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The What is going on, everybody?

And thank y'all again so very much for joining us here on Expanded Perspectives with me,

Cam Hale.

And as always, as I have pointed out before, and I found the new way I would like to introduce

him, but it involves foul language, so I'm not going to do it.

I will just say my friend, Kyle Philson.

How's it going, everybody?

Yes.

I'm here in Skelican Studios.

A bit overwhelmed today. I'll tell you why. My wife, if you don't know. Here we go. My wife has a green thumb and loves to grow plants. We got greenhouse. Well, we had a greenhouse. It's gone now. Now the wind cooking. Yeah.

But we got garden.

The inside of my house looks like a greenhouse.

There's so many houseplants.

Anyways, there was this event coming up called Bloomverse. Bloomverse. She's already got one plan called Plant Con and it's in October. Anyways, we went there. I thought there'd maybe be 30, 40 people in this thing. I had no idea that everybody is into houseplants. It was packed like sardines. Like you say like a couple hundred or like a couple thousand? A couple thousand.

Jeez, for plants. In a venue that probably could only hold 300. I'm sure it violated all kinds.

I should have called my brother because it's in Arlington and he's a fireman in Arlington.

You're going to get everybody in trouble just so you can look at plants. There's like 20,000 people in here.

Yeah.

Going to get everybody thrown out so you can walk around and look at plants in peace? I hung in there for about 30 minutes and after so many people bumping into me and just rudely like pushing you out of the way. I was like, Lee, we got to get out of here. Well, you pointed out. It almost got into that when we were at the state fair got so busy there.

It's crazy.

Just the influx of people that are here now compared to what it does like, like you pointed out. Little things, next thing you know, you're overwhelmed like a wave. What's funny is like when I was younger, like in my 20s, crowds like that didn't bother me at all. There weren't crowds like that. That's a good point. That's the other thing is they, yeah, they were crowds, but not like that.

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