Streetlight Angels Podcast
Creating safety awareness and mindfulness to the nation to help our children take back the ability to play outside "until the street lights come on".
Streetlight Angels Podcast
Village Lost, Village Found
Autumn shares her journey from isolation to finding a supportive village as a mother of four, revealing how having trusted help transforms family life and creates opportunities for both work and personal growth.
• Moving just an hour away from potential support left Autumn completely without childcare options
• Having trustworthy people to watch your children provides essential breaks for parents' mental health
• Military families and relocators face unique challenges in building support networks
• Children benefit from knowing neighbors and having multiple trusted adults in their lives
• Block parties and neighborhood events can help rebuild community connections
• Today's parents often don't know their neighbors well enough to rely on them
• Having kids play outside "until the streetlights come on" requires rebuilding neighborhood trust
• Great-grandparents and extended family provide exceptional support when available
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Welcome back to Streetlight Angels podcast. I'm your host, joshua Yerkowski, and I got my co-host here, eugene aka.
Speaker 2:America's baby daddy.
Speaker 1:What's good. So Eugene's here with me, obviously. He's been with us a couple of episodes now and will continue to be with us until the end of all time. And then we also have a special guest with us, autumn, and I'm going to let Autumn introduce herself.
Speaker 3:I'm Autumn and I live in Crestview, Florida, and I work at Diligent. I am a mother of four when are you from originally? Originally I'm from New Mexico.
Speaker 1:New Mexico. Ok, cool, cool, and I think we talked about this yesterday. You have some like lineage behind you as far as, like Latino with a mixture of what Native American.
Speaker 2:You know where I'm from. Everybody has a little Native American in them, and at least they claim it until they 23, and me? You know I'm wrong, right. And so yeah my had blackfoot indian and a little bit of crow, but I know, because you wouldn't feed your children those herbs if you didn't have.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, like weeds from behind the bridge right, right that, but probably actually benefited more than you know the local stuff at the drug drugstore these days.
Speaker 2:Other than chicken pops. I can't remember us ever getting sick and if we were, we'd be outside running it off. Did you call them chicken pops? I don't know. You know I can't talk.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what I'm trying to figure out. Is it chicken? I think it's chicken pox.
Speaker 2:It's pox, is it pox?
Speaker 3:OK, I didn't know.
Speaker 2:My southern tw.
Speaker 1:I got you. I just didn't know if I was saying it wrong. My entire life I say a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2:My mother still says screech.
Speaker 1:Does she really and?
Speaker 2:then you think she's saying a bad word. She's like Jean lives down there with all them bitches and I'm like and it's beaches, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:She does not.
Speaker 3:Mom, I'm sorry she only gets mad when it's true.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, don't be telling people I can't speak.
Speaker 1:So Autumn's got this beautiful, diverse bloodline and lineage that we were talking about, and she's here because we want to talk about having a village versus not having a village, village versus not having a village, and she is going to grace us with her wisdom and knowledge so that she can kind of explain her real life story. You know how it was when she didn't have a village and now that she's kind of getting involved in our village, right, and it really kind of hits home with a lot of people that have moved or a lot of people that are, you know, active duty, military or even not. It's just people that go outside of the box that they originally blew up in or grew in. And it's paramount that we understand that some people come from other places that don't have that ability to grow within the village, just because they don't feel it or whatever the case may be. And when I say village, everybody understands by now that it's community, and I don't like the word community.
Speaker 2:I'm glad you read my mind because I was going to give them the definition so that they'd understand. You got to transition over because it takes a village to raise a child.
Speaker 1:And that's the purpose of the podcast. That's right Autumn. The floor is yours. Tell us a little bit about your story and how it was not having one.
Speaker 3:It was really challenging. I wasn't really able to go do much and I was stuck being home being a mom, which I loved. You know like I love that role being being a mom and playing that role but also I think it's important for moms to be able to go out and get some independence and be themselves, and whenever you don't have a village or anybody to help you, it's challenging, you know, and you have to have people that you trust to leave your children with, and that's hard to come by these days.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely Was your village local to where we're at right now, because we're in Crestview, obviously, yeah so they are here local in Crestview.
Speaker 3:And I'm so happy that they're here because now, or I'm here because now I can leave my children with them and I know that they're safe and taken care of, whereas before I didn't have anybody. And that's hard, you know, especially with four children, and now I can work and then I can can trust that my children, whenever they get off the bus or when I need somebody to go pick them up from school, that they're there to help me if I'm working.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, absolutely Essentially utilizing the resources, not only just your family, like the goal is really to bring it back to where, if you needed me, you could hit me up and be like hey, josh, like this just happened, can you please go? You know, scoop my little people up real quick or something, or you know if Eugene needed. Actually, it just happened, didn't you? You just relied on somebody recently. Come here and record right.
Speaker 2:Right. So one of our uh team members for the uh business group that we have networking group I called and was like hey, gotta do this podcast, are you available? And she was like, bring him over, wow see man.
Speaker 1:That is what's up, dude. Oh yeah, that's some like heavy movement.
Speaker 2:You know, bringing that village together for our babies, you know, for the little while, yeah because I knew just how she interacted, treated her grandson, and then the way she was looking after them because I brought them to our who's who meetings. That was like you know, they just started calling her grandma. So I was like, oh yeah, she's hard Dude, that is awesome. And my kids, they'll look at anybody I respect, sure, they respect. And so if you got gray hair, your grandma, if you got, you know, your grandpa. But one of my friends, his name's Josh Domingo. Yeah, he doesn't have a bit of gray hair, but for some reason they call him grandpa. Oh really, and so I just be rubbing it in.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh dude, that is grandpa. Oh really, and so I just be rubbing it in oh my gosh dude, that is. So I feel like you could take just the idea that your children, and how you're raising them and the opportunities that you're giving them, even though they're strangers, like you just said, if you respect them, they respect them, and if you have, you know, built this kind of foundation with your children as far as what they see coming from you to another person, you feel that, right, and they feel that. And so now, on a primitive level, a child is now feeling more comfortable about the village that they live in, right?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and then, when you piggyback on what Autumn was saying, it's very difficult when you're away from your bloodline, your blood family, to trust people with your children, and so it's almost like it's a screening process. Sure, and some people do a lot of praying about it. Yeah, because the last thing you want is for your kid to get older, to where they can explain up things to you and you like, I never knew that. You know, I mean and that's the fear of why a lot of moms and dads, because I stay home with my kids. You know, most of my work is during the weekend because I'm a stand up comic, and so during the week I facilitate the kids and so it's my responsibility to screen who's going to be the babysitter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can. I asked you the other day what was the name of your babysitter to be the?
Speaker 2:babysitter. Yeah, I can. I asked you the other day who, what was the name of your babysitter, and I was like I don't know, because normally I do the screening, but my wife did and so I trusted her and so when she was like dropping them off here, I've already met her and her husband and they're approved through the cdc, which is the the military child development center. That's some trust love dude for sure between you and your wife because through the CDC, which is the military child development center.
Speaker 1:That's some trust, love dude for sure Between you and your wife, because you didn't even know your babysitter.
Speaker 2:So I meet the lady and I'm like hi, I got to get on a plane. And then my wife texts me did you drop him off on time? I'm like yes. And then, when you asked me what her name was, I'm like uh, don't catch me lying. Yeah, I wouldn't even gonna lie. I was like I don't even know. She did good though. Yeah, she did great. They were alive, they wanted to go back, they called her kids, their friends and oh, that's cool, it's so, that's cool did where.
Speaker 1:Where was your village autumn before? Or where was your location before you came to crestview?
Speaker 3:okay, I didn't live far from crestview, but there's an hour difference, so that is pretty far whenever sure you need like a babysitter or something you know, absolutely. I lived in Marriester.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:So even then I did occasionally have a babysitter, but really I couldn't like be like, hey, can you watch my kids? That's right, I'm going to run to the grocery store. Hey can you watch my kids? I need to go do something Like I didn't have anybody to do that?
Speaker 1:for me. Sure, now, that just proves the point. Like you have that issue when you're geographically located in a different spot that's not even an hour away or just an hour away you still have that difficulty, yes, and so I think the more we start shedding awareness, putting light on this, the easier it's going to be for everybody, regardless whether they're 10 minutes away you know what I mean or 20 minutes away, within the same village, because you're not looking at someone a few hours away trying to spread your wings and actually do what you need to do properly. And that's got to be that, had to have been hard.
Speaker 2:It was the thing about this, though if we can accomplish not if when we accomplish the goal of streetlight, you could actually just go next door and say, hey, that's right, I'm running to public, that's right, is that okay? And they'll be like, oh, I'll look after the kids. Because I remember growing up and my grandmother would say, such and such is going to be on her porch watching y'all stay in the park or y'all stay in the front yard, and so the neighbor was just keeping an eye on us. We didn't bother, you know anything. But now it's kind of like you got to go an hour away, or you know. Even I think they were like 35 minutes from my house that I had to go. But I wouldn't want. You know, my neighbor is, I think, 72. I'm pretty sure my two toddlers would give them a heart attack just just out of PC. I mean, my kids jump off of stuff they shouldn't. I mean like I got the stitches to prove it.
Speaker 1:No, we were. We were had a meeting the other day and you had your little ones here and one of them fell off the high chair.
Speaker 2:I think he jumped. He probably did.
Speaker 1:But, yeah, I can imagine how your kids could definitely be one of those to give everybody a heart attack, oh yeah, but the fact that they would be willing to open their door and allow that to happen, regardless of what kind of children they are, you know, it's not their fault, yeah, and if you have elderly neighbors, the best thing you could do is teach your kids to pick up things that don't belong in the yard, because they'll appreciate that, because they can't bend over as well.
Speaker 2:So they pick up something out of your neighbor's yard because it's not supposed to be there, like the trash can gets knocked over and some trash is in their yard, pick it up because it's your neighborhood. Sure, you know what I mean. That's right and that's why a lot of people like feel some kind of way about kids being in their yard. I know Mr Harry love my kids in his yard because they pick up sticks. They might be weapons for a second, but they'll pick up sticks and stuff like that because he likes his grass to be immaculate, you know. So you didn't have to worry about it?
Speaker 1:No, that's awesome. That's awesome Did. Did you feel really alone when you know you were down there, even though you're only an hour away from what you know could help? I feel like it's like just there but not.
Speaker 3:Yeah, for sure, I definitely felt alone, and especially because I my sister lives out here, so I would see her getting help and I wouldn't be getting help. So I'm like hmm. I could see that it's so unfortunate that I'm like so close yet so far away, you know.
Speaker 1:We had our first kid in the Middle East. My wife and I and you know we didn't have any family, we didn't have anything. We had no friends. I mean I had my coworkers they weren't really friends. We had nobody to help support. You know Larissa and me, which you know I was probably not the best support for her on that initial child, but it was difficult being in another country and seeing that the sport could have been there if we would have stayed or, you know, been in a village that we could rely on. And so I think that, regardless whether you're family members or not, we need to build Streetlight Angels podcasts and bring it back to where you know how it used to be until the streetlights.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for sure Kids played out until the streetlights came on right, yes, yeah. So I mean it kind of opens up an opportunity for you, like we just met yesterday, right Yesterday. For you Like we just met yesterday, right Yesterday, yes, and now you're on our podcast and we're talking about transitioning from a not not having that village feeling to now having the village feeling. And look at now you're meeting Eugene.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 1:Now the amount of connections that you know you could probably capitalize on is going to be unbelievable for you and not just your family, but like people that you can see and rely on and not say, okay, that should be a safe space, but it's not. Because I know it's not like we were talking about before, but what we want to do is make it to where it is a safe space like it used to be Right.
Speaker 1:So utilize this and talk about it and get it out there and then reciprocate that, pay that forward. You know what? I mean Like give back. You know I need a babysitter once in a while. Once in a while, yeah, so I'll be here. Yeah, no babies. Well, that's right, my kids seven and ten, they they don't really they were kind of watching themselves now. But you know what I'm saying yeah, if you ever need it, if that's kind of kind of I got plenty of experience.
Speaker 2:My oldest is 32 and my youngest is three now, so oh, I have my youngest sister as well oh yeah. So you know how energetic they can, oh for sure, and they smart, like weirdly smart though. Yeah, you wouldn't think that they could put sentence together so well, but my daughter was telling me she was a princess and that I needed to do what she said, and I'm like when did she start talking like her mama? You know what?
Speaker 1:I'm saying that's right. It's a beautiful thing to just even talk about this kind of stuff and it's an unfortunate thing that you know there's people that go out there and don't have anything states away, you know, so it's like she didn't have anybody.
Speaker 3:And I felt bad complaining to her because I was so I was close to my village and she lived so far away.
Speaker 2:So I know that whenever people are in the military, it's really hard to get a village. Yeah, yeah, really hard to get a village. Yeah, yeah, I remember when, before like autism exploded, there were like groups because they knew that certain children on the spectrum were very, uh, demanding as far as time, and so it was like they started groups to give that time, and that's what you were. You were saying, like sometimes you just need some time to refresh. For sure, it's like like nobody ever like a great parent, like not want to be with their kids, but they need that reset, like you know, as far as like just a little, not having to worry about them jumping off of something, hurting themselves.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Or being mean to each other, like cause. You know know, parenting is policing sometimes, no, it definitely is, especially when you have multiple yeah, and so when you got four kids and that little bit of a break to even go to the movies and not have to worry about snacks for the people, yeah it does kind of refresh and then, like, even just two hours of just you time can like make that whole household change.
Speaker 2:As far as energy, yes, I agree, when you have a village that you like, hey, I need an hour or I need two, or if it was just a little project you wanted to work on that needed your undivided attention, like a mom cast, you know, instead of a podcast, yeah, you need you know. You could call people you know and know that they're not going to hold it over you. I'm always there for you. You know what I mean, because I can remember I would never have graduated from high school if my grandmother didn't keep my kids and I had kids in high school.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know. So you know, and my grandmother wasn't going to let me quit. I was like I could work. Now I'm old enough to work. You know she's like, no, you better find a job that you can do after school and I'll look after the babies. And but we don't have those grandmothers Like I know grandmothers it's like 40 now, yeah, so for sure they still want it. Like y'all grown, I want to go to the club and I want to. I want to go hang out. You know I'm on karaoke night, so they ain't keeping kids like that anymore unless you pay them Cause then it's like karaoke cash. I'm taking the cash.
Speaker 1:What is something that you would want to tell your kids right now? As far as a village, from your perspective, point of view, as a, as a parent, as someone who didn't, who came from one that was, you know, I guess, not really struggling I want to say more or less, didn't have that, you know village to a village that you do have now, what would you want to say to your kids? You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:To appreciate them. And I have my children's great grandparents and then my mom, so their grandma and they're the village that I have and I don't think that my children understand that not everybody has their great grandparents to be there to help them. You know, and I think that that's so important, that my children get to experience their great grandparents because, like I said, not everybody has that.
Speaker 1:Right, right right.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I mean, that's an amazing thing to have a great grandparent, and I think that if you have some kind of you know building relationship with the people around you, if you have that now, your children are going to have that in your stead afterwards. Like me, I would want to tell my boys like, hey, you know, there was a time period where I didn't even know my next door neighbor or the people around. And I want to tell my kids now like I want to be, I want them to have it to where they it was like when we were kids yeah, to where you should know your neighbors, you should know the old lady down the road that is going to not only rat you out when you do something bad, but also make sure that you know you get taken care of if you fall and bust your knee and mom and dad aren't around or whatever in that case.
Speaker 1:So I think that's one of the things that I would like to tell my children is you know, appreciate what they have currently as far as family's concerned, but then also understand that there's places out there that they have nobody else to rely on and if they can continue to live off of, you know the values and the ideas of Streetlight, angels or about you know, you and Eugene and this whole you know situation. I think that it would allow them to kind of, just like I said, build off of that and create their own foundation to help us Right.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, totally agree. Yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, totally agree yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what needs to be driven. You know what I mean. That point needs to be driven. What's tough is that we have to drive that point but the children are not meeting their neighbors for no reason. It's like if you meet your neighbors and you're like, oh, that person is not nice, you know what I mean Then you at least know, all right, stay out of that person's yard. You know, be respectful and you know so. It's a lesson to be learned there. But we don't even know if we got good or bad neighbors because we're not taking the time. I know one of my neighbors is antisocial because every time I wave they wave back, but you know.
Speaker 1:They won't initiate any more than a than a way back.
Speaker 2:Like hey, I tried to have a conversation one time and it was like, you know, it was kind of like I was bothering them. So I was like, okay, well, I don't want to bother them and they don't want to talk, that's fine. At least I know that. You know, they're not bad people, they're just not social creatures. And right, I talk to most adults just because I need adult time. It's like when you have kids that you're with 24, 7, it's like we hit it all just because it's like I'm blurting out everything I've ever wanted to tell yeah, that's right full transparency.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I definitely relate to that, yeah yeah out of this like oh, you're gonna get your nails done. Let me see if I can get a sitter. You got to spend money, just to spend more money.
Speaker 1:Yeah for sure To get that adult time exactly. Did you know your neighbors prior to living here and now that you moved here, is it something that you've been like? Even after our conversation you'd be like you know what I do need to.
Speaker 3:I did know my neighbors. Yeah, my neighbors were great. I never actually had them watch my children, but I do think that if I asked they definitely would have Cool. Yeah, because I knew him for a really long time. Yeah, I do know my neighbors. Now my daughter goes to school with her. Like I've never asked them to babysit, but I do think that they would be willing if I asked them, because they. Her daughter is in this grade, my daughter's in Third grade and then kindergarten, so she walks them home from the bus. We live right next to each other so they all walk together. So that's great to know that she's there when they get off the bus, because on my days off I'll be up there to get them off the bus.
Speaker 3:But, whenever I'm working, you know I'm not there to pick them up.
Speaker 2:And it's really not that far of a walk. But just to know that she's also getting like the fifth graders, getting off the bus and walking down with them, makes me feel at house and be like, hey, such and such didn't get on the bus and that way their parents can call and start finding out what happened or whatnot. My kids.
Speaker 1:When we were in Japan, my kids walked from our house. They went to a Japanese school out in town and I lived in a Japanese house out in town and they walked from our house. I mean, you're talking a kindergarten and a first grader, oh yeah, and they walked from our house outside, on next to main roads, all the way to their school by themselves.
Speaker 2:But you don't mess with kids in Japan.
Speaker 1:Man, that's right, and that was the thing, like, at first it freaked us out, man, like we'd come around the corner and be watching them all the way until we couldn't see them anymore. You know what I mean. And but there'd be all these other kids with them. You know what I mean. They're wearing these big bright yellow backpacks and all the stuff to be seen and stuff. But I mean, you do not mess with kids out there. And why is it not like that here? Yeah, you know what I mean. Like, what is the problem here? Like, come on, people, get your shit together. You know what I mean. Allow us the opportunity to allow our kids to grow properly, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was on a subway in Japan and my daughter was wearing like a little skirt but her legs were open, like you know, and swinging like a three year old just swinging off the bench, sure, and this little Japanese lady grabbed her legs, crossed them and said sit, and my daughter looked at me. I looked at her and said sit, and my daughter looked at me.
Speaker 3:I looked at her and said sit.
Speaker 2:It's like one. I didn't want an international incident, but I understood that that was a lady teaching a little girl how to sit. And to me it's okay for the village to do that, because that's the reason why we didn't curse out in public is because it's like my grandmother's. Like you know, I don't know what you do with your little friends, but you don't cuss around adults, you don't cuss at any adults, and so you learn real, real quick how socially to interact with your elders.
Speaker 1:Yeah, way rely on them and let them. You know, let them kind of it's hard because you got to get that trust factor again, like for now, right now, automatically, like would you let your kids just go outside and play unless you're out there with them?
Speaker 3:no, I, I wouldn't either.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean, and neither would my wife like absolutely not. They're like hey, my, my boy's like I want to go for a bike ride and I'm tired and I'm like man, that means I gotta get up and go out there. It wasn't that before. It's unfortunate that you are now coming into a new village, but you're not coming into a village that we need to be at, and that's kind of what Streetlight Angels is about, calling it like it is Telling these people to stop being selfish turds. You know what I?
Speaker 3:mean.
Speaker 1:And you know they were all kids at one point, or they are currently parents or grandparents or or whatever, and it's not about them anymore, you know what I mean. It's about the kiddos, and so take care of them, you know everybody.
Speaker 2:I think a good thing would be is to start doing what what our parents used to do is like we'll go over to the neighbor and be like if you see any one of these acting up, you can put them in a place, or come and let me know so that I can deal with it right then and there. And so if you had enough of the block knowing all right, these kids, the parents care about them enough to make sure that they're acting right, you know. So we need to go down to that house if we see them doing it, because it could be just childish stuff like kicking over a trash can, and you know.
Speaker 1:I just talked to a neighbor a couple weeks ago. Actually, I want to kind of like bring back that block party, like that type thing. And I just talked to them and I said, hey, I want to do a huge event in the neighborhood, whether it's done by Angel Force Foundation, whether it's done by Streetlight, Angels Productions or podcasts. I mean I want to do a party that's blocked off in the neighborhood. Now, obviously, we're in the county, we're just outside the city line, so I'll make sure that we have the legal properties behind it and make sure we're not in fire hazards and we're not doing anything like that. But there's one ECP, there's two ECPs, one entrance and one out, one on both sides. But I want to basically close it off and let us kind of grow as a neighborhood. That's so. I want that to be the almost like a, something that people could like look at and be like man, I wish our neighborhood was like and they start building it. Remember 4th of July parties and things like that. Yeah, Like, do you guys have those anymore?
Speaker 3:We don't. I don't even see that I did in my previous neighborhood Did, Did you? Do you really? They have a.
Speaker 1:Fourth of July party like they did where they all came out and played.
Speaker 3:Not every single neighbor, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, some people won't join in. But you know, like what's the great idea? Like the military, at base housing would do like little block parties where different sections of housing and they'll supply. Like you bring a vegetable and we'll take care of the hamburgers and hot dogs. Like a potluck yeah.
Speaker 1:And you would think the HOA if you got an HOA, you would think that they would want to, you know, capitalize on that. But they don't. Theirs is more or less did you cut your yard and let's go ahead and fine you and fee you and all this other crap and make sure that dog didn't shit in your yard? You know that kind of thing. But it shouldn't be like that. It should. The HOA should have been like hey, how are we going to bring us together to make us a better, more safe village or even a small section of it?
Speaker 2:That would make the community pool. The HOA is not part of the village.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I despise HOAs Same but I don't have a choice. You know that's HOAs Same, but I don't have a choice. You know, Right. So, and they know that, oh yeah. But I'll be the first one to go put myself in one of those leadership positions in the HOA to change it. But they won't vote me in. Man, I got the wrong color hair.
Speaker 2:Oh no, they like mob man. I need white hair for that dude. They like the mob. Yeah, they are. I see you barbecuing in front of your house. That's a backyard event, that's right, oh my gosh dude, Do you have a HOA? No, no, you don't Lucky.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, you know what, honestly, like I'm not going to knock them officially Like if they just kind of pivoted their priorities you know what I mean Maybe it'd be a little bit better.
Speaker 2:Yeah to just making sure everybody's edges stay trimmed, and that because to me that's the biggest gripe that people have is that, yeah, the pool is fine and everything, but if everybody in the village knew each other, especially their children, when they go to the pool. If somebody is not doing something safe, be like hey.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's right. It's not riding them out, man like. It's not about that dude, it's like, come on, I would prefer that I won't even get mad at my kids. Safety is the thing is most kids don't know until something happens exactly, and so I would rather be like preemptively.
Speaker 2:Yeah, such and such said that you were doing this at the pool. Sure, you could really get hurt, and you know. So you need to know that, because some things you can't save them from. You know, I've got plenty of stitches and a lot of them had nothing to do, you know, with doing anything dangerous, just being a kid and you know sometimes being clumsy. I fell while sitting in a chair yesterday. Did you see that I did?
Speaker 1:At the PSA meeting. Yes, oh my gosh dude.
Speaker 2:It's like, so I know.
Speaker 1:I was trying so hard not to laugh out loud on you on that one dude.
Speaker 2:I'm like how you fall sitting down. It's like oh.
Speaker 1:Those wheels need locks on them Right. Next time I'm going to get you a chair without wheels this one's for Eugene specifically. Don't let him sit anywhere else. But yeah, so I mean honestly, whether you have a village, whether you don't, doesn't mean that you can't create or establish your own relationships you know around you to help you and lean on the people that you wouldn't usually do these days but know that it was done in the past. Yeah, so I mean that's that's kind of one of the main things that you know we wanted to kind of push out on this episode today and we we really thank Autumn for coming in and kind of last minute jumping into this and telling us her story about how she went from one to another.
Speaker 1:Thank you, run with it and make it like it used to be, to where we could let our kids play outside until the streetlights came on and not have a problem. Right, does that make sense? Yes, again, autumn, thank you so much for coming. You know this is streetlight angels podcast, so you can find us on social media right facebook, uh, streetlight angels podcast. At gmailcom, we are having our own page on streetlight angels productions very soon, so you'll be able to come on there. Make sure you leave some comments. We need to hear from you all.
Speaker 2:Anybody who leaves a comment will get a free ticket to my comedy show. So if you're a couple, each one of y'all need to leave a comment, okay, and it has to be related to one of the things we've said, so you'll have to listen to the podcast in order to get the free tickets.
Speaker 2:But I do a comedy show at the American Legion and I do one at the Holiday Inn Express, so they're both safe places where you can get a babysitter and come on and have a good time. But nothing like free, especially when it's funny, that's right.
Speaker 1:All right, Well, you know you heard them. Free tickets for comments. Make sure you utilize that. Again the whole objective is to get us to be out there until the streetlights come on and let our kids go out there and build this village and do it properly like it used to be. Make sure you get in there and email us if you've got any kind of problems or issues that you want to talk to us about. We'll see you soon no-transcript.