Edwardsville

I'm not sure exactly where in Illinois.

Somewhere near Edwardsville, potentially.

I, I need to recheck that.

But anyway, what really got me thinking that direction is back then I used to astral project.

I'm waiting.

So, have you gone into stores recently and noticed that a lot more stores, including Dierberg's in Edwardsville?

Okay.

Did you do research?

I don't know that we had any...

They did decide, okay, this is more work than it's...

But I did, as an Edwardsville native, go stand on the football field the collinsville kayhawks joining forces with granite city warriors and mascota indians and there were other ones that were involved in their freeburg midgets as well which is just a little bit different but still nonetheless it's like come and take my mascot from my cold dead hands or their mascot but i'll i'll hold it for him

would you say that we won the this is an ask me anything question would you say that we won the covid battle whether it be in Illinois or nationally as people.

The efficiency apartments became modern rooms that aim to keep the original Route 66 era feel.

Cheryl Eichardt-Jett of Edwardsville is an author and historian who studied Route 66.

She says even with just 10 rooms to let and being in a small town in Missouri, the Shamar Court Motel has an enthusiastic target market.

There's tremendous interest, both from Americans and from our international friends that visit, to stay in what they feel is authentic.

I'm not sure exactly where in Illinois.

Somewhere near Edwardsville, potentially.

I, I need to recheck that.

But anyway, what really got me thinking that direction is back then I used to astral project.

Um, that luckily was not as bad as, as anyone thought it was going to end up being.

Um, but you, you take your lumps in that one, Jake Curry, who's, who's from Charleston, um, uh, I believe, no, Edwardsville, excuse me, Edwardsville.

He goes in, he does the best he can as a number two, but just was one of those things that everyone was emotional.

And so West Florida ends up going up as your first loss in a game that everyone walks away being disappointed from.

They're having fun.

But, uh, I had a student from Southern Illinois, uh, university Edwardsville.

He walked up to me and he's like, that's going to be mine.

And I'm like, well, how do you know? And he's like, well, we've never won anything before, but we're going to get in line for STT and we're going to make it.