Brian, before we dive into Whalen Dentistry and, you know, a little bit of background there, share a little bit about your personal background, where you're from originally and what brought you to the Lake Norman area.

So originally from a town not too far north of here, Bluefield, West Virginia, so just about two hours away.

Grew up there, went to high school there, just did all the normal things as a high school student.

I got recruited to play golf at Virginia Tech and be a member of that team, so yeah.

That took me to Blacksburg and spent four years there.

And during that time, I kind of narrowed it down to what I wanted to look at doing career-wise and decided on dental school over medical school.

Um, went to West Virginia university, um, it'd be an in-state and just made the most, most sense.

And specifically, what is sort of the experience that new clients or new patients can expect to experience there at your practice?

when it was built.

And, and so there were a lot of members of the community that talked and, and took part about what they wanted to see, and, and we thought we had a project, um, which, you know, is kinda colloquially known as the, the cap and tunnel project in Buffalo, where we were going to basically, uh, cap with green space, uh, you know, about a mile of the Kensington Expressway toward downtown in the part that was sort of subterranean, um, and connect the, the two neighborhoods on the other side of it with the cap and tunnel.

Well, like I said, there was litigation there, but w- the other thing that we found was, you know, there were a lot of people that wanted it, but there were a lot of people that were opposed to it, too.

Um, and it was messaging that we hadn't necessarily heard throughout the project up until that point, um, which is why we reset.

So when Tajay talks about rebranding, we didn't want the people to think it's the same old Kensington Expressway project that they had heard about before.

And so it was important to say this is about moving the Queen City-

... you know, in the now, you know, close to a year that, that this has been, this has been going on, in these listening sessions and, uh, you know, and, and more?

Yeah.

Who were they? What happened? And, you know, what did you guys discuss about this there on the podcast?

Yeah, so this hits a lot of our just loving stories that are weird.

So the whackers are this couple that endured, uh, in theory, over a decade of harassment, and a lot of it is just completely nonsensical.

Items are stolen from their home.

Items are returned from their home.

Weird notes.

Um, at one point, they do a stakeout to try to, like, catch the people, which is, you know, a lot of fun.

When you began looking for additional information about this case, who had claimed that they had communicated with the witnesses, and what ultimately led you to tracking one of them down?