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Coming up on The Children's Hour, it's the fourth and final episode of Communication Nation,
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our series exploring how we communicate through media, languages, and community building.
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Today we're focusing on playing games to help us practice working together for a common goal.
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Our guest is Doug Montoya, and he's going to be leading the kids' crew through an improvisation
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workshop to make our team stronger. We're also going to explore how games have been used for
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thousands of years here in the Americas to bring communities together. This series comes
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with learning guides and activities to learn even more. Together We Can, coming up on The
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Children's Hour. The Children's Hour is produced by The Children's Hour Incorporated. We're
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a New Mexico based non-profit organization working with children to make the best in high quality
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kids public radio. You can learn a lot more about us at childrenshour.org. It's time for
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Sol e vento novo dia Este calor aquece minha alma Compartilhar amigos e segredos Amar
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e abraçar sem medo Viver o tempo bem feliz aqui e sempre Num sentimento infinito I'm
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happy and I'm back, smile and smile, and I'm back again. The whole world the whole world
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is fighting, what's difference between Life is my hands, it's in my hands, it's my my soul,
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it's like...
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Dinati, Kashmir, Mamasti, Tai Chi Must be fighting like Husky Titans. They still don't know where
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they're going or where they're flowing Rivers like Ganges, they all demanding, we all know
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it. Where we come from like addresses Mothers' wombs in hospital beds and God's blessing Lo
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siento que nuestra vida siempre cambia La muerte y todas las razas diferentes son Solamente
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gente es evidente Que yo entiendo y tú me entiendes A luz do sol invento um novo dia This warmth
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that warms my soul Sharing friends and secrets Loving and hugging without fear To a happy
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time here and always with an infinite oh. We keep on worrying about the next hour. That we
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never give a chance To the beauty that surrounds us The sounds are a blessing that we should
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let us drown us But we keep on worrying and we keep on frowning I'm gonna change it together today
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together we pray together whether shine or rain from Angola to Spain Portugal Israel Himalayas
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let the light shine bright because together we stay together today I ain't got no time
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to waste eh eh I'm here with my family eh eh I to friends anymore we're all together now we'll keep music
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we'll the Moksha and we'll that Descrescou oh a luz do sol e inventou um novo dia
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Yes, we are,
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secret
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I ain't got no time to waste I'm here with my family I don't about bond anymore We'll together
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forever Music will I'll the of I'll love forever I'll with
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ah See me out of.
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That's Nimo right here on The Children's Hour. I'm Katie Stone and I'm here at the Outpost
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Performance Space with a whole lot of great kids and on Zoom. Hello everyone. Hi. And
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who's with us today? Hello, it's Amadeus. Hi, it's Illuminata. Hi, it's Caibiya. Hi, it's
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Nina. Hi, it's Amaya. Hi, it's Lucasti. Hi, it's Thaniel. Well, thank you all so much for being
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here out there in listener land and here in the Outpost and on Zoom. Today, we are in
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episode four of our four-part series, Communication Nation. It's a series that explores various
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forms of communication through media, languages, and community building. Today's episode is
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going to focus on team building. If you think about it, the goal of communication is always
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to build community around us. We are much stronger as we communicate and work together.
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And there are simple ways we can build trust in our communities and strengthen them by
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playing games. There are so many games I'm sure we all love, from team sports to
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board games to video games. On today's show, we're going to talk about games that require
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cooperation among us. That is what helps us build community and friendships. For more
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information on this and the entire series called Communication Nation, visit ChildrensHour.org.
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And there, you're going to find not only all the parts of this series, but lots of curriculum
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and activities so that these shows can be used in the classroom or just to further learning
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wherever you are. This is Communication Nation, Episode Four, Together We Can. This is Wookiefoot
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right here on The Children's Hour.
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Just because we think of treasure not in terms of gold and silver doesn't mean that we don't
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have our wealth. Some say we have lost it but no in a world gone mad, insanity's no real
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sign of health. So drop your bags and drop your fears, lift your voice and voice your
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cheers, hoist your mug and give some hugs, shout your mantra, sing your prayers. Look around,
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we're all right here. It just proves
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We better be together man, but together we gonna be oh tough.
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It's
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inside your safety net. Fill your well and light your flame but go on seeking service.
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Life without a cause is life without effect. and drop your fears. Lift your voice and voice
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your cheers. Hoist your mug and give some hugs. Shout your mantra, sing your prayers. Look
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around, we're all right here. It just proves we're not.
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Together we can have it all.
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This is Communication Nation, Episode Four, Together We Can. Part one, the art of improv.
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When people communicate, there's a natural back and forth. You say something, then I say
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something, and together we make a conversation. But what if that process was a game? That's
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how we met Doug Montoya. He's a comedian, actor, educator, and the co-founder of The Box ABQ,
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a theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His specialty is a form of comedy called improv, or improvisation.
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It's a really fun art form that basically you're just creating a scene, spur of the moment, based
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on different suggestions that might happen. There are two types of improv. One of them
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is short form improv. That's where you play little short games. They'll get what we call
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the prompt or an ask, and then they'll just do a quick little set. And then there's also
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long form improv. That'll take just a suggestion at the beginning, and then they'll build the
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entire show based on that suggestion. People take improv classes for all kinds of reasons.
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To have fun, to meet friends, to exercise their minds, and even for their careers. Thinking
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on your feet is an important skill in communication. It was time for us to put our thinking caps
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on. So, we decided to warm up with a little bit of word association. So if we thought of the
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phrase Mickey Mouse... You might say... Disney. So if we were to go further, so she said Disney.
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And what does that make you think of? Big Shark? Inside Out? Colors! Then I might just immediately
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say red. So we went from Mickey Mouse and it got all the way back to red. But all of those
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words had some sort of relationship to each other. What we're doing is we're practicing
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the rules of improv. There are four really important rules. The number one rule
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of improv is called "yes and." That is the cliché improv rule. Basically what that means is that when
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we're doing improv, we're all going to agree and we're not going to be negative. So we're
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always going to say yes to whatever's going on in that scene. If we were in a scene, I
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would say, "Hey, would you look at those big, beautiful balloons in the sky?" We wouldn't
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want to have somebody say "Well, those aren't balloons. Those are UFOs!" Or... "I can't see balloons."
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You want to agree to what's going on there. Doug taught us another rule. Always be an expert
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at what you're talking about, even though you're just pretending. You're not going to be like,
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well, I don't know how to fly a rocket ship because I've never flown a rocket ship. If
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they say, "Oh, I want to see a scene with astronauts in it." Well, I'm going to be a rocket scientist
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at that point, right? I'm going to flip switches. I'm going to turn dials. I'm going to say,
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turn on the flux capacitor because that's in every spaceship, right? And one of those things
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is like being an expert and we're all just enjoying ourselves. The audience becomes like
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an extension of you when you're doing improvisation. They're not rocket scientists either, but they
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sure are having fun. watching you pretend to be a rocket scientist. It was time to play
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our first improv game together. Listeners, you can play along with us. Our first game
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is called Ad Executive. In real life, Ad Executives help make advertisements for products
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on TV, radio, and the internet. Are you ready? Let's play Ad Executive. Your job is going
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to be very enthusiastic about a product, and you are going to agree with each other. You
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guys are going to support everybody's idea. First, the crew designed their product. Let's
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create an oven that could cook things really fast. And then you might say, yes, and...
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It comes in many different colors. Yes, and... there's seven parts of it. And it prevents
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cheesecake cracks. Those cheesecake cracks are very important to keep preventable as
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much as you can. You know how hard it is to cook. But with this oven, it'll be easier than
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ever before because it can not just cook things, but it can also like, like you
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can throw things into it and it'll just like make it. If you hit a button. If
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you hit pancakes, it'll just make it. Yes. And it's very easy for dogs to use. Okay.
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So guys, I want you to create an ad campaign for this product. The crew named the gadget,
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the Switzer Doodle. Switzer Doodle, it's so fast, it'll cook your food in a blast. Switzer
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Doodle, you're so fast, you'll cook the food in a blast. And it comes in multiple colors.
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And only has seven parts. We also designed a high-tech cell phone and a cafe for dogs.
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Doggie Doodle serves your poodle. Wee-wee. Very good. I love it. Doug had one more
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idea up his sleeve and the results were kind of surprising. That's in our next segment
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of Communication Nation.
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Play with me, run with me, have a little fun with me. Get the hoes and make mud with me,
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show me the scabs on both your knees Tickle me, play with me Dance with me, sing with
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me Have a little fun with me. Stare at each other till we start laughing. Splash me in
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the deep blue sea. Pick some plums off the old palm tree. Come dance with me, sing with me.
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We've got a hard day. What do you wanna do, baby?
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Just you and me. There's no one else I would rather be here with. Having fun, making faces,
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saying I love you.
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This day I fade and watch stars with me, they camp out in the backyard with me. Wake up from
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pancakes and blueberries, you have a cold, go out, have a tea. Brand new day, still early,
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so play with me, run with me, play with me, run with me, play with me. Run with me, have
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a little fun with me.
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That's Glen Phillips right here on The Children's Hour with Have A Little Fun With Me and I hope
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you're having fun. I'm Katie Stone and we're in Communication Nation Episode 4, Together
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We Can. You're listening to The Children's Hour, Kids Public Radio. We'll be right back.
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Hour. This is Tito Puente.
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to see a sunny sky. But I woke up on Saturday morning and dragged a comb across my back.
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And when I looked up at the ceiling, I saw my life go by in every crack. So I walked down
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the stairs in.
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And I had never heard these things before It's an amazing world where
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It's an amazing world we're living.
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Listen to all the music in my seat I never saw the sidewalks glistening. Like there were
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diamonds under.
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And pretty soon I started singing too It's an amazing world we're living
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and amazing.
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Saturday morning
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Why?
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You next to me and you will yourself.
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This is Communication Nation Episode 4, Together We Can. Part 2, Staying Connected. When we
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communicate, conversations often have unspoken rules. We don't interrupt each other, or
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we make sure to listen to what the other person is saying. In improvisation, there are often
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firm rules. Doug taught us to always respond beginning with the words "yes and" to your
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partner in order to keep the game going. There are no wrong answers. If I was to say candy,
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tell me all the types of candies that you know. All of them? Just go and then I'll stop you. Sweethearts,
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lollipops, Tootsie Rolls, Skittles, candy corn, Snickers. What types of cereal? Breakfast cereal.
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Fruity Pebbles, Cheerios, Cocoa Puffs. Awesome. Okay. So, vegetables. cucumbers, lettuce, okra.
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You got it. Spaghetti-O's, tomatoes. Spaghetti-O's my favorite vegetable. Never wrong. How come when we play
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games like this, it's really fun and silly. And I also feel like I get kind of a sense
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of knowing everybody better. Am I getting to know everybody here better? I think so. Cause
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I think it opens a doorway into their psyche and what they think about and what they love
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and what's on their mind, right? Right! Like, Lucasti's first cereal that you thought of
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was Fruity Pebbles, and that got me thinking, I love Fruity Pebbles I wonder if I went to
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Lucasti's house I could find Fruity Pebbles. And then Nina, you think of Spaghetti-O's as
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a vegetable, it is really like, I-I think that's pretty cool. I love Spaghetti-O's right. I
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haven't had SpaghettiOs in six years. But it's something in your brain that said, you know,
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that's a food. What would you say to the people who maybe want to start and try improv but
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are afraid of freezing up and not being funny if they're doing it in a comedy setting? Usually
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if you're stuck, it's because you're starting to think about things. You're starting to like
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allow things to kind of rattle around in your brain. And when that starts to happen, then
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you start trying to come up with like the right answer or the perfect solution kind of thing.
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And once you start thinking, then the right solution never comes. But the art of improv
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is to just not think. To just react honestly, and that's always going to be the best way
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to respond is just reacting honestly. Like here we are doing this and because of the rules,
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yes and, and go ahead and be the expert, even though you may not know, I think we could get
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better and better. It's pretty fun. What do you guys think of doing it? Yeah. I think it
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is a very good way to help warm our minds up and engage with each other. Going back, one
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of the last things that I'd like to emphasize as far as that very first rule of improv being
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positive, saying yes and, it's very liberating to be positive. Sometimes whenever you watch
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some really bad improv, that's when things start getting a little negative or there seems
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to be people disagreeing or they start to have like little arguments. And that improv,
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you can only really just take a little bit of it. But when you practice at being positive,
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you recognize how that moves everything forward. Your career right now is mostly just being
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a son, a daughter, a child, right? And your parents might come in and be like, hey, I need
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you to do your chores. And then you say, I don't want to do that, right? It slows the whole
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scene down. But if you're positive and you say yes and, things start moving along a lot
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quicker. You can get back to that video game or get back to that phone call with your friend,
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those type of things. So I think really the application of saying yes and and agreeing
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to what's happening around you can be pretty liberating and can be a pretty positive thing.
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That's Doug Montoya from The Box ABQ Theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico, teaching us about
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how improv can help us be better friends and community members. We don't always have to
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say "yes and" to an offer or a statement in every conversation, but sometimes being willing
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to listen to others and meet them where they are is so important to staying connected.
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Speaking of staying connected, we're going to learn about some ancient, indigenous games
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that did exactly what we've been doing with Doug Montoya. They built trust, community,
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and conversation and an atmosphere of positivity. Stick with us. This is The Children's Hour.
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Build and some not in the ground. Some cook meals and some deliver, some fix the heat so
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we don't shiver. Some look for answers so they'll know, and others take you where you want to
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go. Some sell food to fill your fridge, some take money to cross the bridge. Everyone is
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important, you know what can make it happen We're part of a great big team
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Some people write and others sell Some you go to to make you well Some volunteer and
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coach the team And others keep your school so clean Some drive the bus and others teach
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Some paint houses and others preach Some protect both you and me Some stay home to raise a family
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Everyone is important If you know what I mean We can make it happen We're part of a great
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big team
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who entertain. Some make up computer games. Some fix roads and fix your cars. Some pump
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the gas so you'll go far. Some bring you letters every day. Some clean the pool so you can't
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play. Some make things like bikes and toys. Some make clothes for girls and boys. Everyone
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is important if you know what I mean. We can it happen we're part of a great big team
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Some catch dogs and bugs and mice Some keep lawns and gardens nice Some run country, some
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run towns And some a juggler, some are clowns First base, second base, third base too The
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one on the bench that it might be It's just the same, it takes a whole team to win the
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game. is important, if you know what I mean. We can make it happen, for part of a great
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big team. Everyone is important, if you know what I mean. We can make it happen, for part
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of a great big team. Part of a great big team. uh big team.
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We all think we're special And I hate to have to say There's a bunch of us on every corner
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Up in the town USA We all got our problems We all pay our dues So we'd be thinking no
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one understands And we're all in this together
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Too short to fuss and fight
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Somebody
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What's the matter with the team? The team's all right. What's the matter with the team?
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The team's all right. Well, who said so? Everybody. Well, who said so? Everybody. Well, who is
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everybody? Rocky High. Well, who's everybody? Rocky High. Rock, rock, rock, rock, Rocky
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High. Yay, team.
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What's the matter with the team? The team's all right. What's the matter with the team?
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The team's all right. Well, who said so? Everybody. Well, who said so? Everybody. Well, who's everybody?
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Rocky High. Well, who's everybody? Rocky High. Rock, rock, rock, rock, High. Yay, team! That's
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the one and only Ella Jenkins from Song Rhythms and Chants for the Dance. Jack Ingram before
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that from Live at Billy Bob's in Texas. And Danny Quinn brought us Team Work. That's from
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a collection called Someone Else's Shoes, The Best Foot Forward children's music series.
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You're listening to The Children's Hour. I'm Katie Stone. Today is the fourth and final
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episode of our four part radio series, Communication Nation. This series is exploring various forms
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of communication through languages, verbal abilities, media, and community building.
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And that's where we're at today, where we're thinking about teamwork and how we pull ourselves
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together to work together to make something bigger than what we could do if we were just
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by ourselves. This entire project comes with curriculum so that it can be used in the classroom.
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And this time, we've made short little podcasts of each one of our interview segments so that
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teachers have more time to use the whole series. You can find it all at childrenshour.org.
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Look for Communication Nation. One of the reasons we made this series for you is because we've
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been noticing around us that people are really at odds with one another and we're having a
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hard time listening to one another and finding our common ground. But if you look around
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you, that common ground is everywhere. All of us really want the same things. We want
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to feel happy. We want to feel accepted and loved. In our communities today, we can do
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a huge service to the people around us just by being kind. Being kind means that we try
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hard to listen to one another to find that common ground. It's there. Can you find it? I think
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you can. You're listening to The Children's Hour. Kids public radio. We'll be right back.
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That's for recess time, you're under the playground standing line. Always the same kids choose
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the teams, it's always the end of the same it seems. They choose their buddies, they choose
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their friends, they get down to the very end. Always someone gets left out I had enough,
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I'm gonna shout I wanna play, I wanna play Don't say no, cause I won't go away I won't
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stop till you hear what I say God let me in cause I wanna play Just cause you're bigger
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and stronger than me doesn't mean you get to say how things will be. Just cause I'm not
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as good as you doesn't mean you get to tell me what to do. You ought to stand here in my
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shoes, see how it feels when it happens to you. It could happen to you, you never can tell.
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I had enough, I'm gonna yell. I wanna play, I wanna play. Don't say no cause I won't go
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away. I wanna Gotta let me in, cause I wanna play, hey!
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Daddy says life's just not fair You're to meet people that just don't share When you meet
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someone, tries to push you around When you know what's right, stand your ground We're only
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talking about playing a game Leaving someone out is such a dirty shame We're only talking
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about having fun There ought to be room for everyone I wanna play, I wanna play won't
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go away, I won't stop till you hear what I say. God let me in cause I wanna play. I wanna play,
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I wanna play. Don't say no cause I won't go away. I won't stop till hear what I say. God
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let me in cause I wanna play.
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That's Bill Harley right here on The Children's Hour and you're listening to Communication
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Nation, Episode Four, Together We Can, part three, Building Community Through Traditional
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Games. Did you know there are games that have been played by people of all ages for thousands
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of years? As humans, we invent games all the time based on our beliefs and relationships
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or what's lying around in the backyard. We're practicing teamwork every time we play a game
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with others. And when I played with my friends growing up, I think I was learning how to
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cooperate with other people. Some of humanity's earliest games were played with our hands.
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Hand games require you to work with a partner to keep the rhythm and the movements in sync.
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We build coordination, listening skills, and get good practice at reading nonverbal communications
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too. Hand clapping games can be traced back to Africa, and they've been a big part of
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black culture in the Americas for generations, since 1619, when enslaved Africans were first
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brought to this continent. They show that people can seek joy and demonstrate creativity and
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resilience, even under oppression. Hand games continue to evolve and change throughout each
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generation, location, and with the influence of digital communications. Among women and
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young girls, they hold a special place when, historically, sports were reserved only for
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boys.
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Let's travel to Central America, where for over 3,000 years,
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descendants of the Olmec, including the Maya, Nahuatl-speaking peoples, and others, played
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a game with a rubber ball. There are many different names and variations to this game. Picture
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a large stone surface where two teams are racing to pass a rubber ball through a hoop made of
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thick stone. The hoop is high on a wall and the players use only their hips, elbows, and
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knees to move the ball around. The wall is painted with murals that reflect the history
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and religion of the area, and when people got together to watch the games, they shared stories
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of their ancestors caught up on the latest news and chatted about their lives. People weren't
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just watching a competition. They were practicing being a community. Sometimes different groups
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challenged each other to the game to resolve conflicts. The players had to cooperate, strategize,
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and trust each other to win. Teams had to respect the rules to compete, which helped build connections
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between people who didn't always get along. Today, youth across Central America are bringing
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back the sport.
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Many traditional sports teach us that every single person matters in a community. High
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in the Andes Mountains in South America, in what are now the countries of Peru, Bolivia,
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and others, people of the Quechua language, descendants of the Inca Empire, continue a
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thousands-year-old tradition where athletes can serve an important role in their communities.
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They are runners, called Chasquis, which translates roughly to the one who gives and receives.
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And they deliver messages across communities. Imagine a relay race where each runner passes
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a baton to the next, but instead of a baton, it's a message. And in this way, information
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can get to its destination quickly and accurately. Runners have to overcome elements such as
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high altitude and weather, and some can run for up to 200 miles a day. Chasquis are central
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in connecting communities and people to allow for communication across long distances. We
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see similar traditions in indigenous communities across the Americas. The Children's Hour is
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based in the United States, and that's within North America. Here we play lots of games
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that started in other parts of the world and that were brought here through immigration.
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There's the Italian game of Bocce, where players throw balls toward a smaller target called
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the pallino. Players often work in teams discussing tactics and encouraging each other. Bocce
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teaches us how fun it is to work together and to support each other. There's also cup and
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ball games and some in Latin America call it balero. In Japan, there's a version called
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kendama. Traditionally made of local materials, including wood, the goal is to catch or land
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the ball into a cup. And while it might seem like a solo game, it brings people together
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in play. and it shows us that practicing and improving skills together can create a strong
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sense of community and shared achievement. Maybe you've played the game Capture the Flag.
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It has its roots in several cultures and variations of it have become popular worldwide. Players
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work together to protect their own flag while trying to capture the opponent's flag. Capture
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the Flag shows us the power of teamwork and that success can be exciting and rewarding.
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And even when we lose, failing with grace is important. Humans have been playing games
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with each other for thousands of years. And isn't it amazing how much we can learn from
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a simple game? And we don't just learn lessons. We get to feel a lot of emotions too. The
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excitement of winning one day can be followed by a tough defeat the next. And no matter the
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results, we can choose to be kind to ourselves and to others. I think that's really special.
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So the next time you play a game with your friends, examine the traditions and stories
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behind it. You can embrace the teamwork and joy that come with playing together. And you
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should challenge yourself to create new games and traditions that will be passed down for
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generations yet to come. Keep playing. Keep cooperating. Keep communicating. You heard
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a clip from Gaye Adegbalola hand-driving street rhyme in that piece, and this is Suzanne
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Jamieson. There's a people out there that like to draw lines without realizing how it deepens
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divides. When they don't try to listen, they can't understand. But you knew when you were
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only two that we're all part of the band.
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you
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Because somewhere standing to teach the hearts to
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I'm still finding every song See that each of us contributes to the sound. A star lifts
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and everybody up, standing, knocking each other down.
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We want peace, not war. We're the children of the world. The path of truth, the soul's
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deep call, the love it brings to the heart of all. Arise together in love. Arise together
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in humanity. If you've got a friend that's struggling with trying to find help, be
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there for them. You're not gonna quit on that other guy, you know, because you love them.
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For the world, if everybody could just be kind to each other.
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Love each other. Let's be kind. Friendship is when someone loves you for who you are
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and values your uniqueness. There is nothing more than love. Love is everything we have,
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and love is the only thing that makes any difference in our world. Each and every one
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of us possesses abilities unique unto ourselves. No one of us has the right to deem our abilities
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superior to another's. Believe. And then maybe you'll see so many amazing things I wish
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to be. Take a walk with me in my world of dreams. I'll show you things you could not
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conceive. My grandfather amazed the world by responding to violence and hatred with love
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and forgiveness. He thought each of us deserved to live the best life we possibly could. We
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all need Babaji's lessons now, more than ever. My grandfather would be sad at the depth of
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anger in the world today, but he would not despair. Every single soul has something beautiful
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to give. And the way they laugh and love, and the luminous lives they live.
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a quick note, or the
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smallest act of caring, which have the potential to turn a life around.
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Love is the answer. Love is what you need. Love opens the door and sets you free. you
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Disability is only what you perceive. Ability is everything of what you believe. Let the
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world see the power of love that lives in you and me to overcome all challenges we face
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and we will make this world a better place.
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That's the One Little Finger Group with lots of great people. You've been listening to The
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Children's Hour Communication Nation Episode Four, Together We Can. This series is available
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in 12 short episodes for teachers to use in the classroom. You can find our activities,
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learning guides, and so much more at childrenshour.org. Look for Communication Nation. We've got time
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for just one more. We're going to go out with Raffi. Thanks for listening. We'll catch you
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next time for another edition of The Children's Hour. Let's play, come on On this jazzy
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Django day Let's play, oh yeah Rain or shine we'll have some fun Let's play, hey hey On
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this razzle dazzle day Let's sing, come on uh Let our voices really ring, let's groove,
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oh yeah With this happy tapping tune, let's sing So sweet like the You've been listening
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to The Children's Hour. This episode is part of a special series, Communication Nation,
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in which we explore various forms of communication. We hope this programming inspires kids, families,
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and educators to think critically, celebrate our differences, and above all, be kind.
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