Yeah.

Um, that came with my store that I purchased in 1995, '6.

Um, I bought a, I bought a camera store, and like most camera stores of the time, there's a window sill in the front and there's some old cameras to get your attention.

So when I bought the store, I said, "Well, what about the old cameras?" They go, "Please, just take them.

We're done." The family didn't wanna have the store anymore, "Just leave them." Like, that's really cool.

There's a Yashica there.

There was, there's a...

[laughs]

[laughs]

The project came from 2020... 2016 is the first time I came up with this project, and, um, it, it came out of politics.

It, it originally was the whole base of me going on a rant, um, with just some choices that my country has made and, and I said, "You know what? There's gotta be a middle.

You know, we, we have too much left and we have too much right.

I wanna live in the middle.

I wanna find more people in the middle.

Where's the middle?" And I literally, where's the middle? And then Google, where's the middle? And I find out the middle is a place called Kingsley, Kansas.

Mm

Mm-hmm.

And the other is that most of the jobs that were available, I didn't really want.

Um, so I wound up kind of weirdly, after a couple of months at home and sort of just trying to take the next job that, uh, came my way, I, I took a job as a project manager at The Manhattan Institute, um, working on the health policy team.

And that was just sort of like a roll of the dice.

Um, I was...

This was at the kind of the beginning of the campus free speech stuff.

Mm-hmm.

I joined, I think, the second week of July 2020 and then just ran out the clock at the Office of Personnel Management, so that was fun.