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Speaker 1: Our own Brook Fox, for the majority of her adolescent

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Speaker 1: life lived in a small town called Spirit Lake, Idaho.

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Speaker 1: That's right, y, yeah, Brook and Jeffrey in the morning,

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Speaker 1: Jose Alexis, any guesses on the population of Spirit Lake

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Speaker 1: and Brooke, I'm sure you're gonna tell me I'm wrong

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Speaker 1: when I read the answer that I just found off

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Speaker 1: the US Census.

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Speaker 2: But that's fine. I mean now is different than when

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Speaker 2: I was growing up, right.

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Speaker 1: Jose Alexis, and he guesses, I'm.

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Speaker 2: Gonna say like three thousand, maybe.

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Speaker 3: Five Lexus, Okay, yeah, I was gonna do that, So

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Speaker 3: I'll pick a new one now and I'll go lower

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Speaker 3: to one thousand.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the answer is two thousand, three hundred and thirty seven.

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Speaker 3: My mom constantly complains about the Growthah. The population sign

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Speaker 3: growing up read, if I remember correctly, seven hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty six.

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Speaker 2: Wow, there's still no stoplight in my home.

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Speaker 1: It's like the New York of Idaho at this point.

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Speaker 1: And the reason that I bring this up is because

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Speaker 1: Brook would agree with me here. Growing up in a

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Speaker 1: rural area can give you some unique experiences that a

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Speaker 1: city folk would be mind boggled by.

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Speaker 3: Oh, for sure, My cousins from La would come and visit,

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Speaker 3: and they could not comprehend why we would oil the roads.

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Speaker 3: Why would you oil the road because they're all dirt,

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Speaker 3: and so you got to put oil down in order to.

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Speaker 2: Keep the dust at bay. See these are things that

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Speaker 2: I thought everyone did.

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Speaker 1: Oiling each other up in Idaho. Is Yeah, it's just

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Speaker 1: the way of life and the road. That's why a

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Speaker 1: survey was done where people shared the most small town

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Speaker 1: things they ever personally witnessed.

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Speaker 2: Oh, bring it on, so broke, you might.

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Speaker 1: Definitely empathize with these people. One person said, the traffic

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Speaker 1: on my town's main street was so sparse that two

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Speaker 1: drivers going in opposite directions would frequently stop and talk

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Speaker 1: to each other for a few minutes in their cars

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Speaker 1: without causing any problems or congestion. It's actually because you

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Speaker 1: would know who it is.

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Speaker 2: It's like, oh my god, that's Bill or so. In

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Speaker 2: my hometown.

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Speaker 3: If you were ever caught in a trapic line, the

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Speaker 3: reason was always Buzzy Booten, because Buzzy was a guy

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Speaker 3: in town still is hi Buzzy and he would drive

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Speaker 3: around old like model T trucks and he only goes

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Speaker 3: forty miles an hour wherever he goes. So if there

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Speaker 3: was a lone of cars, like I would show up

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Speaker 3: to school and be like, sorry, we got caught behind buzzy.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Another person said I had a job in a small

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Speaker 1: town as the only person working for the DMV.

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Speaker 2: What you had a DMV one day?

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Speaker 1: One day there were two people in the room waiting

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Speaker 1: to be helped. Yes, and a third walked down.

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Speaker 2: Oh no.

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Speaker 1: She got so flustered and angry that it was so

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Speaker 1: busy at that DMV. She threw her book at me

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Speaker 1: and stormed off. Well, yeah, turn it into like a

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Speaker 1: town hall meeting. This town's going to hell.

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Speaker 2: Why are all these Californians moving here?

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Speaker 1: The next person said, for our small town of six

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Speaker 1: hundred people, we have a village Facebook page, and the

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Speaker 1: biggest thing that's posted every year is when the ice

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Speaker 1: cream Man shows up. The page goes ballistic. People start

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Speaker 1: sending photos and live updates of where the van is,

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Speaker 1: which direction it's heading. Eventually, the ice cream Man blocked

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Speaker 1: us on Facebook because so many people were dming him.

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Speaker 2: I follow our town's Facebook page.

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Speaker 3: It's mostly lost dogs, so many straight dogs.

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Speaker 2: Not a lot of good news about the ice cream

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Speaker 2: are the dogs that one's posting.

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Speaker 1: Hey guys, if you're just tuning in, people are sharing

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Speaker 1: the most small town things they've ever personally witnessed from

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Speaker 1: individuals who've actually lived there. One woman from a little

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Speaker 1: town in Minnesota said, recently, we had a squirrel festival

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Speaker 1: where they unveiled a new squirrel bridge that retirees made

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Speaker 1: to go from one tree to another so squirrels could

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Speaker 1: have easier access city. Yes, the actual like roads driving

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Speaker 1: on or totally crap, but at least the squirrels have

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Speaker 1: bridges to get from. The squirrels can't go on the

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Speaker 1: roads because there's too much oil from.

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Speaker 2: We don't oil the streets anymore. They have paid them,

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Speaker 2: so yeah.

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Speaker 1: One person wrote, in my former small town, there was

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Speaker 1: an older guy who lost his license after getting a

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Speaker 1: few duy's. Police agreed he was not allowed to operate

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Speaker 1: a car anymore, but they did give him an exception

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Speaker 1: to ride a John Deere lawnmower to the corner bar.

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Speaker 1: So every day at three pm he'd show up, pound

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Speaker 1: a few miller lights, watch TV, and then head a

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Speaker 1: couple of miles back home on his mower because it has.

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Speaker 2: A govern the drinking the problem. It's the vehicle in

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Speaker 2: our town. It was walking Rodney.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Rodney, Yeah, because he had to walk everywhere

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Speaker 3: because he didn't know his license.

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Speaker 1: One guy said, the town I'm from has a single

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Speaker 1: stop light and it's only operational on Thursdays. Why. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Why because the driving exams are held on Thursdays and

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Speaker 1: they're legally required to have at least one stoplight on

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Speaker 1: the exam route. It's the only reason the stoplight was

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Speaker 1: even installed.

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Speaker 2: That's so very smart.

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Speaker 1: This is like Alexis's dream town. No traffic laws except

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Speaker 1: on Thursdays.

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Speaker 2: Except Thursdays. Yeah, I could stay in one. Are you

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Speaker 2: kidding me?

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Speaker 3: Cops pull you over in small towns constantly because they're

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Speaker 3: so bored.

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Speaker 2: That are odds being friends with them and getting out

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Speaker 2: of it. Higher. No, they're just as Jernky.

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Speaker 1: Someone said, my hometown got a McDonald's in nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: six and we ended up having a citywide parade for it.

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Speaker 1: And they actually included a photo from the parade here

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Speaker 1: because they're literally marching down the street with like a

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Speaker 1: giant banner for the McDonald's. That's great. It's funny that

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Speaker 1: even though that photo is taken from nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 1: The people in it looked like they're dressed from like

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Speaker 1: the seventeen hundreds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's probably a theme, the theme of old timing.

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Speaker 1: And finally, a person said, I grew up in a

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Speaker 1: small Missouri river town. There was a combination hair salon,

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Speaker 1: live bait shop. Oh yeah, called Perms and Worms. It

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Speaker 1: was one of the busiest, most successful places in our

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Speaker 1: entire city.

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Speaker 2: Got to be so awesome.

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Speaker 1: Pick up a can of worms on your home from

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Speaker 1: her hair appointment, we all.

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Speaker 3: Went to the tanning salon, which was in the back

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Speaker 3: of the VHS video rental store.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And the florists that I the florist I hired for

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Speaker 3: our wedding also worked at the liquor store, wowing both

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Speaker 3: out of one place productive city.

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Speaker 1: Those were the most small town things people ever witnessed

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Speaker 1: while living in a rural part of this great nation.

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Speaker 2: It's a funny thing to come from a small town.

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Speaker 2: I'm happy I.

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Speaker 1: Live in the city, though.

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Speaker 2: Phone taps coming up right after this