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I watched the talk the other night for the first time, and I was tearing up right alongside you. Thank so much for sharing this incredible story! It has happily been living rent-free in my head since, and I have told my partner we need to watch it together soon. This write-up was the icing on the 🎂.

this is incredible thanks lol

Delightful

I work in historic preservation and adaptive reuse and that's from bringing old hotels back to life to DJing old music to editing a lost Rosetta Stone cocktail book from Vegas. The story is so charming and shows a complex intersection of capitalism, art, American history, preservation. Thank you.

i’m late to the game here at finding this, but thank you. unexpected and what i needed to hear

THANK YOU! I share this video with every creative person I know.

Must have just been the style that struck me as familiar…

Hell yes

its perfect cutting room floor material!! lol

I can't wait to read this. The ending of your conference talk has to be one of the best I've ever seen.

I was at the bar, so I had to spoil the video by defying you and reading the post first. Just finished the video. Fantastic work, Cabel.

A very good talk about "Wes Cook". It is only 19 minutes long and definitely worth your time. As Joe Bob said "Check it out".

I did not expect a talk featuring Ronald McDonald milking a cow to make me gasp and cry, but it did, in just the best way ❤️

... we plan to go there one day. I'll be thinking of you and Wes Cook...

...a couple of summers ago a friend and I were briefly stuck on an Amtrak train in Centralia... We (too) were on our way to Seattle. The train was on fire but they wouldn't let us get off cuz that would have been dangerous? Anyway, out the window of the train we saw a tantalizing tractor museum...

so glad i was in the room for this!

Crying at my desk a little, you beautiful bastard haha Thanks for helping the world remember Wes

That was so wonderfully sweet!

Cabel your talk made me cry (complimentary)

I love this talk so much. It’s so good!

my memory of that day is a little fuzzy now but I am almost certain that "oh my god" near the front row was me

I was really hoping the secret message under the mural was going to be "delicious burger" and that the new delicious burger was put there as a tribute to Wes

You’re very welcome! Genealogy is my thing and I love researching people who have been a bit forgotten.

My art historian father, who has been in some fights for preserving historic buildings, was delighted by the original talk. Thrilling to learn more about the story.

I loved every minute of that talk, and your blog posts are a treat.

I watched last night and haven’t had that emotional low-high in a long time. Delicious Burger… 🥺. “Oh no f-ing way!!” 🙌🫡 Didn’t realize I needed to hear that last night. Thanks for putting that out into the world.

😅 Phew!