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Josiah McKeon - Sweethearts & Heroes · Aired Out

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Speaker 1: Again, again, again again, attain, attain in again, in attain.
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Speaker 2: And this is gonna be one of those days that
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Speaker 2: I am just already so much looking forward to. Welcome
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Speaker 2: to the aired OW podcast on Facebook and YouTube, streamed
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Speaker 2: the web aired outvt dot com. It is Wednesday, July
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Speaker 2: twenty third, Sweethearts and Heroes Day.
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Speaker 3: Good morning to you.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's nice to be nice to be out and
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Speaker 2: about love doing that, but it's also nice to be
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Speaker 2: back in the studio as well. Road construction, yes, it's
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Speaker 2: out there. Expect delays, be patient, be careful, stay off
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Speaker 2: the phone today if you're driving through some road construction areas.
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Speaker 2: It is nine oh five right now, about well mid
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Speaker 2: fifties this morning and fromont with some sun and clouds
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Speaker 2: today eighty degrees later on it is going to be gorgeous.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, g Good morning Stacey.
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Speaker 2: Perfect forecast by the way for the farmers' markets, the
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Speaker 2: food trucks, the live music later today. Courier Park is
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Speaker 2: where it's all going to be tonight. If you're headed
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Speaker 2: to the ballpark for the game, clear guys in sixty
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Speaker 2: really doesn't get much better than that. Tomorrow a hot
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Speaker 2: start to Heritage Days ninety with a mix of sun
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Speaker 2: and clouds. Thursday night at thunder Road, clear skies seventy
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Speaker 2: two for the mid season Championships. That's amazing. Friday, thunderstorms
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Speaker 2: and eighty the Heritage Festival. Things are going to be
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Speaker 2: maybe a little damp, maybe a little windy at times.
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Speaker 2: These thunderstorms supposed to be starting in the morning on
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Speaker 2: Friday and continuing throughout the day. So anyway, bring an
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Speaker 2: umbrella and a rain coat and get ready. We'll be there.
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Speaker 2: We'll be there, set up live no matter what the
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Speaker 2: weather's doing. Saturday for the parade, perfect sun and clouds
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Speaker 2: eighty five degrees. Can't wait to see all in the parade.
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Speaker 2: Of course I'm going to be streaming it live, so
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Speaker 2: make sure you do your hair and your makeup and
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Speaker 2: get ready for a big wave. Birthdays Today we have
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Speaker 2: Adam Davis, Naomi Watker, Denise Bowen, Rachel Gouge, Kelly Poohlan,
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Speaker 2: Sean Stewart, Are Stark start Rather and Shelby Stark.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Mountaineers broke the ANYCBL stolen based record last night in
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Speaker 2: a six or four loss to Newport, the head coach
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Speaker 2: Michael Coombs tossed out in the seventh hurled a ball bucket,
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Speaker 2: not once but twice. The girls loved it though they
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Speaker 2: They played it two in the eighth to take the
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Speaker 2: lead and again won the game. North Adams tonight looking
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Speaker 2: forward to it. The World newspaper comes out today, Grab
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Speaker 2: a copy. Deb Phillips is with us from the World
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Speaker 2: this morning. Morning, Depp, how are you doing well?
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Speaker 3: You sound like you're on the road this morning. How
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Speaker 3: are you? What's what's happening?
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Speaker 4: Oh? I'm my way to Standish village?
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Speaker 5: Are you?
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Speaker 3: Are you really?
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Speaker 1: Good?
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Speaker 4: For you?
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Speaker 3: Gosh, I haven't been to seeing this village in a
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Speaker 3: long long time.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 2: The World comes out today. What what can we expect
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Speaker 2: in their depth?
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Speaker 3: Can you hear me? All right?
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Speaker 2: I can hear you now. Yes, the world's out today.
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Speaker 2: What can we expect in there?
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Speaker 4: While we have the full schedule for very Heritage Festival,
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Speaker 4: So people are gonna want to pick that up because
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Speaker 4: there's a lot going on.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I know that it is going to be
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Speaker 2: an interesting time on Friday with the weather.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, it is Jim.
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Speaker 2: Anything else that is that is in there that you
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Speaker 2: want to mention you're breaking up a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Deb.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna keep an eye. I'm gonna I'm gonna grab
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Speaker 2: the world when it comes here, uh, and I'll make
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Speaker 2: sure that after Chris delivers it that it's it's shown
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Speaker 2: on camera. And we got that full schedule posted up.
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Speaker 2: It is going to be a very busy next couple
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Speaker 2: of days, no question about it. I was at the
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Speaker 2: American Legion last night talking about everything that's going to
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Speaker 2: be going on over there during the Heritage Festival. But
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Speaker 2: if you can hear me, Deb, is there anything else
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Speaker 2: you want to spotlight in the world? Yeah, Deb Phillips.
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Speaker 2: On our way this morning to Santa's Village. And as
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Speaker 2: you know, if you've driven to Santa's Village, you know
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Speaker 2: uh that the reception isn't great out that way in
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Speaker 2: the hills as soon as you start coming into the whites.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, Deb, we we'll connect with your next Wednesday.
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Speaker 2: Don't forget sales at vtdashworld dot com if you want
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Speaker 2: to do some advertising with Central Format's favorite weekly newspaper,
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Speaker 2: Deb Phillips, Sweethearts and Heroes on a Wednesday morning, we
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Speaker 2: have been connected with them now for quite a bit,
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Speaker 2: a student empowerment and empathy activation team. And the best
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Speaker 2: part is they've got roots right here in from out
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Speaker 2: where it all started. They make great strides far beyond
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Speaker 2: the classroom by doing a lot of things, among them
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Speaker 2: spreading kindness I think first and foremost, spreading understanding empathy,
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Speaker 2: and one of the big things that they hang their
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Speaker 2: hat on is hope and in doing so, empowering children
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Speaker 2: to be the best that they can be, preventing hopelessness,
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Speaker 2: preventing suicide, preventing bullying in the classroom and outside of
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Speaker 2: the classroom. If your child's school is not yet connected
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Speaker 2: with Sweethearts and Heroes, I'm not sure what you're waiting for.
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Speaker 2: Get on Sweethearts and Heroes dot com as soon as
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Speaker 2: you can. The school year is going to be starting soon.
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Speaker 2: Josiah McKeon is with us, the brother of Brian who
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Speaker 2: was just on Aired Out a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: And Joe, welcome to aired Out man. It is a
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Speaker 2: pleasure to have you with me.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Jaden, real great pleasure to meet.
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Speaker 3: You, buddy, I've heard so much about you.
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Speaker 2: First of all, before we even get started this morning, uh,
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Speaker 2: congratulations son. Becoming a dad? What is when? When did
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Speaker 2: you become a dad? Here for the what second time?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, second time? On twelve, twenty six, on July ninth.
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Speaker 3: July ninth, Man, you are you're in the thick of
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Speaker 3: it right now.
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Speaker 4: Brother, Oh man, you know it's funny you say that.
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Speaker 4: That's that's what my grandfather said my entire life. You know,
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Speaker 4: every new every new adventure in life. Ah, Joe, you're
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Speaker 4: you're in the thick of it now.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Is that what he used to say? Seriously?
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, every time I get into something and we
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Speaker 4: would we would talk and he would just, uh, he
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Speaker 4: would say, man, you're you're in the thick of it now,
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Speaker 4: and and I feel like there's more thick of it
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Speaker 4: to come.
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Speaker 3: Yes, there is, Uh, yes, there is.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 3: I'm a dad at fifty four. Only one little girl
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Speaker 3: and that is puff lent Tea.
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Speaker 5: How old is she?
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Speaker 3: She's ten?
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Speaker 2: Ben Oh my goodness, Oh yeah, late Bloomer for this
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Speaker 2: old fellow man. But it's a ride, it is a right,
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Speaker 2: and it will it is and will be the best
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Speaker 2: thing that you ever will be is a father.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Now I believe that with my whole heart.
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Speaker 4: It's it's something I've always dreamed about and was blessed
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Speaker 4: with it unexpectedly, not children unexpectedly, but just the marriage.
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Speaker 4: And then you know, we had Raphael about two years
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Speaker 4: ago now, August thirtieth, twenty twenty three, and he's just
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Speaker 4: been a big part of my heart.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that's that's so cool. You know, Leon was
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Speaker 2: telling me that you graduated with a Bachelor of Science
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Speaker 2: from the Pennsylvania College of Technology in william Support. Did
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Speaker 2: you think at any point that you were going to
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Speaker 2: become a circle beaverer for sweethearts and heroes after graduation.
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Speaker 4: No, not after graduation whatsoever. I always have enjoyed working
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Speaker 4: with students. It's been one of the things that I
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Speaker 4: really love to do. And I've known tom My whole life.
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Speaker 4: I've known about what he's been doing for a while,
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Speaker 4: maybe not quite as in depth as especially the last year.
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Speaker 5: And a half. But no, I didn't think I was
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Speaker 5: going to be down this road.
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Speaker 4: In fact, I've had the opportunity to talk to a
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Speaker 4: number of students, you know, who are thinking about just
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Speaker 4: their careers and what they're going to do, and they're
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Speaker 4: stressed out about it, but they have these dreams too,
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Speaker 4: and I've just been able to look at them and say, listen,
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Speaker 4: I graduated with a welding engineering degree, and now I'm
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Speaker 4: getting to play games with students and and just have
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Speaker 4: conversations like I didn't think I would be here where
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Speaker 4: I want to be, but but it was always a
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Speaker 4: dream of mine to do something like this.
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Speaker 3: And you and you love what you do.
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Speaker 5: I do I do.
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Speaker 4: I love having conversations with people I always have and
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Speaker 4: students in particular. I was a youth group leader for
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Speaker 4: a number of years and a camp counselor, and yeah,
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Speaker 4: I just I absolutely love it.
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Speaker 5: I like the especially, I love the circles. I love
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Speaker 5: the games.
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Speaker 4: I'm pretty competitive, so I get to you get to
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Speaker 4: play all these different games with students. But but I
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Speaker 4: really love the one on one interactions that this uh
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Speaker 4: that this job affords me. And getting to make these
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Speaker 4: connections even outside of a circle, whether it's after a circle,
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Speaker 4: whether it's playing a quick game of pickup basketball in
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Speaker 4: the gym with some students, and just getting to have
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Speaker 4: these one on one conversations is just really dear to
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Speaker 4: my art.
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Speaker 2: I love to say every Wednesday, when I have someone
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Speaker 2: on from sweethearts and heroes.
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Speaker 3: What is circle?
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Speaker 2: Because it's important that listeners have a clear concept of
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Speaker 2: what we're talking about, and not everybody is familiar with
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Speaker 2: with circle and how effective it is. What what's your
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Speaker 2: definition of it? Before we we dive into what a
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Speaker 2: weaver is?
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Speaker 3: What is circle?
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Speaker 5: Well Man, Circle is a process that allows.
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Speaker 4: The people, the participants within the circle to not only.
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Speaker 5: Hear other perspectives, but.
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Speaker 4: To grow empathy.
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Speaker 5: And it has a number of pieces to it.
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Speaker 4: When you talk about playing games with students, you know,
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Speaker 4: they're not just games. We call them activators, but they're
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Speaker 4: developed to help build some of these core competencies that
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Speaker 4: we're looking for human skills.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 5: And then you know, we get.
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Speaker 4: Into some questions brought by a weaver, but really they're
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Speaker 4: just questions.
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Speaker 5: To bring about conversation.
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Speaker 4: Between individuals and a group where everybody gets a chance
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Speaker 4: to be heard.
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Speaker 5: And yeah, it's in in in uh, in hearing different perspectives.
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Speaker 4: You You, it's almost impossible not to start wiring this
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Speaker 4: thing called empathy within your brains.
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Speaker 3: That's what uh, that's what Tom has said to me.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 2: Literally impossible two to not rewire your brain or at
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Speaker 2: least kick those those existing circuits into overdrive when you
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Speaker 2: are forced to sit and listen to others and we
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Speaker 2: we we often, as you know, we often really never
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Speaker 2: know what's a hot button for someone and what's going
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Speaker 2: to come out of somebody's mouth.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I get surprised every day in my job. There's
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Speaker 4: there's not a circle that I do that. You know,
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Speaker 4: I don't find myself just going huh, I didn't expect
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Speaker 4: that from that person, or wow, I just have never
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Speaker 4: even thought about it. You know, there's an infinite amount
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Speaker 4: of perspective is out there and uh and so yeah,
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Speaker 4: I I hear stuff all the time that and and
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Speaker 4: I've pressed a few hot buttons myself, not knowing that
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Speaker 4: that was going to happen.
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Speaker 2: When you're when you're sitting around in a literally around
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Speaker 2: in a circle, and you are forced to to listen
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Speaker 2: to others and and tell their their stories, their perspective,
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Speaker 2: their ideas. Some might go on for a couple of seconds,
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Speaker 2: some several minutes. It was not easy for me, and
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Speaker 2: I've I've said this pretty much every Wednesday my first
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Speaker 2: circle experience. Uh, and Tom was part of that circle.
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Speaker 2: It was not easy for me to sit and just listen.
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Speaker 2: I mean my rules here on the podcast are you
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Speaker 2: jump in anytime you want to jump in you And
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Speaker 2: Tom was like, no way, Jose. That's uh, that is
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Speaker 2: the opposite of circle. When it's your turn to speak,
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Speaker 2: then you speak, but otherwise you're listening.
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Speaker 3: That's it's not easy to do, man.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's it's it's not And I think that's.
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Speaker 4: Probably one of the number one things that students and
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Speaker 4: teachers alike, uh struggle with. Not not students sometimes have
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Speaker 4: an easier time than teachers because sometimes perspectives come out
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Speaker 4: that may not be kind, may not be in keeping
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Speaker 4: with how the classroom is run, and and and that
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Speaker 4: can be difficult. And I actually have actually just had
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Speaker 4: a couple of different conversations with some teacher this week.
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Speaker 5: I was in Whitney Point.
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Speaker 4: Finishing up a program actually finish next Monday that Pat
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Speaker 4: Fish started over there, some student teacher.
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Speaker 5: Circle training, and I had a couple.
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Speaker 4: Of conversations with some teachers who were just like, how
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Speaker 4: do you how do you sit there and just not
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Speaker 4: say anything, especially when other students are speaking out of
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Speaker 4: turn and saying mean things. And I think my first
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Speaker 4: and foremost thing is practice you know you you do
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Speaker 4: it so often that that that you learn and and
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Speaker 4: and I really it's it's tied to a core value
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Speaker 4: of mine, you know. But but to genuinely listen to
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Speaker 4: another human being.
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Speaker 5: And I learned this from Tom. But you know, I
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Speaker 5: learn through experience, but through time.
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Speaker 4: You know that when you cut other people off, that
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Speaker 4: can hurt their feelings.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know.
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Speaker 4: I I tell students, you know, when I tell them that,
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Speaker 4: I say, you know, I used to think that, you know,
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Speaker 4: it didn't hurt my feelings when I got cut off,
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Speaker 4: because I started telling students that when I first started this,
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Speaker 4: oh well, it doesn't hurt my feelings, you know.
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Speaker 5: But I found that can hurt other people's feelings.
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Speaker 4: But I did a little more soul searching on that
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Speaker 4: one and realized that what actually does hurt my feelings.
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Speaker 5: It just depends on the situation.
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Speaker 4: And I'll usually give the example, you know, if I'm
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Speaker 4: really excited about something and I'm going to go and
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Speaker 4: tell my wife, hey, dear, yeah, this this new thing,
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Speaker 4: this new tool that I got. It's so and then
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Speaker 4: she just starts cutting me off and talking about some
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Speaker 4: duckling or something that she's hatching.
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Speaker 5: It hurts my feelings.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it has to be somebody you know, that that.
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Speaker 5: That you know I have that relationship with.
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Speaker 4: But then I'll look at the students and say, but
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Speaker 4: you know, if you're go and cut me off, it's
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Speaker 4: it's not gonna hurt my feelings, you know, in this context.
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Speaker 5: But it's different for everybody.
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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah it is.
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Speaker 2: And man I am I am so guilty of that
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Speaker 2: at home and trying so hard to take whatever my
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Speaker 2: questionuents are that I might have and just put them
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Speaker 2: aside and wait for the right time, which is again
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Speaker 2: so hard for me to do because I'm naturally an
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Speaker 2: inquisitive guy. And when I sat in that circle with
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Speaker 2: Tom and those students at Peru, man, it's like I
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Speaker 2: needed I needed a pen and a paper, which I
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Speaker 2: didn't have and I always have and that drove me nuts, man,
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Speaker 2: like it it killed me. And and when when that
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Speaker 2: circle was over, I was just filled with with so
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Speaker 2: many questions that I was just over overwhelmed and just
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Speaker 2: locked right up.
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Speaker 5: Mmm, now now do you so?
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Speaker 4: You usually when you have a question, it comes up
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Speaker 4: and you ask it right, And I would imagine that's
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Speaker 4: one of the reasons why your podcast does so well,
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Speaker 4: and why you're so inquisitive because you're good at asking questions,
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Speaker 4: but so that was very difficult for you, hunh to
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Speaker 4: not be able to ask those.
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, big time. Who's who comes up.
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Speaker 2: With the the start of a circle event that that
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Speaker 2: if you're hosting this, do you do you go into
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Speaker 2: it the day before or the hour before with a
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Speaker 2: series of questions to get the conversation started? Do you
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Speaker 2: know what road you're going to go down? Or do
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Speaker 2: you just kind of wing it?
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Speaker 4: And that's a that's such a great question, you know
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Speaker 4: because my my, you know, the people before me and
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Speaker 4: sweethearts and heroes are pretty much in circle related stuff
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Speaker 4: are pretty much Tom and Pat, and both of which
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Speaker 4: are really really good on the fly, especially Pat. I
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Speaker 4: don't know if it's because of his wrapping background or not,
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Speaker 4: but he can just just wing it. And and that's
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Speaker 4: been that's actually been kind of a challenge for me, because.
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Speaker 5: You know, you go into this, you know, middle school.
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Speaker 4: Classroom, and and you go into it with a plan,
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Speaker 4: and that plan doesn't work at all, you know, because
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Speaker 4: every circle is different. So I I mean I I
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Speaker 4: do go into a plan, mainly because I really hate
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Speaker 4: being stressed out.
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Speaker 5: And actually, even though I love.
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Speaker 4: My job, this job stresses me out a ton because
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Speaker 4: I want to do a good job and I want
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Speaker 4: to I want to give the students and the teachers
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Speaker 4: the best experience that I can, and as a weaver,
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Speaker 4: some of that, some of that is relying on you
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Speaker 4: and how you can set up a question, how you
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Speaker 4: can tie it to some vulnerability even with yourself, and
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Speaker 4: so you know, I do pretty much every circle I do,
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Speaker 4: I totally come up with at least a loose plan
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Speaker 4: of what I'm going to ask, because I want to
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Speaker 4: go in with something.
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Speaker 5: Most of the time I always ask the first question.
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Speaker 4: I come up with, and I don't always come up
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Speaker 4: with them. We have a whole list of questions and
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Speaker 4: sometimes I'll pick from there, but I'll almost always ask
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Speaker 4: that first question, and then dependent on how that goes,
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Speaker 4: will really my hope is that that, you know, something
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Speaker 4: in my soul will be struck and I will be
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Speaker 4: able to follow my curiosity on one of those things.
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Speaker 4: And honestly, it's pretty much every circle, at least somebody
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Speaker 4: will say something that will strike me, and like I
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Speaker 4: said earlier, I don't go oh, And usually then I
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Speaker 4: will try to frame or base off my question following that,
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Speaker 4: sometimes just three or four and I now I got
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Speaker 4: to pick one, right, especially when you're doing a circle
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Speaker 4: for forty minutes. I mean, you get that first question
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Speaker 4: out and if people want to talk, you might not
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Speaker 4: even get the next question, you know. In so but
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Speaker 4: that's yeah, I kind of go in with a lose plan.
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Speaker 5: Because I don't like being stressed out.
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Speaker 4: And if I have at least a plan of what
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Speaker 4: activator I'm going to do and what first question I'm
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Speaker 4: going to ask, I usually can calm my nerves down enough,
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Speaker 4: you know, to then get through that and see where
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Speaker 4: I'm at and then kind of go and follow my
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Speaker 4: curiosity from there.
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Speaker 2: I've asked Tom, and I've also asked your brother, and
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Speaker 2: I think I've asked Pat, and I'm going to ask
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Speaker 2: you now.
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Speaker 3: Have you.
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Speaker 2: Left a circle event, a circle experience with high school
25:36
Speaker 2: students and been so you just said the word struck
25:42
Speaker 2: and been so struck that it has distracted you from
25:51
Speaker 2: the rest of your day or consumed you oddly enough
26:01
Speaker 2: where you're you're almost in a fog for the rest
26:05
Speaker 2: of the day. I've seen Tom, and I know you
26:08
Speaker 2: have to where he's he was so impacted that he's
26:19
Speaker 2: temporarily almost like a zombie.
26:24
Speaker 3: He has to.
26:27
Speaker 2: Purge, he's got to talk about his his experience or
26:32
Speaker 2: digest it, process it in his own time. Have you
26:37
Speaker 2: ever Have you ever been like that? Have you ever
26:40
Speaker 2: left a circle group and gotten into your car and
26:44
Speaker 2: don't even remember the ride home?
26:48
Speaker 5: Oh?
26:48
Speaker 4: Yeah? Actually, I find more so though with middle schoolers. Wow, yeah, yeah,
26:57
Speaker 4: and and and.
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Speaker 5: A lot of times.
27:01
Speaker 4: For me, I don't know that it's necessarily a profound
27:06
Speaker 4: concept that I hear from a student as.
27:10
Speaker 5: Much as a profound story.
27:13
Speaker 4: That or or just a struggle or a challenge that
27:17
Speaker 4: they that they share and circle that's just gut wrenching.
27:23
Speaker 5: I think that's what does it for me.
27:25
Speaker 4: I've never really had it, like if I had a
27:28
Speaker 4: circle in the morning and then I had, you know,
27:30
Speaker 4: five six more circles, and never really have it affect
27:34
Speaker 4: me like during that part of my day. I'm not
27:37
Speaker 4: sure why that is for me, but I usually go
27:41
Speaker 4: through the circle and then the entire circle day, and
27:46
Speaker 4: then yeah, when I get into my.
27:48
Speaker 5: Car, it starts to that.
27:52
Speaker 4: Then it starts to hit me and I start to
27:54
Speaker 4: think back to to some of those things, some of these,
28:01
Speaker 4: like I said that, the struggles are really the big
28:03
Speaker 4: ones that that hit me and I and I have
28:08
Speaker 4: to at least talk to my wife about him. And
28:13
Speaker 4: usually I'll talk to Tom too because he he he's
28:17
Speaker 4: been through a number of those as well. But but
28:22
Speaker 4: yet the struggles that some of these students go through,
28:25
Speaker 4: I'll hop in and I'll just I like the word ruminate,
28:31
Speaker 4: ruminate on it and just chew it up over and
28:34
Speaker 4: over and over again. Just think and think and think
28:36
Speaker 4: about it. And uh, yeah, it's it's kind of a tough.
28:41
Speaker 4: It's kind of a tough part of the job because
28:44
Speaker 4: you you get to hear and see quite a bit
28:49
Speaker 4: of damage sometimes. But you know, I've also had through
28:53
Speaker 4: that some really incredible experiences where you know, that same
28:59
Speaker 4: student comes back to me it says, hey, thanks for
29:03
Speaker 4: the conversation.
29:04
Speaker 5: I'm doing a lot better now.
29:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think those are the even more impactful ones,
29:10
Speaker 4: you know, where you're like, whoa, you know, I said
29:13
Speaker 4: like five words to you and they're like, yeah, that's
29:16
Speaker 4: what I needed.
29:17
Speaker 2: It's that amazing, that's incredible. And you know, we should say,
29:23
Speaker 2: first of all, I mean the fact that you guys
29:25
Speaker 2: are bringing this program into schools is so fantastic because
29:33
Speaker 2: schools are places where we're supposed to learn the curriculum,
29:43
Speaker 2: and but there's so much more that's going on that's
29:49
Speaker 2: affecting children that they're bringing to school with them, things
29:55
Speaker 2: that they're carrying throughout the day, into the classroom, out
30:00
Speaker 2: of the classroom, on the way to school, on the
30:02
Speaker 2: way home, And the fact that you guys are bringing
30:08
Speaker 2: something that is a different form of learning is really
30:15
Speaker 2: cool and frankly, something that I wish that I had
30:21
Speaker 2: when I was in middle school and high school. I
30:25
Speaker 2: don't know if it's a reflection of the sign of
30:29
Speaker 2: times or or what, but just the fact that man
30:32
Speaker 2: life is not easy and what kids have to deal
30:38
Speaker 2: with today is unbelievable. And like you said earlier, everybody
30:46
Speaker 2: has a different and unique story experience. But a lot
30:55
Speaker 2: of what you guys do, we should say in circle,
30:59
Speaker 2: is not just serious stuff too.
31:01
Speaker 3: There's a lot of laughter. There's a lot of.
31:04
Speaker 2: A lot of fun frankly that can come out of
31:07
Speaker 2: a circle experience.
31:08
Speaker 4: Right, Oh yeah, you know, yeah, I actually it's it's
31:16
Speaker 4: interesting to bring that up that that's actually what I
31:19
Speaker 4: rely heavily on personally, I'm usually uh, goofy somewhat in
31:27
Speaker 4: in my circles and I.
31:31
Speaker 5: I'll actually get a lot of teachers that will.
31:33
Speaker 4: Come back to me and be like, hey, like you
31:36
Speaker 4: know that was that was nice, but like we just
31:39
Speaker 4: laughed a whole bunch, like there wasn't any like deep stuff. Yeah,
31:44
Speaker 4: we'll get there, you know, to take it. I'd much
31:49
Speaker 4: rather get these students out of class a lot of times,
31:55
Speaker 4: not for every student, but a lot of times, you know,
31:58
Speaker 4: the place where they really just don't want to be
32:00
Speaker 4: in class, Sure, get them out of it, have them
32:04
Speaker 4: come down or go into their classroom. My favorite, though,
32:08
Speaker 4: is when they have to come down and they come
32:11
Speaker 4: into the room that I'm in and there's this circle
32:15
Speaker 4: of chairs and they're like, what is this?
32:20
Speaker 3: We have to look at each other.
32:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not doing anything, and and you know, they'll
32:28
Speaker 4: sit down ahead. I can't I can remember this one time.
32:32
Speaker 4: I can't even remember where I was, but the student
32:36
Speaker 4: comes in high schooler just comes in and says, what
32:41
Speaker 4: is this?
32:41
Speaker 5: Is this therapy?
32:43
Speaker 4: I was like, well, I'm just gonna have some fun. Well,
32:46
Speaker 4: I'm not doing anything. He sits down right next to me.
32:50
Speaker 4: It's like, this is so stupid. Why do we have
32:52
Speaker 4: to I was forced to be here. I said, yeah, man,
32:55
Speaker 4: me too. He said, well, at least you get paid.
33:00
Speaker 4: I was like, well, yeah, touche, you got me there.
33:02
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. He's like, I'm not doing anything.
33:05
Speaker 4: By the end of the circle, he was begging his
33:09
Speaker 4: teacher to come back with the other half of his
33:13
Speaker 4: class that was going to come down right after that.
33:15
Speaker 5: And he did.
33:16
Speaker 4: Him and his buddy did, and they were the only
33:18
Speaker 4: two that were really like this is so dumb and
33:21
Speaker 4: and and so, you know, especially for a first time
33:24
Speaker 4: circle man, when when when students come in, my goal
33:28
Speaker 4: is to make him laugh, to have some fun, to
33:32
Speaker 4: get introduced to me, introduced to circle. So I just
33:36
Speaker 4: make a bunch of jokes and and.
33:39
Speaker 5: Pull out my diaper that I carry around.
33:43
Speaker 3: You know, what's that? What's what's the story with that?
33:47
Speaker 5: Oh man?
33:49
Speaker 4: When I was first starting, Tom kind of just had
33:53
Speaker 4: this idea, you know, I had my son and.
33:55
Speaker 6: He's like, dude, you should you should like put some
33:58
Speaker 6: rice in a bag and put it in a diaper
34:02
Speaker 6: and just start chucking in at kids, and like, you know,
34:05
Speaker 6: like you should pull it out and be like, oh
34:07
Speaker 6: I can't believe that's in there.
34:08
Speaker 4: I was changing my son this, you know. Yeah, a
34:10
Speaker 4: one made come up with this whole story. And I
34:13
Speaker 4: remember I did it once at the first school. I
34:16
Speaker 4: was doing them kindergarteners through maybe third fourth grade, and
34:23
Speaker 4: you know, I was like, Okay, I'm gonna try it,
34:25
Speaker 4: and it kind of fail miserably, but it kind of
34:28
Speaker 4: morphed into this little skit that I do really and
34:33
Speaker 4: I had my superhero briefcase.
34:35
Speaker 5: I'm sure you've seen Tom's.
34:36
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm not sure if you've seen Pats, but Pat
34:41
Speaker 4: has one. There's only three in existence, I tell kids,
34:45
Speaker 4: and my buddy Tom bought all three of them.
34:48
Speaker 5: And Pat's got one. He's got a bunch of bracelets, dang.
34:52
Speaker 4: I mean hundreds of bracelets dangling off of his and
34:55
Speaker 4: they they're all from students. He's got a story for
34:58
Speaker 4: each one of them, and he remembers them all and
35:02
Speaker 4: then mine.
35:04
Speaker 5: It's got some crazy can could I grab it for you?
35:08
Speaker 3: Yeah? Please?
35:10
Speaker 5: Yeah?
35:10
Speaker 3: Absolutely, man, I love it.
35:14
Speaker 2: We're chatting this morning with Josiah with sweethearts and heroes.
35:23
Speaker 3: If yeah, look at that.
35:27
Speaker 4: So that's got a bunch of bracelets. I decided to
35:31
Speaker 4: go with stickers. You know, honestly, I told you I
35:34
Speaker 4: don't like being stressed. What I ended up doing was
35:37
Speaker 4: when I was first starting, I had a bunch of
35:40
Speaker 4: questions printed out on a late from a label maker
35:43
Speaker 4: and I stuck them on here, and then I stuck
35:46
Speaker 4: this one on from the summit that we had, and
35:49
Speaker 4: then students just started sticking more stickers.
35:52
Speaker 5: There's just a ton of different stickers from different students.
35:56
Speaker 5: But yeah, so this is this is mine.
35:58
Speaker 4: And Tom had been carrying this around in the back
36:01
Speaker 4: of his car for probably about ten years, and I
36:04
Speaker 4: tell kids it was just jiggling around back there and
36:06
Speaker 4: he was waiting for somebody to give it to. And
36:09
Speaker 4: last last fall he decided to give it to me.
36:13
Speaker 4: And I usually tell students I'm not sure why. He
36:16
Speaker 4: gave it to me in a hotel parking lot and
36:18
Speaker 4: then drove off and kids are like, did you check
36:22
Speaker 4: what was inside of it? I'm like, no, I mean
36:23
Speaker 4: it was time, Like, yeah, right, you're not going to
36:26
Speaker 4: give me anything, you know, terrible, But yeah, then you know,
36:29
Speaker 4: I usually tell him how special it is to me,
36:31
Speaker 4: and then I'll what I'll usually do is say, hey.
36:34
Speaker 5: This I'm going to open this up.
36:35
Speaker 4: But this next thing that I'm gonna can somebody catch,
36:39
Speaker 4: you know, because this next thing I'm gonna toss is.
36:40
Speaker 5: Even more important to me than this briefcase.
36:44
Speaker 4: And I inevitably get somebody and I'm like, now, seriously,
36:48
Speaker 4: like I need you to promise to not let this
36:51
Speaker 4: hit the floor. They're like, oh, okay, I promise, And
36:55
Speaker 4: sometimes they're like sitting there like this. I'm like, dude,
36:57
Speaker 4: get ready, like come on and uh, you know, I'll
37:00
Speaker 4: grab it all silent line, you know, keep it away
37:03
Speaker 4: from the students, and then I'll chuck it at him
37:07
Speaker 4: and wrapped up diaper.
37:11
Speaker 5: And I started out with rice inside of it.
37:16
Speaker 2: Well that was gonna be a question that I had,
37:18
Speaker 2: did you did you move to something else?
37:21
Speaker 4: I did, because I was playing a game with it
37:25
Speaker 4: and it hit the floor and the rice blew out
37:30
Speaker 4: everywhere in the classroom and it was like.
37:33
Speaker 5: Carpet too, it wasn't like hard floor.
37:36
Speaker 4: And this this fifth grader gets up and gets this tiny,
37:40
Speaker 4: tiny vacuum.
37:41
Speaker 5: For the next five minutes, you know, like the kids
37:43
Speaker 5: wouldn't stop the game. I'm like, no, no, no, like we
37:45
Speaker 5: got to stop him, Like no, it's my time.
37:46
Speaker 4: To shoot them because I had two others going two
37:49
Speaker 4: other diapers and I'm like, no, like, we got to stop.
37:52
Speaker 4: And I look over to the teacher and I'm like, oh,
37:54
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry. Luckily I had somewhat of a good
37:58
Speaker 4: rapport with her. Yeah, he's like, it's it's okay. But
38:03
Speaker 4: the student, you know, cleaned it up. And I promised
38:06
Speaker 4: myself that I wouldn't put rice in it anymore. So
38:09
Speaker 4: then I started doing some really funky things, like some
38:12
Speaker 4: homemade soap from my wife.
38:16
Speaker 5: She makes homemade soap.
38:17
Speaker 4: And the day after that happened to me, I was
38:20
Speaker 4: back home and I had to go to another school
38:22
Speaker 4: and it was in the morning, and I'm like, what
38:24
Speaker 4: am I going to put in my diaper? I need
38:26
Speaker 4: a diaper because it's my thing. I pull it out
38:29
Speaker 4: and make everybody laugh. They freak out, they toss it,
38:31
Speaker 4: they scream, sometimes they cry.
38:34
Speaker 5: I tell students and they're like.
38:37
Speaker 4: Like, well, you know, every now and then you throw
38:40
Speaker 4: it to a student who was traumatized by their dad
38:43
Speaker 4: chasing around with a diaper, and you know it's it's
38:46
Speaker 4: a little much for him, and and so, uh, you
38:49
Speaker 4: got to be careful. But anyhow, so I was out there,
38:52
Speaker 4: headed out the door, and I saw this roum, you know,
38:55
Speaker 4: piece of soap that my wife makes. She makes really
38:59
Speaker 4: really amazing soap, but this one round when I stuck
39:01
Speaker 4: it in there.
39:02
Speaker 3: With some plastic bag, what color was it, I was
39:05
Speaker 3: like a beige. It was just like a brown. It
39:10
Speaker 3: wasn't brown, not quite okay.
39:14
Speaker 5: Now, yeah, yeah, yeah it should have been.
39:16
Speaker 4: But she she didn't really have a ton of brown ones.
39:19
Speaker 4: So but I threw it in there just just for
39:21
Speaker 4: that day, and I ended up keeping it in there.
39:23
Speaker 5: At one point.
39:24
Speaker 4: I had a bottle of ibuprofen in there because I
39:27
Speaker 4: don't know, I guess I'm a little lazy, and I
39:29
Speaker 4: was like, I don't know what else to put in.
39:31
Speaker 5: So one of them was shaking, but I.
39:34
Speaker 4: Stopped with the soap because I had a ninth grader
39:39
Speaker 4: rip open the diaper found it in circle as I'm
39:44
Speaker 4: doing this little gig and and they're like, can I
39:48
Speaker 4: eat this?
39:49
Speaker 5: Can I take a bite of it?
39:51
Speaker 4: And I'm like, sure, bite of this soap? And it
40:00
Speaker 4: it's like it's like kind of waxy, and it's like
40:03
Speaker 4: he gets up and he hands it.
40:04
Speaker 5: To his buddy.
40:05
Speaker 4: His buddy takes a bigger bite of it, and the
40:07
Speaker 4: teacher's just sitting there like what doing.
40:12
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm sorry, I mean they asked me.
40:14
Speaker 4: I mean, it's not toxic, sure, but it were just
40:17
Speaker 4: stuck in their tea. And so I tell students, I
40:21
Speaker 4: can't carry soap anymore in there, so you know right now.
40:26
Speaker 4: I kept this little squishy stress ball.
40:30
Speaker 5: It's perfect, but it's it's broken here.
40:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I used it.
40:36
Speaker 5: They wanted to use it as a talking piece, but
40:38
Speaker 5: it was just squeezing out stuff. I was like, you
40:40
Speaker 5: know what, I'll just put that in my diaper. But
40:43
Speaker 5: the reason I have a diaper.
40:44
Speaker 4: JD is and I always tell this to the students
40:48
Speaker 4: once they freak out.
40:49
Speaker 5: Say the reason I have it.
40:50
Speaker 4: Is because I have a one and a half almost
40:53
Speaker 4: two year old son, and right now I travel about
40:56
Speaker 4: five days a week. I only really get to see
40:59
Speaker 4: him on the weekend. But if you ever had to
41:02
Speaker 4: change a diaper, and usually a kid or two raises
41:04
Speaker 4: their hand, you know, if you ever had to change
41:06
Speaker 4: a diaper, you know that the first one smelly, nasty, disgusting.
41:10
Speaker 5: You change it real quick.
41:11
Speaker 4: Sometimes I'll tell them I close my eyes to hide
41:14
Speaker 4: it from the you know, I don't want the stinct
41:15
Speaker 4: to seep into my eyes. Change it real quick, throw
41:18
Speaker 4: a new one on, and now all of a sudden,
41:19
Speaker 4: you have this half a little naked human being waddling
41:23
Speaker 4: across the floor, and you just get this quick little
41:25
Speaker 4: whiff of sure pampers yes and uh.
41:31
Speaker 5: And so.
41:33
Speaker 4: I get to pull this out every single day with
41:35
Speaker 4: the students that I meet, watch their reactions, and then
41:39
Speaker 4: when I get it back, I get to give it
41:40
Speaker 4: a quick whiff and by this time, kids are like,
41:42
Speaker 4: oh no, like no, no, and it just brings back
41:45
Speaker 4: all these awesome memories that I have with my son,
41:48
Speaker 4: not the changing part, sure running around and.
41:53
Speaker 5: And so that's why I have a diaper, That's why
41:54
Speaker 5: I chuck at the students. But you know, by the.
41:57
Speaker 4: Time I'm done with that, you know, I've got I've got,
42:01
Speaker 4: you know, twenty minutes to maybe even fifteen minutes to
42:05
Speaker 4: ask my question.
42:06
Speaker 5: And usually it's.
42:06
Speaker 4: A solid question, but by that time, I've just got
42:10
Speaker 4: students laughing.
42:11
Speaker 3: Yeah. Right, ice breaker, Joe, Joe. Have you.
42:17
Speaker 2: Have you at any point considered you know, like a
42:25
Speaker 2: a chocolate pudding or pea soup or anything.
42:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get students that say I should put Hershey
42:33
Speaker 4: Bars in there, and.
42:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great idea, I think for me.
42:39
Speaker 4: The challenging part with that is I just stick this
42:43
Speaker 4: back in my suitcase and I I don't know, I
42:50
Speaker 4: mean putting, I don't notice putting end up smelling. Does
42:56
Speaker 4: does chocolate? I mean like, I just just use it
43:00
Speaker 4: over like I have to change it every now and
43:03
Speaker 4: then because they just get so busted up. But these
43:05
Speaker 4: pampers they hold up so well. I can because I
43:08
Speaker 4: games with these too.
43:09
Speaker 2: Yeahs, Pampers should be sending you a free supply frankly
43:17
Speaker 2: every week.
43:19
Speaker 3: I want to know.
43:20
Speaker 2: I want to know where you have opened your briefcase
43:24
Speaker 2: forgetting that this diaper is in there, or maybe not
43:29
Speaker 2: at the airport we're on a bus. Where where was
43:32
Speaker 2: it when you've opened this and had others glance at this?
43:39
Speaker 4: Oh when students that I haven't done a circle with
43:45
Speaker 4: ask me to look what's inside of it, and you know,
43:49
Speaker 4: I'm like yeah, sure, And they're going through and they
43:52
Speaker 4: see all my action figures and then they get to
43:54
Speaker 4: the bottom of it and there's this diaper and they're like,
43:57
Speaker 4: what is this.
43:59
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, And then I have to
44:01
Speaker 5: tell them the whole story.
44:02
Speaker 3: But you know, because but but you know, forgot about
44:06
Speaker 3: that one.
44:07
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, but really only that that probably only app
44:11
Speaker 4: in the first couple of weeks that I started doing it,
44:14
Speaker 4: Like this is like, this is probably and I didn't
44:16
Speaker 4: mean for it to be this. It was supposed to
44:19
Speaker 4: be a little bit of a gag, supposed to be
44:21
Speaker 4: able to play games with it. But after I explain
44:26
Speaker 4: why I have it. This is probably one of my
44:29
Speaker 4: most used talking pieces, students are like all discussed to
44:35
Speaker 4: buy it. And then by the time I'm done explaining it,
44:39
Speaker 4: because you know, I'm opening up and being a little
44:40
Speaker 4: bit vulnerable. Sure, and and and then they're like, let's
44:45
Speaker 4: use the diaper, and I'm like, okay, awesome, sweet pa.
44:50
Speaker 4: And I just think it's incredible, especially like middle schoolers,
44:54
Speaker 4: like in in school and they're just passing around a
45:00
Speaker 4: diaper and I'll look and him be like everything, you'd
45:02
Speaker 4: be passing a dipe around in school, Like It's just
45:06
Speaker 4: it's kind of like one of those unique things that
45:09
Speaker 4: I would almost imagine I'm like one of the only
45:13
Speaker 4: people in the world who gets to like.
45:17
Speaker 5: Pass a dipe around with a bunch of mills.
45:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I got to ask you man. You know, first,
45:23
Speaker 2: I want to tell you when one of the first
45:25
Speaker 2: times that I met Tom, you know, he was he
45:32
Speaker 2: was just speeling out all of these acronyms, and I
45:37
Speaker 2: was a little overwhelmed, and I was like, Tom, you know,
45:44
Speaker 2: it's like, do I have to write all these down?
45:47
Speaker 2: And he said no, no, no, and he put his
45:50
Speaker 2: hand on my shoulder and he said, someday you'll get it.
45:55
Speaker 2: About a week and a half ago, I was faced
46:01
Speaker 2: with a challenging situation and all of a sudden, out
46:12
Speaker 2: of nowhere, unexpectedly, I said, hold on, possibilities exist, and
46:22
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it. I was like, there's hope right there.
46:30
Speaker 2: And I'm like, Tom.
46:34
Speaker 3: Was right. Have you ever had.
46:39
Speaker 2: A student in circle say, hey, that's a great idea
46:44
Speaker 2: and that's a great acronym. But quite honestly, I don't
46:50
Speaker 2: have any hope.
46:53
Speaker 3: The outcome is probably not going to be good.
47:02
Speaker 5: I don't know if I had a student say that.
47:07
Speaker 4: Blatantly right out in in a circle. I've definitely had
47:13
Speaker 4: some students say, well, I don't have any super I
47:16
Speaker 4: don't have a hero. There's there's nobody that that helps me.
47:22
Speaker 4: You know, when we ask who's your favorite superhero? I've
47:24
Speaker 4: had that happen. You know a number of times I
47:27
Speaker 4: have had, you know, an occasion or two, you know
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Speaker 4: where students come up to me afterwards and say, you know, hey,
47:39
Speaker 4: thanks for sharing. You know, I I thought about committing
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Speaker 4: suicide the other day, and and you know, then we
47:47
Speaker 4: we talked through that, we go to a counselor Yeah,
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Speaker 4: I don't know that I've had a direct confrontation in
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Speaker 4: that way in a circle where a student goes there
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Speaker 4: there really is no hope. But you know, seeing as
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Speaker 4: you brought it up, I'd be willing to imagine that
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Speaker 4: that it will come down the road at some point.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys are all doing such great work. I'm
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Speaker 2: so impressed by hearing about everything and witnessing it myself
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Speaker 2: over in Peru, and I hope to have another opportunity
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Speaker 2: to do that with any of you. Frankly, you guys
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Speaker 2: are really doing incredible stuff. And like I said earlier,
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Speaker 2: schools that are not yet familiar with Sweethearts and Heroes
48:53
Speaker 2: get in touch with them. Sweethearts and Heroes dot Com
48:56
Speaker 2: is really the best go to that you should you
49:01
Speaker 2: should have at your fingertips today. If your child or
49:07
Speaker 2: your your school is not connected, and if they are,
49:15
Speaker 2: take your testimony and share it to other schools. How
49:21
Speaker 2: important the work is that you're doing to empower children
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Speaker 2: to be the best that they can, to be productive,
49:34
Speaker 2: to be intelligent, yes, to learn things, of course, but
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Speaker 2: to carry with them hope, strength, encouragement, love, empathy that
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Speaker 2: they can give to others. And you guys are just
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Speaker 2: you're doing it, You're really doing it. And I'm so
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Speaker 2: impressed with all of you.
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Speaker 5: Well, we appreciate that, JD and really appreciate you and
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Speaker 5: and allowing us to come on here.
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Speaker 4: And you know, maybe next time there was one comment
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Speaker 4: I wanted you made a quick statement about you know,
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Speaker 4: maybe it's the sign of the times, and and uh,
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Speaker 4: i'd be I'd be interested to hear about, you know,
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Speaker 4: maybe more if there's any depth on you know, that
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Speaker 4: comment on your end.
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Speaker 5: I'd love to talk to you about that.
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Speaker 2: I would love to have that conversation. Man, When when
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Speaker 2: do you I mean, I'd love to get you and
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Speaker 2: Brian in here or you and and Pat? Yeah, when
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Speaker 2: are you gonna be out this way?
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Speaker 5: So I don't I'm not really sure.
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Speaker 4: Our schedule right now, you know, is being built for
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Speaker 4: this next year, but you know I would.
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Speaker 5: I would be more.
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Speaker 4: Than you know, I know, Brian isn't that far away.
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Speaker 4: I'm not even sure how far. I would technically be
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Speaker 4: probably three three, four hours, three hours maybe, but you
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Speaker 4: know I would love that, you know, whether it's with
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Speaker 4: Brian or Pat.
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Speaker 5: I would. I.
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Speaker 4: I really kind of was thinking about it before I
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Speaker 4: hopped on. I was like, man, I'm not really a
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Speaker 4: Google meet guy. Yeah, like, I'm not really a phone guy.
51:19
Speaker 4: I like to be in person.
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Speaker 6: And I was thinking, oh, I'd be so sweet to sure, So.
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Speaker 4: I really think, yeah, let's you know, I'd be willing
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Speaker 4: to make the drive, but let's let's do it in
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Speaker 4: person next time.
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Speaker 2: Man, I would love to do a marathon circle live
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Speaker 2: unaired out with you and Tom and Rick and the
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Speaker 2: whole team. Wow, just us, no time restraints, live on
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Speaker 2: live unaired out and go down some rabbit holes.
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Speaker 5: Brother, that would be awesome. Man. I would be one
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Speaker 5: down for that.
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Speaker 2: I can't wait to meet you in person, dude. And
52:14
Speaker 2: once again, kudos to you. Tip of the hat. You
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Speaker 2: guys are doing great work and I loved having you
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Speaker 2: on this morning.
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Speaker 5: Hey, same here and and and.
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Speaker 6: J D.
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Speaker 4: I'm proud of you for your brain bringing up hold
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Speaker 4: on possibilities exist, because they really do. So thanks for
52:34
Speaker 4: sharing that story that was that was awesome to hear
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Speaker 4: this morning.
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Speaker 2: Thanks buddy, looking forward to meeting you. Thanks Joe, Thank
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Speaker 2: you what a great guy. That's the kind of stuff
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Speaker 2: right there that.
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Speaker 3: That I love so much.
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Speaker 2: Having conversations like that incredible. Every Wednesday we bring Sweethearts
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Speaker 2: Heroes on with us and we have great conversations and
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Speaker 2: I love it again if you haven't done so yet,
53:11
Speaker 2: Sweethearts and Heroes dot com. Josiah McKeon my guest this
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Speaker 2: Morning hit. Last night, I got a chance to sit
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Speaker 2: down with Mark Tetrow and a few other great people
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Speaker 2: and chat up more details about the Nodes Family Benefit
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Speaker 2: on Saturday, October or August rather August twenty third. The
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Speaker 2: graphic that we've been sharing says a four pm start.
53:46
Speaker 2: They have changed that. They haven't changed the graphic yet
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Speaker 2: but because they're adding some more details to it. But
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Speaker 2: it's a two pm start and I want to make
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Speaker 2: sure that we get that out and communicate that as
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Speaker 2: much as possible. It's a two pm start for the
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Speaker 2: Nodes Family Benefit on Saturday, August twenty third. We are
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Speaker 2: one month away today, one month. It's going to go
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Speaker 2: until about eight thirty. It's not going to go to
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Speaker 2: like midnight, one o'clock in the morning. This is a
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Speaker 2: family event. Live music from Dave Keller, Jamie Lee Thurston,
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Speaker 2: Shane McGrath from Williamstown is going to be performing, which
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Speaker 2: I can't wait for that right there. Shane's amazing, incredible
54:43
Speaker 2: food is going to be served up. Food trucks will
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Speaker 2: be there. Randy Henry will be cooking up some food
54:53
Speaker 2: as well. The Lions Club is going to be doing
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Speaker 2: some games, Real Bounce, Rick Shaquette and company will be
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Speaker 2: there letting the kids jump, play, have fun. A beer
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Speaker 2: garden will be served up from Cornerstone. Paul Kett Farm
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Speaker 2: is going to be there doing a corn roast, arguably
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Speaker 2: the best corn on the planet. So please make this
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Speaker 2: part of your schedule. Get it in your calendar for Saturday,
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Speaker 2: August twenty third, one month from today, two pm.
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Speaker 5: Start.
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Speaker 2: All proceeds every dime going to be going to the
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Speaker 2: Nodes Family and admission is by donation. This is the
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Speaker 2: family that lost their barn on their four hundred acre
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Speaker 2: farm right here in central Vermont. We're going to do
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Speaker 2: all we can to help them out. On the twenty third,
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Speaker 2: good luck to all the drivers for the Times Arcus
56:11
Speaker 2: Mid Season Championships. Double points on the line. It is
56:17
Speaker 2: going to be a great night tomorrow. I want to
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Speaker 2: thank Alice Colts yesterday for her deeply personal conversation with
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Speaker 2: me on the State House lawn yesterday, one that impacts
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Speaker 2: me every time. This is the third time that I've
56:40
Speaker 2: had her on aired out, and yesterday, like the previous two,
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Speaker 2: just stuck with me all day. An amazing lady. And
56:50
Speaker 2: we're going to have more updates on Alice. I promise
56:56
Speaker 2: you enjoy the rest of your day. Please be careful there,
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Speaker 2: especially in the construction zones which are everywhere. We got
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Speaker 2: some hot weather that is coming back tomorrow or is
57:13
Speaker 2: it Thursday? I can't remember. I think it's yeah, Tomorrow's
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Speaker 2: kind of the beginning of a little bit of a
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Speaker 2: rebound back into.
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Speaker 3: Summer. But yeah, ninety degrees ninety degrees.
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow, and then you know, we get into some storms
57:45
Speaker 2: on Friday, thunderstorms at the Heritage Festival.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Not really sure how that's going to go. But I'll
58:02
Speaker 2: be there. I'll be there broadcast your live or at
58:06
Speaker 2: least trying to. And then of course the parade is
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Speaker 2: it's just going to be a blast. Saturday is going
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Speaker 2: to be amazing. The weather's going to be perfect. Cannot wait.
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Speaker 2: Get out tonight Curryer Park. We've got the farmers market
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Speaker 2: starting at three point thirty. We've got the food trucks
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Speaker 2: pulling up. We've got some great live music tonight, Curier Park,
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Speaker 2: the unofficial, official, unofficial beginning to Heritage Festival right here
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