Ep. 6: Community Outreach: East vs. West (Part 1)

Untitled - September 21, 2026 00:00:00 Tpr. Bryan Washer: Welcome to Trooper Talk. I'm Trooper Brian Washer and this is where we go beyond the flashing lights and headlines to talk about the people behind the badge. Every trooper has a story why they chose this career, what keeps them going, and what service really looks like on the toughest days. This is where we will have real conversations about public safety, community, and the human side of law enforcement. So we're glad you're here with us today. As you might have heard, Trooper Corey King has recently retired after twenty six years of service in the Kentucky State Police. We are so grateful to have had Corey as our host to launch Trooper Talk. We're still in the process of finding a new host. So for today's episode, we are sitting down with Trooper Shane Jacobs, who has served as public affairs officer for fifteen years at post ten. We are excited for the opportunity to join you for this episode about our favorite topic community outreach. So what we're going to talk about today, since we're getting here into the fall, we're going to talk about community outreach and a lot of the the programs, some of the fundraisers that we do and some of our outreach that we do as as public affairs officers, public relations, some of those community outreaches, there's a lot of outreach programs that we do throughout the state, and a lot of people may not know a lot about them, but we're going to be able to cover a lot of the outreach programs and introduced to what we do. Let's introduce ourselves first. I don't think people really know who Trooper Shane Jacobs is or or myself. So let's I'm going to figure out who Shane Jacobs is and let everybody know who who you are. All right. So to be honest with you, uh, between me and you, we've known each other for, what, one whole year? One whole year. And we're both public, uh, public relations officers. So for one year, uh, but again, I'm from post. My name is Trooper Shane Jacobs. I've been a trooper for twenty four years now. Where's post ten? So post ten is in rural Eastern Kentucky. So if I'm looking at my hand on the map and trying to figure out where that's at. It's going to be in the bottom right, the bottom right. So basically you're in West Virginia. So we're close to Tennessee. Virginia, but Tennessee, Virginia. But yeah, so you've never been obviously to Eastern Kentucky. And I've not been to Western Kentucky a whole lot. But again, um, I've been a trooper for twenty four years assigned to post him the entire time I was a road trooper for over right at ten years before I become the public relations for post ten. Um, in twenty eleven, before that, before I was a trooper, I was a deputy sheriff in Knott County. I was raised in Knott County, which is Hazard State Police post. So I went from Knox County to Knox County. That's where I currently live. Uh, again, I've been there my whole career. Um, that's where I've got my family, my kids, my wife, uh, that's where we live at in Knox County. And I'm a trooper there. So, um, you know, growing up, my father was the sheriff of Knott County and I was a deputy again. As soon as I turned twenty one years old, I became a deputy sheriff under my dad, who today is my hero. Uh, you know, he did pass away a couple of years ago, but again, he was my hero growing up and and watching my dad and the way he policed and the way he was, uh, big time involved in the community. Uh, I feel like that's passed down to me and who I am and the way I police and the way I work in the community. And, uh, again, you know, I can't thank him enough for that. Uh, but that's who I am. I went to hazard Community college for several years and the day several years. So you went more than four years? No. So I went probably about two and a half to three years of, of college. And then the day I could test for Kentucky State Police. That's what I did. When you turn twenty one. No, I was twenty one years old as a deputy sheriff for a couple years. So I was, uh, I think I was twenty two, almost twenty three. The day we graduated, the day after graduation, I turned twenty three years old. So, uh, I was a young, uh, young guy going through, uh, police academy. So you've been a trooper for almost twice as long as I have. I've been a trooper for sixteen years. You became a public affairs officer in twenty eleven. I graduated the state Police Academy in twenty ten. Yeah. So in twenty eleven, I become a public relations officer. Yeah, yeah. So do twenty ten. I graduated the academy. I was thirty two years old, so ten years older than you when you went through, uh, I waited a little bit longer in life to go through the academy, had a couple other different jobs before that, but, uh, went to the academy, graduated twenty ten, worked the road for seven years. Then I went to the detectives office, was a detective for eight years. And then last year, right around this time, right around September, October, I got the public affairs job. And that's where we met and started doing a lot of the community events together and got to know each other a little bit. So a little bit of different, I mean, our story from day one, you started a little bit later. Uh, but again, we're both here today. We have the same mission. We have our same goal. And, uh, that's why we're here. So what are, what are what everyone know, what are some of the things that we do as, as public affairs officers on a day to day basis or as our calendar throughout the year? What are we, what are some of the things that we do? We wear many, many different hats. Uh, we have the uniform, we have marked cars. We're out there in the community. We're making contacts and networking within our own community. Uh, we have, uh, hosting events where, uh, basically a event planner. Sometimes we're planning a lot of events, whether it's a retirement party, a Christmas party, whether it's a shop with a trooper. There's so many events that we are over and we, and we host and we do. And so, uh, not only that, but we're talking to the media day in, day out. You've got media, then you've got social media also that you have to run. Yeah. Whether it's Facebook or Instagram or, and I, to be honest with you, before, uh, when I was a road trooper, I had no idea what a PA had done. I had no idea. And so now you just showed up and everything was already done, ready for you, whatever event it was. Yes. So, um, we have many hats that we wear and we get out there and we work and, and um, there's a lot to it. So we want to talk today about the different kinds of outreach, specifically each one of them and how it's different out in the east out in Harlan where you are. And, and in E-Town where I'm from and where I work, how it's different for both of us and how, how we go about planning or handling each event that we, we have to set up. Yeah. So I could only imagine, uh, imagine, you know, in rural eastern Kentucky, we have our what I call a mom and pop stores. Uh, we have people that, you know, I just walk in and they know me when they walk in. It's. Hey, Shane, how's your day going? Hey, Shane. What have you been into? How's the family? Uh, we know these people personally. Yeah. So, um, there's a lot of small businesses. We have some big businesses back home, but for the most part, it's all small businesses, but they're very big hearted. Uh, want to give, want to always step up and help, uh, for any mission that I've ever took on. And it's a little bit different with me out west or in central Kentucky being in Elizabethtown, a lot bigger town. Radcliffe. You've got Louisville that we will go into some, uh, to do some fundraising up there, but the community presence is just a little bit different. I know a lot of people in Hardin County area because that's where I am and where our family is, but it's not the same in Central Kentucky or Western Kentucky as it is out east where you're at? No, I tell people all the time, we don't even have a interstate that runs through my post area. We have three counties, but there are big counties, but we don't have no even interstate that runs through there. So we don't have no big businesses. Uh, technically in our area, we have, we have some, uh, businesses, but just not the, the bigger ones that's in the big cities. And we've got Interstate sixty five, Western Kentucky Parkway, Bluegrass Parkway. We've got all the major interstates over here in Elizabethtown area. So it's just, it's extremely different. It's, it's different raising money and just going out in the community. I mean, we really, really, it takes all of us in our little communities to go out and everybody knows someone. There'll be another troopers helping me out there, whether it's raising money for shop with a trooper or cram their cruiser event, which we'll talk about here in a little bit. I mean, but there's all the little troopers know someone from the little communities that they live at and, and they know. And so it helping me. It's all teamwork. It's teamwork between our community leaders. Us. Getting the job done at the end of the task. Yeah. So let's talk specifically about some of the outreaches that we have. Um, Trooper Teddy, tell us about Trooper Teddy and what that is. So Trooper Teddy um, obviously we do have let's start out here. We have, uh, multiple sales on trooper. Typically it's twenty five dollars to buy a teddy bear. Mhm. But we do have a Black Friday sale coming up also on Valentine's Day. We have a sale there twenty dollars. So what you can do is, um, why are we, why are we selling Trooper Teddy's? Why are we selling these little teddy bears? We have Trooper Teddy's that's placed in every troopers vehicle on the roadway. We want to make sure our troopers have these Teddy's teddy bears in their cars. Because if a critical incident, some type of incident that someone's involved in, whether it's a car crash, maybe a little small child's been involved in a car crash or some type of incident that, uh, you know, just a sad situation, domestic, whatever it may be. But we want to make sure that we can give those kids something that will brighten them up, make them happy. Uh, but we sell these to keep that fun going. So make sure you keep buying teddy bears to put in these cars. I think it started in nineteen eighty nine, if I'm correct. I think that's when the trooper Teddy started. And to be honest with you, this has grown really, really big. And, uh, for us to have as many Teddy as we do now and we push out into all the troopers. Uh, I know at one time several years ago, we didn't even have enough to give to all troopers, and we had people bringing teddy bears to post just regular teddy bears, two post new ones. But now we can actually give our troopers a trooper teddy that looks like a little got the little hats on them. Uh, and we want to make sure that they all have those, have access to those and have them in their cars at all times. What about cream the cruiser? Every year we, we both do cream the cram the cruiser at our respective posts. So in twenty eleven, I become a public affairs officer. I had no idea what that consisted of. This was my first big event to work on and host. So as we got into it, I really, really, really wanted the community to be involved. I have three counties and every post does it different. So I had three counties. So I'll have all three counties when we come to cram the cruiser. So Harlan County, the schools are involved. I got with the school system, and we made it a challenge for these classrooms to take up food. Mhm. Uh, the more the, the whatever classroom collected the most food, they got a pizza party. That's pretty cool. I can imagine when I was in school, if I got a pizza party for bringing canned food. Yeah. But cram the cruiser, non-perishable food brought in. And again, in Harlan County, all that food is taken to a homeless shelter to be given back out during. During times during the winter, during Thanksgiving, Christmas, to be able to feed more families within our communities. It's, uh, it's just another way of giving back. I mean, we're all working together, our community troopers, everyone. Uh, so, uh, that's what we do in Harlan Bell County. Again, we have food. All these schools collect it. We take it to the youth resource centers. They, they start making baskets and they put that out for these kids to take home. Because believe it or not, when on Thanksgiving break, Christmas break, some of these kids, man, they go home and they don't have no food. Yeah. And so they were able to, to help put baskets together. So when they take this food home, these, these kids can have some food during their winter breaks. Uh, you know, these kids go to school every day and they're provided lunches. And then it's just another way to be able to give back to our community. And as all of us working together and in Knox County. One more thing. In Knox County, we collect the food. We take it to churches. We take it to churches and they cook it and they take meals out in the community. So there's a lot of different ways. There's just not one way of collecting food, but we collect that food. And when you can take it to homeless shelters, it can be churches, schools. So many benefit benefit from it. But again, it's it's distributed through our community. And that's all one hundred and twenty counties. It's all sixteen posts doing this. And we have a little fun, a little competition. Yeah, yeah. And to be honest with you, I was pretty proud. Post ten Harlan we're a small post and I won that award for several years. And, uh, I'm pretty proud of that. Why don't we do that anymore? There's there's not a trophy. There is a, a traveling trophy that goes around. Uh, I think Corey King has won that trophy, uh, several the last several years. And it's time. You know what? He's gone. So it's time for us to step back to get that trophy. Yes. And I think it could be a good year for you to maybe get that trophy. I mean, we've got a lot of people that like to give donate food and canned goods. So. Yeah. I'll tell you something else. It's a good time. We would go to, uh, our little, uh, places back home or a little IGA pick pack, whatever it may be. Wait a second. What's a pick pack? Okay, so pick pack is like a little small. Uh, I mean, we have IGA and we have Kroger, and we have Walmart. Do you have Don's song Don's Grocery? No, we don't have Don's. Don's grocery. We take two buggies in there. We put it in the front because it's cold in the wintertime, right? So we put these two buggies there. We put our signs on there. We put our literature out. What we're doing. One more second. Okay. There's a buggy, a grocery cart. Yes, a buggy is a grocery cart. And Eastern Kentucky is a buggy, a buggy, a buggy, a buggy in my town or my area is an Amish buggy. We have grocery carts. Folks, this is east and west. That's why we're different. So we have a buggy and Don's grocery. And we have our literature posters. And we have people that will pour in. And will buy, buy items and fill those buggies up or carts, whatever you want to call them. And we take that food and we give it to the homeless shelter in our area. That's awesome. That's so cool. Yes. And I promise you, I mean, people are so giving in Eastern Kentucky and I know they are across the state of Kentucky, but that's where I work is Eastern Kentucky. And these folks are, uh, they're amazing. And we can't thank them enough for what they do day in and day out. And it's just a, it's a total team effort. So cram the cruiser is very I'm very passionate about it because I know that kids and people are benefiting and eating and getting food. Times are tough. Uh, the wintertime is tough. So we want to make sure that all of our people, Uh, are taken care of, and we want to make sure that they're fed. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. So what about Halloween around October? What are you guys you guys do anything over in Harlan for, like, trunk or treat or stuff like that? Um, about three years ago. Post ten, uh, started a trunk or treat. Well, trick or treat. So I know that there's multiple posts throughout the state that do this. I know we have a, a very big event at our Kentucky State police headquarters. Yeah. So I think that one's a drive around. You drive around the building, uh, you pull up and, uh, you get candy. The good thing is all that candy has been donated that's been given out. So that's pretty cool that we get that much candy to be able to give back to these little kids who dress up. I mean, they take the time to dress up and they come to a Kentucky State Police headquarters, or they come to Kentucky State Police Post ten. Harlan uh, we have, uh, a lot of our employees that's out there. They, they love it just as much as we do. Uh, we have our old cars, some of our antique cars out there. I know I come up and get one and we have it at post ten. We put it in the parking lot, we put a Tahoe out there. We have a lot of our troopers and our that's, uh, working that day. They're there. Uh, we want to make sure that these little kids come up. They see us on Halloween. We want them to see us take pictures, know that we're there for them. We do not want no kid to ever be as scared of us, even though sometimes we're scared of them in their Halloween outfits. But at the end of the day, uh, it's about connecting and being with these kids and these families. Yeah. During Halloween, uh, it's a good event. And again, you know, uh, most of her candies donated. Yeah. That's awesome. So, uh, it's a, it's a good time to gather to be able to get, get, I know Pikeville post. I know Pikeville post does a big trunk or treat. So they have multiple businesses. I think they come in and set up little tents and, uh, they give a lot of candy out and they invite a lot of their local people, Vendors come around and then they're there. They're all out there in their parking lot, uh, giving candy. So there's a lot of posts in Kentucky that do it, I know. London Post, uh, their neighbor post to us, they do the same thing. They, uh, I think they may have a little drive through, just like, uh, state police headquarters does a trunk or treat. Yeah. So, uh, it's just another event that we host and, you know, Halloween's coming up, so it's, it's a good time to be able to connect with these little kids and then get out there and get some pictures with them. Yeah. We even have a few of our troopers that will dress up. So that's pretty neat. I mean, that's, uh, you know, we want, we want to be able to be out there with the, with these kids. And if we can dress up and they see us in a different way, we want them to be able to, hey, we're a trooper, but we're just like you. Yeah. And we want to dress up and have fun with it. So it's a good time. All right, so here's the part where, uh, look at, look, look, if if people could see your face right now, I think you're just it's it's because it's coming from me and because you've seen some of the stuff that I do on social media. I think I'm getting ready to make you a little bit nervous with some of these rapid fire questions. How are you feeling? Uh, not too good. All right. So these are rapid fire questions that obviously you've got to answer quickly, immediately. And this is where we might see some of the the language differences from from Eastern Kentucky and, and central or Western Kentucky or, I don't know, maybe I sound like I'm from Ohio or. All right. So we're coming up on. This is September. October. We're in the fall. So these are some of these are going to be related to the fall. And so I just need you to answer them. All right. You ready? Yep. Just just just answer them. All right. Let's roll. Haunted houses. Yes or no? No. Why? I don't like the chainsaws. All right. Here's here's a question that may or may not relate to Eastern Kentucky. It shows how much that I don't know about Eastern Kentucky, KFC or chick fil A, KFC. We don't have chick fil A. Wait a minute. You don't have chick fil A in Eastern Kentucky? No. We have we are the home of the Kentucky Fried Chicken and Corbin, Kentucky. I understand that, but no, we we don't have chick fil A. Yeah, that's that's Popeyes. No we don't. Did you say Popeyes? No, we don't have Popeyes. Yes, I said Popeyes. We don't have that in Harlan. No, we have Kentucky Fried Chicken. Wendy's. We have Wendy's chicken. Okay. We have, uh, Taco Bell, probably some chicken, but we don't have. No, we don't have that Pepsi or Coke. Coke. Coke. What? Oh, wait wait wait wait. I don't know. Wait. Let's wait here. I have Coca Cola Company in Middlesboro and I have Pepsi company. Yeah. And they both really, really love Harlem folks. They love me and they really donate both those. So I would say fifty fifty. Yes, fifty fifty. I love them both. So we got a yes. So what do you call, what do you call carbonated beverages in Harlem? Pop pop pop. Are you what do you call it? Soda. I would like a Coke or a Pepsi, but pop is not a word we use. Uh, yeah. And yeah, I'm a pop. I want a pop. I should be what? They use that same word in in Canada. But it's okay, pop. I like pop. What's your favorite Thanksgiving food? Ham. You don't like turkey? I don't like turkey. It's okay. It's just dry and I can. I can get by, but it's just not what I want. That was my next question. What's the most overrated Thanksgiving food? Yeah, I would say turkey just because it's so dry and I'm not a I'll eat it. But that's that's about it. Cranberry sauce? Absolutely not. I don't think we probably say that word the same either. Cranberry. Cranberry. Cranberry. Cranberry sauce. Cranberry. Cranberry. Berry. You like the berry? I think you say berry. Berry, cranberry. And no, I don't like it. Would you rather work a shift on Thanksgiving or Christmas? Thanksgiving. Because Santa Claus comes on Christmas and I got to be there. You gotta be there for Santa Claus. Yeah. I want to see Santa Claus on Christmas. But. But I would work Thanksgiving. All time favorite Christmas song. Probably Rudolph the red nosed reindeer. And no, I'm not singing. Just a few. I think if Corey King was here, he would sing it. He would sing. Yeah. If trooper Gayheart. Why don't. Why don't. Trooper washer. No, this is not a singing voice. It's really not a radio voice. In fact, I'm voting for you to be the next host of the Trooper Trooper Talk podcast. Next question. Fall break. Where are you taking your family? Are you taking them to the beach, the mountains, or staying home? Fall break we usually go to Florida. Where in Florida? Disney World every year. Just about every year. We've been to Disney World probably the last three or four years. But we have lots of kids and they love Disney World. It's not a vacation, but it's a good time. And we got to go to Disney World and we take our little our kids there. You enjoy that stress at Disney World. Yes, you can have Disney World. Yeah. Go to the beach. I like the beach. Uh, but in fall, we usually go to Disney World. But you know, in the spring we're going to go to the, to the beach. Summer, we go to the beach. We like to go on cruises. Uh, we like to do a lot of stuff with our kids. And again, you know, I have a stepson that's ten years old and he's autistic. Uh, so I did not know that. Yeah. So, um, so we like to take him to Disney World. He really likes Disney World. He likes to again, it's he likes to he lights up when he sees those little characters and all the people and all the rides. And so, um, again, we, we take him there and we have a big time and it's a, it's a good time as a family. So I already had the answer that I thought you would give me when I asked that question. And I could have sworn you were going to say the mountains or Gatlinburg or somewhere different than Disney World. I just assumed that that's where you assumed because you're from Western Kentucky and you're from the mountains. Mountains, but you would probably go to the mountains. So I, I played in the mountains growing up my whole life. So you don't want to go there for fall break? No, I mean, it's where I live. That's what I do. I want to get out of the mountains and I want to go see the world and, and see what's out there. And we go to the beach and yeah, I mean, my my bad, my bad. Okay, let me ask you, where do you want to go? Where do you think fall break? Where do you think I'm going? Every year we go to the same place. every time to the beach, probably to Italy or probably to Paris. I could see you going there. All right. Well, we go to Florida every year to the beach. Fall break. In fact, this fall break in October, my oldest, my daughter is getting married. Oh. That's awesome. Twenty four years old. She's getting married to a former trooper's son. Oh, yeah. Congratulations on that. Remember Major Jeremy Thompson? Yes. Yep. She's marrying his son. Okay, well, congratulations on that. That'll be a big time in Florida. Yes it will. Yeah, it won't be stressful. All right. I've got two more questions that we've we've gone off off on to rabbit trails. So we got to get back to my rapid fire questions. All right. For your social media, would you rather live stream. I think I already know the answer to this, but would you rather live stream for twenty four hours or make a Facebook post once every hour for twenty four hours, I would make one post per hour for twenty four hours. What are you going to post about? There's all kinds of you're making twenty four posts in one day, but there's twenty four good things in life. Okay, we can make twenty four good things in life, and it's very easy and we can make that, uh, that's very easy for me. I would love to do twenty four hours. I would like to have it as a challenge sometime, but that would be easier than me going live. I think you go live for twenty four hours. Live is live easy. It is for you to talk to people. Yeah. And when you're going to be the next podcast host, but when you go live, there's no take backs. That's true. If if you're alive, you're live. And if it's one little small something, then we don't. Yeah. So I'd rather have twenty four posts. What would you do? Same thing. I'm not going to lie for twenty four hours. No way. And can I ask what were those two words that you used? I, I'd rather I'd rather I'd rather what I'd rather. Yeah. I mean, that's that's what I want to do. Last question. Coffee or energy drink at seven a m when you're getting ready to go and hit the community. Now, this one's probably going to you're going to laugh at this one. Probably the world's going to laugh at this one. So I'm not a big coffee drinker, but I will. My wife wants to go to Starbucks. Is there Starbucks in Harlem? There's one in Corbin. There's not one in Harlem. How far is Corbin Corbin from Harlem? There is one in in a in a little grocery store. Local Starbucks. No. So I can't I love I can't figure out what coffee I want at Starbucks. And I get so anxiety and so wrapped up. I don't know what to say. So when we go to Starbucks, my wife has to look out the window and order my Starbucks from the passenger side, from the passenger side. And usually. So you don't ever go to Starbucks by yourself? No, no no. I even take my friend when we're in Louisville. We. I take my friend. He does it. Who's your friend? Officer Stevie Douglas. He will order everything for us. So he knows your order. Yeah. He takes your wife's spot when you guys go to Starbucks. I got it kind of down. I mean, I know it's. I want to hear it. I want to hear it. It's iced caramel macchiato with extra caramel. That's it. But that's all. Remember that because you get too anxious. Well, no, I know that one. But if you said order me something else, I don't know if I could do it. I know that's weird, but energy drinks I do a little bit. Not much. Uh. Maybe one. Well, maybe one a day. Maybe one every other day. I do, I like Alanis, I like Hawaiian, um, it's Hawaiian something. Shaved ice? Yes. Hawaiian shaved ice. That's probably my ghost. Uh, no. Why is that funny? Because we have a lot of ghost right now, and maybe it's, uh, it's Halloween, but no, I'm not a big ghost. Ghost energy drink. Do we have that in Harlem? Well, yeah, we have them. But I'm not a big drinker of those. But what other coffee shops do you have in Harlem? Because we've got about twenty. We have some little, what I would call mom and pop, mom and pop ones. Yeah, it's probably better coffee than Starbucks in our little cities in downtown we have we have coffee shops. I'm just not a big coffee drinker. Uh, I don't, I don't, uh, to be honest with you, I'm not a big early riser. If you want to be honest. I'd like to, uh, I soon get up, go maybe get an energy drink or something, and then take off and go for work. But, uh, I don't take the time. Do you? Do you take time to drink coffee every morning? Absolutely. I have to have coffee every morning. It's the fifteen minutes that I sit with my wife. We both make a cup of coffee. I can listen and talk to her in the morning and then get ready and go to work. But we both have a cup of coffee. She'll have two. But I have to have a cup of coffee before I leave. And that's awesome. That's great. That's just, uh. All right. Maybe let me let me give just a few to you. How about we do that? Wait a minute. Yeah, I know that you asked me if you. But can I can I just see if you have a few. So I'm sitting in the left chair today. That means I think I'm the host. AM I the host? Part. Part time host. Yeah. Part time host. Interim host. So that means I ask all the questions or I think I'm supposed to. You. You're not really supposed to be asking me questions. No, but I mean, it's just when? About five questions. Five easy ones, though. Easy. Can I can I opt out? No. You gotta, you gotta, you gotta answer them. All right. Fine. Go ahead. Fall or winter? Fall every time. Why? Because of the sports. You got football. You got the cool air. You got fall break. Going to the beach. Watching football while you're at the beach. And winter is just way too cold and it's miserable. And everybody should hate winter. And let's throw one more thing out there. Other than being a trooper. What are you doing to fall? What do you do? Something else that everybody needs to know. Why does everybody need to know? Because that's who you are. He is a big time when I say big time referee. So I referee. Official. What do you call it? Referee. Yeah, I referee. You might say official in Eastern Kentucky but I'm a referee. Yeah. And I referee NCAA Division one basketball. Yep. So during the winter. Yeah. I'm refereeing a little bit of basketball in the fall November through March when I can. That's that's pretty big to me. How about post or real. Would you rather make a post or real a real. We're talking about social media. We're talking about Facebook. You've seen my Facebook, so you know that. Oh yeah. More videos than it is Facebook posts. But why? Or real? A lot of fun for me sometimes and I think I can get more involved with it if it's a real. Whether it's the wreath laying. It's something that's really serious and I'm passionate about shop with a trooper or it's just something that I want to do something fun or funny or try to be funny. Facebook or Instagram, Facebook. I have to have my kids help doing Instagram. Okay. That's fair. Host or guest. Guest. Next time you're going to be the host and I'll be the guest. Why is this this if if people only knew and there's I think there's something else that people don't know about me is for the first thirteen years of my life, I grew up in West Africa as a missionary kid. So when I came back to the US in seventh grade, it was culture shock and not outgoing. Didn't want to talk to people. Didn't know how anything worked here in the US. So I had to learn that over the next fifteen twenty years how to be outgoing, how to be to talk to people and be comfortable with all this. So this is this is out of my comfort zone a little bit. And now you're the public relations for post, for post for E-Town. And the look how far you've came. Look at that. That's amazing. I'd still rather be the the victim, not the suspect when it comes to hosting. Okay. Okay, well, how about who is the funniest and best trooper at Post in Harlem? See, that's a tough one. Oh, wait. He's sitting right in front of me. Yeah, you, my friend, are the funniest trooper. Best looking trooper. Okay. Most handsome trooper. Wow. Now we're getting in there. Yes! In Harlan post ten. Harlan. I'll take that. I'll take that, my friend. Yeah, that's pretty good. That's your question. I think I feel like that was a setup that was pretty easy, but because I only know a handful of troopers in post ten, Harlan I that's why I said it. I do want to cover one thing. This has probably maybe not a lot to do with it, but it does have winter time. This has involves winter time. Is this another question? Because you've asked, I want you to explain to the world what happened last year during the winter time. Car stuck out on the road. Uh, Facebook. You was new. And what happened on Facebook? What, what what took place? And like almost one million views was took place. But you explained to the world what what happened. I did not know this was coming. And this this is a surprise, but I'm still very passionate and still a little bit angry about this. Yes you are. So I just started as a public affairs officer at post four. This is in December when we get the big winter storm, when the interstates all shut down and there's snow piled up all over the interstates. I did a couple of my first videos out on the interstate. While you were probably warm in your bed or on your couch, staying warm over there in Eastern Kentucky. I went out and did the job out there out on the interstate. I was out there too. Oh yeah. Well, in eastern Kentucky. Okay, okay, well, we've got interstates, big interstates. And so we went out to the interstate. I personally went out there and was hanging out with the troopers, and we would find cars that were stuck on the side of the interstate. Well, this one afternoon car was stuck on the side of the road, and myself and a couple other troopers helped push this car out of two feet of snow back into the into the travel lane of the interstate so they could keep going. Somebody took a video of it. I was like, okay, cool. I'll, I'll post this on on Facebook, but I made a mistake. Yes you did. And this is where it all went bad. I posted that video as a comment on one of my earlier posts about Winter storm Fern. It was buried down there in the comments, and I get a phone call from Trooper Shane Jacobs from Harlan. I really respect this guy because he's been doing it a lot longer than me, and he really knows about, you know, social media posts and you know, what looks good out in the Facebook reels. And so and he's such a kind individual. I thought, you know, I need to answer this phone call. Shane Jacobs calls me and says, hey, can you send me that video of you guys pushing the car out of the snow? I'd like to share that as well. Well, sure. Absolutely. Shane. I'll send it over to you right now. I send him the video. Trooper Jacobs Facebook post, the video on his person on his trooper Facebook. The video goes viral on his Facebook gets over one point something million views on his Facebook. But I tagged you in it. Oh yeah. Very bottom of the post. Bottom of the three paragraphs about what post ten Harlan is doing with a video of post four troopers pushing the car out of the snow that I got done dirty. That was epic. That was great. That was dirty. I'm still mad about it. I know, but but but it was great. It was pretty funny. That will live forever. Yes. Behind every badge is a human being with a family, a purpose and a commitment to protect others. Trooper Jacobs, we're grateful for the work that you guys do and. And taking the time to sit down with us. To everyone listening, thank you for joining us. Stay safe. Take care of each other and we'll see you next time.