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Talk Line 11-05-2026: Jim Grot shares SVCC trips, workshops & events · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Hey there, Sauk Valley, and welcome back to The Waking
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  Speaker 1: Crew here on FM 95.1 and AM 1460 WIXN. 8.15
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  Speaker 1: flashing before my eyes on your Thursday morning, and that
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  Speaker 1: means it's time for Talk Line, and we're joined in
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  Speaker 1: the booth once again by our good friend from Sauk
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  Speaker 1: Valley Community College, Jim Grote, here with a smile.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning. Yeah, I don't know, it's, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, I actually, I love the fall. This is, like,
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  Speaker 2: I love this time of year, and I kind of
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  Speaker 2: like these, like, misty, dreary days and that kind of stuff, and.
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  Speaker 1: It forces people, I think, to be, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: to appreciate the coziness, the simple coziness.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? I know. I do. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know why, but I like this. And actually, I
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  Speaker 2: love the winter. I love the snow. I love driving
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  Speaker 2: in the snow. So I'm kind of excited. You like
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  Speaker 2: driving in the snow? Oh, I do. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's an adventure.
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  Speaker 1: What do you drive?
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  Speaker 2: I do drive a truck, so that does help.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It does help. It is better, yeah. Although I
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  Speaker 2: don't put it in four-wheel drive because it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: fun to just.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of, yeah, a little, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not advocating this, Sock Valley, but I was known
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  Speaker 1: to do a couple of donuts in my day. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it teaches you how to drive and that kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff. You know what I mean? So it's like, honestly, it's...
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  Speaker 2: But I do. I do. People always think I'm... A
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  Speaker 2: little bonkers, which I am, but I do. I love
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  Speaker 2: driving in the snow. I love the slush. I love
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  Speaker 2: the slipping and sliding. It just, I don't know, it
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  Speaker 2: just kind of makes you feel alive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing wakes you up better than just an unexpected
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  Speaker 1: little drift in the course, correct? Like, oh, I'm still here.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly, exactly. So, no, yeah, it's a good day. Good day.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you guys have got a bunch of things going
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  Speaker 1: on at the college. I know everybody always thinks classes,
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  Speaker 1: but you've got even so much more than that. One
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  Speaker 1: thing doing to help folks, you know, either improve their
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  Speaker 1: workforce game, whether they're, you know, looking for a job
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  Speaker 1: or maybe considering something. There's always things to consider.
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  Speaker 2: So what do we got here? So I've talked about
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  Speaker 2: this the last couple of times. And Dana Chacon, our
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  Speaker 2: coordinator of workforce development, she's got her last one of
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  Speaker 2: these series about, you know, applying for a job, doing
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  Speaker 2: a job. And this is the interviews, do's and don'ts.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a workshop that she puts on free to
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  Speaker 2: the public. Anybody can come to it. Um, and this,
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  Speaker 2: this covers pre-interview preparation, interview structure, question and answer preparation,
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  Speaker 2: and like post-interview etiquette. Um, and that's Monday, November 16th
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  Speaker 2: from 530 to 630. Um, so, and you just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: go on the website, just search up Dana Chacon, C-H-A-C-O-N, um,
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  Speaker 2: and just send her an email and she can get
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  Speaker 2: you registered and that kind of stuff. But, um, just
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  Speaker 2: so she knows who's all coming and that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But interview do's and don'ts, that's the last of her
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  Speaker 2: series of three that she has going on. Um, but Monday,
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  Speaker 2: November 16th. And again, Dana is fantastic. She's so good at, um,
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  Speaker 2: helping people out with resumes and, um, job interviewing and
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  Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. So, I mean, she's, that's
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  Speaker 2: part of what the college is for the community is,
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  Speaker 2: is helping out the community, you know, prepare themselves to,
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  Speaker 2: for job interviews and things like that. Not just classes,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, we do a lot of other things.
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  Speaker 2: And that's one of the things that, um, that we
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  Speaker 2: offer that Dana does. So interview do's and don'ts, Monday,
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  Speaker 2: November 16th from 530 to 630. And then we have,
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  Speaker 2: like always, as I usually come in here and talk
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  Speaker 2: to you, we have a couple trips coming up. I've
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  Speaker 2: talked about this one a little bit. We do have
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  Speaker 2: a few tickets left for Jersey Boys in Chicago on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: November 18th. And, you know, you always leave campus. You
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  Speaker 2: just drive over to campus, park in our large parking lot,
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  Speaker 2: and they pick you up in a charter bus, and
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  Speaker 2: it's a nice, smooth ride downtown. They drop you off.
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  Speaker 2: That's at the CIBC Theater in Chicago, $ 99 a person.
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  Speaker 2: But again, Wednesday, November 18th for Jersey Boys in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: That's fantastic. I mean, you think about the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you're getting a ticket, you're getting picked up, you're not
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  Speaker 1: worrying about the gas, the tolls, none of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Charter bus rides are awesome. And again,
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  Speaker 2: charter bus rides, yes. And you don't have to worry
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  Speaker 2: about the traffic. That's my least favorite thing is having
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  Speaker 2: to drive in traffic in downtown Chicago. Yeah. Um, man,
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  Speaker 2: like I just could not, I can't, I feel bad.
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  Speaker 2: I always feel bad for like bus drivers and truck
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  Speaker 2: drivers and things like that. I don't know how they
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  Speaker 2: do it. I don't know either.
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  Speaker 1: You, what is, what is the motto that I heard
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  Speaker 1: for Chicago driving? Oh, uh, the best defense is offense
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  Speaker 1: when driving in traffic because people are crazy. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're cool, Chicago. I'm not talking about all of you,
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  Speaker 1: but you do not. I'm just going to give you
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  Speaker 1: a tip. The right turning lane is not a passing lane.
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  Speaker 1: It's not an extra optional.
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  Speaker 2: I know some of you thought it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just not.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, you don't have to worry about any of
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. The bus driver does. You just hop on
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  Speaker 2: a bus and they take you downtown. And then another
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  Speaker 2: place that the bus driver can take you to is
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  Speaker 2: the Christmas Carol. So Christmas Carol, and that's at the
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  Speaker 2: Paramount Theater in Aurora. And that's Wednesday, December 2nd. And
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  Speaker 2: that one just kind of came up here a little
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  Speaker 2: bit ago. So that one's $ 79 a person. But Paramount
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  Speaker 2: Theater in Aurora, a Christmas Carol, Wednesday, December 2nd. Same thing.
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  Speaker 2: Just pick you up over at the campus, and they'll
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  Speaker 2: drive you there, and you don't have to worry about
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  Speaker 2: any of that stuff. Let's see. What else do we
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  Speaker 2: have coming up here? We've got, well, this weekend. After
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  Speaker 2: Halloween's over with and you've got those leftover pumpkins sitting
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  Speaker 2: around the house and that kind of stuff, the U
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  Speaker 2: of I Extension puts this on. We work with them,
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  Speaker 2: and it's called the Pumpkin Smash, if you have not
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  Speaker 2: heard of it. This is our third year now doing
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  Speaker 2: it out at the campus. And what they want to
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  Speaker 2: do is they want you to not throw your pumpkins
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  Speaker 2: away in the garbage can. And we just smash them
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  Speaker 2: out at campus, and then it gets composted and all
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  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff put into our soil and that
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing. And U of I Extension has been
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  Speaker 2: doing this all around the state. And last year, they
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  Speaker 2: kept 400,000 pounds of pumpkins out of landfills.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: And so, yeah, that's a lot of pumpkins. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 2: so it's a fun thing to do. It's called the
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  Speaker 2: Pumpkin Smash because we have many ways of smashing pumpkins.
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  Speaker 2: You guys do. Yeah. So they built... um, the WACC,
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  Speaker 2: you know, students out of, um, Sterling high school built
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  Speaker 2: a trebuchet last year to launch the pumpkins. Um, and,
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  Speaker 2: and they beefed it up this year because I think
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  Speaker 2: last year kind of, it's big, it's probably, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like 10, 15 feet tall and it launches the pumpkins.
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  Speaker 2: But last year it's kind of like, it's, it puts
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  Speaker 2: on a lot of tension, torque, that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And so they had to beef up some of the, um,
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  Speaker 2: part of the trebuchet and that kind of stuff. So it's,
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  Speaker 2: it's beefed up and ready to go again this year. And,
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  Speaker 2: And they have all sorts of other things to smash them,
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  Speaker 2: I think. I can't remember what it's called, but basically
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  Speaker 2: it's just a log, essentially, where you just smash pumpkins
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  Speaker 2: up against a wall and that kind of stuff. I
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  Speaker 2: think they have bats and things like that that you
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  Speaker 2: can pound them with. But it's just any way to
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  Speaker 2: smash these things up and let the kids have fun
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  Speaker 2: beating these things up and get a little messy and
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  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. But that's this Saturday from 10
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  Speaker 2: to Noon. out at the college. And it's just out
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  Speaker 2: on the east parking lot. So when you'll drive in,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have signs. You just park out there. They have
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  Speaker 2: hot chocolate. They have some other vendors out there. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of times they've had tractor rides and that kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing. So it's just a fun little way to
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  Speaker 2: wrap up the Halloween season and that kind of thing
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  Speaker 2: and just get rid of these pumpkins laying around your house.
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  Speaker 2: And instead of throwing them in the garbage, throwing them
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  Speaker 2: in the trash and landfills, recycle those things, compost them,
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  Speaker 2: and reuse them. We turn it into good soil.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, much better use, a very fun way to do it.
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  Speaker 1: There's something satisfying about smashing a pumpkin and not because
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  Speaker 1: you're 13 and going on the neighbor's.
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  Speaker 2: Porch and doing it and getting in trouble. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: is a fun way to kind of get some of
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  Speaker 2: that aggression out, too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, come down dressed as Gallagher, bring a big mallet,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Like, go all out with it. Yeah, no, it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good time, a good time for the kids,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just for a couple hours from 10 to noon.
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  Speaker 2: out at Sauk Campus. And again, the U of I
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  Speaker 2: Extension puts that on. But we have 400,000 pounds of
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  Speaker 2: pumpkins out of landfills just statewide because they put this
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  Speaker 2: all around, all over the place. They have these pumpkin
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  Speaker 2: smashes that happen this weekend. So we want to, and
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  Speaker 2: they'll weigh the pumpkins so we know how much we
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  Speaker 2: kept out of landfills and that kind of stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: it'll be interesting to see what our number is after
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  Speaker 2: this year. But yeah, it's just a fun little event.
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  Speaker 2: And then another event we have going on next weekend
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  Speaker 2: is our Freedom 5K event. And that's our Veterans Day
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  Speaker 2: weekend walk-run 5K. And the proceeds from that, it's $ 30
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  Speaker 2: to register or to sign up for it. But this
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  Speaker 2: supports our student veteran organization and our SOC student veterans
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  Speaker 2: that are in need. So it's a great cause to
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  Speaker 2: help out those veterans that attend SOC and that kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing. And it's just a 5K around campus, around
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  Speaker 2: SOC's campus. But that's next Saturday, November 14th. $ 30 to
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  Speaker 2: do it. It starts at 9 o'clock. They do the
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  Speaker 2: National Anthem at 8.50 and then the race starts at
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  Speaker 2: 9 o'clock. So it's a nice event. We've had the
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  Speaker 2: last couple, well, last year had great weather. It was beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm hoping this year we have the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: A couple years, it's been pretty chilly. But it's a
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  Speaker 2: great event, fun event, and helps out our veteran students.
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  Speaker 2: So just go to our website, search Freedom 5K, and
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  Speaker 2: the registration form will be right there. So $ 30 for
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  Speaker 2: Saturday and November 14th. Oh, let's see. One other thing
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  Speaker 2: we've got coming up is, so we do, we put on,
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of talking to you earlier before we
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  Speaker 2: started is that we put on events out at the college.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes I kind of forget to mention these things
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  Speaker 2: is that our student activities puts on all, they have
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  Speaker 2: people come from all over the place. Um, singers, um, comedians,
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  Speaker 2: and we have a hypnotist coming, um, Wednesday, November 18th, um,
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  Speaker 2: hypnotist and mentalist, Brian Inbus. I'm sure I'm saying his
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  Speaker 2: name wrong, but, um, But we've had him for a
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  Speaker 2: handful of years that comes out, and it's very entertaining.
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  Speaker 2: um you know he brings people up on the stage
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  Speaker 2: and hypnotizes them and all that kind of stuff um
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  Speaker 2: but it's open to the public so the public can
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  Speaker 2: come out to the college it's 12 30 to 1
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  Speaker 2: 30 and it's just in our cafeteria there on the
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  Speaker 2: second floor um but it's open to the public so
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  Speaker 2: if you're around and you want to see a hypnotist
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  Speaker 2: yeah just it's free come on in hang out with
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  Speaker 2: the students and um And check out The Hypnotist. I
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  Speaker 2: was talking with one of my coworkers yesterday, and we're
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  Speaker 2: just always like, it's so interesting how these things happen
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  Speaker 2: because she was a part of something like that, like
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  Speaker 2: a hypnotist thing. And she's like, it was wild. It
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  Speaker 2: was just absolutely, it was just. Interesting. It's so crazy
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  Speaker 2: how this works.
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  Speaker 1: It really is because, I mean, and everybody at one
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  Speaker 1: point or another has thought either like, oh, I wonder
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  Speaker 1: if it could, or oh, I can't be hidden.
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  Speaker 2: Right, like who's involved in it, that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Are they all part of it and that kind of stuff?
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  Speaker 1: But there's got to be something to this. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you imagine the way that perception affects reality and how
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  Speaker 1: many times people have, whether for, you know, maybe they've
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  Speaker 1: suffered a head injury and their entire personality changed or
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  Speaker 1: different things.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like.
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  Speaker 1: it's not as far-fetched as I think, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: some people could think it is. But either way, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: here's a way to check it out. Yes, 100%, either way.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: I went to a psychic not fully, not expecting to
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  Speaker 1: get lottery numbers, but it was a fun time.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the same thing. Yeah, so again, open
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  Speaker 2: to the public, and every now and then we have
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  Speaker 2: these kinds of things. Again, we have musicians, sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: have a reptile guy that comes out, and we have
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  Speaker 2: lots of kids that come out to campus and get
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  Speaker 2: to touch snakes and turtles and all that kind of
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  Speaker 2: stuff um but this one be hypnotist and mentalist um
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  Speaker 2: wednesday november november 18th um from 12 30 to 1
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  Speaker 2: 30 at our in our skyhawk cafe on the second
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  Speaker 2: floor and then just the last thing i want to
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  Speaker 2: mention is a registration for classes is open now um
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  Speaker 2: started yesterday so if you're thinking about um taking classes
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  Speaker 2: in the spring now's the time to start signing up
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  Speaker 2: for them so because you know our students students that
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  Speaker 2: are currently enrolled at the college They got to start
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  Speaker 2: signing up for classes on Monday, and now it's open
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  Speaker 2: to the public starting yesterday. And registration will go on
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  Speaker 2: up until about the week before classes start in the spring.
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  Speaker 2: But the sooner you can sign up for things, the better,
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  Speaker 2: because classes fill up and that kind of thing. So
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  Speaker 2: registration's open, so svcc.edu. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Head on over to the website. Anything else you want
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  Speaker 1: to cover this morning, John?
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  Speaker 2: No, I am good. That was quite the list. It
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  Speaker 2: was a list. There's a lot going on right now.
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  Speaker 2: This is a busy time of the year, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Get on out to these events. Go on
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  Speaker 1: the website. Better yet, think about what you want to
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  Speaker 1: do next. How could you further yourself? Whether, you know...
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  Speaker 1: it's to get a degree or just to enrich yourself.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of ways to do that.
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  Speaker 2: We have a lot of those community education classes. That
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  Speaker 2: catalog in your mailbox probably about a month or so ago,
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  Speaker 2: those classes are still going on. So we have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of those community ed classes where you can learn
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  Speaker 2: anything from, oh my gosh, knitting to Excel to art
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  Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I was just talking with my oldest because I
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  Speaker 1: had to go jump his car the other day. And
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  Speaker 1: you guys have some kind of.
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  Speaker 1: You don't end up becoming a certified mechanic, but.
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  Speaker 2: It's like some of the basics. Every now and then
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  Speaker 2: we do some basic mechanic stuff. Yeah. So we have
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  Speaker 2: classes like that as well.
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  Speaker 1: And I was telling them when I get some free time,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to sign up for that. Not because I
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  Speaker 1: plan on leaving radio to go turn a wrench.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm tired of paying some of you folks. Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Things are tight. Like I wish I knew how to
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  Speaker 1: do some of these myself.
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  Speaker 2: It's just nice to be able to do some of
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  Speaker 2: those basic things. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We have all sorts of classes like that. And they're
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  Speaker 2: community education classes. is big. Like, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things that are offered in it, and it's a huge variety.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's pilot lessons on there. There's all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of things, all sorts of things. So it's like, it's
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  Speaker 2: check it out. And if you have, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you missed the catalog or you threw it away on accident,
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  Speaker 2: you can always go to our website and just look
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  Speaker 2: up Community Ed, and it will list everything on there
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, try it out. Look at all the things on there.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of fun stuff, and it's a great
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  Speaker 1: way to, whether you're going to enjoy yourself or pick
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  Speaker 1: up a new skill.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I think it's a really underutilized thing or
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  Speaker 1: maybe people haven't come to appreciate that as much as
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  Speaker 1: that you don't always have to be doing something for
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  Speaker 1: the end goal to be like, is this going to
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  Speaker 1: make me more money or this or that?
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  Speaker 2: Just learning something.
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  Speaker 1: I had told my kids later too, I said, when
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  Speaker 1: I get older and retire, they're like, what would you do?
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, some hobbies.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I'll probably take some classes. They're like, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you're retired, and I'm like, I just enjoy learning what
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know. So if something interests me, I want
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: to know more about it. But also, it's a way
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: to pick up a skill. Before then, I would think
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't know how to change brake pads unless your
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: dad knew how to do that. And that ship sailed
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: a long time ago. So now we have ways like.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: This to do it. There's all sorts of things. And actually,
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: if you don't know what to get your parents for
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: Christmas or anything like that, this is a nice thing
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: to do for them. You know, because I just think
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: of my parents. It's like, what else can you get them?
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? It's like you've gotten them,
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: and for heaven's sakes, they have me. What else do
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: they need? But it's a nice little gift that you
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: can do for them to, you know, just get them
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: classes to learn something, especially over the wintertime and that
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. Get them out of the house and
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: give them a little gift certificate to come out to
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: the college and learn something new.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Well, Jim, we're out of time, but I appreciate you
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: stopping in and always giving us.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: Always love it.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: The lowdown on higher education.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.