Lee Edward Smith

And we realized, you know, the entertainment side of things, it's a beautiful industry, but there's so many, this is my famous saying, is like, there's no ceiling, but there's no floor.

Right.

So you can get ties aside, but when things get bad, they can get pretty bad.

And anyone that's an event producer, anyone that's thinking of being an event producer out there, it's a crazy business because you sign on the dotted line and you start negative 600,000.

It's the dumbest business ever.

The expenses for putting your 17 years in.

I mean, I see, you know, when you have the drive, but after 17 years, you think like, people are like, why don't you do another event in another city?

I'm like, if we are paid to produce it all day long, but you know, it's just, there's so much risk.

It's a lot of risk.

Yeah, you're leveraging a lot, a lot of logistics, a lot of risk.

And it's energy.

You're constantly giving energy to the crowd, to the people.

And then you're like, all right, this energy is going to come back one day.

Maybe.

So it's part of the journey.

But I think the kids, we got two dogs like everyone does during the pandemic.

They lived.

And then we said, all right, we're good.

Why not?

There were a couple of farmer's markets open in Virginia.