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Talk-Line: Todd Mickley, Whiteside County Fair · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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Speaker 1: We are quarter past the hour. This is Friday, It's
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Speaker 1: August eighth, the year is twenty twenty five, and it's
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Speaker 1: time for another informational edition of Talkline here at WIXN Radio.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Steve Marco. It is time to take
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Speaker 1: our live look in at the twenty twenty five Whiteside
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Speaker 1: County Fair.
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Speaker 2: Fair.
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Speaker 1: Activities in Morrison start early next week and we get
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Speaker 1: the live look in today with a favorite of ours
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Speaker 1: on the radio. He has been with us many years,
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Speaker 1: telling us all about the good things at every edition
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Speaker 1: of the Whiteside County Fair going back some years. Today
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Speaker 1: we spotlight the one hundred and fifty fourth Annual. Now
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Speaker 1: he hasn't been alog that log, but he has been
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Speaker 1: there for quite a while and we're happy to have
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Speaker 1: him aboard taking us through the Whiteside County Fairgrounds today.
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Speaker 1: Our good friend, the publicity manager of the Whiteside County Fair,
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Speaker 1: Todd Mickley, is live with us this morning here at
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Speaker 1: wi accent.
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Speaker 2: Todd, how are you good?
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Speaker 3: Good Dave?
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Speaker 1: How I am fine, And it's nice to have Todd
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Speaker 1: back on board with us. Like I said, Todd, you
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Speaker 1: haven't been there all one hundred and fifty three going
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Speaker 1: on fifty four years.
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Speaker 2: You have been there that log, but you've been there.
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Speaker 3: I got twenty four, you get.
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Speaker 1: Twente, there you go, there you go, so twenty four
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Speaker 1: and I think we've been with Todd probably since he
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Speaker 1: came aboard pretty much all of those years. You know,
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Speaker 1: we've been spotlighting the white Side County Fair in Morrison
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Speaker 1: with our good friend Todd Mickley for many, many years,
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Speaker 1: and we're happy to have him on board with us
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Speaker 1: once again to take us through the Whiteside County Fairgrounds. Now,
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Speaker 1: the fair doesn't start until early next week.
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Speaker 2: Todd. Where are you right now?
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Speaker 3: Actually at the fairgrounds, So I'm actually down here. We're
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Speaker 3: getting doing some set up stuff. So we'll work on
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Speaker 3: stuff here today, Tomorrow and Monday and hopefully by tuesday
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Speaker 3: we got everything done and the offer checklists.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, preparations are in play. And this is
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Speaker 1: where we like to catch Todd on the fairgrounds before
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Speaker 1: the actual fair. It gives him an opportunity to kind
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Speaker 1: to stroll the fairgrounds without to be that hustle and
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Speaker 1: bustle of the fair which starts, as I mentioned, early
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Speaker 1: next week.
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Speaker 2: Todd.
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Speaker 1: So we've got you on the air a couple of
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Speaker 1: days prior to this year's Whiteside County Fair to take
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Speaker 1: us through the fairgrounds and to take us through the
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Speaker 1: activity list of the Whiteside County Fair. This is Fair
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Speaker 1: one fifty four. As we mentioned, Todd, give us the meat,
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Speaker 1: the nuts and bolts first of all of the fair.
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Speaker 2: When does it start. Let's go through ticket prices things
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Speaker 2: like that.
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Speaker 3: Right now, Okay, nope, Yeah, it'll start their Tuesday morning.
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Speaker 3: The first thing on the menu is the is the
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Speaker 3: Western Horse Show at at nine o'clock that morning, which
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Speaker 3: is kind of the arena. And I'm kind of in
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Speaker 3: the infield area right now. So what we call the
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Speaker 3: infield is where the track goes around. That's our infield,
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Speaker 3: and then part of that infield is the arena. So
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Speaker 3: so Tuesday morning they'll be horse you know, Western horse
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Speaker 3: speed events and barrels and and that show going, you know,
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Speaker 3: going on both the first thing Tuesday morning, that's the start.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So Tuesday, August the thirteenth, that is day one
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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty five Whiteside County Fair.
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Speaker 3: Again as I started the twelfth, Steve, Yeah, Tuesday the twelfth,
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Speaker 3: is that right?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, Tuesday the twelfth. Yeah, you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: you know what it's like.
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Speaker 3: It's just scared me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, because I'm looking. I'm looking at the
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Speaker 1: oh you know what I got last year's I got
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Speaker 1: year I got last year's Yeah, I got last year's dates.
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Speaker 2: So you're right.
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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, August the twelfth, and it starts with the
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Speaker 1: Western Horse Show nine o'clock on the fair grounds. You're right,
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Speaker 1: Tuesday the twelfth at the white Side County Fair. Now,
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Speaker 1: before we get into the rest of the schedule for
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Speaker 1: that Tuesday, which is, as we mentioned, a couple of days,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna give everybody a chance to prepare for the
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Speaker 1: white Side County Fair. Give us the ticket prices, you know,
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Speaker 1: let's let's run through the gate prices so we can
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Speaker 1: get everybody in.
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Speaker 3: Yep, okay, yep. If you're just coming for a day,
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Speaker 3: the adults daily is ten dollars and the children six
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Speaker 3: to ten daily is two, and then five and under
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Speaker 3: is free. So if you're just gonna do a day
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Speaker 3: at the fair, that's your that's your prices. But if
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Speaker 3: you're gonna be here at least three days of the fair,
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Speaker 3: then you get your season pass season ticket for twenty
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Speaker 3: five dollars and then children six to eleven the season
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Speaker 3: ticket price is five and then five and unders free again.
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Speaker 1: Okay, right, So that again get you into the gate
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Speaker 1: at the Whiteside County Fairs. So again ten dollars general
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Speaker 1: admission for adults daily. But as Todd mentioned, you want
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Speaker 1: to save some bucks, you know, get that season pass,
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Speaker 1: get the season pass. If you're probably going to go
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Speaker 1: in more than a day, you want to get the
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Speaker 1: season pass to the Whiteside County Fair because that's dollars off.
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Speaker 1: And again, as Todd mentioned, the children's prices are reduced
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Speaker 1: again at the gate at the Whiteside County Fair. And
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Speaker 1: this does include, right Todd, this will include grandstand admission. Correct,
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Speaker 1: you're gating, Okay, so gated mission.
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Speaker 3: The only yeah, the only thing we reserve is for
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Speaker 3: the demo on Saturday night and then and it's just
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Speaker 3: one two. I'm actually looking at them. So there's four
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Speaker 3: sets of bleachers that are in the middle and they're colored,
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Speaker 3: and those four are reserved. But when then we still
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Speaker 3: have seating off to the side of those colored ones
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Speaker 3: on each end of the building that are that are free,
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Speaker 3: free tickets and then we'll have portable bleachers set up
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Speaker 3: to which would be free setting for the for the demo.
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Speaker 3: But if you want to make sure you got a
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Speaker 3: you got a spot and then you can you can
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Speaker 3: come down to the fairgrounds now. I mean we're opened
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Speaker 3: at eight eight this morning here and then we'll be
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Speaker 3: open at eight tomorrow and then eight on Monday, and
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Speaker 3: you can get you know, get your reserve seating if
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Speaker 3: you want for the Saturday night, but other than that,
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Speaker 3: all the other events there's no reserve seating. You just
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Speaker 3: free seating. With that price of admission.
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Speaker 2: You're good, okay.
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Speaker 1: So again grand standard mission for most of the events
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Speaker 1: save for the demo Derby Demo Derby are available at
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Speaker 1: the gate. So again you'll get your grand stand mission
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Speaker 1: to the fairgrounds along with your gate pass to the
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Speaker 1: fairgrounds daily when you purchase that gate admission to the
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Speaker 1: Whiteside County Fair starting on Tuesday, you mentioned Todd that
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Speaker 1: the Western Horse Show opens the events, and this is
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Speaker 1: probably kind of a traditional event that we have starting
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Speaker 1: the Whiteside County Fair and Morrison next week. Take us
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Speaker 1: through the rest of Tuesday activities now for August the twelfth.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so at nine or at nine the Western Horse Show,
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Speaker 3: and then that noon is open swine judging, so the
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Speaker 3: hog building will be judging judging swine at noon, and
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Speaker 3: then we get the carnival kicks off at one o'clock,
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Speaker 3: so and then that goes you know, it goes all night.
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Speaker 3: But you can also do a daily risk band, you know,
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Speaker 3: from one to five if you're just going to be
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Speaker 3: at the carnival for one day during the afternoon, and
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Speaker 3: then we've got a kid's pedal pull at two o'clock,
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Speaker 3: so behind the grand stand they'll said up the pedal
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Speaker 3: pools so then we can the youngsters can can see
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Speaker 3: how starting they are pull and pull on the sled.
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Speaker 3: And then we got junior swine judging at four point
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Speaker 3: thirty and then our first bike giveaway at six and
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Speaker 3: then the bull riding at seven.
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Speaker 1: The bull riding is the grand stand feature at seven
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Speaker 1: o'clock at the Whiteside County Fair and Morrison on Tuesday
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Speaker 1: at your grand stand, and again admission into that with
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Speaker 1: your grand stand ad mission is free to that grand
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Speaker 1: stand event the bull riding taking place on Tuesday. Todd
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Speaker 1: mentioned a couple of traditional events. The bike giveaway, the
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Speaker 1: bicycle giveaway. You're doing it again this year, Todd.
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Speaker 3: We've been doing her I don't know how many years,
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Speaker 3: all the twenty four I've been on and is going
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Speaker 3: to bike every day and then on Saturday given two
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Speaker 3: bikes away, one at two and then the usual six
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Speaker 3: o'clock on Saturday, but we'll do an extra one on
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Speaker 3: Saturday at two o'clock. And then the Blue building, which
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Speaker 3: is the first building when you walk into the fair grounds,
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Speaker 3: the bike's displayed and then you can put your name
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Speaker 3: on a piece of paper, no cost, no nothing. You
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Speaker 3: just write your name down and throw it in the bucket,
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Speaker 3: and then at six o'clock they draw it out. But
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Speaker 3: only put your name in once because if your name's
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Speaker 3: in there twice, you get you get kicked out.
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Speaker 1: All right, So again you got to make sure that
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Speaker 1: you are following the rules. But again, yeah, it's it's
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Speaker 1: a traditional it's a traditional happening and they have many
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Speaker 1: traditional happenings at the Whitesie County fair not just the
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Speaker 1: bike giveaway. But I see you know you've got your
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Speaker 1: pretty much your traditional set of daily activities once again, right, Todd.
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Speaker 1: We only haven't changed much there.
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Speaker 3: No Now we got the Cake and pie Walk, which
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Speaker 3: is a very popular deal. You bring your quarters with
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Speaker 3: you and put your quarter on a number and then
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Speaker 3: they draw the ball out and then you can pick
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Speaker 3: a kick, a cake, pick a cake or a pie there.
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Speaker 3: So that's Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at four. Then we've got
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Speaker 3: Grampa cratch it back and he's you'll be doing his
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Speaker 3: shows up there by that same building, and then he
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Speaker 3: tools around in his little truck. And then we got
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Speaker 3: the the Bingo. Every night Tuesday through Saturday from six
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Speaker 3: to nine is the is the Bingo. And then we
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Speaker 3: got pony rice, petting, zoo, barnyard revenue, pig races, chainsaw carving. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: we just got a lot of lot of stuff. And
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Speaker 3: I know your most popular one. I went by and
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Speaker 3: what is that chicken poo bingo? I mean, you're down
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Speaker 3: there all the time.
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Speaker 2: I love it. It's this is this is great, It's
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 1: It's it's chicken poo bingo, you know, And the Dame
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Speaker 1: says it all you gotta the chickens will do their
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Speaker 1: their thing and you have to follow along and make
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Speaker 1: it and just hope that those you know, those fowl
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Speaker 1: will you know land on the right right numbers for you.
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Speaker 2: How you think it's great?
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Speaker 1: Uh, you got to see it to believe in folks
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Speaker 1: that you know me, it's toddy and I can't talk
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Speaker 1: about something like this.
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Speaker 2: You have to be there. You have to see chicken
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Speaker 2: poo bingo. You have to be there.
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Speaker 1: And that's daily at three o'clock. So that's every day, right,
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Speaker 1: every day? Okay, that's every day. Okay, three o'clock at
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Speaker 1: the fair cund you gotta see it to believe it.
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Speaker 1: And again that's at the White Side County Fair and Morse.
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Speaker 1: So Tad's gone over the first days of events. And
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Speaker 1: I wanted to squeeze in toime before we take our
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Speaker 1: break for news, because we got four more days to
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Speaker 1: talk about the wristbands. You mentioned the wrist bands through
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Speaker 1: the carnival. There are prices for wristbands to get rides
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Speaker 1: on the carnival, right, so talk about those.
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Speaker 2: Okay?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, all five days.
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Speaker 3: If you're just coming one day, you can do a
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Speaker 3: one to five risk band and it's only good for
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Speaker 3: that one day, but it's thirty five dollars. It's still
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Speaker 3: cheaper than buying all the tickets you're going to ride
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Speaker 3: on the right, so that's a good deal. Then if
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Speaker 3: you're going to be down here for more days than that,
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Speaker 3: you can do the megaband, which in this the entire week,
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Speaker 3: and then you can go at night too, so you're
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Speaker 3: not limited to the five o'clock like you are on
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Speaker 3: the daily risk band. And then that one is still
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Speaker 3: sold right now at sixty five and they can do
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Speaker 3: that all the way up till Monday by that in
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Speaker 3: advance at the fair office, but then Tuesday, the week
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Speaker 3: of the fair, and then it goes to seventy five
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Speaker 3: dollars for the megaband and then like say, you can
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Speaker 3: go on any ride, every ride often however often you
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Speaker 3: want with that megaban.
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Speaker 2: And that's the deal.
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Speaker 1: I think that's the if you're going to be their
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Speaker 1: multi days of the fair, that's the deal you want
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Speaker 1: to get into again sixty five dollars and say some
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Speaker 1: dollars right now by getting them before the fair starts,
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Speaker 1: get your again megaband for sixty five bucks. If you're
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Speaker 1: going to multiple days of the fair and enjoy all
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Speaker 1: the rights whenever you want, you don't have to worry
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Speaker 1: about a thing or any times you know, as they
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Speaker 1: will have their megaband times that runs from one until
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Speaker 1: five carnival days. But again, if you want to take
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Speaker 1: advantage of all of the rides that you want to
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Speaker 1: ride whenever, take that megaband for sixty five dollars. That's
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Speaker 1: a good good deal seventy five the week of the fair.
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Speaker 1: So again you're saving dollars by purchasing your wristbands earlier.
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Speaker 1: At the Whiteside County Fair. Todd Mickley is our guest,
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Speaker 1: our publicity manager of the Whiteside County Fair, takes us
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Speaker 1: through the twenty twenty five edition of the white Side
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Speaker 1: County Fair. Todd, we're going to break for five minutes
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Speaker 1: of news at the half hour, but we got four
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Speaker 1: days to talk about yep, and we're going to get
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Speaker 1: to that schedule with Todd in our next half hour
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Speaker 1: here at Wixend. But right now Tim Lee is set
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Speaker 1: to go with news today as we go back to
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Speaker 1: our talk line guest who is venturing through the white
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Speaker 1: Side County Fairgrounds in Morrison this morning for us, our
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Speaker 1: publicity manager of the twenty twenty five white Side County
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Speaker 1: Fair and Morrison is Lible this this morning on the telephone.
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Speaker 1: His name is Todd Mickley, and it is our expanded
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Speaker 1: version of talk Line today here at wy Excent.
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Speaker 2: Todd, good morning.
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Speaker 1: Once again, Good morning, and it is nice to have
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Speaker 1: Todd with us.
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Speaker 2: I have you moved your location? Todd?
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Speaker 1: You were near the I believe the horse show arena
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Speaker 1: when we started this broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Where are you at now? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Actually I did. I found plenty of big oak shape streets.
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Speaker 3: I'm actually still in the endfield because I'm afraid if
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Speaker 3: I go over behind the other area, Everybody's going to
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Speaker 3: be looking at me like why am I not?
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Speaker 2: Well, we don't want that, all right, all right?
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Speaker 1: So Todd's in that in that infield area at the
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Speaker 1: arena at the Whiteside County fair Grounds. He's bringing us
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Speaker 1: news and information this Friday morning. The Whiteside County Fair
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Speaker 1: and Morrison starts Tuesday, August the twelfth. It runs all
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Speaker 1: the way through Saturday. We went over day one of
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Speaker 1: the fair. We went over the ticket prices of the fair,
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Speaker 1: not only ticket prices at the gate, but ticket prices
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Speaker 1: with again the rides. Todd went over all of that
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Speaker 1: information during our first portion of the talk Line today,
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Speaker 1: and we have to feature some of the again traditional
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Speaker 1: Whiteside County Fair features that you're going to find every
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Speaker 1: day at the Whiteside County Fair. Todd, we want to
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Speaker 1: kind of take us through the schedule once again as
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Speaker 1: we move into Tuesday activities. Excuse me, Wednesday activities. We
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Speaker 1: want to talk about Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday activities
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Speaker 1: at the white Side County Fair. And we look, you
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Speaker 1: know at the fair itself day by day time. You
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Speaker 1: guys are traditional in holding to really, you know, what
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Speaker 1: is good at the white Side County Fair year after year.
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Speaker 2: I see where a.
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Speaker 1: Lot of the events are unchanged, so people must enjoy
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Speaker 1: what they come back and keep seeing, right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's a hard decision because it used to
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Speaker 3: be here Thursday night was always we kind of changed
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Speaker 3: it around, it did something different, and then we started
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Speaker 3: doing the monster trucks here probably three years ago, and
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Speaker 3: it just seems like it really the kids, and you know,
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Speaker 3: there's people out there, especially with Bigfoot, getting their pictures
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Speaker 3: taken and it just seems like they really really enjoy,
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Speaker 3: you know, enjoy that show. So and it's the fiftieth
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Speaker 3: anniversary of Bigfoot, which is hard to believe that that
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Speaker 3: truck's been around twenty or fifty years. But yeah, so
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Speaker 3: then we thought, well, let's do her or do her again.
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Speaker 3: And you know, if we keep hearing good comments on it,
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Speaker 3: we'll probably just continue.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, as they say, if it's not broke,
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Speaker 1: don't fix it. I mean it's it's again working at
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Speaker 1: the white Side County Fair. Still, the crowds come in, still,
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Speaker 1: the people enjoy what's offered at the Whiteside County Fair.
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Speaker 1: We talked about Tuesday activities, Todd. Let's take us through
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Speaker 1: the rest of the schedule for the white Side County
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Speaker 1: Fair on Wednesday. Now, anything stand out on Wednesday?
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Speaker 3: Now, yeah, we'll have the well do the Western horses
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Speaker 3: been at nine, which I did talk about, but then
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Speaker 3: there's the foul judging at ten, and then actually we
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Speaker 3: got dairy judging at nine. So the dairy barn there,
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Speaker 3: they'll have their cows in there and they'll be judging
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Speaker 3: those at nine on Wednesday, and then the heavy horse
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Speaker 3: has come in. They won't be showing, but they come
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Speaker 3: in around two o'clock that afternoon, and then the bike giveaway.
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Speaker 3: So Wednesday's probably are our calm mist day of a
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Speaker 3: lot of things going on during the day. But then
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Speaker 3: the other day as we pick that back up and the.
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Speaker 1: Grand stand once again will be featuring uh some bronk riding,
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Speaker 1: right yeah, and that's something too.
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Speaker 3: And we did the bull riding and then the guy
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Speaker 3: was the same guy doesn't He's like, you gotta really
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Speaker 3: try bron riding. And people are really enjoying the bronc riding.
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Speaker 3: And it's like, well, yeah, that's the same same situation
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Speaker 3: just on on horses. But it just seems like that
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Speaker 3: still brings in a big crowd and a lot of
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Speaker 3: people come and watch both of them. They love the
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Speaker 3: bull and the bronc riding. And again it's like, well,
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Speaker 3: you know kind of the thing absolutely if it's not broke,
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Speaker 3: don't six there.
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Speaker 1: You go exactly. And then and the people, you know,
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Speaker 1: you want to you don't want to make sure that,
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Speaker 1: you know, you get the favorites in that the people
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Speaker 1: like to come back and see. So you got bull
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Speaker 1: riding on Tuesday, you got bronc riding on Wednesday. Those
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Speaker 1: are the grandstand features again with your gated mission. Those
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Speaker 1: are free to those patrons at the Whiteside County Fair
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Speaker 1: both Tuesday and Wednesday. You talked about Thursday's main event.
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Speaker 1: But take us through the rest of Thursday. Now, did
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Speaker 1: we lose did we lose Todd? Okay, well we might
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Speaker 1: have lost him. Uh okay, okay, okay.
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Speaker 3: Yep, I got all right, Okay, I got five I
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Speaker 3: got five bars and five gs.
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Speaker 2: So you're with me, you're with me. Uh.
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Speaker 1: We were just picking it up Thursday. Todd, you talked
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Speaker 1: about the monster truck being there for fifty years. He's
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Speaker 1: going to be, you know, right there at the grand
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Speaker 1: stand up for that full throttle monster truck event. But
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Speaker 1: Thursday activities, take us through those.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So we got the heavy horse hault for judging nine
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Speaker 3: o'clock and I'll be in front of the front of
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Speaker 3: the grand stand. And we got beef cattle judging, Junior
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Speaker 3: huffer and Junior Steers show at nine o'clock. And then
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Speaker 3: we got the Florida Culture we'll be coming in. We
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Speaker 3: got the heavy horse judging which supposed to be when
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Speaker 3: they'll do the four horse hitches on one o'clock on
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Speaker 3: on Thursday. And then then like the monster truck which
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Speaker 3: actually we got a bunch of old cars which actually
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Speaker 3: some of those don't look too bad of vehicles that
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Speaker 3: we're going to be smashing. So it's kind of kind
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Speaker 3: of interesting to look at those cars that we're going
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Speaker 3: to be putting out on the track and letting the
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Speaker 3: monster trucks demolish it. But so we get about eight
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Speaker 3: of those cars sitting in front of me right now
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Speaker 3: that they're going to get destroids.
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Speaker 1: So all right, that's on Thursday. That's at the Whiteside
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Speaker 1: County Fair, and you got to be there. I'll tell
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Speaker 1: you what we talk about. The horses every year, Todd.
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Speaker 1: Those heavy horse hitching and that's something that you got
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Speaker 1: to see too, if you want to see something really interesting,
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Speaker 1: because this is a main feature of the Whiteside County
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Speaker 1: Fair when you hitch up those horses and get them
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Speaker 1: running around the arena.
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Speaker 3: Hope, now I got you back. I'm gonna move a
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Speaker 3: little bit here and see if it is me.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well, let's let's let's move on to Friday, Todd.
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Speaker 1: Let's move on to Friday and talk about Friday's activity.
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Speaker 3: Now, yep, So at nine o'clock in the morning to
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Speaker 3: be sheep judging and then the open bech show at
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Speaker 3: nine o'clock and then heavy horse hitching will start at
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Speaker 3: nine o'clock in front of the grand stand, and then
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Speaker 3: the big show is at one o'clock that afternoon is
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Speaker 3: the six horse Hitch, So that's that's a really unique
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Speaker 3: situation getting all six horses there and they'll parade those
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Speaker 3: through the in front of the grand stand and just
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Speaker 3: feel the ground and vibrate when those things are walking through.
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Speaker 3: We're trotting through. So that's a really neat show to watch.
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Speaker 3: And then the antique tractor Parade will start at five
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Speaker 3: point thirty, an hour before the tractor and truck pull,
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Speaker 3: and then six thirty the main grand stand event, the
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Speaker 3: truck and tractor pull.
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Speaker 1: Yep, and you get that again with that ten dollars admission.
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Speaker 1: As Todd mentioned, the only again admission that you might
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Speaker 1: have to pay is during that demolition derbyan we're going
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Speaker 1: to get to that in just a bit. That's the
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Speaker 1: Friday lineup at the Whiteside County Fair, so that's a
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Speaker 1: week from today on August the fifteenth, and we wrap
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Speaker 1: things up on Saturday. To this is the unique thing
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Speaker 1: about the white Side County Fair. Don't go through the
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Speaker 1: entire weekend. You only go through Saturday. So Saturday is
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Speaker 1: the last day in order to take an events talk
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Speaker 1: about them.
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Speaker 3: Yep, that's correct. We don't. We have not done, ever
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Speaker 3: done a Sunday you know carnival. So we keep the
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Speaker 3: We keep it till the Saturday event and wrap it
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Speaker 3: up then. And so we'll start there at eleven o'clock
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Speaker 3: will be a kids tractor pedal pol so they'll be
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Speaker 3: back doing that again. They'll do it on that Tuesday
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Speaker 3: to start and then we'll do eleven o'clock on Saturday
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Speaker 3: for the last one. Then we got harness racing at noon,
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Speaker 3: which is a wonderful event to watch, so that's always
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Speaker 3: that's always a neat fills up the grand stand to
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Speaker 3: watch the harness racing. And then we'll do the wood
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Speaker 3: carving auction. They'll be on the grounds all all week,
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Speaker 3: but at four o'clock they auction off the wood carvings,
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Speaker 3: and then another byke giveaway at six because we'll do
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Speaker 3: it two and a six o'clock by give away on
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Speaker 3: that day and then six thirty will be the demo derby.
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Speaker 1: Yep, and you already took us through, you know the
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Speaker 1: added expense you might have to incur at the demo
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Speaker 1: derby again in front of the grand stand on Saturday
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Speaker 1: that's the final of the Whiteside County Fair in Morris
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Speaker 1: and lots of tradition with the white Side County Fair.
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Speaker 1: That's what they base it on. Tradition, traditional events, favorite
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Speaker 1: activities and they bring them back each and every year
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Speaker 1: to the Whiteside County Fair. Again, your adult daily admission
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Speaker 1: price is ten dollars. Again, if you want to take
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Speaker 1: in the season pass, you can get that as well.
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Speaker 1: Kids have a reduced pass again into the Whiteside County Fairgrounds.
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Speaker 1: But again don't forget you get those grandstand features save
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Speaker 1: for the demo derby at the twenty twenty five white
21:34
Speaker 1: Side County fair Ton. You wanted to mention just one
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Speaker 1: more feature and that's your salute this year, right. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: We always pick out a front of the fair, which
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Speaker 3: is so hard because they have so many people, wonderful
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Speaker 3: people doing different things at the fair and helping us through,
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Speaker 3: you know, get through this every year. And so or
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Speaker 3: Tuesday night before the bull riding, will announce will announce
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Speaker 3: them in front of the in front of the crowd.
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Speaker 3: But it's going to be Mary Joe Tickler and Chris Crewis.
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Speaker 3: Mary Joe has been Ceia says she's been entering pie
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Speaker 3: since nineteen eighty four and at one time she entered
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Speaker 3: over one hundred items and baked and can goods. So
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Speaker 3: she is one of our friend of the fairs this year.
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Speaker 3: And then also Chris Cruise has been She actually started
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Speaker 3: horse speed events in nineteen seventy four, so she's been
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Speaker 3: involved in that and she helps with that and helps
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Speaker 3: with the Draft horse Show, and so she's just been,
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Speaker 3: you know, a big part of the Whiteside County Fair
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Speaker 3: and the County Fair is a big part of her.
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Speaker 3: So those are her two excellent choices this year to
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Speaker 3: be a friend of the.
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Speaker 1: Fair, absolutely and we'll salute them during the fair, which
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Speaker 1: takes place August the twelfth through the sixteenth. Ian Morrison
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Speaker 1: at the Fairgrounds. Beautiful setting for the Whiteside County Fair.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we'll have some great
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Speaker 1: numbers for the Whiteside County Fair for twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: Todd Mickley, we thank you so very very much for
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Speaker 1: taking us through this fair this year. Good luck with
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Speaker 1: the event, and we thank you for joining us this
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Speaker 1: morning here at WYXN.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Steve. It's always a pleasure to talk to you.
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Speaker 3: I really enjoy it to thanks.
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Speaker 1: Again Ton Mickley, our publicity chairperson at the Whiteside County Fair.
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