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That's funny, that's funny. I actually do have cowboy boots and I have a few hats. I don't wear them. I wear shorts and t-shirts most of the time. Like I said, I'm an office guy now. I've wore a lot of, I mean, okay, as a kid I grew up working on ranches. I mean, that's how you made money. I rode bulls when I was a teenager for fun with my buddies. think of the rest Texas life yeah that's how it was in the 80s and 90s especially around here Parker County and Rutherford the town just to the east of us is the cutting horse capital of the world they say Taylor Sheridan the guy that wrote land man and Yellowstone and all that stuff from around here he owns a lot of land around here and they film a lot around. Billy Bob Thornton owns a house in Rutherford. They're filming land land right around here. They filmed a lot of Yellowstone and 1883. 1883 was filmed just down the street from there. Parts of it anyhow. So yeah, you know, and funny enough as a kid in the 80s and especially the 90s, I mean, you know, I was born in 1980s my teenage years were the mid 90s right and back then this town was dead dead as a doornail one or two shops maybe open downtown the Baker Hotel was trashed I mean it was but they cleaned it up a lot but in the past few years yeah it was just a dead town and slowly but surely people started investing in town again and over the past 10 years, it's really been about a 10, 12 year project. It completely changed this town. I mean, even from being dead to people walking downtown every day, there's not hardly an empty shop downtown. Most of the buildings have been remodeled, they're being used, brought up to code. As a 45-year-old man who's lived here all of his life other than living in the military and about a year up in New York, it makes me very, very proud to tell people about our town now. If it was like it was back in the 90s, I probably wouldn't tell anybody. I mean, it was the mass capital of the world, if you will, but no, I mean, this community has worked hard and I'm pretty proud of it these days. My family has been here since the 1880s and my great-great-grandfather moved here, opened one of the first general stores and I actually have a bench, I can show you pictures, out in my garage that he built when they moved to Mineral Wells.