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Choctaw Indian Princess Lexi Rodriguez Previews the 2026 Choctaw Indian Fair 🎉 · Out of Bounds with Bo Bounds

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  Speaker 1: On show ESPN one oh five Down the Zone, brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Pearl River Resort and Dancing Rabbit Golf Club.
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  Speaker 1: We are excited to have a special guest in studio.
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  Speaker 1: The seventy sixth Choctaw Indian Fair will be July fourteenth
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  Speaker 1: through the eighteenth this year, and we are excited to
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  Speaker 1: have the Choctaw Indian Princess in studio, Lexi Rodriguez, joining
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  Speaker 1: us on ESPN one oh five Down the Zone. And
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  Speaker 1: she has had an exciting year, that is for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And she just graduated high school. She's about to go
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  Speaker 1: to college, which is also super exciting.
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  Speaker 2: And Lexi, good morning, how are you doing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for hanging out with us today. Congratulations, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so. How much fun have I know it's been
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  Speaker 1: action packed and a lot of events and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things to do. But has it been as rewarding
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  Speaker 1: as you thought it would be?
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  Speaker 3: It has?
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  Speaker 4: It actually has Like I've had so much fun that
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  Speaker 4: I don't even want to give it away.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: So tell me give me one or two things that
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  Speaker 1: you've done in the last twelve months. They've been like
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  Speaker 1: your your favorite.
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  Speaker 4: I have a ton but I would probably say when
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  Speaker 4: I got to go to local schools around our tribe
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  Speaker 4: and visit the little kids, and just seeing how excited
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  Speaker 4: they look whenever they saw me, and when I walked
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  Speaker 4: in the room and then didn't get the opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: ask me questions, you know, about the princess pageant, what
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  Speaker 4: it took and everything. So I kind of felt like
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  Speaker 4: I was inspired, inspiring especially the younger girls, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to run. And then another one was actually getting to
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  Speaker 4: go to Nashville. I was one of the first to
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  Speaker 4: go to Nashville for the Grand Ole Opry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how awesome was that?
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  Speaker 3: It was great?
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  Speaker 2: That's a pretty place.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and country music. So I was like very honored.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, I was really happy and that's the place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you love country music, the Grand Old Opry. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're visiting with Lexi Rodriguez choc Tall Indian Princess this
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  Speaker 1: past year and show you mentioned the pageant walk us
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  Speaker 1: through how you become chock Tall Indian Princess.
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  Speaker 4: So we go through this whole phase where maybe like
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  Speaker 4: before the pageant announcement, we have sponsorship, so we choose
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  Speaker 4: our sponsors or who who wants to sponsor us. They
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  Speaker 4: do like interviews to see if we can get the sponsorship.
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  Speaker 4: So for me, my sponsor was Chalkdaw Tribal Schools.
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  Speaker 3: And then we have our pageant meeting.
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  Speaker 4: We meet all the contestants and maybe in June that's
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  Speaker 4: when we start our pageant practices.
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  Speaker 3: And we have four phases to our pageant.
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  Speaker 4: We have our personal and we have our interview, which
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  Speaker 4: is the day the day before the pageant, but this
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  Speaker 4: year it's different, it's the two days before the pageant, okay.
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  Speaker 4: Then we have our personal presentation. The personal presentation pretty
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  Speaker 4: much we can talk about anything we want to bring
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  Speaker 4: awareness to, anything, you know, we want to do throughout
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  Speaker 4: or range, just anything we want to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: And then we have the dress review.
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  Speaker 4: The dress triview is pretty much describing your dress, why
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  Speaker 4: you chose it, the significance of it, what it means,
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  Speaker 4: and everything about you know, the details. Sure, and then
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  Speaker 4: obviously the hardest part is the on stage question.
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  Speaker 2: I can't imagine. Yeah, we're you nervous.
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 4: I actually ran two years ago my first year, and
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  Speaker 4: I got first alternate. So this year, well, last year
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  Speaker 4: I was a little more confident.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Okay, so you kind of knew the lay of
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  Speaker 1: the land. Yeah, going in the second time. Yeah, you've
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  Speaker 1: done well to be first alternate and then you get It's.
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  Speaker 4: Actually funny because the first time I ran I work contacts,
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  Speaker 4: so I took it out just so I couldn't see
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  Speaker 4: anybody that's smart.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: Alexi Rodriguez on the Out of Bound show Chocktaw Indian
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  Speaker 1: Princess this past year and when do you hand over?
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  Speaker 3: On July fifteenth, July fifteenth.
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  Speaker 1: So the fair is July fourteenth through the eighteenth this year,
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  Speaker 1: and so that'll be exciting too. I know you'll it'll
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  Speaker 1: be kind of bittersweet, but you're excited and you don't
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  Speaker 1: know until.
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  Speaker 2: When or do you already know? Like when when do
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  Speaker 2: we know who? The next princess is? Only fifte on
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  Speaker 2: that day? Okay, all right, so here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Lexi Rodriguez on ESPN one oh five nine The Zone
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  Speaker 1: the Chocktaw Indian Fairs, July fourteenth through the eighteenth.
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  Speaker 2: Alexi's had an amazing year. First of all, she's been the.
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  Speaker 1: Princess, then she graduated high school and now she's going
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  Speaker 1: to college. So what an exciting twelve plus months. Now
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  Speaker 1: let's talk stickball, which is an incredible game, unbelievable athletes.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get to the fair, I want our listeners
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  Speaker 1: who've never seen a game of stickball in person, tell
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  Speaker 1: me about it. What's the atmosphere like on the field,
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  Speaker 1: because I know how competitive and fun and people want
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  Speaker 1: to win.
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  Speaker 3: It's very intense.
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  Speaker 4: I would say to me, it's similar, Well, they compare
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  Speaker 4: it similar to lacrosse. Yeah, so it's been played for many,
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  Speaker 4: many years, and back then it was used to settle
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  Speaker 4: disputes between different tribes. So we would play like acres
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  Speaker 4: of land real long, and there would be different polls
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  Speaker 4: like I'm all apart, and we would play with like
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  Speaker 4: a thousands of people and they would just you know,
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  Speaker 4: but they had no rules. So it was kind of
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  Speaker 4: like a more type of thing. But this year it's
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  Speaker 4: pretty much just for bragging rights, so.
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  Speaker 2: And super competitive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, it really is.
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  Speaker 2: So do you will you catch most of the games?
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  Speaker 3: I will. I will actually be out there most of
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  Speaker 3: the time.
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  Speaker 2: That's great.
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  Speaker 1: What you got out of bounds ESPN one oh five
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  Speaker 1: nine the zone. The stickball games are going to be epic,
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  Speaker 1: big time competition. People want to win, and then you
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  Speaker 1: got everybody cheering for different teams, So that makes it fun.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson meadows what you got?
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  Speaker 5: How don't some of those games going forever? Don't? Don't
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  Speaker 5: they last for like.
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  Speaker 4: If it's a really good game, it's gonna go on
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  Speaker 4: that whole night.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, like there's some of the last days, right days
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  Speaker 5: and even a week or plus. I think they get
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  Speaker 5: its intense.
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  Speaker 2: Great athletes, you got to be in unbelievable shape.
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  Speaker 5: Oh the boys aren't small either. Yeah, they look that.
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  Speaker 5: They look at they are inflicting pain.
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  Speaker 2: Now, did you ever play stickball?
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  Speaker 3: I had.
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  Speaker 4: I played when I was younger, but you know, our
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  Speaker 4: younger division it's girls and boys. So my my dad
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  Speaker 4: was kind of like he didn't like me playing with
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  Speaker 4: the boys because they were very rough.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, and I grew up with four brothers, so I
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  Speaker 3: was kind of okay, we have four brothers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh you got four younger.
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  Speaker 3: Brothers, four younger brothers.
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  Speaker 1: What did they think about Lexi becoming the princess? Did
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  Speaker 1: they think that was cool? They?
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  Speaker 4: I think they liked it, but they didn't like the attention.
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  Speaker 1: They're like big siss is getting too much attention this year.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, they didn't like the attention that I was getting
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  Speaker 4: or if like people knew people knew me and knew
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  Speaker 4: they were my brothers, and they would like tell them,
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  Speaker 4: you know, something about my sister being something about their
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  Speaker 4: sister being the princess.
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  Speaker 3: And they didn't like me. They didn't like being mentioned
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  Speaker 3: as a princess's brother.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, I love this.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, we're tired of hearing about Lexi being the princess.
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  Speaker 1: Happy for but we hear about it every day. Plus
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  Speaker 1: she's a senior in high school. She was a senior
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  Speaker 1: in high school, which is a big deal too, so
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  Speaker 1: it was definitely her year, all right. So we got
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  Speaker 1: stickball games, we got the fair, we got all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of arts and crafts, I mean music. It's it's an
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable celebration.
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  Speaker 3: Every everything for everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Right. Really it parties, Yeah, they really have a good
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  Speaker 5: time out there.
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  Speaker 1: Well they know how to do it, sure, And it's
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  Speaker 1: a celebration and it's going to be great. July fourteenth
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  Speaker 1: through the eighteenth Chock Tall Indian Fair. So glad to
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  Speaker 1: have Lexi Rodriguez in studio chot Tall Indian Princess this
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  Speaker 1: past year and for the next couple of weeks and
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  Speaker 1: just graduated high school and headed to college.
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  Speaker 2: We're proud of you.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations, Thank you so much for spending some time with
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  Speaker 1: us today. Thank you, Lexi Rodriguez, Chop Tall, Indian Princess,
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  Speaker 1: and the Seven