Tipton Thrives

Jackwagon Car Club

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Join Mayor Kegan Schmicker as he sits down with Heath Moreland and Brian Roberts from the Jackwagon Car Club. Discover how this group of automotive enthusiasts is revitalizing Tipton's rich car culture tradition while giving back to the community.

In this entertaining episode, learn about the club's origins, their upcoming events for the 2025 season, and how they've partnered with local businesses to bring car enthusiasts from over 30 different communities to downtown Tipton. Heath and Brian share stories about Tipton's fascinating automotive history, including legendary local car builders and the quarter-mile racing scene of decades past.

The two reveal exciting details about their scholarship program supporting trade education, their commitment to veterans, and how their First Friday cruise-ins are bringing new life to downtown businesses. Don't miss this fun conversation filled with classic car nostalgia, community spirit, and a few laughs about the meaning behind their unique club name!

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Speaker 00:

Hi, I'm Mayor Keegan Schmicker with our next episode of the Tipton Thrives podcast. And today we've got an exciting and I guarantee a funny episode with Jack Wagons Car Club. We have Heath Moreland and Brian Roberts with us today. I just want to jump right in and start with the name. And if I can't, because... You hear the term jack wagons. Maybe my father has called me that on time or two. I had to look it up, but I just want to ask. There's a couple different definitions. I just want to be very clear to our audience members exactly what definition you're sticking with. Of course, jack wagon is a slang term. Sometimes it's definition one, loser, someone who is totally worthless.

Speaker 02:

That's part of it.

Speaker 00:

Definition two, lame, whiny, pathetic, sissy punk looking for a pity party.

Speaker 02:

That's part of them,

Speaker 00:

too. Someone who annoys the crap out of you? Very rude?

Speaker 02:

That's absolutely a good one.

Speaker 00:

Or the last definition, a person who does not understand how to drive according to the rules of the road. Which of those definitions? Could you be very specific so we know for obvious? I would probably say all of those. Oh, so it's actually a combination of all

Speaker 03:

of them. The most appropriate answer would be yes. Okay. Yes. I think you covered

Speaker 01:

it all pretty well.

Speaker 00:

Well, of course, as you guys know and have been educating me, in fact, just a few months ago, a Brian, you were talking to me about the quarter mile.

Speaker 03:

Quarter mile. Quarter mile.

Speaker 00:

Car clubs are not new to Tipton County. In fact, it's got a significantly rich history. So if you can, briefly, sort of talk about that. Why maybe even from your members' perspective, why it's been so important and why this... I think renaissance really in the car club. I think you can

Speaker 02:

do that better than I can because I'm not actually from here, but I hear the

Speaker 03:

story. Sure. Well, so my dad and my uncles were actually in that club.

Speaker 00:

Wow.

Speaker 03:

And so I am almost 52. There's pictures of me probably seven years old, and they would do two or two-and-a-half-day car shows inside the 4-H building.

Unknown:

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 03:

And so, in fact, there's even a story, and it is legit. They had hired Porter Wagner and Dolly Parton to come perform at one of their car shows. Really? And from the time that they signed their contract to when the event was, Dolly blew up huge. And so, as... The guys have told us, Vic Brown and stuff like that, that was the only time that the car show was ever shoulder to shoulder. It was packed. Wow. But, yeah, so, I mean, even, you know, 45, 50 years ago, car guys were getting together. Yeah. Of course, quarter milers, kind of the connotation of that would be drag racing. Sure. So there was multiple guys that had drag cars around the area. Wow. But there were some other guys that had show cars. I don't know if you've heard the name tossed around, Steve Tansey. Yeah. But Steve Tansey is just a world-renowned... car builder, and then his buddy, Glenn Urie. Glenn Urie was kind of his right-hand man, and both of them were phenomenal car builders in their own right. Both of them were phenomenal painters in their own right. They actually have a

Speaker 02:

famous car that's still down in North Carolina now. It's the Coke machine. It's got Coke sides to it, to a machine. Really? It's really cool. Yeah, so

Speaker 03:

it's a roughly... I don't know, probably about a 1928 like Model A, but it's been customized and the side doors has got the old Coca-Cola machine doors. Yeah, for $300,000, it's yours. Yep, and it was built right here. Built right here. That's phenomenal. But yeah, so they would go up to Bunker Hill and do drag racing, but they would also host car events. And then as we've gotten to know, got to know them even deeper than seven-year-old me, And by the way, they did have a clubhouse down on Sweetland Avenue. My memories as a little guy is walking into the pool table and being too little to look up a pool table. But yeah, but I mean, they would do car shows. And as we've spoken with Vic and the guys, they were already, you know, backing different events and youth events. And so again, long before the jack wagon started, Lame idiots that can't drive and obey the rules of the road. That stuff's been happening here in Tipton for a long

Speaker 02:

time. It did go dead for a while. A few of them parked uptown and As we traveled around and seen it in our journey, we said, you know what, let's get that started.

Speaker 00:

Yeah, so that's a great segue. You guys have been now operating under this new car club for how many years? Three? Yeah, let's go to third. Third year? Yeah, third, fourth year. And so the, I mean, from day one, it just seemed like there was automatic or just naturally this support. Folks who, of course, have the cars, and of course, when you own a car like that, you revel in that opportunity to show it off. But how has that response been from the community, resurrecting this car club and recruiting folks to participate? I

Speaker 02:

think the first cruising we had two years ago, we had 40-some cars. It was really cool because you had the old guys that came up here. And Heath and I talk about, you know, when they parked and we're going and, the smiles on their faces of being able to actually go downtown and park. Because there for a while, I guess, back in the day, there was a rift. They wouldn't let them park downtown no more. Oh. Yeah. And it kind of went away, whatever, you know, in the 60s, 70s, all that stuff. They probably do it during the Jack Wagons. Oh, yeah. But just sitting back and seeing the smiles on their faces, and it still tickles you to this day.

Speaker 03:

Yeah, definitely. It's been really cool. to see the support. I think I've told you that the cruise-ins, we average getting people from just over 30 towns and cities. So, I mean, people love downtown. In fact, when I started helping the Pork Festival and I wanted to move the Pork Festival show from the park into downtown, I kind of got threatened. So they love the park for that show, but for the cruise-ins... For the Crewsons, they love our courthouse. We go to places where you might have to walk two blocks to get to a restaurant. You literally walk across the road here. Or in the case of the Mad Tap, you just walk up the corner.

Speaker 02:

Yep. That's the other thing, too. People would always say, we're so glad that Tipton is back in the car scene. Yeah. And, I mean, that's it. Yeah. That's been like, wow, you know, that's kind of cool. So then you start, again, go back to the history of it, right? You start learning and seeing the cool people coming. It came over when they were probably in their 20s and 30s. They're now 70s, 80s with their cars. Right. Pretty cool.

Speaker 00:

Yeah, so over that time, of course, gaining some more attention, more support. As you've mentioned, you guys are attracting folks from 30-plus communities across the state. Yeah. which is where my interest lies. You know, this is a great opportunity to introduce people to the city of Tipton who doesn't love a car show. I mean, just to take kids or other family members and see the interesting cars that I've certainly, maybe I saw some of these when I was young, but mostly in magazines and TV shows and to see these works of art. And you can see that the passion invested in those. So yeah, Talking now, we're getting ready to head into car show season, right? Weather's turning. You wouldn't know it today, but a little windy and cold. But right around the corner, you guys have a show coming up. Yes. Here in May. Tell us a little bit about that. Go,

Speaker 02:

Brian. I'm doing Friday night cruisings this year, right? So we'll be on the first Fridays. Yep. Our passion's always been, even when we did this two years ago, was we wanted to promote the city. Yep. And now we have the opportunity to jump in with all these great entities downtown to show them off. And, again, it's neat to watch people go, man, that's a neat store. And there's no credit to ours. It's just getting people to come to our city. So the way that we've approached this is that we're doing this, and these people are guests of our town. How can we make them feel comfortable? in our town and know that we're a giving town and a good town. That's the whole, in our opinion, the whole just move to that.

Speaker 03:

Yeah, and just to kind of dovetail off of that, from the jump, you know, as car people that go all around the state, you know, we drive two and a half hours one way to go to car shows. Sure. And so we have that unique perspective of seeing the other towns and coming back home and being like, oh, my goodness, Tipton has got so much to offer. People need to see this town. And so previously we've been on the third Friday, but when an opportunity came up to join up with the local shops on the first Friday, that's where our heart's been from the jump. Yep. And so now we're going to do first Fridays when the shops are open. Yep. You know, one of my things is, you know, asking for volunteers is a way for Brian and I to break away and anybody else in our core group to make sure that we go and acknowledge, tip our hat, say hi, conversation to every person that's there. When they come, we want them to have an experience in Tipton. Now, we want it to be cool like an event, but we want them to leave with the experience of coming to Tipton. And that's the shopping. That's the food. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 02:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we've got to show them the best time we can and stuff. Again, so then we flip to our sponsors that we pick up, right? How can we promote our sponsors for the least amount of money to give them the best quality of showing that we can? I don't know, but our sponsors are amazing. We've tripled this year. So grateful for that. Yeah. And, you know, we just enjoy it. Now we're shooting videos at people's stores, and they're just doing crazy stuff. Yeah. You know, with the car show, though, that night, we'll start parking cars downtown about 4.30. Yeah. No earlier. No earlier. Yeah, no earlier. And then, you know, we got bands this year, and we're going to obviously promote our downtown. Yep. But we reached out for food trucks. So we got two local ones coming to the first one. Cool. Then after the next three... We reached out. So we got a food truck coming from Fishers. We're excited about the August. We'll get to that later. But we have a food truck coming from Lafayette that's just amazing. So we've tried to bring other people in.

Speaker 00:

Yeah, absolutely. So you have a band coming May, is it May 2nd? Yes,

Speaker 03:

the first one's Friday, May 2nd. The band will be the Time Travelers out of the Kokomo-Galveston area. Anybody that was at the 4-H Fair last year that might have went to see them as a former... band member, people come to me, oh, have you ever seen this band? And I had all kinds of people come. Like, okay, they're on the list. Absolutely. And then, Brian, the food trucks, I think you said, were doing... They're local at night. They're local. So, I mean, Bogey's Tacos will be there. Okay. And is the E.T. Dinner going? E.T. Dinner. Very good. And then... Right now, the dessert truck, I think, is open.

Speaker 02:

Yeah, but we got, who else is that little guy? Kiwanis. Kiwanis. We love the Kiwanis. They come down. Them guys are great. Hey, get up here every time. They're a non-profit also. And help them out. We've opened a door for that. Just tell us. You want to come up? Come on.

Speaker 00:

Yeah. I appreciate and what I like about the way you guys have just organically grown this. And through the success and excitement, now folks are reaching out to support, become sponsors. Yeah. Before I transition to the sponsors, the way you're working collaboratively with the downtown community, you said by invitation, would you guys mind joining our event? We're now leveraging efforts from a variety of groups and concentrating. How can we not only leverage your audience with the car shows and the visitors to that, but then The activities are already taking place, already being programmed by the First Fridays group. Now we're actually commingling, maybe demographics that wouldn't otherwise commingle. Now the folks who would come to Horton's for the First Fridays maybe have never been to a car show or just it's never hit that. Now that they're there, like, why wouldn't I? Because it's already an opportunity. And then conversely, your audience kind of is like, we didn't come here to shop. We came for the car show, but again, went and tipped in. Why not? So that's what I love about this. The other

Speaker 02:

factor is too, you know, now, now the husband's got a reason to come to Tipton. Yeah. So now they can go out to warm bikes first. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Sure. We've even thought about that back then. There are guys, there are people that, you know, there are a lot of wives that come with their husbands. Yep. And there's been a couple of times they've come in, oh, the shops aren't open. Right. Now guess what? They're open. Yep. And there was one car show we had last year. It was on a Saturday. Yep. And, uh, I'm not good with names here. The place right off the side there, the bargain place, uh, Oh, Tim's. Yeah, Tim's. And the place on the south side, they were ecstatic on just that one car show. Yeah. Because these people walk around their place, you know.

Speaker 03:

Sure. And I was like, yeah, that's what it's about, right? Correct. It's about growing and growing again. And since Tim's has even stocked some of those 10 signs that are all automotive-based, he's got a whole car people out there go, yeah. But he's got a whole two or three shelves of just car stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. That's fantastic. Yeah. It's awesome. But, I mean, I don't want to get too far ahead here on you, but one of the things I did want to say about, you know, the shopping and stuff like that in Tipton, you know, we had an event where we were doing something downtown in December, and we had a couple ladies that came by that were from Muncie, and it was their first time ever being in Tipton to shop.

Speaker 00:

Wow.

Speaker 03:

And so they were asking, hey, are there any more shops down here? And they were pointing east down 28. And we're like, yeah. Urban Homestead and Anchored in Hope is down there. And, of course, Second Blessings. My daughter's 26. She and her friends love to go thrifting. They love it. I'm like, absolutely, there's more. They're like, this is the best-kept secret in all

Speaker 00:

of Indiana. That is fantastic.

Speaker 02:

You'll hear that a lot. More than I think people really need to hear that. Don't believe it. It's the truth. As far as car guys go, again, you talk about us going to other towns and stuff. This town's got a little something. Oh, you're the Tipton Show.

Speaker 03:

Yeah, that's... It's humbling. Cool. It's like, yeah.

Speaker 00:

That is very cool. So then your sponsors have, I think... Maybe you said you tripled the number of supporters this year. How many folks do you got supporting the Jack Wagons Car Club this year?

Speaker 03:

Well, it's enough that I had to print off a list. So, I mean, on top of being Jack Wagons, you know, and over 50.

Speaker 02:

The thing of it is, you've got locals as far as, and then we've got people as far as Lafayette and Sheridan. Oh, so it's not even just local. We've got people that are calling us and saying, hey, we would like to get in on that. This is really interesting. Who are you? And thank you. You know what I mean? Well, so-and-so said, you got this. So it's like, wow. You know, again, we're doing this because we want to give back to our community and care. You know what I mean? So it's kind of cool to see other people see that engagement in your community that wants to come and join us.

Speaker 03:

Yeah. Well, in fact, our first sponsor ever. We were starting to do more and more cruisings and stuff. And Brian got me using this product called Jack's Wax. It's a car show. It's a little bit above your armor rolls and requires and stuff like that. But anyway, so he got me using it. And so we kind of had this little meeting about some ideas and like, hey, we want to support the kids in our area. We want to support the veterans in our area. And he goes... Our friend, our dealer. Yeah, he's on the speed dial. Yeah, our dealer goes back to his shop owner, and Jack's Wax of Lafayette, just off of 26 there by the Walmart in 65, they were our first ever sponsor. Wow. And they've been on from the jump and are still on. Wow. And so now we have sponsors out of Sharpsville, Greentown, Sheridan. If you want to count, our diamond sponsor this year is Lisa Stokes Bayer. Yeah. Century 21. Absolutely. Now, she has roots in Tipton. Absolutely. It goes beyond graduating from Tipton. She and I were in the same fifth grade play. Oh. Lisa played Georgie, Davy Crockett. I got you, girl. But, yeah, so. Was he the Bayer? No, ironically, Georgie actually stuttered, and the only time she didn't stutter was if she sang. What? I know. That's what I'm talking about. So, time to up the voltage. I have no idea what they're

Speaker 02:

talking about. Yeah, we'll lose you. Listen, if we stay here too long, we're

Speaker 03:

being good right now. But, yeah, so, I mean, you know, it's probably just as easy, and, boy, I hope that I haven't forgotten anybody, but... Yeah,

Speaker 00:

that list was outdated the moment you printed it, right? Folks are reaching out every day. I

Speaker 02:

had to tweak it. As I told you, our email, we kind of oopsied it. And then he's called and said, hey, this one group. And then I get on there, I'm like, oh, wow, we got– One that we didn't, you know, we just throw it out there, right? Yeah. I'm like, hey, here we are. Yeah. So, yeah. And that just happened, what,

Speaker 03:

two weeks ago, three weeks ago? A couple weeks ago. Cool. The nickname definitely fits.

Speaker 00:

We are learning this. As we

Speaker 03:

tried to become more official and a little more streamlined and get some of that data collection down to one spot, as we were putting out sponsors, we decided to use the Jack Wagons website. It's Gmail, isn't it? Gmail. Yahoo. It's Yahoo. See, I'm

Speaker 00:

going to mail it. Trying to log into the wrong Gmail.

Unknown:

Neither Brian nor I thought to put...

Speaker 00:

the mailbox on either one of our phones, somebody... Because that over 50 thing you were talking about. I'm telling you, I'm

Speaker 03:

telling you. Yeah, I'm writing a check today. But yeah, so a best one of Tipton gets a hold of us, like, hey, answer my email or call me or something. And Brian and I are looking at each other like, what are you? And so we open up the email. IU Health is in there. Best One is in there. It's like, we're idiots, but we're so sorry. It's been really

Speaker 02:

cool.

Speaker 03:

But yeah, so if you don't mind. No, please do. Yeah, Lisa Stokes Bayer Century 21 is our top diamond sponsor. Platinum sponsors, Moonlight Services, Powder Coating and Plasma Cutting. That's out of the Greentown area. Rocky Top Laser Designs. If anybody bought hats from us, last year. That's them. Urban Homestead is also a platinum sponsor. Did you want to go through any of these? You're

Speaker 02:

doing a fantastic job.

Speaker 03:

Gold Level sponsor, E Street Provisions. Shout out to them and the 1844s. Tipton Ford, love having the car people on. Tipton Ford, Guffey's Garage, Jack's Wax of Lafayette, Mud Creek Metalworks out of Sharpsville. They are the fabricators, designers of the Veterans Park Bench. Oh, yeah. That is being donated. Longtime staple, the South Pole. Pfeiffer's Fitness, Pfeiffer Edwards Insurance, our shirts this year. If the public wants t-shirts, I think we can make that happen this year. We connected with one of the farmer's market vendors, Jessica Kendall Sparker, Sparky's Quirky Creations. So she's doing our merch this year. The Greenhouse Cafe slash Love Bug Food Truck. Smash Burgers. Duke Energy, Dan Young Chevrolet GMC. Beck's Hybrids, Larson's and Sons Target Sports. That's out of Sheridan. But they're from here. Yep. Yeah. Yep. Yep. So that's cool. Best One Tipton, they like what is happening so much. Their coupon in our pamphlet, they're opening the coupon to all stores based on the Jack Wagons promo code. So there's people watching what's happening in Tipton right now.

Speaker 00:

That's fantastic.

Speaker 03:

Silver Level, Anchored in Hope, Jim Dandy, MPI, and then our Friends Level, Tipton Pizza King Subway, and In Memory of Bobby Betts. So, yeah.

Speaker 02:

Just blessed. I don't know what else to say. I mean, you know, a lot of this portion of this money goes to, of course, we'll get to that later, but our scholarship and things that we do for the kids. And, again, just totally our price point. You guys are cheap. We don't want any more money. We get exactly what we need, do exactly what we want for, and it's cheap for you. We're going to promote the crap out of you. Make sure that we can– Do the best we can.

Speaker 00:

We've offered a good segue. I wanted to get to the scholarship opportunity that I feel like is new for the organization. Talk a little bit about that. Where's the idea come from? What is the support? What's the mission behind that?

Speaker 02:

When the club began and we started talking about things as we started growing, hey, you know, let's see if we can be a 501C. So we started doing that. What was the things that we– Oh, that's too hard. We

Speaker 03:

can't do that while we're a 501C3. But

Speaker 02:

there was two main things that we wanted to do and we thought would take a while. One was we love veterans, right? So obviously we did the veterans bench. It's gorgeous. So we got that out of the way. So we thought, well, we'll do a scholarship, not this year but next year. And all of a sudden, we started looking at our funds. We're like, whoa, okay, we can do it this year. We can do $250,000. That's what the plan was. The goal is to do it at both our schools, right? Because I'm from Treston and he's from Tipton. But then all of a sudden, we started getting a little more money. So now we're very happy to announce that the two from Tipton are going to be two $500,000 scholarships. Oh, wow. So we're getting a grand this year for that. Wow. And with that being said, we're really focusing on the kid that, It'll be for a boy and a girl that wants to go to a two-year associate's degree. I think sometimes those kids have forgotten about a little bit of their other stuff, and they're needed. I mean, trades are needed. I mean, girls who want to go cut hair, they may not have the money to buy their scissors and things. What do they want to use it for? We're going to give it away, and they can use it. Again, it's just giving back to those kids in the community.

Speaker 00:

Yeah. Is it going to be a degree or... degree focused? Do they have to go into the trays for two years, but they can do something that's automotive related, construction related, welding related? All of the above.

Speaker 03:

What we're doing with the scholarship, it does not have to be automotive related. In fact, that's actually how Duke Energy got involved. Their program, so there's a possibility our scholarship could end up being one of their linemen or line down the way, you know. So, but yeah, so it's just anything to your degree. It kind of comes from, you know, part of the club is like while we do love cars, we like making memories too, you know. And so the memories of our grandparents, they were trade people. They worked with their hands. Sure. And so, because we're not anti-college, anti-four-year. No, right. We're just pro-making memories and just all that. But, yeah, so anything like that. And like he said, for those people that cut their hair, anybody that's going to go to cosmetology school. Yeah. And if it's a matter of they might not have lunch to eat, if you need to bill $10 off of that to go eat that day because you know you can't focus hungry. Correct. And maybe it's a software program. Maybe it's a computer enhancement. Whatever it takes to get them down the road. I personally went to ITT, so I had gas money every night. So whatever it takes to keep them getting to class, yes, use it.

Speaker 00:

Correct. That's fantastic. I mean, it's exciting from your perspective to see the goal was two $250 scholarships because of the success are now doubled that scholarship. So I think just really helping that student get closer to that goal of getting the two-year degree so that they can put those new skills to work. I think that's fantastic.

Speaker 02:

It still goes back to, as far as being able to do that, it goes back to... Every sponsor that gives money in our community made that happen. All we did was have the luxury of handing that out. That's the way we looked at that. They're the ones that made it happen. We're just having fun. We're just parking cars, having a blast. It has absolutely nothing to do about us, really. It's the sponsors, the people that come to the cruise ends and throw the dollar in a bucket for Hot Wheels for kids and so on and so forth. We just get the pleasure. Being a facilitator. Absolutely. And it's freaking amazing. That's the cool part about it.

Speaker 03:

Two years ago, when we did our first show specific to raise funds for the Veterans Park Bench, we had people double back to their wallet. They put in a 10 the first time. Like, oh, it's for the veterans? Here's another 10 or here's another 20. The CAR people love supporting the kids and veterans. It's ironic that we're filming this during Passover week because we use the word blessed all the time. Because we feel so out of control of the good things that are happening. It's got to be something beyond a couple jack wagons.

Speaker 02:

You talk about the scholarship and you just go on to the Christmas time. We do a lot there with buying cars and Hot Wheels. Again, seeing that kid, it may be all we get. It's cool to see that. To sit back and again to watch our older people Go up on that stage with us and pass out that. I think that's going to mean more to us watching their face to finally get to do

Speaker 00:

something. Yeah. Well, I'm really excited about this season with Jack Wagons Car Club in the city of Tipton. You've got a lot of shows lined up for the summer. I assume you'll have the car show for the Pork Festival in the park again this year. That always seems to go really well. So super excited. Is there anything we've missed today that you would–

Speaker 02:

Yeah, honestly, the one thing that we want to push is that 4th of July. Yes. We're having a huge car show in the park on the 4th of July. He's had shows down there, and it's probably about 150 cars. With that being said, we're having two food trucks down there. One's his family. We're bringing one for the Muncie area, and she's going to have fresh strawberry shortcakes, she says. Wow. And hopefully we can expand this a little bit more and have a little more fun. Sure. Car Show specifically is for our scholarship stuff.

Speaker 00:

Yeah, I think we're hopeful to work with you guys. Of course, we've got the July 4th fireworks display. We really want to make this more of a day-long celebration of our nation's independence. And so I think we're trying to work together to see can we do some kind of– parade with the cars or just celebrate the car show. So glad you made that mention because we're excited about that. We'll get something done for sure, right? I mean, again,

Speaker 03:

that's what it's about for sure. I've got a couple muskets. We could put a Chevy and a Ford against each other. A classic duel. Yeah, a classic duel. And I would also like to say, just remind people, we've had a few people that didn't realize that the cruise-ins were not paid to walk through. The cruise-ins downtown, the bands during cruise-in nights, that's all free. Come down, have fun. Yes, you have to pay for your food truck and

Speaker 02:

all that stuff. Again, The sponsors paid for that stuff. Yeah. The sponsors gave money for the bands and stuff and other people. And you'd be amazed. Last year, real quick, during our season, I was passing off pamphlets that we had left over and talking to people. And you'd be amazed about, that's free? Like, what do you mean? You didn't know it was free? Yeah, yeah, come on. Have a good time. You know what I mean? Yeah. So we definitely need to find a way that we can communicate a little bit better with our community on that. What's the answer? We don't know. Oh, yeah. So we're going to start popping some. We're going to make some nice. Maybe a podcast. Well, I mean... Here we

Speaker 03:

are. Yeah.

Speaker 02:

See you next week.

Speaker 03:

Live from the donkey arena. Yeah.

Speaker 01:

Yeah.

Speaker 03:

Oh, boy. And then the last thing I'll say is just, you know, just want to reach out. We do have an idea because I think we're going to do some yard games during... I don't want to put too much out there, but we're going to do some yard games. We do have a person that we do want to ask specifically, but you don't have to own a car if you want to come help. Help us do registration. Again, even one hour gives Brian and I a one-hour chance to make it. If you can help a half an hour or an hour, you know, we've talked about KidZone. I hope it's going to work out. We've been communicating with a slot car club out of Kokomo that is working on building a portable slot car track to bring up. So anyway, so again, a half an hour or an hour, you have no idea the impact that that will make for one of us to be able to do that. You do not have to own a car. If you've ever seen my car, you know you don't have to own a night. car to come hang

Speaker 02:

out with us. You've got our breakfast club that we're doing. I know we missed out on it. We've got to get going. The breakfast club, we had a ton of people just coming and talking. Again, it's about community. It's about the love of cars and it's about the love of people.

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Our people's trying to show love through cars and people. We can do it all.

Speaker 00:

Thank you, Heath. Thank you, Brian. This has been a lot of fun chatting about this, celebrating your success thus far. Even Shout-outs to your supporters and introducing us to your scholarship opportunity that you'll be unveiling this year. So I appreciate your guys' time. Be on the lookout for the promotions for the car shows that are coming up. The first one is on May 2nd. They'll have the Time Travelers. They're partnering with the First Fridays group. So be on the lookout for that. Put it on your calendar. Make downtown Tipton a destination for May 2nd. Thanks again for your participation today. My name is Keegan Schmicker, Mayor of the City of Tipton, and thanks for tuning in.