(mid-tempo guitar music) ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ Hey ♪ - Welcome to "A Shot of Ag."

I'm your host, Rob Sharkey.

I'm a fifth-generation farmer, and I farm to feed y'all.

But what if you farmed to help empower people with disabilities?

Today we're gonna be talking with Damien and Sherri Navarro from Frankfort, Illinois.

How you guys doing?

- Good.

- Good.

- Yeah, yeah, this is part two, second show.

We had you on last week.

We talked about how you met each other because he was wearing a singlet.

That makes sense, and then- - Thank you.

- You started a company where you are removing asbestos.

And that led to you guys buying a little farm property.

And you both came to the conclusion separately that that property needed to be used to better people.

We also talked about your son Carter, who has Down Syndrome, and how that played into it and how you are using that farm to help people with abilities is what you... Now it's okay to say disability?

- Absolutely.

- It is, yes.

- Okay, but you were saying it's to help people with abilities.

Yes, was that a good recap?

- That was awesome.

- I believe so.

- Yeah, you can always go back and watch the other show.

There's partial nudity involved.

That's what we call a teaser to try to get people to... Yeah.

Okay, all right, so your farm, tell us again what you're all raising.

- We are raising people up to be mighty.

(Rob laughs) And we're raising crops, all different kinds, what you can go and get at a farm stand.

And also, whatever we have left over, especially when our season is ending, we like to turn it over into product that we sell for a donation at our farm stand as well.

- From our tomatoes to our peppers, from Carolina Reaper, ghost pepper, habanero, jalapeno, bell peppers, from tomatoes to garlic to asparagus to berries.

- But I think we have more tomatoes and more peppers than anything.

- Well, yeah.

- We are a little heavy on it.

- Because of this.

Yeah, we are heavy on it.

- [Rob] Well, everybody loves a tomato.

- Right, yeah.

- Odd cameramen like peppers.

(all laugh) With this, I mean, you guys, obviously, you're not making money on the farm side of it, but y'all have to keep the doors open, too.

I mean, selling this stuff doesn't cover that.

I mean, how do you do it?

- Well, we do offer programs.

So, like, after we bought this land in 2020, and in 2021, we decided to start a program.

So we have individuals coming there for programs two or three days a week for about two hours.

And they just come and socialize.

They come and help out at the farm and work.

And then we have field trips coming.

We have transition groups coming.

We have team-building people coming, so, like, companies- - ComEd, Exxon.

- Like ComEd will come out, and they'll just, what can we do?

And their thing this year is really wanting to work on big projects like a goat play yard or- - Putting up greenhouses.

- Putting up picnic tables and an educational space for the field trips.

So that's kinda nice 'cause they help us with our grounds and getting everything cleaned up.

- Chicago Fire, the soccer team, will be out next week.

They're gonna be painting a lot of the buildings on our- - Oh, yeah?

- Storage bins.

- Storage bins, yeah.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- The storage containers that hold a lot of our equipment.

- Yeah.

- Oh, nice.

- You know, so we have apparel.

We have obviously products that we brought here for you guys to sample if you like.

And what else do we have?

- We have events.

We have events that we do charge for.

So these events are involving our individuals with different abilities.

So we have a talent show.

Farmer's Got Talent is what it's called.

It's the main fundraiser for us.

- We also have Ego Pro Wrestling.

- We have wrestling, pro wrestling, at our farm.

- And at the end of- - All right, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

(Rob laughs) You have pro wrestling?

- We have pro wrestling.

- We do, we do.

- That is correct.

- Like the Macho Man?

- Like Macho.

- Oh, yeah!

- We have lucha libre.

- You have to understand a lot of the kids at... I shouldn't say kids, they're young adults, they all wanna be wrestlers.

I don't know what it is.

They have the passion.

- The kids with Down's?

- Yes, my son.

- So you mainly deal with Down's and autism?

- Yes, like, my son's dream is just to be a wrestler.

- Really?

- That's it.

- They know every wrestler, every walkout song.

- And the thing is he actually has a belt that we have hanging up at the farm.

I was gonna bring that if we didn't bring this.

And it's for him to keep this title.

So every time they come, you know, his match is at the end, and it's to fight for the barn belt.

- Oh!

- Yeah, it's pretty cool.

- So he actually gets in the ring with the wrestlers.

They do training.

So we also offer training.

- [Sherri] For these guys, 'cause they all wanna be in the ring.

- For our individuals, they never are gonna have the opportunity.

Nah, I wouldn't say never, but rarely would they get an opportunity to walk into a wrestling ring with their song that they wanna play, ring announcement, go with a pro wrestler, learn holds.

We don't do throws.

We don't do anything dangerous.

- That movie, "Peanut Butter Falcon."

- Oh, "Peanut Butter Falcon" is a great example.

- I haven't seen it.

- Awesome movie to watch.

Is there wrestling in there?

- There's wrestling, yes.

- Yeah, see?

- That shows really, I kinda would say- - Gotta watch the movie.

- Great scenario of how individuals with Down syndrome really feel about wrestling.

Super passionate, know all the wrestlers.

- So these are indie wrestlers, right?

These aren't, like, the WWE guys either?

- Well, there's guys that wrestled for... I can't say the organization, but they're pros.

- Okay.

- Professional.

- We actually did reach out to WWE for my son's 18th birthday.

- And they sent help.

And they're the ones that hooked us up with these pro wrestlers.

- Pro wrestlers.

- But they also did shout-outs to my son.

- Oh, nice.

- So I have video.

And I can't remember the wrestler's name.

- And we had Kofi, I don't know, some of the pro wrestlers from- - Kofi Kingston?

- Yeah, he came out to an event.

- Oh, you're kidding me?

That's a big name.

- Also, the guys who runs it, Robert, for us, or I wouldn't say for us, but runs it.

We helped get the organization started, Ego Wrestling, with him.

- Okay.

- So, because there was such a drive and a passion for it, but not only with our farm but individuals countrywide that love it that are special needs.

- So if you missed it last week, these two lovebirds first met when Damien was a wrestler in high school.

So Damien, when you got the wrestlers out there, do you ever throw the singlet on and go- - Do you know- - I was considering it.

- I was going to buy you a singlet.

I literally wish now- - Literally never had a woman- - We keep bringing up singlets.

- Tell me that before.

- I was going to bring one here.

- Mark that one off.

- Oh no.

- Never, never, never heard that.

- I don't know how I feel about this right now.

- I'm oddly okay with it.

(Damien and Sherri laugh) - But here's, on a different note, this is what our barn looks like.

And at our barn- - Look who changed the subject all of a sudden.

(all laugh) - And at our farm, we have animals.

And yes, we do have a purple cow.

So you can talk about the purple cow.

- Oh, purple cow.

- Okay, yeah.

- I guess we'll transition to purple cow.

- And I'm sorry- - Anything but a singlet.

(all laugh) - [Sherri] I don't like singlets.

- So I do wanna touch on the wrestling real fast.

They walk out these two doors, they open up.

We have a patio, a concrete patio.

There is a pro wrestling ring on the patio to walk out to their song- - Oh, yeah.

- Jump in the ring.

- [Sherri] Their dressing room is upstairs in the barn.

- [Damien] And their dressing room is upstairs, so our wrestlers, our farmers, will be with the pro wrestlers, and they get to do that the day before.

It's awesome.

- Before we jump onto something else, we also have the live Nativity for Christmas.

- Oh my gosh.

- Which is amazing.

So I didn't wanna forget that.

- What she started and manages every year, solely her, it's her baby, and it's life changing.

- And we have a live donkey, a camel.

- Do you have a dromedary?

- Mini camel.

- No.

- What's that?

- That's a one-humped camel.

- No, we have a two-humped.

- You have a two-humped camel?

- No, I don't know what we have.

It's a camel though.

- Okay.

- And it spits and it stinks.

It's disgusting seriously.

- Oddest damn show.

- Spitting camel.

- Singlets and camels and dromedaries.

- Yes.

- So a purple cow?

- Purple cow?

- Yeah.

- All right, so- - You can tell the story.

- Well, if you see our shirt here, on our logo, we have a tree, we have a red barn, and we have a- - Purple cow.

- Purple cow.

So one day at our farm stand, this grandmother walked up to me and said- - With this little, her grandson.

- Yeah, well, her grandson named Joey.

She goes, "My grandson would like to talk to you.

He's adamant to ask you a question."

I said, "Well, go ahead, ask me, Joey."

So Joey said, "Mr.

Navarro, I see a tree on the farm.

I see the red barn.

But I don't see any cows here, let alone a purple cow."

He's about four or five years old.

I said, "Well, Joey, we did it 'cause it looked cool."

And he goes, "Well, that's lying."

I said, "Wow, okay, Joey."

So he had me thinking, (Rob laughing) so the rest of the day, I was distraught.

So Joey had me- - But things like that come up where he's like, "We need the purple cow."

- So yeah, I told Sherri, I said, "This young boy just called us out on our apparel.

Either we gotta change everything, our whole logo, or we gotta get us a purple cow."

She goes, "What are you, crazy?

There's no purple cows."

And she goes, "Spraypaint a cow?"

I said, "No, we can't do that.

PETA would be all mad at us."

- [Rob] Would've been my first choice, yeah.

- So I paid to have a purple cow made, and it's a life-sized cow.

And it's plastic, it's purple, it's at our farm, and it tells you a little story about Joey, Joey the Cow.

Joey the Cow- - Oh, you named the cow after the kid?

- We did.

- We named him Joey.

The cow's name is Joey.

And it is purple at our farm just like this cow here.

You'll see it on a stand with lights on it with a little plaque describing the story of Joey questioning me about the cow.

And although Joey will never bear milk for us or eat hay, Joey will always be there to stay.

- The story is better than the milk.

- And the cutest thing about it is Joey brought his grandma and his mom and, I think, the whole family.

They took a picture.

And I thought, how cute would it be when Joey grows up and gets married and brings his kids to Navarro Farm, and this kid, or the cow it sits- - This is not a Joey by the way.

- I know.

- Yeah.

- I don't understand why- - What's on there?

- That's a Jolene.

- Jolene?

(all laugh) Well, I guess so.

- That's okay.

I'm calling you out now.

- But here's what's interesting.

We had a filming of our town.

- Yeah?

- At the farm.

- By Lemon Films.

And I believe you can look it up, by Lemon Films.

And it shows the whole town of Frankfort, and it's featuring the purple cow.

We had no idea, in marketing or in filming, purple cow represents something.

- [Rob] Oh?

- It represents- - Where is a beer.

- A hidden gem.

- A what?

- A hidden gem.

- A hidden gem.

- And we are the hidden gem of Frankfort, Illinois.

- Oh!

- So a purple cow has many- - We found that out, we didn't know that.

- Yeah.

- Oh.

- And we are considered the hidden gem, the purple cow, of Frankfort, Illinois.

- [Rob] Well, fantastic, let's eat stuff.

- All right.

- Oh!

- Okay.

- Let's talk about our stuff.

- Yeah, tell us what you got here.

- Okay.

- So we have three spaghetti sauces.

We don't have the other one here, but it's a vodka sauce.

- Oh.

- Which I think is- - You didn't bring the vodka sauce?

- We didn't bring the vodka sauce, but it is by far the greatest.

- What types you got there?

- We have basil.

- Uh huh.

- Damien, you wanna hold that one up?

- And we have garlic.

- Garlic, very garlicky.

- [Rob] Let's do the garlic.

- Oh, there you go.

- Yeah.

- It's gonna come out your pores.

You ain't gotta worry about vampires if you eat that.

- You just gonna pour it in your mouth?

- We didn't get spoons, did we?

- Do your finger.

- Do you wanna just pour it?

- Oh, he's not shy.

- It's really garlicky, isn't it?

- No, well... - It used to be... We told 'em to cut down the garlic.

It was very garlicky.

- For me, that's not too much.

- And then, we have salsas.

We have A Little Heat.

- Well, first it goes A Little Sweet, which is very addicting.

Then the heat.

- Can't wait.

- And then the Dare to Dance.

But also, we wanna show that, on our labels, is a little... - [Damien] Well, you're still okay?

- [Sherri] Are you liking that?

- [Damien] No, I don't know- - [Rob] I'm doing fine by myself.

You can continue, carry on.

- Here is a little drawing which is done by one of our farmers here, 'cause we like to showcase- - They do the artwork.

- [Sherri] Their talents and abilities.

- Now here's where we get serious, folks.

We get serious with our Rip Your Face Off made with Carolina Reaper.

That'll get you going.

Make sure you have moist wipes when you take that.

- You named that?

- Yes, we did.

Then we have Curse of the Ghost made with ghost pepper.

And a little taming down.

And we have Some Like it Hot with jalapeno.

And then, Feel the Heat with habanero.

And then, of course, the cleanser palate, we have bees on our farm, and we have a company coming and processing for us, and we have our honey.

- That's your own honey?

- It's our own honey.

- From Frankfort?

- So everything we grow we turn to a food processing plant.

I made the mistake, and I think there's still some parents mad at me, not mad, a little- - Mad.

- Yeah, mad.

So I took 'em when we processed our peppers.

So we take a whole bunch of- - We dehydrate it.

- We dehydrate it.

- We made crushed red peppers with all the peppers.

- We were gonna process it and put 'em in the food processors.

We take it out to Indiana to some normal farm, and we take it out there to process it.

I didn't know the effect of grinding up peppers and- - In the room, the aroma.

- Oh, yeah.

- All of us evacuated the building.

- That's pepper spray.

- I didn't realize that.

- Yeah.

- So there was snot, there was spit.

There was a lot of crying.

- Stick to asbestos.

- Ah, I think some parents are still mad at me.

We don't go for that.

- Is jalapeno, is that the hottest one?

- No.

- No, this is.

This is, Rip Your Face Off.

- Carolina Reaper.

- All right, open that one up.

- I'm gonna open this up.

- Are you gonna try it?

- No, no.

- Or we gonna let- - We're gonna bring in the experts.

- No?

- I don't know.

- All right, well, I'm gonna go like this.

- No, don't cut yourself.

- And just right on the- - PBS ain't gonna cover it.

- Oh, that's all right, I'm gonna... - All right, you're up, big boy.

- Oh, so you got it, okay?

I was really into that.

- I'm gonna shake it up.

I'm gonna shake it up a little more.

- What's gonna make it hotter, shaking it or not shaking it?

- Shaking it, shaking it.

- Oh, shake the hell out of it.

- Okay, I'll shake it.

- Shake it up, shake it up.

- Are you ready for this?

- I'm ready.

- Oh, are you just gonna pour it, or you'll put your finger on it?

- It's got good balance.

- Okay.

- What you gonna do?

- How spicy is it?

- Here, nah, you're good, huh?

- Too bad we didn't have a chip, right?

- It's not bad.

Ghost pepper has the most flavor.

Can you feel the heat?

- Oh, yeah.

(all laugh) - Yeah.

- It's good.

- Yeah.

You wanna start a fire?

Just put on the... - He went back for two.

- You can handle it, huh?

- Oh, look at him.

- This is your hottest?

- That's our hottest.

- What is wrong with you?

- Can you handle it?

- Yeah.

- You from Down South?

- Wow.

- That's good.

- He has no soul.

- Why is that one a different color?

- Okay, give him this one.

- Which one?

So they're all different.

- The second one.

- This one?

- That second, yeah, yeah.

- Because the pepper's- - That one is the jalapeno.

- You want some of that?

- Oh.

- This is, like, a- - Kinda wanna try that one.

- Some Like It Hot and Sweet.

- We might be able to- - I can't.

Can't even see the thing to even tear it.

- What is wrong with you?

- Nothing.

- Oh my- - Oh my gosh!

- Oh, just wait, you're gonna be running out of here.

- If you don't stop- - I'm not gonna make fun of him anymore.

- That is crazy.

- Holy cow.

- You a little cray-cray.

- I think ketchup is too spicy.

(Sherri laughs) - His face is gonna be turning red here in a matter of minutes.

- Do you want some water?

- No, I'm good.

- No?

- Oh my gosh!

- Oh my gosh!

- You don't want any?

They have water right there.

- Like, you're the first that can handle it.

Wow, that's impressive.

- Oh, that- - Oh, this one has a- - That's spicy.

Lid's off.

- So that looks like- - How do you like?

- Mm.

- How does he, "Mm"?

- Do you know I have never tried those?

- I don't blame you.

- 'Cause I don't just- - I don't blame you.

I can smell this thing.

- I'm not a hot sauce person.

No, no.

- Aw, come on.

- It just cleared my sinuses.

- Uh uh, I have never tried them.

- Do you wanna- - No, no, I might run out of here.

- Oh my gosh.

- Does that hurt your feelings she doesn't wanna drink after you?

- Oh, no!

- What are you trying to tell him?

- Dude, I'm impressed.

- I am impressed too.

- Congratulations.

- Yeah, thank you.

- Yeah, that was impressive.

- That was good, thank you.

- That's impressive.

- That was good stuff.

- All right, appreciate it.

- You aren't gonna clap for him?

- He just drank it like it was nothing.

- I know.

- All right, we gotta pick it up a notch.

- Yeah, yeah.

- All right.

- Everybody's scared of him here.

- Now I can see why.

- I can see why, too.

I was wondering, like, hey, what is it?

Well, now we know.

Whew.

What were we talking about?

- I don't know, we went off- - I think we were just talking about the products, you know?

- What's your best seller?

- The vodka sauce.

- The vodka sauce and our little sweet salsa.

- Which we don't have here.

- No, and we'll get pictures every night of empty jars.

- We were sold out.

- Oh.

- Two little empty jars, like, an hour after they- - Does it actually have vodka in it?

- No, oh, yeah, no.

The vodka sauce?

- No, it's just the- - No, we quit.

- It's just a red sauce.

- Give me that.

- We're on the wagon.

- The microphones don't like that.

- Oh, okay.

- Yeah.

- So he's squishing it.

- Okay.

Okay, so tell me about if you have a person with, you know, Down's, autism, and they go to your farm, they're working, I mean, What are they gonna do?

What are they gonna be working?

How is that gonna help them?

- Oh, well, so it helps them by multitasking, and it helps them, you know, when, let's say, if you're autistic, a lot of 'em just get stuff in patterns, right?

And they wanna stick to that routine and that pattern.

We help transition out of that pattern and put 'em in a comfortable environment to where they're not used to doing the same thing, but we're teaching 'em.

They're being taught by our volunteers and our staff to do different things that they normally wouldn't do that's out of that daily structure.

- And some people are like, "No, I'm not going there, I won't wanna farm."

But it's more than farming.

You know, it's one thing to hear about it, but it's another thing to be there.

- Yeah, and the social aspect of it as well.

So not only are they learning how to plant, how to maintain, how to harvest, then we have chefs come in and they'll teach cooking.

So now they'll create that independence while they're... You know, when they're home, we're finding from parents that they're getting more involved with cooking or they're wanting to cook, because they're hands on.

They're learning all these aspects at the farm.

So we're teaching 'em how to grow, maintain it, harvest it, and then cook it.

We like to go through to dish.

- And then, even at the farm stand, so they're working with people, they're learning customer service.

You know, they'll help the people and load their groceries in the car.

- So the people with abilities, they're working there too?

- Yes.

- Yes.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

- So do you have- - Life skills, it's just, like, letting them learn life skills.

We do have animals, and animals are very therapeutic.

We have nine Nigerian dwarf goats.

- Oh.

- We had nine pigs, but we gave- - And we started off with two.

- Some away.

We have four pigs now.

- It went to nine real fast.

- Did you eat 'em?

- No.

- No.

- No, we just had to... They were eating all of our food.

- They were eating everything.

- So we got rid of some of 'em, passed 'em along to another farmer.

- Boy, they're like rabbits.

They multiply fast.

- We have rabbits.

- Squealing like a pig came- - We have a bunny.

No, a couple bunnies.

And we have chickens.

And we have hens.

- And we make sure we have the chickens next to the rabbits.

So, when people wanna know where Easter eggs come from- - Oh, I see.

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- So you think that's funny?

- I thought it was.

- How many times have you had to suffer that joke?

- People believe it when they come on field trips, and I'm like, "The rabbits are next to the chickens.

When you mate 'em, that's how your Easter eggs come.

That's why it never"... Really?

- Okay, tell me what this means to both of you, and I want you both to answer.

I don't care who goes first.

What's it mean to you that you guys have built this place and what you are seeing, how the effects it is having on other peoples' kids?

- It's very impactful like you said.

It's life changing, it's fulfillment, you know?

You feel like you have a purpose.

I mean, you don't wanna leave the farm.

There's always stuff to be done.

But you just like being there.

That's one thing I always said is that, you know, when I prayed, I would just ask that God just, when people step foot on the property, they would feel God's process.

And that is one thing that people always say when they come to the farm.

There's just something special about this place.

I feel something here.

- Oh, we've read that all the time.

- You know, and that's one thing that we do all the time is we have our worship at the farm once a month.

Well, all of our individuals are farmers.

If you come to the farm, you're a farmer.

So a lot of our farmers come, and they just, like, just to see them, you know?

- Pour their heart out.

- Singing and dancing and pouring out their heart.

- And passion.

- And yeah, but it's life changing.

Seeing that they have a purpose, seeing their lives change, and seeing them be not social to social, and just wanting to be at the farm every day.

They don't care if they just sit there.

They're the most patient people.

They just wanna be at the farm, you know?

- My thoughts of it is legacy.

- Yeah.

- Our legacy isn't the money that we leave behind after we're gone.

The impact we made in peoples' lives.

So I get emotional when I think about it.

- [Rob] There's nothing wrong with that.

- Yeah, yeah.

- So ROI is, again, return on impact that we've made not only in our community but in peoples' lives.

That's what Navarro Farm is.

- You fit a theme of people that are dedicating their life to helping people with disabilities, that are not looking to make money off of it.

I imagine it's a struggle.

And it seems like, every time we interview someone like yourselves, it is a situation where they are just so giving and giving and giving, but the world is a cruel place, and you all need money to make things work.

So if people want to donate, throw you a few bucks, and why wouldn't they, where would they go?

- Right to our website.

- Yep, our website.

- Navarrofarm.org, and there's a donation page on there.

And every bit of our donations, 100% goes directly to farm.

It's not going to staff.

It goes directly to, you know, impacting the farm.

- And I will say a lot of those donations that, you know, like, a lot of our individuals have health issues.

So they have lots of bills.

So we struggle with a lot of people that their kid wants to be at the farm every day, but they can't afford the program.

They can't afford.

And we've had some organizations give money specifically for those kids in need.

- Scholarships.

- But unfortunately, it's probably the least one that we have, because if we could let everyone come for free, oh my god, it's hard to say no.

- Oh, yeah.

- It's so hard to say no.

And we don't.

- That'd be our goal.

- We don't really say no.

We just, you know, make it happen, but it's something that we definitely need.

- Find a way.

- Yeah, when there's a will, there's a way.

- Is there opportunities to grow acreage-wise, or are you guys kinda where you're at?

- There is, we're- - There's so much potential there, oh my gosh.

- Getting ground next to you is always hard.

- Yeah.

- It is, but we're, you know, our dream would be to buy the surrounding farmland, put up housing, inclusive housing for them, so they can live there- - That's the dream.

- On the property, manage it- - And work.

- And we have a community that... We already had renderings of it called Ephphatha.

- [Sherri] Mm-hmm.

- [Rob] Mm-hmm.

- Ephphatha, it means, when Jesus prayed for someone, it opened up their ears.

Now they can hear.

So we wanna open up peoples' ears- - Or was it their eyes?

- Eyes and ears.

Or their eyes and see, I don't know.

- I gotta look that up.

It's somewhere in the Bible.

- Details.

- Yeah, there's details, apparently I don't have 'em.

- It's been a while.

- It's not a very big book.

(all laugh) - But it's been a while- - It's somewhere in the- - Bring the Bible in here.

- We kinda set that dream on the back burner just to, like, finish what we have going on.

- To refine it.

- Sure, yeah.

- Yeah, to make it better.

And that's the thing.

Not knowing anything about farming, and doing everything the first time, how can we make it better?

- There's no playbook out there- - No.

- To do what we're doing.

- It's like, we run something, and now it's like, okay, how can we make this better?

How can we make this better?

That's how we're doing it.

- Because we feel people just do enough to get by for our individuals, but they deserve more.

- That's unacceptable.

- It's unacceptable.

- That's what I do though.

- You just get by?

- It's easy to fall into that, and we all- - Yeah, complacency.

- Complacency.

- Comfortable.

- No, no, they deserve more.

- Yeah.

- And we're gonna make sure that they have it at Navarro Farm.

- Yeah, and first impression is everything.

- Well, that's fantastic.

I don't even know how to ask this, but I mean, you look at Carter, and was it actually a blessing?

- Oh!

- Yes.

- That he was born with Down?

- You didn't understand it at the time, but man, like, I couldn't even imagine my life.

Like, I don't even know if I would even be, you know- - I think our son lets us appreciate not only him but our daughters and the community.

- Yeah.

- So much more better.

- We've done two shows, and we've still ran out of time.

- Oh, shoot.

- I blame the singlet talk.

And I blame the hot sauce in that.

- All right.

- But Damien and Sherri, I wanna thank you guys for not just coming to the show, but for what you do for humanity.

- Thank you.

- Thank you, appreciate that.

- There is a very small group of people that pull the cart for the rest of the world, and you two are definitely doing that.

You're making a difference in so many, not just the peoples' lives, but their family's lives as well too, so you should be very, very proud.

I'm sure it can be a very thankless job at times, but I, for one, and our audience wants to thank you for everything that you guys do.

- Thank you, we appreciate that.

- Yeah, definitely.

Everybody else, we'll catch you next time.

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