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What's New in November · Bearcat Chat - A Podcast about all things Scottsbluff Schools

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  Welcome to the Bearcat chat, a podcast for everything
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  Scottsbluff School. Hello everyone and welcome to
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  the second ever episode of the Scottsbluff Public Schools
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  Bearcat chat, that is the podcast about everything related
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  to Scottsbluff public schools. And if you're joining us for the
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  very first time, welcome, if you listen to our last episode, then
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  great, you came back, you're here for another one of these
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  and this is going to be a really special episode.
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  We have today, we're going to make some history for the first
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  time ever. I'm going to have students On
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  this podcast. So I'm very excited about that.
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  So we will go ahead and get started with my first set of
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  guess. So, first, guess I have here are
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  from Scottsville high school and I'm going to go ahead and let
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  you guys introduce yourselves. Yeah, absolutely.
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  I'm Chris Browning or mr. Bruni, and the social science in
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  Joyce's teacher here at the high school.
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  And I'm Dena Rapture. I'm, I'm the team member of the
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  Esports team which he coaches. And yeah, that's what we're here
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  to talk. Talk about this theme for this
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  month's episode is what's new in November.
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  So we're going to talk about some of the newer activities
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  that we have at Scottsville high school and I say newer because
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  not everything that we're talking about today is brand
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  new, but I think they're the ones that maybe not everybody
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  knows about or knows about the things that we that we do here.
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  So, I'm just going to go ahead and Jump Right In.
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  And why don't you for the people out there who maybe don't know
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  what? Esports is why don't you guys
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  tell us in your own words? What Esports is?
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  Well quite simply it's competitive video gaming at the
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  surface definition, Esports has become a multi-billion dollar
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  company, your business. So we jumped on board and as you
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  see in many schools, different states Esports is a growing
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  thing. If people are willing to watch
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  and spectate, then people are willing to take interest and
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  really what it comes down to is called Ages have really started
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  opening up e Sports programs and allowing scholarships to get
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  different kids enrolled which opens up the lane then for the
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  high schools as well. The start teaching these kids
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  how to play these specific video games at a competitive level.
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  So that's what we do. We practice we train.
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  There's all different kinds of things, you need to learn.
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  Again, Esports has become a massive phenomenon, and a lot of
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  these games are growing significantly.
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  And That kind of just give a definition more of these games
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  are strategy, based teamwork, communication type things.
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  It's not just or not at all at the high school level, your Call
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  of Duty type game that people have in mind, when you talk
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  about video game, certain are what, what game is, why don't we
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  start there? And why don't you tell me, what
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  kind of games that you play or which ones you competed?
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  Well, I think of Legends, which is a strategic top-down game it
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  It's a teams of five and it's almost like a capture, the flag
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  type game. There's three different like,
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  Lanes or people go down and they compete in their Lanes fight
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  against each other, and whoever wins takes their like home base.
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  And that is whoever is Victoria's.
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  It's whoever takes the other teams base, I always, like to
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  kind of describe League of Legends as chess with multiple
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  moving Parts where you don't have the time to make up your
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  decisions, you have to make those decisions.
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  And Split seconds, so knowing what to do based on what
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  everyone else is doing. It's a lot of strategy and a lot
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  to coach. Well, considering that, you
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  know, I grew up playing Pacman. This is probably a little bit of
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  a different level, I don't know how well I'd be competitive it,
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  something like this. So what else do you play any
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  other games as far as competition goes?
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  But I do play like Minecraft and I play some other games story.
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  Based games. But the only one I competed is
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  we here at the high school. We do offer five different games
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  that we compete in. We go through Nebraska Esports
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  Association. So all a lot of the school's, I
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  think we're up to 80 plus schools have joined this
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  organization so we do compete in division once we oftentimes
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  lineup, matches against Lincoln Omaha, all the schools within
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  those two towns, North Platte Kearney Grand Island and compete
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  against each other. But the games we compete in
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  during our fall, season are Valor and and Rocket League.
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  Those Seasons just wrapped up the winter season which we just
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  held tryouts for is Mario Kart and then in the spring season we
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  offer League of Legends and Smash Bros.
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  Super Smash Bro. Okay I guess I've played at
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  least two of these games. I really I love Mario Kart that
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  one I could come from a out for that one.
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  That would be headed. He's got some rainbow road going
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  on and stuff. Yeah, I yeah, II would believe.
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  It's so what is practice like? Well, practice for, I didn't
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  speak for league. Is we have our own room, we go
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  all in there. We split the team 25.
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  If we playing against each other, sometimes we just play
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  against people better, not a team, but usually we play
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  against each other. So we can practice what it's
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  like facing off another Esports team, so we get most teams and
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  then we just play He's, he stands around and watches us
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  play, makes his tips and anything, but for the most part,
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  we're just all together in our team's talking to each other
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  strategizing. It's, it's really intense it
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  well. So did go on that League of
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  Legends. Again, as I said, there's a lot
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  of decisions that need to be made in small amounts of time.
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  And the only way, you know what the right decision is is by
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  continuing to play and be coached.
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  So I stand over their shoulders and I give them hints.
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  Sore tips and say, this is what you need to look out for these.
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  People could be coming, these people are missing and and all
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  these different things involved in the game.
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  What's really interesting, is after we have these matches
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  against each other, we save the replays.
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  And just like you would with football review, we go in our
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  cats claps and we break down what we did, what we could be
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  looking for, what we need to do better.
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  And that's, I'm really into the game.
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  So I've taken the time of my personal life, you know, to try
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  to continue to grow and get better at Game, which just helps
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  with coaching these kids. One of the greatest things is
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  that wincc just here in town, as well as a number of other
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  schools. I've already received emails
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  from offer scholarships for League of Legends.
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  Especially this specific game has had more viewership during
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  their world championships and the Super Bowl but it is again A
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  world championship. So you have Brazil vs.
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  France in Korea versus whoever else Germany.
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  So There are a lot of people that watch a lot of people that
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  are into it, or practices is unlike any other activity or
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  sport here in shs. But there's always something to
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  learn and a roughly, how many students participate at this
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  time. So we have it seems to be
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  growing as we continue a continue to have tryouts for
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  different seasons. But if I were to put a rough
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  estimate, I would say, 35 between all the season.
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  So it's a pretty good number. We do.
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  That because we have 12 PCS available to us and one Nintendo
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  switch. So we can't just have a ton of
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  kids in there. We only have so much equipment
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  to practice and that's how we would like the 12 PCS are
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  incredible. It gives us what we need again,
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  League of Legends is teams of five, so we can have two teams
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  playing against each other. While one person is keeping
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  score on an available computer and the other person is
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  recording or streaming the matches.
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  So, the l've PCS is great, but we do have to put somewhat of a
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  limit on the number. We're hovering around 35
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  currently. Okay.
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  Well, you said something interesting to me, you said
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  recording or streaming the matches.
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  So, do you go back and like, watch your film like like spring
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  traditional Sports? Yes, we do.
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  Go back to watch our film. We break all the plays down.
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  It gets really specific. We need all the Time in the
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  World to do it. But we are luckily giving given
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  our cats period. So we get 25 minutes a day to
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  You what we need to do. And, as well as that Scottsville
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  High School Esports, has a twitch Channel where we live
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  stream our matches and competitions against different
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  schools. So we competed against Omaha,
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  west side and Rocket league, as well as a South Sioux City.
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  And off top of my head, I think Lincoln high, Lincoln Northeast,
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  all these schools, we stream those matches.
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  If you go to Twitch and look up, Scottsbluff High Esports, then
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  it will pop up. And you'll see when we're live.
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  Bye. Okay, well one other thing that
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  I want to understand or know that.
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  Also if you parallel with other activities, is there an
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  eligibility component? Do you have to be eligible in
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  order to compete? Definitely just like any other
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  activity in Scottsville high school.
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  You have to be passing your classes and Just everything else
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  that would you would be with any other activity, there's no
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  exception for Esports just because we're not out on a field
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  or anything. And it's interesting because
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  academic eligibility is a standard amongst the entire
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  Nebraska Esports Association. It's not just a school disco
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  thing, so if your kids aren't eligible, they can't play and
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  you can get disqualified. In the way our tournaments run.
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  If you miss two matches because you don't have enough players.
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  You lose your playoff spot, so you have to make sure your kids
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  week-to-week are available passing their classes and quite
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  honestly. I'm the kids do all that they
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  can to make sure they're available to play and we have
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  some great kids in the program. So grades really aren't that
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  large of a concern for us at this time every now and again,
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  it can might slip up and we just say, hey, you know I got to get
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  that great up and they do what they can, they make sure they're
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  on task but across the entire state, that is the deal if
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  you're going to compete. You got to be passing?
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  Okay, well that's really great to hear.
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  So I think I've got kind of like my last question and I want to
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  ask you for you danara. So now that you've competed in
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  this for a while, my question is kind of a fun, one is assuming
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  you game at home, you probably do.
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  Are you do you game as much at home still or has it kind of
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  changed the frequency in which you game?
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  I don't gave as much as home as home.
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  Now, I play a lot during And then I go home and like, oh, I
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  have to do school work now because I didn't do it during my
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  after-school time because I was playing game.
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  So really, I just pulled like a swath of what I do.
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  It's it is kind of interesting because even me who loves to
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  play league, the game is so, mentally taxing by the time,
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  you're done playing around the rounds.
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  Last 30, 45 minutes, depending that you're just tired of
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  playing you just like, that's enough.
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  Yeah, he's not even lying there, so mentally Challenging that, by
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  the time, your brain just hurts. Like, by the time, the game is
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  done. Well, it sounds like you're
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  really getting to work out, then on your problem solving skills.
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  So that that's awesome. Well, final last thing, I'm
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  going to be asking, this is kind of a very 12 dates.
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  My bonus question and my bonus question is Thanksgiving is
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  coming up, you know, next week and just tell me real quick.
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  Something you're thankful for I'm thankful for modern
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  technology. It's gotten us so far.
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  It's it. Insane.
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  This might be a cheating answer but there's so much that I'm
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  thankful for anymore. It's hard to just choose one it
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  to pull things Health my little boys running around and he's
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  awesome. And we're looking to have a
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  second kid here, come January. So I'm just thankful for family.
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  Well, congratulations to you. And thank you both for, you
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  know, taking a little bit of time away from practice and your
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  other activities to come talk with me.
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  So I look forward to seeing how well the Esports team does
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  throughout the school year. Absolutely.
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  We thank you for your time. Thank you.
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  And now we're going to move on to the second of our third
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  activities that we're featuring this month for what's new in
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  November. And this particular activity is
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  really new as an it just started this week.
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  And that is girls wrestling. We're super excited to add this
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  new sport to Scottsville high school.
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  So I am here with coached at all and why don't?
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  The two of you should go ahead and introduce yourselves.
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  I'm coach, the dhola. I have been the boys wrestling.
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  Personality is going to be my fifth year and I'm also the head
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  coach of the girls program with a few female assistant coaches.
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  And we are very excited to kick. Start this program and start
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  another Ridge wrestling tradition within Scottsbluff and
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  we have a wrestler here. Tell me your name.
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  Hi, my name is Gail Bravo. And what grade are you in a
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  senior? Okay, although she you're going
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  to do this for just one year is so dealing question for you
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  before this year or like before practice started this year.
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  Have you ever wrestled before know?
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  So this is a very first, very first time for you, okay.
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  So what's that like for you? Trying this?
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  For the first time, it has like a lot of emotions about it, like
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  sometimes I want to give up but no, well, you know, good for you
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  for going out on a limb and, you know, giving that a try, pushed
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  it all. How do you feel about taking?
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  On another team to coach. I know it.
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  People who know me personally out there know that wrestling is
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  something that's very near and dear to me.
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  It's a sport that I care a lot about and it's something that
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  I'm very active with especially up in the Collegiate level.
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  But, you know, I know what it means for a coach to take on a
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  whole nother team. So, what does this look like in
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  for you this year? You know, given the numbers we
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  have right now. I think the real to have
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  combined practices yet, although girls will practice with.
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  Girls and boys will be practicing with the boys,
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  overall, the sports the same. No matter its mornings or girls
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  everything is going to be the same, the techniques going to be
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  the same. It's going to come down to who
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  can execute things, and do things in the right way.
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  So being able to have everybody in the same place and be able to
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  coach things at the same time and keep everybody working on
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  the same stuff. I think that's going to be the
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  nice part of it. As far as you know, that the
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  paperwork side of stuff, it's not going to be Watch different
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  video have 8 girls right now. Daily being our lone senior this
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  year, but still one. I think that's going to help
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  start a foundation. A good foundation for this girls
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  wrestling program, right? And wrestling is not only new to
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  us, here at Scott's Bluff. It's really pretty new at the
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  state level as well. You know, it was just very
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  recently sanctioned. So I think this is a really
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  great. Eight time for our team right
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  now. Because I really think that
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  anyone can go and compete, and it's really, any kind of a Level
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  Playing Field, that no one has this big advantage of this
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  long-established team. So, I really think it's going to
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  be super fun for the athletes this year.
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  Jalen question for you, you've done some practice, you know, I
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  had three boys who grew up and wrestled and I know what goes
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  into wrestling practice wrestling practice is like, no.
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  Other practice have you guys? Son, have you guys in the town
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  of conditioning? We've done a little bit of
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  running, which they don't like, but nobody's quit.
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  So we're going to start and continue to do more wrestling
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  and move forward with that stuff.
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  Moving on, I'm hoping today we actually get into some live
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  wrestling in the, at the end of practice.
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  So we can see if they translate the drills and stuff that we've
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  been learning to like a like match.
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  Okay. Well that should be really fun
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  for you guys today. Coach question for you, do you?
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  I know it's so early and I know things are brand-new but do you
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  have to have in a few days in the room with the girls?
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  Do you have any predictions as far as how the Girls season is
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  going to go for us? No, I think it's still pretty
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  early and what the sport being is new.
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  As it is like you said, you know, this is only Year too.
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  Nebraska having sanctioned wrestling with in the state and
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  kind of all the girls kind of starting back at square one.
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  You know, and learning that I think any one of the girls that
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  we have could compete at all stages.
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  So it'll be interesting to watch them grow, and develop, and
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  understand the sport a little bit.
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  And then once we do start wrestling against other teams,
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  and then we're going to really have an idea of What we can do
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  and in moving forward there but they've been impressive up to
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  this point. None of the girls are really
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  scared to be physical, you know, they're not scared to do some
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  things that others would be. And I think that's a good thing.
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  Especially with in this sport another question for you, what
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  would you have to say to maybe some girls who it?
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  Maybe it won't be this year. But in the future are thinking
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  about going out for wrestling. What would you tell them?
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  Honestly like this, do it. Just like try it and then if you
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  don't like it, then you. They don't like it.
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  At least give it a try. It's really fun.
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  It keeps you motivated and keeps you out of trouble.
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  All right, well I think that, you know, that's really super
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  good advice coach. When will people have the first
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  opportunity here at home to be able to see both our boys and
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  our girls. Our first opportunity at home.
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  That's and I have to look at the schedule for sure.
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  We do, we do travel quite a bit. First part of the Season.
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  You've got to cut. We've got like three home duals
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  though, right? Impaired after Christmas.
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  I think it's kind of when we do our dual schedule but where the
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  girls are going to have good competition moving forward.
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  They can better. They're going to get an extra
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  week of practice before everybody goes to China knees
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  and then the third week is when the varsity goes to Gillette and
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  the Gillette is actually going to have a tournament this year
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  for girls. So it'll be the girls in the
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  bar. SLI going down in July.
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  So they're going to be a lot of opportunities for them to get
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  some experience before. Our first home dual that is
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  going to be. Let's see, I'm trying to think
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  here. Well, and that's going to be a
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  really great opportunity, just to get them that dual experience
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  because, you know, duels are a little bit different than an
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  individual meet. They're also a lot more fun, I
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  think. We'll see how how the girls line
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  up with him weight classes. But our first home bill is
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  actually going to be December 22nd right before that winter
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  break and it'll be the bear cats versus the North Platte
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  bulldogs. So oh well, that'll be a really
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  great opportunity for people to maybe come and see what's going
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  to be a first. It's Gospel of high school so
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  that pretty much wraps up my questions.
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  But today, I'm asking, King everybody else.
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  An unrelated bonus question, so I get to ask the two of you too.
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  So here's your bonus question, this since Thanksgiving is
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  coming up next week, I have just been asking everyone to share
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  something that they're thankful for the first.
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  I mean, I'm thankful for my family.
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  I wouldn't be where I am without them in the support that I've
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  had moving forward. And then outside of the family,
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  I'm thankful for the parents that trust Their kids to learn
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  from me and move forward not only in the sport of wrestling
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  but also in life and your turn. Um, I'm very thankful for my mom
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  does so much for me. She helped me through sometimes
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  I even the most and some of the teachers here they're good
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  support. When you need somebody to talk
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  to. Well that's wonderful.
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  I hope I hope your mom gives this a listen so that she can
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  see here that because I think sometimes you know as parents we
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  don't always get the opportunity to hear.
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  That so hopefully she'll tuned in and some of our teachers as
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  well but that's all I have for now.
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  So we will head on into our third activity that we're going
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  to talk about and thank both of you.
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  Thanks to both of you for coming.
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  Thank you for having us and now it's time to move on to our
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  third and final activity that we are talking about for what's new
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  in November here. And this is another one that
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  falls kind of under the not brand new, but newer category
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  and With me. Today, I have our one of our
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  Once you go ahead and introduce yourself.
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  Hi. My name is Lynn and I am the
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  diversity equity and inclusion. Facilitator, for Scottsdale
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  schools. Wonderful, I'm so glad to have
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  you. So, I guess I'm our students
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  that were in Bearcats for diversity are all sort of doing
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  other activities right now, right?
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  That's why I couldn't get anybody to come.
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  Talk with me. They are super busy right now
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  and so you are With just me this time.
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  Sorry. And that's okay.
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  I hear mock trial because I heard that with some of the
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  other groups, to I hear mock trial, is, like really underway.
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  And that's an important important ones going on today.
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  I think they're, I think both voice and ready for their next
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  Endeavor. All right, well we will go ahead
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  and talk a little bit so that our listeners gets, you find out
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  about what Bearcats for diversity is.
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  So first of all, just go ahead and let us know that tell us
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  what it is that this group is and what you do.
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  So, Bearcats for diversity, is a student group that was created
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  to create to form a open and inclusive environment for any
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  student and to help make shs more welcoming to everybody as
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  well. We focus on raising awareness
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  and providing education for all things, Multicultural and
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  diversity. And so we use a lot of our
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  tangerine. Our cats meetings to come up
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  with fun ways that we can bring that to the student population
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  that is Meaningful, but engaging and fun at the same time.
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  Well, that sounds really great. It's, you know, not only that
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  thing of making sure that everyone feels like they belong
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  here in Scottsville high school which I think is important to
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  all of us. But also, you know, how can I
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  how can I learn some things about you know, different
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  cultures, or things that you know, I didn't know.
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  So that that sounds really exciting.
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  Roughly. How many students participate in
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  this group last year, we had an insane amount of students.
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  And this year, we have quite a few.
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  We have about six to eight consistently during our
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  meetings, but you don't have to be consistently involved to be a
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  part of their hats for diversity.
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  We understand that you might have other things going on, and
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  so that kind of flows in and out throughout the school year, you
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  can jump in whenever you have that availability and we just Of
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  pick up, right? Where maybe we left off.
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  And so we are meeting on Wednesday, steering cats and
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  then after school in this kind room on Tuesdays.
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  That's awesome. So, what sort of activities you
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  know, whether you're if that's during the school year or things
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  you have coming up, what kind of activities have the students
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  been participating in? So we just wrapped up in
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  September with our Multicultural youth leadership.
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  The conference, we had members volunteer as student leaders for
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  that day, and then we've also been doing awareness.
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  We did a panic Heritage awareness.
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  We did an indigenous peoples Day celebration, and a Native,
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  American Heritage, education to. And then for December, we're
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  working on doing an inclusive schools, awareness for the high
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  school, and then working on a toy drive.
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  I've as a part of our volunteering initiative as well,
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  where we will help collect toys or do some kind of fundraising
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  to donate to Finders Keepers organization, that donate to
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  children in foster care or children that have a need during
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  the holidays and spread some of that positivity and cheered
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  tyrannous as well. That's really great.
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  I really like the community. Sure.
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  A sort of aspect that you've also been able to kind of
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  interweave into the programming. I think that's really valuable
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  for our students and I think it's really great for a
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  community to know that we're doing that because there are
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  just so many different groups and so many different ways.
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  I feel like that our students are out in the community making
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  a difference, so that's really great.
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  Next question, I feel like with a group like this, especially
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  with a group that focuses kind, Of on an educational aspect that
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  whether you're a student or whether you're an adult that
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  participates as a sponsor, there's you've probably learned
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  something new. So, tell me something that
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  you've learned from taking part in Bearcats for diversity.
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  So one of the best parts about because for diversity like you
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  said is that in our challenge to educate and raise awareness.
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  We're doing a lot of learning ourselves and you have to do
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  that. You have to Educate yourself in
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  order to provide that education to others.
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  And so every topic and holiday or cultural celebration that we
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  do, we end up doing a lot of our own learning and for indigenous
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  peoples day. We had rhesus, stands our Native
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  American Home liaison come in and speak with the group about
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  her perspective on the holiday and why she felt it was so
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  important for it to be celebrated and recognized in our
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  schools since we have Native American population in the
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  Panhandle and with that, or some of our students were also able
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  to learn about some of the history surrounding Native
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  Americans. And a lot of our students also
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  didn't know that they were Native American and then made
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  that connection. And so that was really cool to
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  see that connection being made and building that relationship
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  while we were raising awareness and learning more about our own
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  history even in Scottsbluff. Yeah, that's really it really Is
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  sort of a multi-faceted kind of approach to, you know, maybe
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  learning something cultural or historical but also at the same
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  time, you know, worrying about yourself or learning about
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  others or learning, you know, how you can make others feel
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  that they're seeing so that sounded like that was probably
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  really, really beneficial for everybody.
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  That took part in that. Do you think that there are
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  certain things that the students maybe gravitate towards or the
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  Agents have really liked as far as participating in the group.
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  I think the students really do like doing the cultural and
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  world's diversity celebrations. Because we get to learn so much
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  about the outside world, especially since we're in like a
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  landlocked, great role State. And then I think the students
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  really, like, just all of the different activities that we
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  also do as a group we did last. You're a potluck for Hispanic
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  Heritage Month and it was bringing a friend.
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  And so then we got to not only involve more people but then
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  kind of have better conversations around not
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  potluck. And we're always trying to find
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  new ways to raise awareness or do these activities that are
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  going to be fun and still engaging for the high schooler.
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  So they get to kind of build their agenda and their goals.
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  It's not us telling them. What to do as sponsors the
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  students really get to design what they would like to do, we
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  just help them Reach that. Well, that sounds like it really
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  is a process that in addition to the learning piece and stills
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  leadership. Yes, leadership organization.
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  And I think, too, just like building those relationships,
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  you know, we have students who are kind of Putting themselves
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  in a vulnerable spot, trying to raise awareness and education in
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  a way that won't angry anybody. But still makes everybody feel
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  welcome and and helps us all learn a little bit more about
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  the world that we live in. Well, that is wonderful.
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  I really appreciate you taking the time to join me for today's
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  conversation. I wish we could have had a
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  student but that's wonderful that they're you know all off
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  working hard at other activities.
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  Before we wrap up I have one final thing.
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  I've been throwing a random bonus question and everybody of
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  this podcast all day so you don't get off the hook even
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  though you're not a student so that this is an easy one.
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  So with Giving coming up, I have just been asking everybody to
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  share one thing that they're thankful for.
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  I am thankful for the time that I get to spend with my family.
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  I used to live hours away from my family, and so now I get to
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  see them on a weekly basis or even more than that.
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  And so I'm thankful that I get to be so close to them now.
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  That's wonderful. And it would only be right
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  there. Since I've asked this of
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  everybody today that I also have to do to take part in this
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  exercise. So I am Thankful as well for my
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  family and right now just recently actually my youngest
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  just moved out of the house and so none of my kids are, you
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  know, they're close by but still a few hours away.
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  But I am thankful of for how often right now because it seems
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  like almost on a weekly basis. I get to see at least one of
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  them and they're all coming home for the holidays.
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  So I am really excited about that.
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  It's always such a good feeling to come back home.
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  Yes, I think I think that's absolutely the case.
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  So with that, I would like to thank you for your time and I
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  appreciate you giving us the opportunity to learn more about
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  what Bearcats for diversity does.
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  Well, thank you for inviting us. There you have it listeners.
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  I hope you enjoyed learning about the new things happening
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  at Scottsville, high school. As much as I enjoyed
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  interviewing. Our fabulous guest will see you
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  for the next episode.