 When I got asked to do Pockville Pride, I got really excited. Just because it's a small town in Kentucky and I come from a small town in East Tennessee. Pockville Pride, the annual celebration of love, acceptance, and diversity is back for its fourth and biggest year yet. This year's headliner is Eureka O'Hara, known for her appearances on RuPaul's Drag Race and HBO's We're Here. She is a household name in the world of entertainment and now she is set to grace the Pockville Pride stage. Because I grew up in a smaller town, it's always important for me to come back to those towns to just show them how they're seen and how fierce we are and, you know, honestly, like why not give them a little bit of big mama love and honey? It means a lot more than a lot of people realize. Growing up here and being closeted as a kid, knowing as a kid that I was gay, I didn't have any kind of community here to look towards. I didn't have any gay role models and couldn't see that around me. So it just seemed unattainable for me to really be gay. That's kind of what it means to me is that we're creating that community so that younger people or even older people feel safe and at home here in the community. At Appalachian Wireless, we have the best service and the best deals right now. Save up to $500 on iPhone 13th and 14th, all models, all gigabytes with trade-in. Maybe go for an iPhone 12 for a penny, a penny with a two-year contract. We're not leaving out Samsung, save up to $350 on select Samsung devices, including the S23. It's a win-win. This month at Appalachian Wireless, the service, the savings. Y'all gotta jump on this deal right now. At Appalachian Wireless, we get you because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. The event will feature three inspiring guest speakers, three musical acts, over 45 vendors, food trucks, and offerings from West 6 Brewing. We have right now reserve tickets. They're free tickets. Of course, you can go online and get those. And we have almost like 1,400 tickets reserved. We estimate a crowd of over 2,000 to be joining us. It's gonna be like a festival-like atmosphere, so we're gonna have Main Street blocked all the way down to Division. The highly anticipated drag show will feature performances from eight talented artists with the dynamic duo of Wendy Williams and Rachel Sparks, serving as the host for the show. So this is an all-I-just show, which I'm really excited about, because I love doing drag that's empowering and uplifting, and I love getting an opportunity to show young queer people that they're not alone. And I know that there's been a lot of pushback when it comes to underage people coming to drag shows. And I love that there's so much progression happening where people are starting to understand that there's no volatile reason for us to be trying to do anything to your children. We really just wanna help celebrate their existence and entertain them. That's all we're here to do. We do have security coming in this year, just because there's kind of amped up rhetoric that's been launched at LGBTQ people with the anti-LGBTQ legislation that's been throughout the country. So we just kind of wanted to step up our security measures this year. We have a group that's coming in that's very professional. Make everybody feel safe, everybody feel comfortable. And the thing about this event is everybody's welcome. It's not just for the LGBTQ community. We want our allies to come. We want all people just to come out and have a good time. The event takes place on Saturday, September 30th, from 12 to 6 p.m. at the Appalachian Wireless Arena Plaza. All attendees will be required to have a ticket and reservations can be made by visiting pockfullprod2023.eventbrot.com. Hydeville, I hope you're ready for Big Mama because Big Mama is so excited for you. I wanna thank everyone on this new channel for allowing me to come on. Also everyone at home, thank you for just watching and listening, you know? And if there's anything that you can do in this world for someone that is different, just allow them to themselves and show them some love. And honestly, just show everybody a little love. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Ethan Miller.