. So I found this phone online. It's called Raz, and I really highly recommend it.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I control who's on her phone, so I pull up right here, I pull up an app called RazCare and then I can go into her history. I see who she calls when she calls the calls that she made. Oh, fun, it sends me a text if mom needs to plug her phone in because her battery's low, nice, Yep. And then she'll call me and say Mike, can you add so-and-so to my list? Then I add names to her list and phone numbers. That way she doesn't get any crank calls because unless they're on her list, they can't get through to her.
Speaker 1:Oh nice, it has eliminated a lot of problems for her. Now she can just take and scroll down her list, for example, and she wants to call me. She just clicks on Mike and it dials me. She wants to answer the phone. Mom was having a terrible time swiping and finding the point, so she wants to answer the phone. She just touches the screen and it answers. When she's ready to hang up, she just clicks it and it's gone. And so it's made it so simple for her, and I'm so happy that companies out there are thinking for things like that, for people like her, that they really struggle and it's tough. It's hard not only on her, but it's also hard on the family to see your moms and your dads as they age. Yes, and they're getting older, and what used to be so simple and so easy for them to do is becoming more and more difficult.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I experienced that really recently.
Speaker 1:Did you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, my Grammy, yvonne, she did pass away recently.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:She like. As she was getting older, she was finding things more and more difficult In terms of phones, though, and she had been using the same flip phone for I don't know how many years.
Speaker 1:I love flip phones.
Speaker 2:It was time for her to get a new phone. When she went to my dad she said I want another flip phone, and so he went and he found her another and that's what she used until the day she died. It's just a flip phone.
Speaker 1:Good for her. Good for her. She's stuck to her guns and you know flip phones or phones this is kind of the last thing that mom's got that she can still do is you know the phone? That's her lifeline. I call it because she calls her friends and everything and she still is able to, so it's working out well. Anyway, didn't mean to get off on that too terribly much, but we're just here talking, I'm just having fun.
Speaker 2:That app actually reminds me a little bit of like a really more like, a lot more in-depth version of like Life360. Are you familiar with?
Speaker 1:that app? Yeah, I am, I've seen it. I don't really know that much about it, but yeah, it's like it sounds really bad when you're just describing it but it's really convenient okay, um it's.
Speaker 2:Your whole life is on it no, it's a tracking app okay so it's like I have it on my phone okay then I whoever else has it on their phones. You can't like, like, span between like different, like friendships or whatever sort of like on facebook where you make friends and whatnot okay um, it's like I am friends with my two roommates from last year and my older sister okay um, and it's like if I go into life 360, I can see where their phone is at, where I can see where they're at okay, at all times okay so if I were to go in, I'd pull up my phone.
Speaker 2:I'd be like oh hey, my older sister is at work right now yep or my uh, best friend mia is at work right now her Yep, or my best friend Mia, is at work right now or her phone is. It was really helpful when I lost my phone in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1:I bet it was. I bet it was. I dropped my phone in Vinkytown which, if you don't know, I know.
Speaker 2:It's not little, but it's smaller in terms of like Minneapolis. Not little, but it's smaller in terms of like Minneapolis. It is a little spot where there's a lot of shops, where there's a lot of traffic, in the middle of the University of Minnesota campus.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:And I went to Target in the morning. I grabbed myself a smoothie before my classes. I went back and I got on the bus and I went to class and while I'm on the bus going across the bridge towards the west bank, I'm realizing where's my phone? I don't have my phone. I was on it when I was walking to target, but I don't have it now and so, long story short, I was late for class. Uh, I went back and I was looking around for it and I had had to go and find my roommate. We were using her life 360 to find my phone, but my phone was moving. So we're looking around, we're trying to find it so somebody had it yes, so in the end it was a well-meaning soul, thankfully, thankfully, yep.
Speaker 2:So we called the phone and she picked up, and we met her by our apartment building imagine that very yeah, not a common thing to come across yeah, no, no it helps that I have custom artwork on my phone case so when school start back up last week of august or into september school technically starts.
Speaker 2:I think really really early september, like first couple days of september, school technically starts, I think really really early september, like first couple days of september okay uh, because uh, the state fair is on oh sure yeah, university of minnesota property, so they don't oh like start classes until after that oh, okay like a million students would be missing their first day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they would okay, oopsie phone call.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just gonna. I'll call this one back out on the hoodie as shit um what was I just talking about Minnesota you're gonna miss a few days of class because school starts yeah, um, so it's like they don't have, they don't start until after the state fair, because there's so many students involved in it but I'd move in just a couple of days before, okay. I think around like 26th through the 28th around there.
Speaker 1:Okay, so folks don't fear, shay is still going to write for us. Yeah, whatever During the school year.
Speaker 2:Whatever political meetings are going on that are recorded or whatever.
Speaker 1:You can still catch things.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So we still get to see you. Hooray, yay, hooray for us, right, all right. Any last thoughts?
Speaker 2:Not really.
Speaker 1:Any words of wisdom.
Speaker 2:Stay healthy, don't die. It's bad for your health.
Speaker 1:That is words of wisdom. It's been nice having you with us today. I enjoyed this a lot. You know you remind me a lot of some of my grandkids. I've got two or three that are your age and it's kind of fun to talk to you guys because it makes me feel younger again. You know, and I told my grandson he didn't like it About two years ago I had a philosophy and I told him I said my philosophy is I think children, parents, should have veto power over their kids until they're 35, complete and total veto power.
Speaker 1:Mom, I'm gonna get married no, click, you know. And my mom will buy this car? No click, no, you know. Whatever veto power. And he was like I don't want to hear that papa. And I said, well, he was. Oh, he was mad at me and he stormed off and I laughed. I said when you're 36, you'll come back soon. You have a kid. But you know, think about for a second. Okay, I, I, this is just me being funny, but but think about for a second though you're still young, but I've looked back and a lot of the stupid things I've done I did before I was 35 well, generally your brain stops developing at 26 and then you've got 10 years to sort of figure out what you're doing after your brain is fully developed.
Speaker 1:But if I had somebody who say now, I would have been mad if they would say you're not gonna do that, it's in law, you know you can't. I would have been. Oh, I would have been ticked off. But then five, six, seven, eight years later I'd be saying, hmm, that was pretty smart. I'm really glad to you. You put the clamp on that, you know. So anyway, like I said, he'll, he'll come, he'll come. I said that to a lady one time at church, and she was. She was mad at me too. She stormed off. She came back a few years later and said well, I can't see a little. Now she has kids who are approaching 12 and 13 years old. She says I can see now some of the wisdom that you're talking about, you know. And I said look, I know this is just me being funny, but there's something to that, you know.
Speaker 2:There definitely is. I think total mutual power is a little much. It is is, I think, total veto power is a little much?
Speaker 1:yes, of course it is um so so is a 22 year old I said.
Speaker 2:So says a 22 year old.
Speaker 1:I'm 20, you're 20, oh never mind, I'm young, you are young, I've got 15 years before I reach the that's right, graduate the beat before before mom can say okay, I can't tell you no anymore, your mother, if I sit there right now saying I like it, this is great.
Speaker 2:She's probably sitting there right now saying I'm too tired to deal with this. Yeah, that's true too.
Speaker 1:Anyway. So it was good talking to you, it was good talking to you and we'll have you back. You know, when you get back like next year or something. All right, Feel free to contact me while I'm at school as well because I have one of these mics, alright, alright take care, folks, we will talk to you later. I'll give you some updates on fair stuff next week alright, adios, have a good one.
