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Something You Should Know - September 21 Rudy Navarrete with 24 Hours on 8th Street showing at USF Sept 22 · Something You Should Know!

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  Speaker 1: Rudy Navarrete joining me right now. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about a fun event that's coming up tomorrow night, and
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  Speaker 1: it's an opportunity for you to go out and make
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  Speaker 1: a difference. 24 Hours on 8th Street is a documentary.
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  Speaker 1: And you guys had how many showings at the State Theater, Rudy?
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  Speaker 1: You had a bunch, didn't you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've had eight showings, all sold out. So it's
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  Speaker 2: just wild in the best kind of way at the reception.
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  Speaker 1: And now, tomorrow, there's an opportunity for up to 800
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  Speaker 1: people to come out at once. It'll be at the
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  Speaker 1: University of Sioux Falls in a much bigger room. And again,
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  Speaker 1: this is just a really, really cool thing that people
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to come together. I'm encouraging people to
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  Speaker 1: come with a friend, bring a friend along. And let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about 24 Hours on 8th Street, because this is
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  Speaker 1: near and dear to you. Where did this whole concept
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  Speaker 1: come from?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I live over Kitty Corner from Terry Redlin,
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  Speaker 2: the school over there, just on 8th Street, actually. And
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  Speaker 2: I have a buddy who has a food truck called
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  Speaker 2: Winnie City Bites, and him and I became friends. And
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  Speaker 2: so I frequent over there when he was across the
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  Speaker 2: street from Bishop Dudley. And so it's my neighborhood. And
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  Speaker 2: I would go over there and have food often and
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  Speaker 2: watch sports, have a drink, walk home, just became a
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  Speaker 2: regular there. and um and it gets a little sometimes
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  Speaker 2: a little wild outside of Bishop because and you know
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  Speaker 2: and and I see it every day but it's my
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood and uh so I'm used to just being around
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  Speaker 2: there anyhow I woke up one day and um I
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  Speaker 2: had nowhere to go in a hurry so I was
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  Speaker 2: just kind of going to sleep waking up going to
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  Speaker 2: sleep kind of like in that alpha state I would
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  Speaker 2: say yeah and I just had this idea like uh
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  Speaker 2: What would 24 hours look like on 8th Street? If
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  Speaker 2: you were just to drop somebody off, set them there,
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  Speaker 2: where would they find their resources? Something to eat, something
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  Speaker 2: to drink, use the restroom, cool down, warm up, depending
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  Speaker 2: on the season, transportation, the whole nine. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's funny because I really, like, visualized it, darn near
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  Speaker 2: dreamed it, where I just– you know, saw it and
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  Speaker 2: then I pictured it as a documentary, something very uplifting
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  Speaker 2: where people get done watching it and they want to
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  Speaker 2: get involved, whatever that looks like, time, talent, treasure, you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they're like, hey, you know, I've always wanted to
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  Speaker 2: volunteer at Banquet or, you know, I can afford $ 50
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  Speaker 2: a month at the Bishop or whatever it looks like
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  Speaker 2: was the idea and I wanted to make sure there
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  Speaker 2: was no fingers pointed, I wanted it because at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, everybody's going to point the finger
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  Speaker 2: at somebody else, so I wanted to steer clear of that,
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  Speaker 2: and then I just totally visualized it. Anyhow, so I
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  Speaker 2: reached out to a friend of mine who we've done
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  Speaker 2: community stuff, very savvy with knowing all the logistics of
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  Speaker 2: why the roads are the way they are, and what's
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  Speaker 2: good for civilians, what's good for the cars, the whole nine.
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  Speaker 2: And I reached out to him, left a message, a
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  Speaker 2: voicemail and a text message, So I go walk down
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  Speaker 2: to Indy City Bites and there's a regular there, there
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  Speaker 2: more than I was. And after the initial, hey, how's
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  Speaker 2: it going? You know, I sat down. The very first
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  Speaker 2: thing he said to me was, you know, somebody really
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  Speaker 2: ought to make a documentary about a cross street there.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what you had just been thinking about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I said, you know what? Funny you say that.
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  Speaker 2: I said, my gosh, I said, I just totally like
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  Speaker 2: visualize that man. And then I showed him my text message.
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  Speaker 2: He just looked at me like, wow. And I was like,
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  Speaker 2: and that to me right there, cemented it like this
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  Speaker 2: needs to happen. I didn't know what it was going
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  Speaker 2: to look like or anything like that, but, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it just, I knew it was going to happen. And
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  Speaker 2: one thing led to another met Everett and, uh, we, uh,
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  Speaker 2: him and Sean, uh, Everett Palmer and Sean Baker were the, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Everett's the director Sean and I are producers but anyway
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  Speaker 2: we set up a date made it happen and then
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  Speaker 2: it just did the 24 hours Everett and I were
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  Speaker 2: the only ones to do the 24 hours and then
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  Speaker 2: anyhow you know it was quite the day learned quite
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  Speaker 2: a bit and then it was just like we needed
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  Speaker 2: to interview all the agencies doing the work and it
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  Speaker 2: just steamrolled to all this beautiful stuff to really tell
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  Speaker 2: the story it's been just it's out of this world
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  Speaker 2: it's the coolest thing ever.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and the thing that I will say, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to fix a problem, the first thing you need
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  Speaker 1: to do is let people know there's a problem. Because
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  Speaker 1: more people knowing that there's a problem, now you have
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  Speaker 1: other people who want to help solve the problem. And
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  Speaker 1: have people come out?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you sold out every showing at the State Theater. Now,
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow night is a chance for people to come out
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  Speaker 1: in much bigger numbers, room for 800 people tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 1: And if people want to get tickets, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: tell them how to do that here in a bit.
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  Speaker 1: But there is an opportunity for each and every person
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  Speaker 1: to make a difference in their community. And Rudy, you've
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  Speaker 1: done that. You've made a difference. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: you need to be commended for that. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. You know, the heroes are the ones
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  Speaker 2: doing the work every day, you know, meeting all these agencies,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the people doing it. It's a passion. It's
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  Speaker 2: a calling. And they're not doing it for the money.
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  Speaker 2: They're doing it because it's what they want to do.
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  Speaker 2: And they're the heroes. I appreciate your compliment. I really do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying this. Once you really start meeting the
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  Speaker 2: people involved, it's just like, wow, how cool.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And tomorrow night would be a great night, folks.
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  Speaker 1: Come out, be a part of this event. It's at
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  Speaker 1: the University of Sioux Falls. Again, there's room for about
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  Speaker 1: 800 people. But if you think about Sioux Falls, there's
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  Speaker 1: thousands and thousands and thousands of people. So if you
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  Speaker 1: want to go get your tickets today, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you how to get those here in a second. Rudy,
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  Speaker 1: thank you again for taking the time to visit with me.
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  Speaker 1: And thank you for doing what you're doing to make
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  Speaker 1: a difference in our community.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you, John. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And again, if you would like to get tickets, facebook.com
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  Speaker 1: slash 24 hours on 8th street is their Facebook page.
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  Speaker 1: Now I understand a lot of time, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: folks driving to work at this time. So if you're
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  Speaker 1: going down the road and you're like, I'm never going
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  Speaker 1: to remember that here, you can remember this facebook.com slash
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  Speaker 1: sunny radio. I'm going to put a link and facebook.com
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  Speaker 1: slash Sioux Falls news. You'll find a link there as well.
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  Speaker 1: And we hope to see you tomorrow night.