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Hannah Wells - The Arboretum and KY’s Children’s Garden · Look Who's Talking

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You are listening to Look Who's Talking. I'm
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Cameron Minter. I am your co -host and Jessica
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Coffie, our Head Start Director. is your host
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what's going on jessica not much cam you know
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you know that goes right over several of our
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listeners here but i caught it i knew what that
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was i knew what that was what's going on hey
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not much you're freezing me in this hey hey hey
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hey you know we have to uh cut the air off during
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the show because when the air comes on it's really
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loud and it's hard to get out of the show but
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It's only for a minute. You know, I'm going to
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tell you like your parents used to say. You're
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cold? Go walk outside. I bet you'll come back
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in here and appreciate it. Guess what? I'm going
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right after we record this because I am freezing.
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I know that's right. But you know what? I'm glad
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we are out of cold weather, though. Don't say
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that now it's going to snow this weekend just
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because you said that. No, no, we're good. We're
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good now? You think we're good? Today is May
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1. Happy birthday to my sister. Happy birthday.
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You know what? I made a post today for her birthday,
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and I was like, happy 87th birthday to my sister.
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You silly. Yeah. Silly. So are you doing anything
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for Derby? No. It's this weekend. I know. I'm
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not. I forget it's Derby. You do? I do. I really
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do. I mean, you used to live in Louisville. Did
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you not do any kind of Derby festivities? Well,
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I grew up with a strict grandmother, so there
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wasn't so much partying and all of that for me.
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You ain't celebrating Derby because that's betting,
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boy. That's not right. But I did work Derby one
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year. Oh, really? I was astonished. Tell me about
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that. I had a cooler wrapped around my waist
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full of ice and regular cans of pop. But it was
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a small cooler. Guess how much this had to be
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40 plus years ago. Guess how much that can of
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pop was. 25 cents. I'm going to smack you. That's
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totally wrong. $12. Oh, the whole. Okay. A can
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of Coke. A regular can of Coke was $12. Now,
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I'm hustling. Okay. Here's how. Here's how. Did
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you have 24 cans? Watch. Watch. So, when you
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go to the Derby and you ask for a drink and.
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You got this little bitty cup here, and they'll
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charge you $12 for that little cup. Yeah. Or
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more. And then you see me selling you one can
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of pop for $12. You're going to get that full
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of ice. You're not going to get that much Coke.
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But you know, at the very least, you're going
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to get a whole can from me. Then I start making
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sense. I felt the same way. I was like, who's
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going to pay $12? But they was like, at least
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I know I'm getting all of this for $12. I went
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to a derby. Not the actual derby. I was outside
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of the derby one time. And there were people
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selling like dollar, you know, the old Navy dollar
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flip flops for like $10. Yes. I was like, oh,
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hold up. And can you imagine? Most of the business
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happens outside of the Derby. Parking? Parking
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around there? Yeah. $20 to park in somebody's
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yard on their grass? Mm -hmm. Yeah. Yeah. But,
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hey, they make their money. It's the one time
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a year. And when I was younger, and this probably
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sounds corny now, but. When I was younger, we
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would look at the license plates coming in to
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see all the different people from all over the
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world coming to look at horses running around
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the track. I never really got into derby. I think
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the aspect of it is fun, but actually going,
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I don't think I want to be around that many people.
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No. I mean, if I was partying, yeah. That would
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be something I'd be interested in, but going
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to the actual Derby? No. And it rains almost
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every year? Oh, yeah. Now, it would have to be
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lovely weather. Can you imagine? Can you imagine?
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And there's no other way you're going to the
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Derby without being dolled up. But can you imagine
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being dolled up at the Derby, and let's say you
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were in the infield? Oh, no. Because to me. Derby
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already equals rain to me. It's going to rain
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on Derby. That's just what it does. But being
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in the infield too and having to stand, no. If
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I go to somewhere I have to stand, guess what?
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I'm not going. Right, right. I have to sit down.
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We're at that age. You're like, who's going to
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be there? Right, right. That's where we are right
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now. Well, yeah. So I've got no derby plans,
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and I'm glad about it because, yeah. You know,
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I always just watch it on TV. Like I start in
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the morning looking at outfits. They all show
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like the derby parties with the celebrities that
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happen. I watch that. I don't even watch that.
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I watch the main race because that's not a big
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part of my life. What is it, two minutes? Yeah.
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Yeah. The greatest two minutes in racing history.
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There's a lot of money there. A lot of celebrities
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there. Oh, a lot. A whole lot. But if I was a
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celebrity chaser, I guess it would mean something
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to me. Yeah, it would. But guess what? You know,
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I think I'm a celebrity anyway. Who would you?
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I already know the answer to this. Besides Beyonce,
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who would you go and chase or stalk? That's a
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good question. Are they going to the Derby or
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just out? Close to you. Convenient to you. You
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know what? I would want to raise Whitney Houston
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up from the dead. Oh, never mind. Never mind.
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She's creating a seance. Nope. Nope. I mean,
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someone living today. Oh. Michelle Obama, duh.
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Oh, really? Absolutely. Yeah, she's tough. Yeah.
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I mean, she just screams. Her aura is positivity
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all the way around. Excellence. Yeah. Just excellence.
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Yeah. She's definitely stalker -ish material.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, yeah. There's nobody
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on my list. You don't have anyone. It used to
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be Janet Jackson until she got with Jermaine.
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Control. Jermaine Dupri, and then I just. What?
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So you're saying her net worth went down. It
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went down. It went down. I used to love Janet
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Jackson for real, for real. All because of Jermaine.
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It's not like they together now. Yeah, I mean,
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but she's made some pretty. But it was the purpose
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of. That's who you choose. Right. You could have
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had me. Right, right, right. Say that. You heard
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it here, Janet. You lost out. You lost out. There's
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no more. No one else. Now, I really don't even.
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I hate saying this because I just keep verifying
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I'm old. But I don't even know people today.
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I thought you would have said Mariah Carey or
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something. Girl. Prince. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Now. Prince. Prince. Again. Sorry. Prince. So
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what was wrong with my Whitney? I know, I know,
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I know, I know, I know. But I ain't talking about
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going and raising them up and everything. I'm
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just saying Prince was one that I would stalk,
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yes. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one. That's a
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good one, man. That's a good time. And if he
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acknowledged me, woo! You just don't know I'm
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a Prince fan. I just imagine you being one of
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those kids in the Michael Jackson. In the audience,
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concerts, just crying. I didn't go that far.
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But I did go to the Purple Ring movie by myself,
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I might add. Really? Like back when it came out?
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Yes, in the theater. Wasn't that in like 82?
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That's when I was born. Give me an encouragement
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word, please. It's time for a Coffie Break. I
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do remember Purple Ring. You better be encouraging.
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Okay, so this Coffie Break is encouraging, Cameron.
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And I want to say, your dreams are valid. Your
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voice is powerful. Your presence is enough. Never
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let anyone convince you otherwise. Wow. Yeah.
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That's good stuff. I feel like... Folks need
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to hear that now. Yes. In the times we are in,
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you know, don't let anyone or anything detour
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you from the greatness that you know you are,
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have been, and will continue to strive to be.
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There's too many things out there that can get
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us distracted. Yes, yes. And I don't think we
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need to be distracted. I think we need to be
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focused. Absolutely. And that self -worth, self
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-worth goes so far. And it can do so much damage
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if you don't have it. Self -worth will set you
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up for failure. If you find your worth in someone
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else, you're already messing up. You got to know
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who you are. You got to know why you are. You
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got to know who you belong to. And you got to
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walk in that. With self -worth, it reminds me
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of also self -respect, but respect for others
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as well. There's no way that you can have self
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-worth, at least I don't think so, but not respect
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others along the way. Absolutely, because it's
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all about respect. Yeah, that's a good one. We
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can deep dive into that, but we're not. We're
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not going to do it. I'm going to move on to our
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guests. We're going to move on right on to the
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guests. So today, I'm excited because I think
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that we're going to learn some things that, Cam,
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you and I didn't know. And this might be some
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adventure that we might need to take and record.
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You keep talking about recording stuff. We ain't
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done none yet. That's because I've been in the
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office, but... You're about to get out in the
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streets. Yeah, we're about to be out there. Okay.
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So from the Arboretum and Kentucky Children's
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Garden, we have Hannah Wells, who is the education
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coordinator at the Arboretum. Welcome, Hannah.
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Hello. Welcome to the show. Great. So there are.
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First of all, you know what? Actually, tell our
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viewers a little bit about yourself. How or where
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are you from? How did you evolve to be helping
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with the Arboretum? Things like that. Yeah. So.
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I grew up in Bullitt County, really rural out
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there. And so all through my childhood, I was
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going out in the woods, finding, you know, pine
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cones and deer tracks and everything. So I got
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a really great experience as a kid where I got
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to just have fun outside. So really that's where
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I wanted my career to kind of career path to
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go to help kiddos who might not have, you know,
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country roads or a rural area to really be able
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to connect with nature so that's why at the Arboretum
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we're right in the heart of Lexington yeah we're
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really well placed for kiddos who might not have
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access to you know go out and find pine cones
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and deer tracks and things like that now you
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now you got my attention when you said deer tracks
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because I look you know I look at these shows
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and they show people oh we're tracking that that's
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a deer that's that's a mountain lion girl come
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on Tim how how you know Yeah, so we actually
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do programming surrounding tracks and a bunch
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of other different topics. Yeah, so based on
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the shape and imprint and everything. A deer
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obviously looks a lot different than a human
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footprint. Wow. So we talk about how tracks are
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made, just like we walk in the sand and leave
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footprints. So that's actually one thing that
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we do with the kids for programming is we make
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little stamps of the tracks, and they get to
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learn about all the different types. Now, I'm
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going to ask you a question I probably shouldn't
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ask because I'm not even sure if you can answer
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it. What other different animals that people
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may be able to see here in Kentucky? Is that
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something you can answer? Yes, it is. Look at
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that. Bing, bing, bing. Yeah, so all of our programming,
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we are in the Kentucky Children's Garden. We're
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the state botanical garden of Kentucky. So we
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really focus on native things, native plants,
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native animals. So the main tracks you're going
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to see, especially here in Lexington, you're
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going to see raccoons, which basically just look
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like a little. Little hand. We've got squirrels.
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We've got chipmunks, rabbits. We have a lot of
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groundhogs that run around the arboretum right
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now. They run around our playgrounds, too. Yeah.
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Burrow holes everywhere. The deer are all around.
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So those are all a lot of them. I didn't know
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we had chipmunks. Yeah. When I'm sitting up in
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the garden, I see at least 20 a day running around.
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Yeah, so. Those are really great urban animals
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that we can find. Obviously, you're not going
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to find a bobcat right in the middle of Lexington.
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But you'll find it in Kentucky? Yes. You'll find
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it in Bourbon County because there was one close
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to our center. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know what?
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And that's when all of the flooding happened
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and they were kind of moved out of their natural
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habitat because, you know, it was a flooded area.
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Do you see a lot of that? Like, you know, when
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there are... I guess weather, not emergencies,
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but I don't know what I'm saying. Yeah, like
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big weather events. We don't see as much in the
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Arboretum just because we don't have those really
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big animals. We've had some deer kind of walk
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through. Usually we don't see too much movement
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except the birds. They definitely react to different
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weather. Okay. So if you don't mind, we're going
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to take a commercial break. And when we come
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back, we want to get into a little bit more about
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the Arboretum and the Kentucky Children's Garden
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action .org. the Arboretum like is it called
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UK Arboretum or just Arboretum so our official
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name is the Arboretum State Botanical Garden
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of Kentucky boom but usually I just call it the
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Arboretum we are a part of UK a lot of people
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do call us the UK Arboretum gotcha So tell us,
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for those who don't know or never been to the
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Arboretum, tell us about the Arboretum, the purpose
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or, you know, the landscape, how it is. Yes.
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So the Arboretum is 100 acres right in the heart
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of Lexington. It's right next to Kroger Field
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over by the University of Kentucky. We focus
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a lot on research and conservation. kind of providing
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a landscape where everybody who comes can really
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learn. A lot of people also use it recreationally.
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They go and run around our two -mile loop. They
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walk their dogs. But there's a lot of education
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and a lot of purpose that goes into it. So one
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of our main collections is the Walk Across Kentucky
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Native Plants Collection. So that takes you through
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all of the different regions of Kentucky, and
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they all have different landscape features and
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different plants that grow best there. So as
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you're walking along the path, you'll see signs
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coming up, like one will be the bluegrass region,
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which is where we are located here in Lexington.
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And it'll tell you all the information about
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that region and what you might see on that little
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path. We also have our horticultural gardens,
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which are more visually appealing plants, not
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necessarily things that are native to Kentucky,
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but all things that are pretty or that you could
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do in your own backyard, like a vegetable garden.
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We have iris displays. We have a rose garden.
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So a lot of great ideas there. And then the last
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big collection we have is the Kentucky Children's
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Garden. That's two acres of fun and learning
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for kiddos. And throughout it, you've got child
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-sized representations of different Kentucky
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landscapes and traditions. Okay, so let's get
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a little bit into the Kentucky Children's Garden.
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For parents that are like, I don't have anything
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for my kids to do this summer, what could they
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get out of going there? And is there learning
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just for the children or for the adults too?
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No, I would say anyone and everyone that comes
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walks away learning something. So it's a great
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space. We have a lot of different amazing features
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in there. We've got a running stream that you
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can splash around in. Great to cool off in the
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summer. I sometimes dip my toes in there as well
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when I'm hot working. We have a nature center
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that has different kind of critters, I say. We've
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got a worm bin that you can look at. We've got
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a fish tank. We also have some Madagascar hissing
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cockroaches. Yeah, so really fun to let the kids
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see them and pet them. That sounds like a great
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thing for you to do. Can you pick them up? Oh,
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yeah. We like to hold them all the time. Usually
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the kids are more likely to do it than the parents.
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Jessica, though, she's going to represent for
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the kids. Go ahead. Yeah, yeah. We also have
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a little fishing pond. They can catch tadpoles
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and minnows. We've got a model train. So do you
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all provide the poles for them? Yeah, we've got
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all of the stuff that you need in there. We've
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got watering cans. We've got shovels to dig in
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the dirt. We've got nets. So we try and provide
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just a space where kids can. kind of learn on
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their own and kind of be free with a playground
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you know a swing you can only swing on it yeah
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yeah but with nature you can do so much more
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and kids can really direct their play and direct
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their learning in that sense that's awesome so
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uh just it's just a lot that you all do um what
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what type of what type of training do you need
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to be able to i mean it seems like you're doing
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it all Yeah, so I manage the children's garden.
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So my background is in natural resources and
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education. So the training I have is with environmental
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education and different things like that. done
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trainings in different curriculum programs. That's
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why I know all about the tracks and plants and
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everything. But we also have internships. We
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have UK students that come. They're learning
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about these fields in agriculture, things like
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that. And then they come and they can learn more
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about, you know. interacting with kiddos, how
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to manage a garden. But we also have plenty of
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volunteers that help us. We run field trips for
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kindergarten through second grade classes. And
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we have a lot of volunteers that come and help
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us run stations. Like last week we did a worm
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races station. A worm what? Worm races. So where
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kids could observe the worms and learn about
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them, name them, and then they would race them
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and see which one would get to the end of the
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plate fastest. Oh, wow. lot of fun things and
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that was just a volunteer who did that so um
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we do provide some training for our volunteers
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um just to be able to interact with children
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um you know in an effective way yeah i think
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it's i think it's great because in my opinion
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when i was growing up We had to create games
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outside by ourselves. And to me, that's an art
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that's lost. Children want to be entertained.
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They need something. Tablets. They need something.
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But our imagination was the greatest thing. I
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mean, red light, green light. Mother Maya, all
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these stupid little. Red Rover. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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These little games that we played. But we were
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outside. That's how that streetlights phrase
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came on. You got to be home before the streetlights.
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But it was also a different time. Yeah. Because
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there was always something to do. What's your
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childhood game that you were like, oh, this is
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the best? I mean, just, I mean, anything. Hide
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and go seek. I mean, we did all of that, and
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we did it outside. You know, we drank from the
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holes outside. I mean, because you could not
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come back in the house. Oh, what about, like,
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catching lightning bugs? Oh, absolutely. Tasting
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the honeysuckles. Yes. But I don't even see lightning
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bugs anymore like that. Yeah. You might be right.
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I thought it was just because I moved to Lexington.
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I know. It might be. It might be. But, you know,
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those were things that we look forward to in
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the summer. And this generation, in my opinion,
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is missing out on that. But this is a perfect
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way to reintroduce them to nature and just the
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different things. And we've talked previously
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about growing food and things like that. It's
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important to know. My friends and I tried to
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dig a hole in the backyard to get to the water.
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It didn't work. And we got in trouble for digging
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a hole. Oh, yeah. You'd have to dig pretty deep.
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Pretty deep. We just knew we were going to reach
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water. Wow. But it kept us outside for a long
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time. It sure did. And then you probably ended
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up making mud pies. Yeah, absolutely. Things
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of that nature. It was all about getting dirty
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and being outside. Like you said, one with nature.
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There's so much that you can learn. Not only
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learn, but I like the fact that children can
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be, like, innovative and, you know, make up their
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own stories and all of that. Moving on, what
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are some workshops or classes? that kids or families
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can get involved in that you all have. Yeah,
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we have so much stuff at the Arboretum that we
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do. So specifically in the Children's Garden,
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we have programming every morning that we're
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open. So like this morning, we did a wiggling
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worms lesson where they got to observe the worms,
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name them if they chose. And then they got to
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do a little craft with it, a little worm trail
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painting. So we always have something going on
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in the morning, specifically in the Children's
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Garden. But for the rest of the Arboretum, throughout
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the year, we have monthly bird walks where you
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can go out with... an expert and they'll take
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you and show you all the different birds that
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you can find we have just this past few months
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we had a fairy garden workshop so where we provide
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some plants and then some little ornaments and
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then you can make your own little fairy garden
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with us We've also done terrariums in the past.
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I've personally run educator workshops, so training.
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Like the parent or? Yeah, parents or teachers
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kind of how to implement this nature education.
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Oh, wow. Does that run throughout the year? Yeah,
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so we have stuff all year long. We don't have,
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I don't do like. the training monthly or anything.
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But yeah, our staff runs all different kinds
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of stuff and all of that is found on our website,
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on our calendar. Anytime we have something new,
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we'll post on our social media and let everybody
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know. I see a butterfly garden down here. Wow.
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Yes. So that's in our children's, well, we have
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multiple butterfly gardens and habitats in the
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Arboretum. So we've got a huge prairie region
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on the walk across Kentucky. And then in the
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children's garden, we have a smaller butterfly
27:02
garden. And we actually, we... get some monarch
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caterpillars every year and we grow them in these
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little hutches so the kids can watch them go
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you know from little tiny caterpillar eat and
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grow and get become a chrysalis and then eventually
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pop out as a butterfly and then we get to show
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the kids talk about the life cycle and release
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it and then all the kids clap and it's just a
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really fun time so we have a lot of different
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gardens different landscape features and we really
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want to you know provide Opportunities that kids
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don't get just walking downtown Lexington. Although
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we are seeing a lot more pollinator habitat and
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those kind of things. Lexington's really great
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because we have a lot of green space. What's
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Moth Night? Yeah, so that's Moth Night. So that
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is another event that we do. Usually we do it
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during Moth Week, which I think this year is
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in July maybe. And so basically you can come
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to the Arboretum at night and we set up these
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sheets. and put light behind them and it attracts
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all these moths and so you can come and again
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we have experts if if one of our staff isn't
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an expert on one of these topics that we do an
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event on we'll bring in experts either from the
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university extension or various places um so
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we have some moth experts with us and then they
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help us id um last year i went and we actually
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saw a luna moth in the woods so it's really really
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cool those are the big green ones that are really
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so i learned that a moth is Really the same DNA
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as a butterfly. Just something in the DNA changed
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into a moth. I'd just kill them if I see them.
28:48
I know. That's why when I saw moth night, I was
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like, that's scary. Because whenever we see a
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moth, it's attracted to the light that we think
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is attracted to us and we're trying to get rid
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of it. Yeah. But you know what? Now that you
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say that, duh, they are attracted to light. They're
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always by the porch. Right. You're trying to
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get in the house. It's in my house. Yeah. It's
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going to kill me. You know. Yeah. Well, actually,
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you mentioned, you know, being afraid and like,
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oh, trying to kill them and things. That's actually
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why, you know, I think it's really important
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that kids get this experience and get, you know,
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like with the cockroaches. They can be scary,
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but I used to be afraid of bugs when I was a
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kid and did not hold them. But now, like, I'll
29:35
just pick up bees and, you know, I've never been
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stung by a bee while I've been out in the children's
29:42
garden because they just. They're minding their
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business, and you need to mind yours too. That's
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it. I mean, but, you know, kids are so afraid
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of outside bugs and things like that. But think
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about why they are afraid, because their parents
29:55
are probably killing them. You know, and I think
29:58
back to why, man, why am I afraid of bugs? Because
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my mama would run and have a shoe. So I don't
30:07
have a good relationship with bugs because of
30:10
my mom's relationship with bugs. But. Don't.
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What we can do, and you said it great, like have
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the kids play outside and be one with nature.
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That's it. That's it. Maybe it'll help. Is it
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too late for me to like this? It is not. When
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I first started working at the Arboretum, I did
30:29
not want to hold or even touch the Madagascar
30:31
Hissing Cockroaches. And now I love them. We
30:34
have one in Mary. She's so sweet. She's like
30:37
a sweet little roly -poly. I always tell the
30:40
kids before they hold them, she will not hurt
30:42
you. She can't bite you, jump at you, fly at
30:44
you. She's just hanging out. She's having a good
30:47
time. We're going to get her in. We're going
30:50
to get some video of her playing with the...
30:52
hissing cockroaches. You just heard it right
30:55
here. Bees one week, hissing cockroaches the
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next. Before Hannah leaves, can she tell us what
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are the hours of operation of the Arboretum?
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The Arboretum is open sun up to sun down every
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single day of the year. The grounds are completely
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open. It's just our visitor center has slightly
31:17
different hours, and the children's garden has
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very special hours from Wednesday to Saturday
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from 10 to 5. Perfect. Any contact information?
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Well, my name's Hannah. For the Arboretum, you
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can call us at 859 -257 -6955 if you have any
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questions. All of our information is also on
31:41
our website, which is just Arboretum. All right.
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Hannah, it's been great having you on the show.
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Learned a lot today. And Jessica, do you have
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anything to say? No. Jesus. All right. You've
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