Plaid, Teams & Hays, Kansas | Calm Conversations to Quiet Your Mind

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Episode 22: Plaid, Sports, and Calm Conversations | A Relaxing Chat with Marco Timpano and Nidhi Khanna
Marco Timpano: Welcome to the Insomnia Project. Sit back, relax, listen, and we're going to have a conversation that's going to be, let's say less than exciting. And we hope that this conversation will allow you to sort of just chill, lie back, and drift off. I want to thank you for joining us. We hope that you will listen and sleep. And I am your host, Marco Timpano.
Nidhi Khanna: And I am your co host, Nidhi Khanna. Marco. Today you are wearing a lovely green plaid shirt. and plaid seems to be all over the place these days.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, in the last few years, plaid has sort of really come into fashion, let's say, or come back into fashion. I have a great plaid story. Have I ever told it to you?
Nidhi Khanna: No.
Marco Timpano: So I had a gig that I had to get a. Some wardrobe for, and it required me to be a lumber mill manager. Oh. So this particular gig that I had required me to wear plaid because that was. That was the sort of look that they were going for with regards to this lumber. Lumber mill manager.
Nidhi Khanna: I don't think there's any other look you could go for when you're dealing
Marco Timpano: with a lumber industry at whole. Right. Because plaid is often associated with lumberjacks.
Nidhi Khanna: Yes.
Marco Timpano: It's also associated with, kilts.
Nidhi Khanna: Yes.
Marco Timpano: Or tartans.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: I think in North America, you can say plaid or tartan, and it means the same thing, if I'm not mistaken. So anyways, this was. Oh, Nidhi, this was maybe 15 years ago, let's say.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay, maybe.
Marco Timpano: Maybe between 10 and 15 years ago. And plaid was not in fashion at that time. So I had to get myself three plaid shirts because I was playing three different people who worked in lumber industry, not just a mill manager. There was other. I can't even remember the characters, but they were all involved in the lumber industry, and what they wanted for look was plaid and khaki.
Nidhi Khanna: Did. Did you have to get three different types of. Types of plaids and different colors or.
Marco Timpano: Or styles or whatnot? They just had to look distinct. Distinct. because they wanted to be. Really differentiate the characters. Nidhi. I went to every single store. No one had plaid, really, at the time. No one had plaid. And of course, I had some colleagues, too, who were also looking for plaid because they were doing different roles that required plaid, and they were having no luck. So then I went to thrift shops thinking, okay, well, certainly we'll find plaid at thrift shops. It was so hard to find plaids. And I was able to find. I went to three different thrift shops, and I found one plaid shirt that fit me in each thrift shop. The last thrift shop, I bought, quite simply the ugliest plaid plaid shirt you could ever, ever find.
Nidhi Khanna: Now, how can it be so. So when I think of plaid, I, simply think of sort of the square pattern and the black and the red. So what made this one so ugly in comparison to other plaid shirts?
Marco Timpano: Forest green, crimson, red and white. Oh, and they were. There was big swatches of white or big. I don't know how you would call it, like, lines of, white. And when I Wore it. It made me feel very silly. If I looked in the window, in the window, in the mirror, I would be thinking myself, what am I wearing? This looks ridiculous, right? Cut to a few years back when plaid came into style or was back in fashion.
Nidhi Khanna: Sure.
Marco Timpano: Even today, you can go to almost every store and you'll find plaid.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, plaid's back in a big way this year.
Marco Timpano: Nitty. So I dig out these costumes or wardrobe that I had for a particular gig, and I start wearing them, and my ugly plaid shirt becomes this cool, unique plaid that no one has because it was an older plaid shirt that I found, 10 years ago in a thrift store. So it would just indicate to you how old this plaid shirt could possibly be. And I wore it, and I loved it. And I think I still have it. And if I have it, I'll show you next time. I hope I have it. But I. It m. It was a little bit short in the sleeve was the problem.
Nidhi Khanna: So you became, like a hipster fashion
Marco Timpano: icon, I'm telling you. And then most recently, I had to do a photo shoot for. For headshots, as an actor needs headshots. And I picked this as a casual shirt, and it's plaid. And now you can. And I remember talking to my colleague and saying, do you remember how hard it was to find plaid when we were doing that particular gig? And she was like, it was nearly impossible. And she goes. And I'm like, now you can't shake a stick without seeing a plaid shirt of some sort.
Nidhi Khanna: You know what they say, when you're looking for something, you can never find it.
I was looking for bedspreads that have a beach feel to them
Marco Timpano: Because I was also looking for bed sheets or not bed sheets. What do you call, bed. The top cover. The bed.
Nidhi Khanna: Like the duvet cover?
Marco Timpano: Yeah, like duvet covers or bedspreads. That's what I'm trying to say. Bedspreads that have a beach feel to them. So I was looking for, you know, ones that might have sand dollars and starfish on them or that might just be colors of the sand in the ocean for my cottage. Did he still. Or, like, anchors and nautical theme. Nautical theme things. I'm doing the hand signal for a steering wheel for a ship or a ship wheel. and nothing. I can't find them. And so I. We bought other bedspreads, but I'm sure in a year, they're going to be all the rage.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, I'm sure.
Do you have any plaid that you wear or have worn in the past
Marco Timpano: Do you have any plaid that you wear or have worn in the past?
Nidhi Khanna: I'm not a big plaid fan. I'm not a Big patterns, on my shirts.
Marco Timpano: What about kilts? Because I know that plaid is often associated with the Scottish kilt.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah. I think part of my sort of disengagement from plaid is the fact that I went to a school where I had to wear a kilt.
Marco Timpano: Oh, so you had a uniform?
Nidhi Khanna: I had a uniform.
Marco Timpano: I went to a uniform school.
Nidhi Khanna: Did you?
Marco Timpano: In our school, the women had to wear a dark blue, like a navy blue and green and a lighter green plaid. What was your plaid?
Nidhi Khanna: Pretty much the same. It was like a navy blue and green, plaid.
Marco Timpano: And did you, did you not enjoy wearing the kilt? Was it problematic?
Nidhi Khanna: No, I mean, it was fine. It's just that once you've worn a particular item of clothing for so long when you're younger, you kind of associate it with that time. Not, not that it was a bad time, but it, it just. I don't need any more plaid in my life.
Marco Timpano: What about, you know how Burberry. Is kind of like a plaid?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, See I find that a little bit like I'm not, I don't want someone to recognize a label when I'm walking down the street or something.
Marco Timpano: So you wouldn't want a Burberry scarf or like, you know, I think they're famous for like a, I want to say a rain jacket. The inside has the Burberry kind of like. Yeah. So that's not your, not into Burberry at all?
Nidhi Khanna: No, I'm not into like. Yeah, I'm not into like big kind of name brand, like luxury brand items. or, or if I am like I have a couple of things but you wouldn't recognize them with the branding.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Nidhi Khanna: so yeah, I don't like.
Marco Timpano: Yeah, I won't wear things that have, you know how there's some shirts and, and, or even T shirts let's say that have brand names on it. Whether it be like a running shoe brand or like an Emporio Armani will often brand stuff. I don't, I won't wear. I don't like it. I don't like to wear someone else's name or label. I'm not a billboard is how I feel. But I would buy something of high quality that would be a brand name, but I just prefer not to have it on display. Makes sense.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, no, totally. Like, I find it odd when I see you know, even like the Burberry rain jackets for like dogs or, or for what? For dogs or, or when I see little babies or kids dressed up in like luxury brand. Named, clothing. Because it just to me doesn't make sense.
Marco Timpano: I had Burberry cologne.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, I like Burberry cologne.
Marco Timpano: And I like the, I like the scent of that.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, that stuff's good. Or even like a Burberry wallet would be nice. You know, something like that. A little bit more low key. but did you know that now in this day and age. Yes, Marco, apparently you know when you get like a, A baseball cap.
Marco Timpano: Right.
Nidhi Khanna: Like with a team, A sports team's name.
Marco Timpano: Sure.
Nidhi Khanna: Let's say we're in Toronto, so Toronto Raptors cap. There's like a sticker that goes on it. Like a, ah. Like a silver gold sticker that basically says, you know, this is an authentic.
Marco Timpano: Right. That it says. That says it's, it's not, it's, it's associated with the NBA.
Nidhi Khanna: It's usually at the, like, if you have the top. If you have the. Yeah, the lid but like at the bottom.
Marco Timpano: Sure. So the underside.
Nidhi Khanna: The underside. But it's still visible if you don't take it off. Right. And so the other day I was talking to this young person that I work with and he had a cap on with that and I was like, oh, you forgot to remove your sticker. And he's like, him and another young person kind of looked at me and they started laughing and they were like, nidhi, that's the whole thing now. And I was like, I didn't know.
Marco Timpano: There you go. I didn't know even I knew that.
Nidhi Khanna: what did you really.
Marco Timpano: I've seen it, I've seen it. No, you know what's funny, Nidhi, is that, our next show is going to be about doing NBA fantasy, pools. I was talking to Trevor and he was like. I was like, can we do an episode on that? He goes, of course. So stay tuned. We're talking about NBA now, but you're going to hear more about it in an upcoming episode.
Do you like basketball or hockey more than other sports
Nidhi Khanna: Do you like basketball?
Marco Timpano: Not really, no. I, I'm, I mean I can appreciate the difficulty and I can certainly appreciate the teams in the NBA.
Nidhi Khanna: Sure.
Marco Timpano: And the talent that goes into it. I think because I was never great at basketball in grade school and high school that I never really got a love for it. I have friends who are just huge.
Nidhi Khanna: Have you seen a game like that?
Marco Timpano: I have. I have seen a Raptors game live and I had really good tickets. I won them for winning a contest at work on naming something. And and I went to it and I'll be honest with you, I Was a little bit bored really. But I think it's also because I don't fully understand the sport well enough to really enjoy it. And I mean I certainly root for our home team which is the Raptors as you said. But above and beyond that I do love their gear, their we the north logo or their. Yeah, I think that's pretty brilliant. So I, I love everything about the team except watching the game.
Nidhi Khanna: Is there like a particular game that you do enjoy watching or are you not like big watch sports?
Marco Timpano: Here's my thing. I get bored very quickly watching. I prefer to play but I do enjoy, and I think we may have mentioned this, I do enjoy watching Olympic sports.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh yeah, that's right.
Marco Timpano: So. And I particularly enjoy watching the Winter Olympic sports. So that's my thing. I'll tend to watch more national sporting events. Versus team sporting events where the players make millions of dollars. I don't know, I just, I lose interest.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: But I can appreciate people who like, I can certainly appreciate people who enjoy that and watch it and are huge fans like my brother in law Steve and Trevor for example. And I certainly appreciate it but it's not my thing. How about you?
Nidhi Khanna: I enjoy watching basketball definitely. I, I would rather watch something live than a recorded show. However not a recorded show, A
Marco Timpano: recorded game on television. A broadcast.
Nidhi Khanna: Exactly.
Marco Timpano: Except once saw a NHL hockey game. Toronto Maple Leafs against random team. It was amazing to be at Maple Leaf Gardens at the time and just watch a hockey game. I, it was so fast paced, so wonderful. Anyways, sorry to cut you off there. You were saying with the exception of I totally threw you off.
Nidhi Khanna: oh, the exception. Like I, I, if I'm going to a sports bar and watching a game that's fun, you know what I mean? Like if it's a couple of people and you know you're Sunday afternoon and getting some food and some drink, then it's fun. But I do enjoy the experience of live sports when I go like basketball. I'm not as big into hockey quite honestly. I find basketball more energetic sport and a lot more fast paced.
Marco Timpano: And I mean fast in a different way.
Nidhi Khanna: In a different way. But also I find the cool crowd a little bit more like when in basketball because basketball is a way more accessible sport I find than hockey. People are more familiar with it and the types of people who go to the games seem to just go to have fun and to like actually root on for, for fun reasons. You're not really gonna have a basketball Brawl. Whereas hockey, I find, like, the fans are a little too rowdy. And like,
Marco Timpano: And also like, you know, speaking of hockey in Canada and two teams like the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens, it's a whole other thing.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, it is.
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Are there any rugby teams that have plaid or tartan designs
Marco Timpano: Here's something interesting. Are there any teams, to your recollection that have plaid or tartan their design?
Nidhi Khanna: Good question. I don't think so.
Marco Timpano: Not that. Not that come to mind.
Nidhi Khanna: Well, I guess that would be distracting, right? Would it not?
Marco Timpano: I don't know. I just think it's not something that.
Nidhi Khanna: Maybe in soccer perhaps. I don't know. I don't know. What? Rugby, maybe?
Marco Timpano: It's funny you should mention rugby. When I was in Vancouver, I was in the hotel that the All Blacks were staying and.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, amazing.
Marco Timpano: Yeah. So I saw all these rugby players that were huge and just. They were just like big guys who like, were rugby players. I would see them in the elevator. 1 and I was on the floor with the All Blacks and it was pretty cool.
Nidhi Khanna: Was it rowdy?
Marco Timpano: A little bit. A little bit was. But then thankfully I was in a hotel that once you close the door, it was pretty soundproof. It was a really. But it was really interesting to see two be on the floor with the All Blacks because I was constantly going up and down the elevator with All Blacks and I was like, yeah, I guess this is my rugby team. And what a rugby team to have.
Nidhi Khanna: I know. I love the dance that they do at the beginning. Or like the ceremonial kind of, Yeah, I guess. Dance. I mean, what else would you call it? I guess.
Marco Timpano: No, I think it's a ceremonial sort of, I don't know if you'd call it a dance.
Nidhi Khanna: Like, what would it be? Yeah, that's what I'm trying to think.
Marco Timpano: It's a Maori.
Nidhi Khanna: But is it a ceremonial, ritual? yeah, I know it's pretty. It's pretty intense, but it's really like. It's enjoy. It's pretty cool. Like, they, they have a certain energy as well. and the all backs are pretty awesome.
Marco Timpano: Is it called a haka? Is that what it's called?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, something like that. Right?
Marco Timpano: I think it's called a haka. It's ah, a. Like a war cry dance. I don't know. What would you call it?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, I know, I don't like the word dance. Feels off. But, it's.
Marco Timpano: I think it's called a haka. I want to say haka. H, A K. I can't remember, but it's something like that. Anyways, I totally know what you're. What you're saying.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, it's.
Marco Timpano: It's really cool.
What did the boys wear? They wore. Gray slacks, white shirt
so interesting, like, you know, from plaid to sports. I know we go, so. Yeah. So you wore kilt, I think. Funny.
Karim: My.
Marco Timpano: My school had a kill, but the,
Nidhi Khanna: What did the boys wear?
Marco Timpano: They wore. We wore, I like to use the term slacks.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
Marco Timpano: Gray slacks, white shirt.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: Either a burgundy tie if you were senior M, or a blue striped tie that sort of mimicked the kilt of that. The. That the women wore.
Nidhi Khanna: We wore ties and a cardigan.
Marco Timpano: And you had to wear a cardigan?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, we wore a kilt with a white shirt and a navy blue sweater. Or blazer. There was a blazer as well. so the blazer was like the formal wear, with a tie and your tie as. So, so, interestingly enough, my school, when I was. I had gone there from grade two to, grade 11, where in Quebec you go to high school until grade 11.
Marco Timpano: Okay. Until grade 11.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: Or the 11th grade.
Nidhi Khanna: And then you do two years of Seija. Right.
Marco Timpano: So what does that even mean, Seijia?
Nidhi Khanna: It means big waste of time for two years.
Marco Timpano: Okay, fair enough.
Nidhi Khanna: but halfway through my time in high school, they actually switched over. They did a refresh on the M uniform.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: And so it went from like, an older uniform that had been there probably for like 30, 40 years to. To a more modern version.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: and the ties actually were house ties. So you belonged to a house.
Marco Timpano: Oh, like, like, like Hogwarts. Oh, cool. I think you mentioned that once before. Yeah.
Nidhi Khanna: So your tie had, like, the colors of your house on it.
Marco Timpano: And what house did you belong to?
Nidhi Khanna: Delta Beta.
Marco Timpano: Oh, the Gryffindor of the Gryffindor. The Gryffindor of the Gryffindor.
Nidhi Khanna: Totally. He was all like, sports and very
Marco Timpano: like, how's your Quidditch game?
Nidhi Khanna: My Quidditch game is top notch.
Marco Timpano: Oh, that's great. That's great.
Hayes: Have you ever been to Kansas? I have not
we were looking at some of the places that listen to our podcast, and we wanted to mention one of the cool cities that happen to have some listeners from.
Nidhi Khanna: Well, cool city indeed. It's actually Hayes. Ah, Kansas.
Marco Timpano: Hayes. H A Y S or H A Z E?
Nidhi Khanna: Like no H A Y s. Okay. so shout out to Hays and to our listeners there. Hays has a really interesting history.
Marco Timpano: Have you ever been to Kansas?
Nidhi Khanna: I have not. Have you?
Marco Timpano: No, but it's one of the places I really want to go to.
Nidhi Khanna: Really?
Marco Timpano: Yeah, because it's like there's Kansas City, Kansas in Kansas City, Missouri.
Nidhi Khanna: What's the difference? I mean, other than being in different states.
Marco Timpano: I know, but that's what I want to find out. But I've had a friend who stayed, who stayed in Kansas City, Missouri, and then he drove to Kansas City, Kansas.
Nidhi Khanna: Do you think a lot of people mistake where they're supposed to be?
Marco Timpano: I think most people, when they think of Kansas City, they think of Kansas City, Kansas.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah, they don't think of Kansas, Missouri, Missouri.
Marco Timpano: Unless you're from that part of the Midwest. Is it the Midwest? I'm, I'm,
Nidhi Khanna: That's a good question.
Marco Timpano: I'm always a little bit. I always find the Midwest to be a little bit of an obscure sort of, in my mind, obscure sort of term. What, what is the Midwest? But tell us about Hayes and figure
Nidhi Khanna: out what the Midwest is like a huge history is part of like the wild, Wild West. Okay, so it used to be. So, so I think it like it's, it's close to Louisiana if I'm not mistaken.
Marco Timpano: Really?
Nidhi Khanna: Well, hold on. Maybe I'm mistaken all, ah, mistaking all of this. But, yeah, it was part of like, kind of like all those myths you, you, you think about with the Wild west or the old west happened in haze, you know, like, so there was like, you know, vigilante murders and, and sheriffs coming through town.
Marco Timpano: Oh, really? Yeah, this was haze. So this was. Oh, wow.
Nidhi Khanna: and so it's a pretty, It's a pretty. It's got some of kind cool, some cool, historical Roots. And it's also like, got a huge population of German descent. Like, 56% of the population is of German descent.
Marco Timpano: To the.
Nidhi Khanna: To the point where they have their own, like, Oktoberfest, which is pretty cool. but, yeah, it was a frontier town. That's what I meant to say. Yeah, that was the word I was looking for.
Marco Timpano: and we did an episode on Tumbleweed, so I bet there would be tumbleweeds in case.
Nidhi Khanna: I'm sure.
Marco Timpano: Just.
There are 12 states that are considered the Midwest. Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska
Well, well, sorry to cut you off there for nitty, but I'm just going to say there's 12 states, in the north central United States that encompass the Midwest. Illinois.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay.
Marco Timpano: Indiana.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay.
Marco Timpano: Iowa, Good old Kansas that we're talking about. Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio and South Dakota. And. Sorry, Wisconsin. Did I say Wisconsin? Wisconsin as well, makes. Makes up the 12. 12 states that are the. Are considered the Midwest.
Nidhi Khanna: So when you think of, the word Midwest, like, what is the imagery that comes to mind?
Marco Timpano: It always. It always strikes me because Illinois is in the Midwest. Right. I know that. Illinois. I think of Chicago. Right. Midwest. But then you get. Then there's like these frontier kind of, states that I think of, like Kansas. I'm like, they're Midwestern. And then Minnesota's in there. And I think of Minnesota more as a northern state. So it kind of throws me off a little bit. But, yeah, it's just one of those things that I don't like. New England. When you talk about New England, I get that right concept more than I do when it comes to the Midwest. how many people live in hays?
Nidhi Khanna: There's about 21,000, which is interesting. It's like the largest kind of city, I guess in northwestern Kansas.
Marco Timpano: Okay. Which, I love finding out about famous people from home, like places like. Like that. Like my hometown. Who's a famous person from there and whatnot. certainly, you know, I would guess there's gonna be like, maybe a football player or maybe, you know, some famous frontiersman or.
Nidhi Khanna: Okay. Well, there's a bunch of Old west figures that are famous, including Calamity Jane.
Marco Timpano: Oh, she's from Hays.
Nidhi Khanna: Buffalo Bill. Or lived in Hayes during a period.
Marco Timpano: Okay.
Nidhi Khanna: General George Custer. and then other ones, who have been born or lived in Hayes include the business magnate Philip Anschutz.
Marco Timpano: No idea who that is.
Nidhi Khanna: U.S. senator Jerry Morin and feminist legal pioneer Francis Tilton Weaver.
Marco Timpano: Wow.
Nidhi Khanna: I want to know who Philip Anschutz.
Marco Timpano: He's some sort of wealthy individual.
Nidhi Khanna: Oh, he bought out his father's drilling company, Circle A Drilling. And then, he started to invest in, like, entertainment companies, co founding Major League Soccer as well as multiple teams including the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chicago Fire, Houston Dynamo, San Jose Earthquakes, and the New York New Jersey Metro Stars. He also owned State Snakes in the. In the Los Angeles Kings.
Marco Timpano: Oh, wow. So this guy had money and he enjoyed his sports.
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: So there you go. Well, that sort of sums up Hays, Kansas. Thank you for looking into that nitty. maybe one day we'll record from Hays, Kansas. Good old Hayes. We always say that we're going to record in these places. Have you been. I've asked you if you've been to Kansas. Amanda's been to Kansas. I haven't yet.
Nidhi Khanna: Amanda's m been to almost every state.
Marco Timpano: She's got seven more to do.
Nidhi Khanna: Interestingly enough, the sister cities of Hays, Kansas are Santa Maria, Paraguay.
Marco Timpano: Never been.
Nidhi Khanna: And Xinjian, China.
Marco Timpano: Oh, wow.
Nidhi Khanna: I wonder how like sister cities happen.
Marco Timpano: Oh, that's a great question.
Nidhi Khanna: Maybe one for the next podcast.
Marco Timpano: That's great. Sister cities. Yeah, because I know that there's a couple sister cities. Toronto has. I want to say Toronto is like Amsterdam, but we'll get into sister cities in a future podcast.
Does Hayes have any sports teams? Uh, it does, I think
I want to thank everybody for listening to us talk about plaid and then delve into sports and then shout out to Hayes. Does Hayes have any sports teams?
Nidhi Khanna: it does, I think. Well, it's like a college town too.
Marco Timpano: Oh, is it?
Nidhi Khanna: So, it does. It has, Fort Hayes State University. That's legit. Athletic teams which are known as the Fort Hays Tigers.
Marco Timpano: Go Tigers.
Nidhi Khanna: they also compete in the NCAA division for a bunch of different supports. and then they have the Hayes Larks, which are the collegiate summer baseball team.
Marco Timpano: The Larks, Like a lark bird?
Nidhi Khanna: Yeah.
Marco Timpano: Oh, cool. a lot of sports teams have birds as their, as their. I don't know if it's mascot or what you would call like the team. The team symbol.
Nidhi Khanna: Mm, and then from June to August in, in, Hays you can find the Mid America Rodeo Company which puts on rough stock rodeo performances on weeknights including saddle bronc and bareback riding, bull riding and barrel racing, as well as professional horse racing events. So lots to do in Hayes actually.
Marco Timpano: Well, thank you to our listeners from Haze and thank you for listening to our podcast today.
Nidhi Khanna: As always, you can feel free to rate us on itunes or write a review if you like. Thank you for listening. As Marco said, and we have been recording from HM.