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My Monster Truck Goes Everywhere From The Amazing Kathleen Marcath · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Aero dot net. Are dot net. It's twenty different podcasts
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  Speaker 1: Where can we go The Choice only on aero dot
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  Speaker 1: net a R r oe dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Hi,
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  Speaker 1: this is Kathleen.
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  Speaker 2: This is Hi.
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  Speaker 1: This is Aerocollins. How are you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great in yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited to share a conversation with you because,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, you have no idea what you've done
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  Speaker 1: to my inner child in Billings, Montana, with that dirt
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  Speaker 1: pile in the backyard and taking all of those monster
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  Speaker 1: trucks out there and thinking that I was the king
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  Speaker 1: of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, Well, I am excited that you were excited, because
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  Speaker 3: that's what I find is that kids just let this book,
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  Speaker 3: boys and girls alike.
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  Speaker 1: It's because it activates the imagination. It allows us to
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  Speaker 1: get away from that screen and go outside and play
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  Speaker 1: and to get dirty and not be embarrassed because we
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  Speaker 1: have muddy knees and there's just something about a trump.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, our little guy across the street here. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when the excavators come in or the big trucks come in. You,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, to this day, that kid's eyes will light
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  Speaker 1: up and I'm going, oh, I feel like I'm watching myself.
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  Speaker 1: You are. It's like, wow, this is a moment. I
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  Speaker 1: just and then now you've got this book, of course,
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  Speaker 1: and several books. And the thing is is that you
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  Speaker 1: are speaking the street basically.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome. I never quite thought of it like that. The
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  Speaker 3: story was inspired by my grandson, who was three at
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  Speaker 3: the time, So basically that's what we did, play with
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  Speaker 3: monster trucks all day, every day, anywhere and everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Well, how many people have openly admitted to you that
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  Speaker 1: this reminds them of their moments with Mike Mulligan's Steam Shovel,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean, it's like, it's like that book was
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  Speaker 1: my lifeline as a young elementary student, and now I've
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  Speaker 1: got books like this, and I'm jealous of this younger
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  Speaker 1: generation because I didn't have this book and it would
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  Speaker 1: it would have made my Tonka truck so much bigger
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  Speaker 1: in life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what the you know, the deeper, greener value.
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  Speaker 3: What you're saying about picture books is that people see
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  Speaker 3: themselves in them. And so this book, the character doesn't
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  Speaker 3: have a name in the story, and that's because many
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  Speaker 3: times when you're reading to a child, they go, his
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  Speaker 3: name shouldn't be Billy, Joey or Sarah, it should be
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  Speaker 3: my name.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you love those moments because you can't. You can't
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  Speaker 1: just erase them from your heart. You're gonna you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about it when they're eighteen, You're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 1: it when they're twenty five. You're gonna say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a day that you sat down with me and
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  Speaker 1: we talked about what their name was. Oh, come on,
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  Speaker 1: don't talk like that. Yeah, I'm gonna talk like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of our moments his grandparent parents.
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  Speaker 2: Right right, absolutely, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I like what you've done with the sign language. I
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  Speaker 1: have never, in my entire life ever experienced something like this,
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  Speaker 1: but you you have got something here that I think
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  Speaker 1: is going to change the future, because I can see
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  Speaker 1: the little ones are going to sit there and they're
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  Speaker 1: going to immolate you. They're going to impersonate you, and
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  Speaker 1: then they're going to learn this amazing fine art of communication,
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to say that's the book that taught
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  Speaker 1: me right there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Well the story behind that was I
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  Speaker 3: was going to Madonna to learn sign language and one
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  Speaker 3: of our classes we were supposed to pick a picture
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  Speaker 3: book and then learn how to sign a story.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm like, I'm going to go library and find
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  Speaker 3: one that's going to help me. When I did, I
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  Speaker 3: could not find one, which was like, you're kidding me.
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  Speaker 3: So that when the time came to write the story,
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  Speaker 3: then I thought this would be perfect to include the
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  Speaker 3: characters signing so that they're represented. And then I think,
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  Speaker 3: and I believe I've heard it enough times that we
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  Speaker 3: presented it in such a way that it seems like
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  Speaker 3: a natural thing to do, which is exciting wow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it opens up a new layer of the imagination.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's because all of a sudden, if I sat
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  Speaker 1: across the street with with Gerrik and I explained to
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  Speaker 1: him what the sign language was for, he is smart
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  Speaker 1: enough to know. So we're going to reach new people
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  Speaker 1: that wouldn't have the opportunity to do this. Garrik, You're
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  Speaker 1: absolutely right. She has taking it to a completely different
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  Speaker 1: level of storytelling that they now have an identity that
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  Speaker 1: they can call their own. And I guarantee even his
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  Speaker 1: little sister would be going teach me, show me, show me,
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  Speaker 1: show me, show me. I mean, that's what you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be doing to these little ones.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and like my granddaughter is six now, but since
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  Speaker 3: she was like three or four, she has been teaching
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  Speaker 3: herself sign language and it like they just feel important,
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  Speaker 3: they feel smarter, they feel we just love it. They
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  Speaker 3: they're very they're very quick learners to sign language. And yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they love learning.
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  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of learning, the way that you put the
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  Speaker 1: activity book as a part of this project and people
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  Speaker 1: can grow with that as well. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: back in the days when we used to do the
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  Speaker 1: think and do books in elementary school that you physically
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  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, you just read this story. Now let's
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  Speaker 1: do an activity. Let's do something so that makes reading
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  Speaker 1: and in this book and then this book, everything leads
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  Speaker 1: to something that can be very fun if you so
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  Speaker 1: choose to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Right, right right, And absolutely thank you because this for me,
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  Speaker 3: the activities were so much fun to create and we
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  Speaker 3: did our best to relate them to the story. So
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  Speaker 3: like in the story there's a clock twice in the
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  Speaker 3: story when the child is eating. Put a clock in
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  Speaker 3: the book where they can use asl hand shapes and
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  Speaker 3: tell time and.
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  Speaker 1: See, see there's a method to the madness. And see
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  Speaker 1: that's the kind of stuff that I'll take to Garrik
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  Speaker 1: and Hannah because it's like, you need to listen to
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  Speaker 1: her conversation and understand why this book came into being.
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  Speaker 1: I'm always that guy that's always looking for the next author.
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  Speaker 1: And that next author is going to be a little
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  Speaker 1: five year old boy or a little girl that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be inspired by a book, that's going to take
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  Speaker 1: their imagination and then learn how to share it as well.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why you know, it's it's not just reading
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  Speaker 1: a book, it's growing with a book, and it's storyline.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And then I have to say that too,
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  Speaker 3: you're very good the coloring book. We also made the
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  Speaker 3: activities different age levels, so for the youngest ones, there's
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  Speaker 3: simple things in there, and then they feel accomplished and
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  Speaker 3: like I can do this. This is easy, and then
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  Speaker 3: there are a few more chills things for them. But
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  Speaker 3: again for a little older child, they're like, yeah, this
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  Speaker 3: is easy, and I love writing my own story, and
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  Speaker 3: I love creating a picture of my own so they
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  Speaker 3: have that opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: What is it about Monster Trucks and the reason why,
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  Speaker 1: I mean because I in my heart I always think
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  Speaker 1: that it's because they are our first superhero before we
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  Speaker 1: get Marvel or DC, we have our Monster Trucks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not real sure, but the kids, they do,
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  Speaker 3: they love them. And I remember my grandson. He had
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  Speaker 3: a whole collection of all you know, Grave Digger and
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  Speaker 3: there's a girl one and there's one that looks like
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  Speaker 3: a dog. And then they're big and they're powerful, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that might be the part that they're big
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  Speaker 3: because kids are small, but they want to be big
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  Speaker 3: and powerful.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. And to bring a book like this together, it's
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  Speaker 1: and I want less sooners to understand that it is
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  Speaker 1: a collaboration. It's not just a one person adventure. There's
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  Speaker 1: and you already mentioned your grandson, so therefore that's part
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  Speaker 1: of your collaboration. That's what I want people to understand.
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  Speaker 1: That you don't have to go into a writing project
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  Speaker 1: all by yourself. There are people that can always help
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  Speaker 1: you take it to the next level.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you do not want to go by yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Collaboration is the most wonderful thing because you know, just
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  Speaker 3: speaking with you, I'm learning about your neighbor who I'd
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  Speaker 3: like to know more about.
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, there's always something like if I if.
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  Speaker 3: You collaborate and like share your idea, then somebody will say,
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  Speaker 3: well did you ever and like, no, I never thought
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  Speaker 3: of that.
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  Speaker 2: We should include that love collaboration.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't move. There's more with Kathleen Markath coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: My monster Truck goes everywhere. We are back with Kathleen Markath.
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  Speaker 1: You can feel it. So how did you get that
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  Speaker 1: element of feeling in your writing? Because anybody can sit
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  Speaker 1: down with a writing instrument or to illustrate and say, well,
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  Speaker 1: here's my book. I didn't feel anything, but yet when
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  Speaker 1: you have this, I'll tell you who I thought of immediately.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking of adults between the middle ages and
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  Speaker 1: older going into a gray haired period because I believe
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  Speaker 1: that inside their imaginations it's part of the brain work
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  Speaker 1: that we need. And your book will get in there
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  Speaker 1: and give us that emotional strength as well as the
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  Speaker 1: strength inside the imagination to sit there and just enjoy
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  Speaker 1: something without having to really truly work for it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So the whole process for this one was there
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  Speaker 3: was always a desire to write for children. Yes, And
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  Speaker 3: when I left my job working with children to take
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  Speaker 3: care of my three year old grandson because I didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to miss those years, and we play with monster
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  Speaker 3: trucks every day, a contest made I was going to enter,
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  Speaker 3: so I sat down to write for the contest, and
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  Speaker 3: in writing for that, go oh, this would be perfect
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  Speaker 3: for Then when I took it to the editor, to
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  Speaker 3: an editor, she said, this is great, but let's change
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  Speaker 3: the ending. So yeah, so like again he inspired the story,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, I like, thank God because I think
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  Speaker 3: he had a hand in this is the everything just
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  Speaker 3: falle into place.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So when you when you have to deal with
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  Speaker 1: an end of the story on that where where they
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  Speaker 1: the editor comes back? Because editors and I we get along,
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  Speaker 1: But we don't get along because it's like you you
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  Speaker 1: weren't in my shoes when the story came to me.
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  Speaker 1: But it's like, okay, I have to trust you because
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  Speaker 1: you are the editor, and but but how do you
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  Speaker 1: do are you like me? And you you continuously save
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  Speaker 1: the the real authentic ending and how do you keep it?
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  Speaker 2: Mum?
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  Speaker 1: By letting them know that's not how it really ended.
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  Speaker 1: But or do you do you ever just let somebody
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  Speaker 1: know the truth of how a story got to be?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I recently was visiting fifth graders and we
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  Speaker 3: talked about writing and a story and ending, and I
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  Speaker 3: shared with them the first ending that I had.
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  Speaker 2: And the younger.
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  Speaker 3: Group, the fourth graders, that was a great ending, and
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  Speaker 3: then the fifth grade group, no, that was a bad ending.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I got to get their perspective.
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  Speaker 3: But no, I was open to her suggestions because my ending, well,
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  Speaker 3: the ending was he loses his truck because it was
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  Speaker 3: lost and found was a theme. He loses his truck,
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  Speaker 3: but up in Grandma's addict, he finds one of those
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  Speaker 3: old bouncy horses, you know, yes, yeah, I mean he
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  Speaker 3: wants to be a cowboy and run over the you know,
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  Speaker 3: through the river and forest and jump rivers and do
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  Speaker 3: all these wild, crazy things with a horse. And she
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  Speaker 3: was like, no, we're going to just keep the focus
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  Speaker 3: on the monster trucks. I'm like, okay, that's another story.
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  Speaker 1: So does that inspire you though, to grow with it
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  Speaker 1: with the kids in the way that this time around
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  Speaker 1: it's about the monster trucks. The next time around. It
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  Speaker 1: could be about the bouncy horse, and then we eventually
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  Speaker 1: make it to our first bicycle, because I mean, once
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  Speaker 1: that bicycle came into my life, my poor Tonka trucks
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  Speaker 1: kind of had to take a second fiddle on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you lost interest in the sandbox and all of that, right.
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  Speaker 1: Because I was a superhero of my own on that bicycle.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was a motorcycle. I was Batman on
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  Speaker 1: a bike. I mean I was out there to get
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  Speaker 1: all the bad guys off the street.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I've got my grandkids making lots of suggestions,
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  Speaker 3: and one day we're gonna bring one of them in
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  Speaker 3: another book.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully you're getting lots of pictures of this, because one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite pictures of my grandchild is where he
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  Speaker 1: is in the dirt plane and it's like, and you
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  Speaker 1: can never get that moment back because this little boy
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  Speaker 1: now is a twenty year old man, and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm never gonna get that innocence back. But yet when
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  Speaker 1: I look at him and I talk with him, Oh
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  Speaker 1: it's still there. Oh let's go get the trucks. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go play in that dirt again as adults.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good to bring them back and help them
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  Speaker 2: remember what fun they had.
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  Speaker 1: That is interesting that you say that, Is that something
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  Speaker 1: that that that is a message that you're that you're
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  Speaker 1: you're kind of growing forward. It's like, do all the
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  Speaker 1: fun now, but remember it and keep holding on to
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  Speaker 1: it as you grow forward.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Our oldest grandson is graduated this year and
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  Speaker 3: heading off to college. So yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah
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  Speaker 3: you want do you remember remember we played in the sandbox?
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember?
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  Speaker 1: And you get that smile, don't you? It's like, come on,
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  Speaker 1: go on.
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  Speaker 2: In front of my friends, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I warned them all the way through their childhood,
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  Speaker 1: and that's one of those things I said, wait to
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  Speaker 1: your eighteen and wait to your twenty one, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to bring up stories and I've got the pictures
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  Speaker 1: to back it up. But that's the thing I love
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  Speaker 1: about it, And that's what I think why I cherish
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  Speaker 1: your book, because it really does make that connection, a
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  Speaker 1: lasting imprint that you like, I still have my Mike
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  Speaker 1: Mulligan's Steam Shovel, So therefore I envision kids are going
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  Speaker 1: to have this book as well forever. And I just
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  Speaker 1: totally believe it's got that impact on.
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  Speaker 3: It well, thank you very much. I appreciate that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so can I ask how my grandchildren you have?
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  Speaker 1: I've been blessed with too, So I'm hoping that as
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  Speaker 1: they get older, in their twenties and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: I get some grand babies. Because they don't talk about
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  Speaker 1: that in high school that level. I just know what
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  Speaker 1: these grandchildren gave to my heart. I can't imagine what
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  Speaker 1: a great grandchild is going to do because you can't
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  Speaker 1: put it in words. All you can do is bring
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  Speaker 1: the elements of something like this book with you so
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  Speaker 1: that they've got something to hold on to and call
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  Speaker 1: their own as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. For me, kids are the
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  Speaker 2: juice of life.
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  Speaker 3: They give you energy. They're always looking for a new adventure.
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  Speaker 3: They're excited, and that's inspired.
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  Speaker 1: And don't you think that your book, though, is also
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  Speaker 1: inspiring conversation because how many times do you get this
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  Speaker 1: just the look or they go back to the to
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  Speaker 1: the notebook or the you know, they're they're looking at
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  Speaker 1: their digital devices and I'm going to please give them
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  Speaker 1: a book. Please give them a book. They need to talk,
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  Speaker 1: they need to have a real conversation here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and every every child that you know, picks
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  Speaker 3: up this book or the coloring book. My Monster Truck
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  Speaker 3: goes everywhere color and activity book. There is a different conversation,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there is a conversation if the child is
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  Speaker 3: deaf and hard of hearing, they go, oh, look at
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  Speaker 3: this is very cool. I have one story to share.
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  Speaker 3: I got an email from a mom. She just delivered twins,
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  Speaker 3: twin boys, and they were born deaf. And the family
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  Speaker 3: was like and she's like, well, we're going to learn
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  Speaker 3: sign language. And the family was like no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: no no no no no, we don't we're not on
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  Speaker 3: board with that. Who but she showed them, you know
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  Speaker 3: in My Monster Truck, pitch your book, that people use it.
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  Speaker 2: And then the.
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  Speaker 3: Aunts and uncles, the parents and grandparents are like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: people really use this. Huh okay, we'll give it a try.
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  Speaker 2: So it does.
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  Speaker 3: And I assure that also with my grandson Dylan, and
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  Speaker 3: he was like, wow, it's not just for fun. It's
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  Speaker 3: making a difference.
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  Speaker 2: And I go raise the Lord. It's making a difference.
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  Speaker 1: So so true. I always call that stepping away from
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  Speaker 1: the four walls of church to walk the streets of reality.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's humbling and inspiring.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, where can people go, especially teachers, because we're to
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  Speaker 1: get information about the book and the work book. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason why is because my wife is a tutor.
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  Speaker 1: She's a former school teacher, she's now tutoring. This is
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  Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that they need as tools and
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  Speaker 1: they need to have, you know, really incorporated, especially as
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  Speaker 1: we jump into these summer months and these students don't
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  Speaker 1: have school on their mind, but they need something fun
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  Speaker 1: and lovable to enjoy.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Well, again, the color the activity and color book. Well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's a little bit of math in there,
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  Speaker 3: and there's you know, reading writing, and there's some puzzles
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  Speaker 3: and matching. So yeah, that's a fun way to remember
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  Speaker 3: to do your math and write a little bit and
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  Speaker 3: you know, use those skills but in a fun way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then for teachers that on our blog, I have
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  Speaker 3: that have now been published that have death characters, some
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  Speaker 3: or implant many different things, and then included in that
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I would love that, and I so appreciate your time
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  Speaker 3: today and hearing more about your life and your children
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  Speaker 3: and your family and your goals.
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  Speaker 2: It's been great.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it all started with your writing, So if you
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  Speaker 1: would not have said yes to yourself, it wouldn't be happening.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that greatly.
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  Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, thank you