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Talk Line: Karen Kaufman dishes on the 2026 season at Dixon Stage Left · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Sog Valley. You're with the Waking crew here
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  Speaker 1: on FM ninety five to one and AM fourteen sixty
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  Speaker 1: wi XN. It's just after eight fifteen on your Monday morning,
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  Speaker 1: and it's time for talk line and I'm joined in
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  Speaker 1: the booth for the first time, at least for me
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  Speaker 1: since taking over the legendary Steve Marco's studio. Our friends
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  Speaker 1: from Dixon stage left, Karen Kaufman joins me this morning. Karen,
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  Speaker 1: how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I am good. Thank you for having me absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's nice about what I get to do
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  Speaker 1: and bringing folks in is this is something that I
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  Speaker 1: would have brought you in anyways to talk about this today.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm excited because I actually get to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of it. Yeah, so that's really cool. And that's
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming production of everybody's favorite Mothers, the Readers Theater.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, we are super excited about it, and we had
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  Speaker 3: our first two rehearsals last week and we will have
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  Speaker 3: the rest of our rehearsals leading up to the performances
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  Speaker 3: this week. That's the fun thing about Reader's Theater is
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  Speaker 3: that you don't have to memorize lines, and it's a
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  Speaker 3: very short rehearsal time because there's no not really costumes
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  Speaker 3: per se, and there's no blocking. You read it, you
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  Speaker 3: study the characters, and you just have a really good time.
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  Speaker 3: It's a great way to break into acting if you
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  Speaker 3: haven't done it in a while, if you've never done
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  Speaker 3: it terrified you can't memorize. It's a really good thing
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  Speaker 3: also if you don't have a lot of time to commit,
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  Speaker 3: because you know, most productions are six to eight weeks,
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  Speaker 3: you know, which is you know, three to four days
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  Speaker 3: a week. It's it's a hard commitment. Yeah, so this
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  Speaker 3: is a nice one.
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  Speaker 2: So it's our.
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  Speaker 3: I would say Caesar, because that's what we did last year,
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  Speaker 3: our Shakespeare in the Summer Sun thing that we started
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  Speaker 3: last year. That's a very short it's only three weeks
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  Speaker 3: as opposed to the six to eight weeks. So it's
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  Speaker 3: good things to get started with.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and very interesting and actually just very much
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  Speaker 1: fun to be a part of the rehearsals. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean just the thought of it is if you've ever
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  Speaker 1: thought of, like you said, ever thought of doing theater,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, maybe you were too scared, you missed
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  Speaker 1: your shot as a kid, Like I like it was
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  Speaker 1: for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It really is just a fun way to get to experience.
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  Speaker 3: This, right, because it's very relaxed, Yeah, compared to you know,
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  Speaker 3: going on, I got to remember my block, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I got to remember my lines.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, but everybody's still very much as involved in
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  Speaker 1: giving thoughts and feedback and trying different ways to you know,
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  Speaker 1: to do this.
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  Speaker 3: You actually get more time to develop character because you're
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  Speaker 3: not so involved in all the other stuff, which I love.
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  Speaker 3: I love the fact that people can really get into
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  Speaker 3: their characters and realize, you know, if you can think
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  Speaker 3: about we had Frank d Ambrosio who played the Phantom
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  Speaker 3: on Broadway and then traveled. He did a workshop and
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  Speaker 3: he said, find the truth in the imaginary, and that
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  Speaker 3: was a big tourent. A point for me is like,
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  Speaker 3: that's exactly right. You have to find out who your
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  Speaker 3: character is and then pull from that character in order
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  Speaker 3: to you know, to produce the character for yourself. And
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  Speaker 3: it's it's a really good way to say it. I
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  Speaker 3: like it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Now for everybody wondering the title. Everybody's favorite. Mother's my wife.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she came to me after I told her
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  Speaker 1: I was going to be a part of this. She
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  Speaker 1: wanted to try to look up to see. She was like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I want I want to see what this
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  Speaker 1: is and she's like, I can't find anything.
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  Speaker 3: It's a brand new play. Yeah, it's very exciting. And
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  Speaker 3: it was written to tell the story of the woman
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  Speaker 3: and son who inadvertently started p flag and this mother
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  Speaker 3: because her son had gone through so much turmoil being
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  Speaker 3: gay in Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: Or excuse me, in New York.
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  Speaker 3: This was this all came from Stonewall when the big
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  Speaker 3: uprising at the nightclub and everything, and then they started
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  Speaker 3: protests and her son wasn't it an activist and Jean
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  Speaker 3: was just.
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  Speaker 2: An ordinary woman in New York.
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  Speaker 3: But she loved her son and she never doubted that
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  Speaker 3: for a minute, and she always supported him. And he
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  Speaker 3: asked her to be in a march with her, and
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  Speaker 3: she did, and she went. And it spurred so many
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  Speaker 3: other mothers and parents and friends to not only come
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  Speaker 3: to her and say what can I do, but also
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  Speaker 3: join her, but also for trans and gay people to
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  Speaker 3: come to her and say, would you.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to my parents? Would you?
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  Speaker 3: And she realized that there was a huge need for
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  Speaker 3: educating parents and friends and family, and they started they
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  Speaker 3: started these meetings in churches in New York and it
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  Speaker 3: just went from there. And it's a pretty fantastic story.
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  Speaker 3: But the reason it says Everybody's Favorite Mothers is that
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  Speaker 3: in there it's a wild and crazy ride, right, You
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  Speaker 3: go back and forward in time a lot, and so
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  Speaker 3: there we're gonna have sound effects and things to help
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  Speaker 3: with that. And but she also Gene has dream sequences
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  Speaker 3: which she invites I shouldn't say she invites, but they're
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  Speaker 3: in her dreams, so they're her dreams. She invites her
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  Speaker 3: favorite mothers and one of them is Marge Simpson, Missus Cratchett,
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  Speaker 3: the Virgin Mary. And then Maria von Trapp is a
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  Speaker 3: very big, big person in her dreams. And it's it's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fun. And we have six people who
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  Speaker 3: play themselves and then they play they play these parts,
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  Speaker 3: so it's quite fun.
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  Speaker 1: And and I gotta say, Rage does a fantastic Marge Simpson. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you will. You will not be disappointed, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, this is gonna be an interesting thing to
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  Speaker 3: get to him, you know. And I and I did
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  Speaker 3: the one, the one Lady Mary. I gave her Maria
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  Speaker 3: von Tropp because it was the best part for her,
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  Speaker 3: But I gave the woman who says I don't sing,
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  Speaker 3: the person sings and she's doing marvelous. So I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's not about being a perfect singer.
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  Speaker 2: It's not about it. It's about the emotion of it.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of fun and laughing, but then there's
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  Speaker 3: also some incredibly poignant moments.
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  Speaker 2: That make you think.
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  Speaker 3: And so if even you have questions, this is a
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  Speaker 3: really good play to come to to learn things. Because
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  Speaker 3: I went back and looked up the picture, Diaconic picture,
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  Speaker 3: and to look at her, you would never have thought
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  Speaker 3: that this woman was the woman that was going.
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  Speaker 2: To start p flag, but she was.
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  Speaker 3: She loved her son and she wanted him to be happy,
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  Speaker 3: and that's why she did it. And she became an
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  Speaker 3: advocate inadvertently because because she loved her son and she
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  Speaker 3: knew there was a lot of kids out there who
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  Speaker 3: didn't have the support they needed. So it's a really
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  Speaker 3: really it's powerful, powerful story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and done like you said, it's it's done
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  Speaker 1: as a bit of a wild ride with which makes
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  Speaker 1: it even more unique. But it really is at its
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  Speaker 1: core a love story of a mother for her son.
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  Speaker 2: It is, it's a total love story.
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  Speaker 3: It is about the love for your children, and it's
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  Speaker 3: I get goosebumps every time I talk about it because
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty pretty fantastic story. And I'm learning, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because I was twenty years in theater at the high
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  Speaker 3: school and I was surrounded by it. But it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody has to learn. Everybody has to get new perspectives
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  Speaker 3: on life, which is wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so folks are going to be able to see
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  Speaker 1: that this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: This weekend, Friday and Saturday, the twenty My phone on
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  Speaker 3: away the twenty fifth and twenty sixth to get those
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  Speaker 3: dates right, I'm sorry you yeah, yeah, twenty sixcuse me,
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  Speaker 3: twenty sixth and twenty seventh. I wrote it down and
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  Speaker 3: then my phone when June twenty sixth and twenty seventh
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  Speaker 3: at seven point thirty the doors open at seven. We
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  Speaker 3: are still renovating, so we're doing everything off site this season,
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  Speaker 3: and so we're doing it at the Next Picture Show, which
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  Speaker 3: is a.
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  Speaker 2: Really nice little venue to do it.
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  Speaker 3: There is bar service there for everybody. So the twenty
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  Speaker 3: tickets are twenty dollars. If you are a member of
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  Speaker 3: p Flag and you go onto their site, you will
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  Speaker 3: find a code that gives you a ten dollars off.
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  Speaker 3: So they are sponsors, which is wonderful. They'll have a
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  Speaker 3: booth there, and so it's I love it because it's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: It's not only very.
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  Speaker 3: Entertaining, but it's also very educational and informative for people
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  Speaker 3: who don't quite understand and need to come, but also
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  Speaker 3: people who are in it and just want to be
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  Speaker 3: entertained and learn something, because it's pretty fantastic. I just yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I read the script and it's Yeah, every time I
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  Speaker 3: read certain parts, I get goosebumps.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's really really a good script.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That that was my first thought when when you
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  Speaker 1: had brought me the script and I had taken time
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  Speaker 1: and I read through the whole through the whole way,
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  Speaker 1: and I was just like, wow, I just you just
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  Speaker 1: really love this scene.
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  Speaker 3: You do? You love the script? And you know, the
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  Speaker 3: first thing a director does is we go through when
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  Speaker 3: we do the mechanicals of it. I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: where are the sound effects?
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  Speaker 2: What do we do here? What do we got to do?
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  Speaker 3: And you go through and so there's certain scenes you read,
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  Speaker 3: but you haven't read the whole thing, and all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden, you read this scene and go, I need
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  Speaker 3: to read this script really exciting, so but yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: mean it was, it was.
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  Speaker 2: It's just been a real fun, fun show to do.
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  Speaker 3: And I can't wait for this week for everybody to
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  Speaker 3: really develop their characters and put it out there because
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  Speaker 3: it's it's going to be great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I look forward to rehearsals each night, so I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait to come tonight. Where can folks get their tickets?
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  Speaker 3: They can go to Dixon Stage Left dot org and
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  Speaker 3: just click the ticket on the top bar. Or you
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  Speaker 3: can call our box office at eight one five four
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  Speaker 3: four zero two nine nine nine. And I'm the one
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  Speaker 3: that answers that most of the time. There's other people
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  Speaker 3: in my office that do. But that's our box office number.
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  Speaker 3: If you have any trouble, give.
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  Speaker 2: Us a call.
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  Speaker 1: How long will tickets be available?
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  Speaker 3: They'll be available all the way up until the show, okay,
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  Speaker 3: because we walk them.
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  Speaker 2: Walk ins are welcome unless it's sold out.
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  Speaker 3: But there's a fifty fifty person capacity is what we
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  Speaker 3: have right now.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So it's better to be the early bird.
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  Speaker 2: It better to be the early bird. So but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: once we get in our space, we'll be a little
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  Speaker 2: bit larger, but yeah, it'll.
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  Speaker 3: It's still a small intimate area, which is what Stage
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  Speaker 3: left is. We're a box theater, so we went. Our
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  Speaker 3: max at our old place was fifty eight. This one's
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  Speaker 3: going to be eighty. It can be pushed for certain events,
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  Speaker 3: but we like to set up the tables in between
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  Speaker 3: the rows and make it a very nice, intimate, intimate
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  Speaker 3: place and people love it. They love the fact that
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  Speaker 3: they can come out and get some drinks and then
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  Speaker 3: go in and sit down and have a place to
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  Speaker 3: put their cups and it's just real intimate kind of
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  Speaker 3: kind of setting.
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  Speaker 2: And we're that's what we're going forward. That's what we're
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  Speaker 2: working towards.
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  Speaker 1: I think it'll. I think it compliments what it's doing
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  Speaker 1: very well. Y yes, well, while we got a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes left. What can folks expect for the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six season and our events that you can that you
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  Speaker 1: are able to share it right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we got started with our first show, which has
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  Speaker 3: gone and that was a big bang. I got the
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  Speaker 3: privilege of directing that one too, and it was a repeat.
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  Speaker 3: We brought it back because we wanted to start the
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  Speaker 3: season with a big bang, two man show. Absolutely phenomenal.
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  Speaker 3: I miss it. It was so much fun. Then we
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  Speaker 3: went into the murder mystery we had out at the Elks,
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  Speaker 3: which was a very willful murder and those are always
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  Speaker 3: really successful.
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  Speaker 2: And that's another one that show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember that. That was one on my list
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  Speaker 1: at some point.
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  Speaker 3: So and then and we usually do one of those
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  Speaker 3: a year, and then we have this one, and then
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  Speaker 3: we have one that's in progress right now, which is
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  Speaker 3: Guys and Dolls, which is in cooperation with the Dixon,
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  Speaker 3: and it's going to be at the Dixon in July.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's the weekend of the tenth, eleventh, and.
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  Speaker 2: Twelfth, if I've got those right.
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  Speaker 3: I think I got those right. But it's that weekend.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to say it's the weekend after the fourth. So,
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  Speaker 3: but it's all on the website and so there, and
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  Speaker 3: they're working hard because you got dancing and singing.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, there's a lot with all that fun stuff.
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  Speaker 3: We have a fun surprise coming in October that's not
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  Speaker 3: announced yet. And then at Christmas time we are going
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  Speaker 3: to put on a Christmas story. Yes, yes, yeah, that's exciting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love a Christmas story.
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  Speaker 2: So that'll be fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the radio version it's an actual stage adapted
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  Speaker 3: script for that. So that's very exciting because so many
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  Speaker 3: people really love that. So and so that will end
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  Speaker 3: our season and then we'll start over in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, that's a hard one to say. With our new seat.
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  Speaker 2: The next season and hopefully not on wood, we will.
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  Speaker 3: Be in our new space because this is our third
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  Speaker 3: year and it's one hundred and thirty year old building
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  Speaker 3: with so much history. Yeah, but it also keeps giving
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  Speaker 3: us little easter eggs expensive little.
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  Speaker 1: Easter and that's how it usually goes with buildings. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean we've had to do some shoring up and
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  Speaker 3: some reinforcements. I mean, when it's done, it'll last another
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty years. We dropped, took off the
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  Speaker 3: drop ceiling and discovered this beautiful tin ceiling underneath. But unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: in a performance center you can't have tin on your ceiling.
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  Speaker 2: If you've ever eaten anywhere in.
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  Speaker 3: A restaurant that has a ten seat, you realize how
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  Speaker 3: much more noisy it is. Okay, so when you're trying
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  Speaker 3: to control sound, you can't really have a tin ceiling, So.
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  Speaker 2: That all had to all come down. Plus there was
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  Speaker 2: a lot of damage.
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  Speaker 3: So we've moved We've were fixing out in the lobby
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  Speaker 3: and over the tickabooth area, down the hallway in the bathrooms,
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  Speaker 3: so you'll still get to see it, it just isn't
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  Speaker 3: in the performance area. But one of the things we
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  Speaker 3: discovered at someplace in the history of the building, after
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  Speaker 3: the tin ceiling was put up, there was a fire
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  Speaker 3: and all the soot from the fire went between the
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  Speaker 3: tin and the you know, the next floor up. And
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  Speaker 3: that's been a real you know, safety thing because you
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  Speaker 3: got to mask up and everything.
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  Speaker 2: So but that's finally all cleaned out.
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  Speaker 3: So now we have moved on to everything's clean as
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  Speaker 3: you know, and we've moved on to a drywalling, so
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: we're getting closer. It's starting to speed up, you know,
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: because it has all new plumbing, all new electric. It'll
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: have a new HVAC when every things done. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be.
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  Speaker 1: It's worth it. In the air, it's always you know,
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  Speaker 1: you trudge through when we the house where and now
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  Speaker 1: we camped out in the sunnroom for like the first
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  Speaker 1: month as we redid the floors and everything else. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just need to get it done. And over with,
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  Speaker 1: and then it'll be worth it.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be worth it.
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  Speaker 3: And it was because the memory of the sun room
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  Speaker 3: is like, oh, that was a fun camping time. Right
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  Speaker 3: at the time, you're like, oh my.
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  Speaker 1: God, I'm guessing you guys have less air mattresses in
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  Speaker 1: your process. We have.
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  Speaker 3: We have mattresses from plays that you know occasionally, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when we're so tired, we've just kind of flopped on
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  Speaker 3: the floor when I'm taking a nap, thank you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: kind of thing. But our office is upstairs. If you
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  Speaker 3: want to come see us, see us. The building has
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  Speaker 3: three front doors. The big glass doors will be our mains,
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  Speaker 3: but right now they're kind of it says, do not
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  Speaker 3: enter because you're entering a construction zone. Come on down
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  Speaker 3: a little bit farther towards the telegraph and the door
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  Speaker 3: on the end is the and you want to come in.
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  Speaker 3: You open it up and you go to see a
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  Speaker 3: flight of stairs and if you're if you're strong enough,
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  Speaker 3: in diligent enough, come on up those stairs, because you'll
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  Speaker 3: find us. You'll find the office and a little loungerry
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  Speaker 3: and then.
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  Speaker 2: All our storage, all our storage.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I like a good visual landmark if you've opened
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  Speaker 1: the door and you have not found the stairs. Choose
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  Speaker 1: the other end.
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  Speaker 2: Choose the other end.
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  Speaker 3: Don't go to the back of the don't go to
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  Speaker 3: the back of the building. You'll open a door and
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  Speaker 3: go hello. It'll either be it'll be the basement, and
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  Speaker 3: it'll be very dark.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, well there you go. Go out, get your tickets,
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  Speaker 1: go online, get get get ahead again. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a private, intimate kind of feeling and setting fifty fifty. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so you want to get those tickets ahead of time. Karen,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on the show sharing
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: all the information. I know October is going to be
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: a surprise, so we'll have to have you come back
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: when you're allowed to unveil that surprise right here on
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: the show.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: That great. Thanks for having me see you tonight.