EP 011 — "WHAT I'M GROWING (PART 1)"

It's mid-June in Nashville, my garden is finally cashing in on all the spring prep — this week i did a deep dive on everything I'm currently growing. A lot of fun stuff in here. Flowers people look down on for being too easy. The strawberry that didn't exist 300 years ago until a French spy smuggled one across the ocean. How watermelons used to be pale and were getting stolen all the time. plus why doctors warned that smelling basil would grow a scorpion in your head. 

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Hey, welcome back to the Connor Larson Show, episode 11, I think. And uh thanks for listening. I'm happy you guys are here. I'm pumped. I'm having a great time. It is mid-June, June 16th today, and I am having a lot of fun. I'm out in the garden. Me and my wife are gardening it up, and it's a lot of fun. And uh that's what the episode's gonna be today. I just did, I was I got all this stuff that's coming in, that's finally blooming, that's finally uh we're cashing in on all the the spring prep. And it's fun. And I wanted to know more about the stuff I'm growing because it, you know, for me, if I know something about it, I like it more. Like I read this thing about um, I read this thing about zinnias before I started planting them. I went to this website, I wanted to find like non-GMO seeds, and they had zinnias, and they said that zinnias were great, and that one of the knocks on them was that they were like so easy to grow that that people didn't like them. And I was like, what a weird, that seems insane. Um I started growing zinnias and now I'm like a full on. Now I think zinnias are my favorite flower. There's I'm gonna talk about zinnias more today because they're part of uh the stuff we got growing. But I just find that for me, like a personal little note, if I know something about it, it just makes me enjoy it more. And um there's tons of stuff coming in that I'm excited about. And if you live in uh Tennessee or a similar climate, grow this stuff. It's all it's all easy enough that a dumb guy like me can do it. So if a dumb guy like me can do it, it's pretty easy. Um but yeah, I've been having a great week. I've been uh out in the garden. I burned myself on the I was changing my lawnmower's oil and I was running the engine so that the oil wouldn't be uh all cold and viscous. And I forgot that if you do that, you are heating up the muffler quite a bit. And then I immediately stuck my hand on it and uh burned myself. So that was kind of fun. I liked I like uh pretending like it's a war wound. I like really playing it up. I like telling my wife, like, ah, I don't I don't know if I can fly. I got I have a two millimeter size to burn. Um, but uh yeah, I'm having fun. I'm I'm weed whacking, I'm mowing, I'm finishing our little fence. It's all fun when it's coming in. Once the fruit starts, you start to see it and you start to harvest the stuff, it's like you're like, oh yeah, that's why I was doing all this stuff that I didn't feel like doing. And in Nashville, we're getting our first like great weather. This is it's finally like soft. It's like sunny, it's not that hot, but it's a little hot, it's not humid. It's I'm loving it because I know it's not gonna last. But anyway, I'm gonna talk about um so anything I talk about today is stuff that I'm currently growing in my garden. And uh, I'll have a video up of like the just a little tour of the garden so you can see it if you want. Um, but I'm having a blast. The main things that we're growing, the things that I'm really loving right now, I'm gonna start with uh we got some zinnias. Zinnias are these beautiful weird flowers that come from Mexico. And they are cool because apparently, and this is the other thing too. I'm just gonna I'm gonna do a up top uh disclaimer. Every time I I do research on these things, there's like some nervous garden guy out there who's like, we can't confirm, and you go, I'm not listening no one is living or dying with this, okay? This if I get something wrong about the Xenia, we'll be okay. Um, but I think they're beautiful. They're beautiful, and I I was at Johnny Seeds. Shout out Johnny Seeds. Uh they just sell me stuff at regular prices and have never talked to me, but I like them. Um they I went to their thing and I was looking through the flowers and they had like new, which is such a funny, you know, you see new on like shoes, but I didn't expect to see new flowers. But they're always making new variations, and they had these new ones called like ballerina and linen, they're just beautiful pink and white zinnias. So I got a bunch of them and I was like, I'm gonna plant them. My wife's gonna it's gonna blow her mind. Um and they are beautiful and they are blooming now, but it took a while to get there because here the zinnias are great because they don't need anything. You can just plant them in crappy soil and they actually like it. If you plant them in like rich soil that you've put compost and amended, they don't grow as well. Um, which is great. But it took, I was such a I was overthinking it. And I in the spring I was, you know, growing all these zinnias and seeds, and I couldn't wait for my wife to be like, oh man. And then when you transplant them, they don't like that. So a lot of them didn't make it. And then she she just threw some, like just like ugh, and she just threw them in this little garden that she's like got her own little wildflower garden and they took off and they crushed it. And so I was like, okay, lesson learned. These things really are just throw them in the ground. Um, so then I today or yesterday, I cleared out a huge, like 15-foot area and planted nothing but zinnias, like I mean tons of seeds. And uh so hopefully in 60, 70 days we got just a crazy amount of flowers. But that was a fun um project, and it was interesting reading about them. So people don't like them, uh I guess for whatever reason. They're from Mexico, and they said the the big rumor is that uh the I like saying the big rumor, like this is this is what you're hearing about. It's this in Love Island. That's what people are talking about, that's what people are talking about. Um the rumor though is that the Aztecs uh thought they were ugly and didn't like them. And people say this because there is no Aztec word for Zinnia. There's an Aztec word for marigold and sunflower and a bunch of other stuff, these other Mexican flowers, but there's not one for Zinnia. And when uh when like the Spanish got to Mexico, they didn't like these flowers either. They were like, they it's funny. There's these letters where the guy was basically like, yeah, these suck. Even the poor people here can grow them. Which is like a funny thing I've learned about flowers is if people like flowers that are um fussy, like the roses, which suck, they hurt you, and they easily. I mean, I love roses, they're beautiful, but they suck in terms of they have thorns and they're hard to grow and they're obnoxious about you know their demands sometimes and they don't grow in terrible soil. Everybody loves this. International symbol for love. That's what I like about all the flowers and fruits that are symbols for love are difficult and fussy. And I swear I think it's because for a lot of people, that's what they think love's supposed to be. They go, they go, this thing is difficult. This reminds me of my relationship. That's why roses are the symbol for love. That's my working theory. We'll see if that is true. But um, yeah, it is funny. There is like a real snobbery about flowers that grow easy, people don't like them. I mean, I was talking to something about sunflowers like that. I think sunflowers are gorgeous. I I we cleared off a huge area, and we actually have like 13 different types of um sunflowers coming up, and I'm gonna, that's a that's another video I'll have out on my YouTube. But and it's so cool, and they grow really, you know, you gotta baby them a little bit, but not not much, not anything like uh most flowers. And then they're huge, they're like 10 feet. There's we got little teddy bear ones that are three feet, and we got the Russian mammoth ones that are 10 feet. And I love them, but people don't really, I don't know. For some reason, people don't treat sunflowers as like beautiful flowers all the time. And I think it's because they're not fussy. You know, it's like squeaky, squeaky wheel gets the grease sort of thing. So these flowers that just deal with it, people go, eh, how good could it be? Which I think is uh I don't know. I thought that was an interesting part about it. But so the Xenia's um are really coming in. I'll try to post a picture because we have one that's like really beautiful. I was very, uh, very proud of it. They grew it in um, they grew it in space. They grew, I guess, in the space station. Some guy had a seed and he, you know, did whatever he had to do, grew it in a little plastic bag and they grew up there, which I thought was kind of cool. It was the state flower of Indiana until it wasn't. Apparently, it got like some guy was like, we got to get rid of it, and they voted in the the peony, which seems I don't know. It seems like your state flower should stay your state flower, but that's that's kind of funny. Um, and then yeah, I love growing them here in Tennessee because they're easy and they grow really well. And that's another thing I discovered uh in this episode was that a lot of the best flowers you can grow in Tennessee are from Mexico because I I guess they just map onto each other from a uh climate standpoint. I remember watching a show a long time ago about cooking, and they said if you look at like the latitude on a map, you can you'll see like similar cooking styles. Like Louisville is the same latitude as this city in Korea, and they both had this one pork dish, I can't remember. Um, but it was an interesting idea that like yeah, you kind of can just it's it goes back to that invasive species episode where a lot of stuff from China and uh Japan grow in the southeast of America because they have similar climates. And I, you know, I wouldn't until I start really thinking about it, you kind of just assume they're very different. But um, yeah, interesting to think that if it grows in certain parts of Mexico, you can probably grow it here in Tennessee, which I thought was a cool uh rule of thumb. The other thing we're growing, we're growing strawberries. Strawberries are my personal project. That's I can't get enough strawberries. I love strawberries, I eat them every day. And uh when you grow them, you pretty quickly learn like you're just not growing enough of them. We probably I would say the first year we grew strawberries, which was the last year, we grew 10 bare root plants and never really had enough, and they kept getting eaten by the birds or you know, toads or pests, probably not toads, um, nematodes. Is that what I'm thinking of? Something. And uh we never really had enough strawberries. So this year I was like, all right, well, this year I'm getting a lot more, and I got, you know, maybe 15, 20 plants. And it's, you know, maybe they'll come in. It's supposed to be, they're supposed to harvest soon and they're looking better. But I I think next year I'm going all out. I'm gonna go like I'm gonna pretend like I'm going to the farmer's market and I'm just gonna do rows of I am, I like but bought a big tarp. I'm gonna tarp off a big area and make it just get rid of all the grass. I'm gonna kill the Bermuda grass. I mean, whatever I gotta do to get rid of that grass. God, I hate that stuff. Uh and then plant nothing but strawberries because I love them and but they don't grow, you know, they don't grow enough. And then when you look into it, as with all these fruits I looked into, the the ones you get at the supermarket just kind of suck. We went to this one farmer's market in Lebanon, and uh I wish I could remember this lady's name. But she had these strawberries that were like unbelievable. Like you it was like eating a different thing, and that's another thing that I was seeing in the research here. It's like a lot of the stuff that you get, you're getting the variation of strawberry that's the most shippable and photographs the best at the at the expense of it tasting good, which sucks for us as consumers, right? Like you're on the one hand, you can get them all year, that's nice, you don't have to grow them yourself, but it it is a bummer that um just from an incentive standpoint, growers are gonna be like, well, I'm gonna grow what makes me money. I'm not gonna grow the best strawberry. And then as we change fruits and vegetables over time to make them more shippable or photographed better, we kind of lose the delicious uh variations of them, which I don't know. That bums me out in the same way that like uh an endangered species bums me out, where you're like, just don't lose it. You know what I mean? I want the option to go back if we get to a place where we want to. But um, yes, I was reading about the strawberries. Apparently they used to be tiny, they used to be like teeny tiny, the size of a penny or something in Europe and in North America. And they grew wild, so people would eat them, but they weren't really that into them. And then some guy, some French guy whose name is uh very French. Let me see if I can get it. I'm gonna give it a shot. Amade Francois Fragier. Crazy. Crazy that French people are just walking around with these names. You know what I mean? And they're not going like, I'm gonna go by, I'm gonna go by Frank. Francois, I'm going by Frank. Um so this guy gets sent to South America to try to like steal Spanish gold. There were so many cool jobs back then. You know what I mean? Now you get like hired by Amazon to review complaints or whatever. Back then you would get hired to map Spanish ports so you could steal gold. Um to this guy's over there in in modern day Chile, and he sees these people with these big strawberries, and he's like, what is that? Uh and he brought them back on a boat. You had to keep them alive, a whole boat ride, like nine months, which I think is pretty amazing. And um then he crossbred them with the European ones, which tasted really good, and that's how you get the modern strawberry. The apparently modern strawberries are only like 250 years old. They weren't people weren't eating them, which I always I like thinking about that with history, where you read about stuff and you're like, oh yeah, like you know, on one level you know like Napoleon never had sushi. But Napoleon, well, he might have had a strawberry, depending on how you know, into the I don't know if he was a food guy, but if he was, he might have had one, but he might not. And that's interesting to me. Or he might have had like a tiny one, he never had a big strawberry, um, which is probably good because he had tiny little hands, from what I understand. Um, but also the French guy, MmD Francois Fragé, apparently Fraget, his surname, his last name, it if you trace it, it comes to from the French word for strawberry. So is it all a global conspiracy? Did the is this an Illuminati plot to make strawberries big? I don't know. Probably not. Um, but yeah, so I'm growing a lot of those. I love the strawberries. The problem is you gotta get them. I've realized like everybody else in the garden, like all the animals love strawberries too. So if you see it and it's ripe, you gotta get it. But I will eat our strawberries right after like a supermarket strawberry, and it's nuts. It is it is kind of cool. It's also kind of a bummer that you're like, oh wow, we could be. I mean, it would be difficult and it would be way more expensive, but we could be eating these strawberries. Um actually, I don't even, I don't know if that's true that it'd be difficult. I think a lot of these commercial growers, they could, but they could just make slightly less money and they would uh, but they're never gonna do that. But whatever. I don't want to, I don't want to lose the thread. Um so yeah, that was interesting. I like that. Uh what else are we growing? We're growing uh watermelon. This is my this is my white whale. This is the plant I tried to grow it all last year and I couldn't do it. I just they kept getting eaten. Everybody loves them. The squirrels eat them, the ever that we had deer eating them. I guess uh they say that if you have a lot of water sources in your yard, you stand a better chance because for like animals, they're actually into the fact that watermelons have all this water. That's like the big selling point. And I was looking in the research, that's what for a long time, that's what people liked about watermelon. It was like uh, it was like the first uh Stanley Cup, you know. You could you could put it on your camel or whatever and go across the deck because it would stay there. Um and also, I was reading about this. Watermelons used to be, they didn't used to be red. That's a thing we did. We we liked that they were they looked better when they're red, so we kind of bred for that selectively over time. But uh there's paintings you can see in like the 1500s, 1400s where watermelons they look like washed out. They're kind of they're kind of pink or white. And um, so that's something we were like, nah, no, we can't have that. We gotta uh we gotta do that. And I was reading about the so I asked, I was trying to find out what's the best watermelon. And they were saying the Bradford watermelon, that's the variation, that's the best one. And then I started reading about it, and they said that this one was so good that in like the 1800s in the American South, people would steal them. It was a really big, they really wanted them. So then farmers would poison one watermelon in the field, but not you wouldn't know which one. So you'd be like, Well, do I want to steal it? But then the farmers they said would forget, and there's like horrible newspaper articles about a guy poisoning his family because he forgot, which listen, that's sad, but it's also such a it just is such a crazy from where we are today, where you go, like, do you have eight bucks? Because if you do, you can have a watermelon. Back then they used to be like, you know, there used to be life or death watermelon stuff. Um, which I thought was very interesting. Uh what else did I like about the watermelon? Oh, they found so I was I was reading another thing. They said they found in uh I think Africa, maybe, they found this melon that they think is basically the watermelon's dad. That's what sometimes you hear yourself saying stuff in headphones and you go, what are you saying? But they found uh they found the plant that they think the watermelon came from. And that blew my mind. I didn't realize, I guess I did, but I didn't think about it that you know, plants have like predecessor plants that they they come off of a lot of them. And so I was like, Well, what are the other ones? And this is what I learned about so there's a you can trace corn. There's a thing called teosynth, it's like an old corn, uh, and it it looks weird. So for a long time scientists would fight and say it wasn't, but I guess now they've proven it is. I love that that that's a fight somewhere. Um, carrots were purple and white for most of time, and then we decided they looked better orange, and by we I mean Dutch people, apparently. And they bred them to be orange, and now they're orange, which I think is such a fun. I like that. That you know, Bugs Bunny could have been eating purple carrots. Um they said peaches used to be tiny and and mostly just the pit. And we were like, well, that's that's no good. Uh and then bananas, bananas are like maybe the most messed with fruit. Bananas, I by the time I was done reading about them, I was like, did we curve them too? Is that how much because we've messed with them. Wild bananas have are full of seeds, they're they're hard, and we made them, they don't taste, and they're also not sweet. So they're none of the I actually think it's pretty impressive that someone looked at a wild banana and said, I bet I could make that. Because I love bananas now are incredible, but they made them uh they took all the seeds out, they made them like peelable. They weren't peelable, I guess. They weren't easily peelable, and then they made them sweet, which are pretty big changes that you're almost kind of at that point, you're like, well, we might as well just make something else because this is a whole different thing. Um and then everything has been changed to have better shelf life and ship and all that stuff. But uh oh yeah, they said eggplants. We're growing a lot of eggplants too. I'll maybe I'll cover that in the next episode. Uh the reason they're called eggplants, they used to be small and white, and that's why they're they or leave it look like eggs. That's why they're called eggplants. Um so I like that. I like the the watermelon history. Um, they said they found them uh oh in Japan, they have they grow rectangular watermelons. They plant them in like molds so that they grow as a square and then they harvest them early so they don't they stay a square, and then they sell them for whoever thinks that's I mean, that's a tough way to spend your money, I gotta be honest. If you're spending, you go, and it's like I was reading about it's like 800 yen or something, or 800 US dollars, which is you know, whatever is it 51 billion yen or I don't know what the conversion is, but um they were expensive. So I love the idea that someone's out there uh like missing a mortgage payment to buy a square watermelon. That just kind of shows you the the incredible, you know, the human experience is different for everybody because that that's not gonna happen for me. I would spend at most nine dollars on a square watermelon. Um and then here's what really got me pumped up. This also kind of made me feel bad because I haven't been able to grow a watermelon yet, although I think this year we're doing good. Um the world record watermelon grown right here in Tennessee. It's it was right here. I'm fired up to me. That was the 4th of July. I I loved hearing that. And the world record watermelon is 350 and a half pounds by Chris Kent, who I assume is Superman's brother. Um, and honestly, more impressive. But yeah, I love that. I think that's great. And uh I'm gonna try to beat it this year. Right now I have about a four four millimeter, a two-inch watermelon uh growing out there. So I think I could get it to I think if I really focus, I could get it to like 365 pounds. Um so what else are we growing? We're growing oh, basil. This was the one. This was the one that was like fun to we have a ton of basil and it's taken off, and I really like it. And we have Thai basil, we have Italian basil, and we have one other basil, maybe lemon basil, and it um they're all grown good except for the Thai one. I don't know what I did wrong with that one, but I love basil. We like there's a lot of dishes where you can just chop up tons of basil and put it with like chicken or ground beef and and uh onions and chilies, and it's awesome. Um, so we were doing a lot of that, and the basil's growing great, and I started researching it, being like, this is probably a pretty normal. It's insane. People are insane. Uh the so the thing about basil, in Italy, it's the it's a symbol of love. And then uh everywhere else in the Mediterranean, it used to be a symbol of hatred and scorpions, which I think is because for Italians, that's what love is. But no, I really I did like that everybody else was like, this is about hatred, and then Italians were like, This is love, and you're like, Well, okay. Um but yeah, I have no idea why. So there I was reading a thing they said in in the 1500s, they found like doctors' manuals that said uh doctors would tell people, if you smell basil, you will grow a scorpion in your head, which really puts in perspective. perspective how much better going to the doctor is now. I you know what I mean? I don't like the doctor. I don't try to go. But when you think about like you had something you were worried about back then. You went to the doctor because like your knee hurt and he goes, hey, by the way, just while we're here, you're not sniffing basil, right? And you go, no, and he goes, good, because you'll grow a scorpion in your head and you're like, I gotta find a new doctor. Um but yeah they said uh I don't know why they I don't know why they thought it was scorpions. They just I can't I can't figure anything out. They said um it comes from the Greek word basicalon and it's it's the king of herbs. And they said the cool thing about it the Greek this is what the Greeks said also a great scientific culture. They said uh that it is a cure for the basilisk which is great news because they basilisks don't exist um but I like that as a selling point. Like hey I know if you've been having trouble with basilisks we got some basil something about I mean to me basil is like a very neutral smells good uh just regular little green leaf thing it's it's interesting to me that people had these strong reactions to basil there's stuff I could see them being like what is that like there are like certain plants that look like you know alien jaws or whatever but basil is a weird one to uh to plant it they said in France you're with basil you have to if you want it to grow while you're throwing the seeds and sowing the seeds you have to uh just scream and curse couldn't tell you why but something is going on with basil where everybody is uh everybody's fired up about it um oh this was the best one this is this one actually is romantic so Lizabetta of Messina don't know her um in there's a poem where apparently so her brother murders her lover which you know tough and so then she digs up her lover's head and buries it in a basil pot and then waters it with tears and you're like okay like I the guy who got her lover who got uh murdered I'm sorry you got murdered but you might have dodged a bullet because that lady sounds crazy that if you're watering things with your tears that's a red flag that is you have to reconsider um you know gardening's great for mental health but if you're gonna water stuff with your tears it's not that's how I feel about it. But yeah I love uh we got a lot of basil growing I love it apparently it only reached England in like the 1600s which I love I love whenever England is like late on a food because I have my whole family we get a lot of uh British people in it and they're some of the food is great but a lot of the food's pretty bad or or it's like uh yeah it's pretty bad that's I'll say that it's it is not that much of a uh stereotype there it is a stereotype but it's a true one um that British food sucks because we went over there recently and I was like this is this is not great um great country cool country but you guys got to get your food together okay what else do we grow oh we grew we're going cosmos those are my wife's uh favorite flower and cosmos are awesome because same thing with the zinnias they people look down on them they call them uh peasant flowers because they grow really well and don't take a lot of maintenance and grow in bad soil which again to me depending on what you want to do with your garden that's a selling point I actually think that's great and that's kind of what I tried to plant. Me and my wife I think made a good decision that we planted a lot of uh native perennials so stuff that'll come back that uh brings in pollinators that then go pollinate all the stuff we're growing um and also look great we have cone flowers which I did you know that was in the native plants episode and we have blanket flower and black eyed susans and all sorts of native Tennessee pollinators that come back with like very little maintenance. So I think that's a good way to add a lot of flowers to your garden. And then the ones we're growing these Cosmos and and um zinnias they just grow and it's great. So Cosmos uh there's one that smells exactly like chocolate apparently I didn't get it this year but I want to try to grow it next year because that I love anything that's got like a trick like that. We had a me and my dad drove up to Tennessee once through Alabama and we stopped at a nursery in Birmingham and they had a plant that smelled it's called like pineapple guava or something but it if you eat the leaves it smells like pineapple or it tastes like pineapple and the other day people came over and I was like try it and I ate one because I was like I'll go first and then it was the wrong plant and I was just eating a leaf but so the Cosmos are great. They're for a long time people said they were extinct in the wild the the only way you could keep this especially the chocolate flu uh one was you could you it was you had to buy it and then some guy in Mexico found it and they were like oh okay we'll still still buy it um but yes so they grow super easily and again it because they grow easily people uh look down on them whereas roses uh are kind of a nightmare and they they get treated as the international symbol of love I think that's the biggest lesson I got from this episode is that for some people love is about suffering that's what that's what people's relationships to flowers have taught me. But yeah we uh we grew a lot of that we're growing some marigolds uh our neighbor we had a neighbor when we first moved to this neighborhood who was awesome and she was a big gardener and she helped us a lot early on when we were moving in and then unfortunately she passed uh but before she did she gave us some marigold seeds and then we planted them this year and then we harvested them a few so we know and we're gonna let those seeds dry and then we'll have and I just think that's a fun project to keep the keep those seeds going as long as we can. And all this stuff just makes the garden for me even more fun is having these sort of the the like emotional resonance of it. And uh it's also the per you know for me I think gardening's the perfect perfect balance to comedy and I'm sure whatever job you have out there it's probab probably some portion of it is online and online's kind of crazy. It's nice to just go in the garden and kind of be like oh yeah none of that matters. This stuff's all this stuff's all all my flowers are off social media. You know what I mean? They don't know they're just thinking about the sun and the rain and stuff. They're not they're not tweeting which I appreciate um so yeah I have a bunch more stuff we're growing and we're going to uh I'll do that in um the episode coming out next week but uh today I want to go back out there and do a little more gardening before it gets dark so I'm gonna uh this one's a little bit of a short episode but I hope you really like it. I had a lot of fun learning this stuff. I hope you guys if you can grow this stuff grow it and uh if you think there's something I should be growing that's great let me know. There's been a lot of people who send in really nice comments or helpful comments. I got a lot of uh advice on my getting rid of the lawn project and some of it genuinely helped me so I'm gonna um I'm gonna work on getting rid of the lawn and I will uh film it and the videos will come up as they're ready but yeah all good I got a lot of shows coming up I'll be doing stand up comedy with my buddy Dusty Slay at the mothership in Austin this weekend so Friday Saturday Sunday I think there's just Sunday tickets left but either way that'll be a lot of fun and then I'm headlining the comedy cabin in Janesville Wisconsin July 9th and 10th might be 10th and 11th whatever the Friday Saturday is that um that weekend and I can't wait to get up there comedy cabin is awesome it's like one of the it's a little independent club run by a guy and he's a good guy as opposed to a lot of these chains are you know they're fine I like them but they're they're chains they don't have the same you don't have the same uh uh you know relationship with them so I'm excited to go up there I love that club it is a great club the way they built it is perfect for stand up comedy a lot of clubs you're like you're building this it's it's like the fruit thing where some people are growing it for flavor and some people growing it to maximize profit and uh you know they both got their place but I like the ones with some flavor so yeah I hope you enjoyed the episode thanks for listening keep on uh keep on listening everybody who liked and subscribed and commented that's incredibly kind and I appreciate it very much. Um and uh yeah if you come out to a show maybe I'll see you out there. I'll be back next week with another episode. Thank you everybody for listening.