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Talk Line: Tony Vanderleest & Brad Yaklich on Morrison spring events · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Sock Valley. You've joined the Waking crew here
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  Speaker 1: on FM ninety five one and AM fourteen sixty w
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  Speaker 1: I XN. It's eight sixteen on your Monday morning, and
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  Speaker 1: you know what that means. It's time for talk line
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  Speaker 1: and I'm joined in the booth today by our good
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  Speaker 1: friends from the Morrison Fire Department and the Morrison Department
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  Speaker 1: of Fun. It's Tony Vanderlis and Brad Yaklich. How you
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  Speaker 1: guys doing today? Good? Doing good? Good morning Brandon, and we're.
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  Speaker 2: Doing really good.
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  Speaker 1: Have we had our coffee this morning, gentlemen? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's awesome. I gotta be honest with you when we
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  Speaker 1: were setting this up, Tony, when you first had said
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  Speaker 1: that Brad was from the Morrison Department of Fun, I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was an inside joke. I was not getting
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  Speaker 1: until I looked it up and actually learned there is
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  Speaker 1: a Department of Fun. So that's pretty cool. We're I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to have you tell us a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: about that, but we're starting off today with a couple events.
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  Speaker 1: Very cool when you sent me some information on which
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  Speaker 1: is the car Show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're really excited.
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  Speaker 3: This year marks one hundred and fifty years of service
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  Speaker 3: for the Morson Fire Department, So we wanted to celebrate
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  Speaker 3: with the community that's supported us throughout all these years.
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  Speaker 3: So on June sixth, we've got a full day planned.
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  Speaker 3: We got a car show Parde, and then later that
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  Speaker 3: night we're gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Do a block party.
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  Speaker 3: We've also got one hundred and fiftieth anniversary t shirts
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  Speaker 3: that are available, and all proceeds from that are going
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  Speaker 3: to go to the Morrison Fire Department for funding this event.
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  Speaker 1: Love that man, having a good time, just supporting a
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  Speaker 1: good cause. That's always the best way to kind of
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  Speaker 1: do these things. And so you've got some awards coming
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  Speaker 1: with that, right Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So the car show that's gonna be June six we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna do that down at the Whiteside County Fairgrounds. Registration
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  Speaker 3: for that's gonna be eight to ten. We're just gonna
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  Speaker 3: do donation for the entry and the first hundred cars
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  Speaker 3: are going to get a dashblack. I think that's pretty
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  Speaker 3: common for car show guys, they like to get those.
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  Speaker 3: So we're hoping to have a really good mix of
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  Speaker 3: classic cars for that. The awards is going to be
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  Speaker 3: right to follow at two pm. We're going to have
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  Speaker 3: a few different awards. That's going to do the best
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  Speaker 3: to show fire Department a choice, which is our favorite.
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  Speaker 3: That's going to be a pretty special award, and then
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  Speaker 3: we'll have ten best of the Best and top thirty
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  Speaker 3: all awards.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. Either of you guys got any sweet rides at home?
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  Speaker 4: Not?
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  Speaker 1: Nope, that's more than I got. Man. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think once all these kids get out of the house,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'll be able to afford a toy like that.
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  Speaker 1: So they're very cool. I think I know how to
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  Speaker 1: change entire but can appreciate somebody having a nice car.
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  Speaker 1: So you've also got a parade.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna roll right in the parade after the
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  Speaker 2: car show.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna we're inviting all the guys that do the
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  Speaker 3: car show into our parade. But we're really hoping we
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  Speaker 3: can get a good mix of first responder apparatuses. We're
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  Speaker 3: not looking just for fire trucks, we're looking for police ems.
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  Speaker 3: We think some people got some pretty good antique rides
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  Speaker 3: out there that would be really cool to see in
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  Speaker 3: the parade.
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  Speaker 1: I noticed some of these, you know, during like Fourth
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  Speaker 1: of July and whatnot. Some of these people that have
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  Speaker 1: some of these vehicles. They'll use them to to put
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  Speaker 1: the flag up and kind of have it parked by
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  Speaker 1: get the cruise to the country on the way to work.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, calling anybody who's got that. Get a hold
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  Speaker 1: of these guys. If somebody wants to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of it, how do they do that.
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  Speaker 2: We're just having them kind of show up that day.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to line up at two pm and then
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  Speaker 3: the parade's gonna start at three. All of our information
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  Speaker 3: can kind of be found on our Facebook page, Instagram
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  Speaker 3: or the City of Morrison's website.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just kind of a.
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  Speaker 3: Show up, you know, if you need to reach out
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  Speaker 3: through the Facebook page to us, but otherwise we're at
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  Speaker 3: all the stage and we'll have people around to kind
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  Speaker 3: of guide you, but definitely come down by the fairgrounds
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  Speaker 3: and that's where you're gonna be able to kind of, yeah, figure.
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  Speaker 4: Out where the line up, What time is the parade.
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  Speaker 2: The parade's going to start at three pm.
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  Speaker 1: To line up at two, line up at two, parade
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  Speaker 1: starts at three.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got some awards for the parade also, we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna do the furthest travel that's gonna be awards. We're
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  Speaker 3: hoping maybe we get some people to travel some distance
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  Speaker 3: for us, and then we've got the best antique apparatus, which,
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  Speaker 3: believe it or not, we're going two thousand and older.
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  Speaker 2: So it seems weird to say two thousand, but that's antique.
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  Speaker 1: Both of you guys sitting here looking younger than me, man,
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  Speaker 1: don't say things like that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my god, I believe we are antiques.
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  Speaker 3: It was kind of weird when we put on paper,
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  Speaker 3: but when we looked back when they did the one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and twenty fifth, Yeah, so we did twenty five years
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  Speaker 3: from that, it's like, wow, we're there already two thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I'm born in eighty three, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: an antique. Right. We both like our stocks are going
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  Speaker 1: up at least by that note.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I get special licenses.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome. This takes us to appropriately the Department of Fun.
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  Speaker 1: And so tell me again, like I said, I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't heard about the Department of Fun, which shame
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  Speaker 1: on me for that. Now that I you know, i'd
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  Speaker 1: known that it's not an inside joke. What is the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Fun?
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  Speaker 4: So I'm going to give you the shortened version. So
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  Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen, we had a mapping from the Western
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  Speaker 4: Illinois University that was put on by the Morson Area
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  Speaker 4: Developed Mental Corporation. What they did was they sat us
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  Speaker 4: all down a whole room full of volunteers, and they said,
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  Speaker 4: what does Morson need? And this mapping thing has been
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  Speaker 4: done before. We got like our farmers market out of
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  Speaker 4: it and our community garden out of it, which was
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  Speaker 4: a really cool deal. But this time they said what, like,
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  Speaker 4: what else can we do? And one of the things
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  Speaker 4: was festivals and events. So there was a group about
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  Speaker 4: ten people that all got put at around table and
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  Speaker 4: they said, you know, what ideas you guys have, where
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  Speaker 4: have you been? Have you been other cities and what
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  Speaker 4: are they doing? Like what can we do here in Morrison?
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  Speaker 4: And we kind of kept that going and eventually adopted
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  Speaker 4: the name of Department of Fun. We started doing a
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  Speaker 4: few events and then COVID happened. So during COVID we
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  Speaker 4: had to go underground a little bit. We did some
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  Speaker 4: boogie wiggy bingos via Skype and things like that or
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  Speaker 4: zoom calls. But eventually we started opening back up to
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  Speaker 4: where we could do some live events. And so our
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  Speaker 4: main street had just been completely redone and they opened
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  Speaker 4: it up block by block, and we asked the city, hey,
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  Speaker 4: can we throw a block party to celebrate the reopening
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  Speaker 4: of each of these blocks, And that's where we really
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  Speaker 4: started to take off. We found out that we like
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  Speaker 4: to party and Morrison likes to party, and they just
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  Speaker 4: kind of grew and got bigger and bigger as we
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  Speaker 4: went for each subsequent block and it turned out great.
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  Speaker 4: And then since then we've done several events around Morrison,
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  Speaker 4: which once again, you can follow our Facebook page if
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  Speaker 4: you want to know what we're doing. We tend to
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  Speaker 4: try to spread it around between events like block parties,
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  Speaker 4: events for kids, events for even our seniors. We've done
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  Speaker 4: some events with them, with the Josh Duffy band playing
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  Speaker 4: music down at the Fairgrounds for him. So a lot
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  Speaker 4: of cool things. But that's kind of where we came from.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm sorry that's the short version, for the long
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  Speaker 4: versions way worse.
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  Speaker 1: No, I absolutely love that. So you guys just get
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  Speaker 1: to plan a good time and just reach out with
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  Speaker 1: other parts of Morrison and organizations and just throw a
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  Speaker 1: good shindig. Man.
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  Speaker 4: And this was a perfect opportunity for us because the
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  Speaker 4: fire department obviously celebrating this giant one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 4: years and this was like perfect. It was right in
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  Speaker 4: our wheelhouse of what we can do. So we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: make it our biggest and best block party that we have.
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  Speaker 4: We've got music, we've got food trucks, We've got lots
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  Speaker 4: going on there, and.
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  Speaker 1: You guys gonna host some kids down with that with
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  Speaker 1: that big hose man.
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  Speaker 3: No, I do think we have a bounce house coming,
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  Speaker 3: but no, even though it is June sixth, it will
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  Speaker 3: probably be a little more. The kids would appreciate that,
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  Speaker 3: but we're gonna try to stay dry.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I get my kids trying to tell me
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  Speaker 1: on like some days when it's like seventies right now,
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  Speaker 1: like oh it's it's good enough for the pool, bring
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  Speaker 1: it out. I'm like, you're out of your mind. Uh huh.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, No, I love this. Any anything else you
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  Speaker 1: want to share on any of.
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  Speaker 3: This, guys, Yeah, I guess I could throw in that.
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  Speaker 3: After our parade, we are going to do an open house, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so we're kind of inviting everyone in for some cake.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna do some refreshments.
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  Speaker 3: We'll probably have our new truck that people can lay
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  Speaker 3: eyes on and then we're gonna do a.
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  Speaker 2: Short little ceremony on a one hundred and fiftieth.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna do like a quick rundown of the history,
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  Speaker 3: you know, kind of how we've gotten to where we've gotten.
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  Speaker 4: And then that's where we come in. So actually during
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  Speaker 4: the parade and pre parade we will actually have music going.
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  Speaker 4: We'll have our food trucks going. We have the Smashing
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  Speaker 4: Cow that's going to be there with is Smash Burgers,
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  Speaker 4: and then we have Britos, which are fantastic for Mexican food.
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  Speaker 4: Oh and Brito has been around for the Sock Valley
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  Speaker 4: for a while. Smashing Cow is great too though, so
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  Speaker 4: hopefully you guys get out and check that out. And
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  Speaker 4: then we actually have two different bands playing. First during
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  Speaker 4: the parade lineup and during the parade, we'll have Creamery
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  Speaker 4: Road with everybody's favorite local lead singer Don Jovi, And
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  Speaker 4: after that, after the parade, we'll actually have them keep
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  Speaker 4: going for a little while just kind of get the
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  Speaker 4: crowd warmed up. And then after the ceremony and things
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  Speaker 4: happen at the fire station, then we have JC and
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  Speaker 4: the Juice coming over from Clinton to round us out
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  Speaker 4: for the evening. They're going to play from seven until ten.
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  Speaker 4: I believe music starts somewhere between one and two and afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, we'll just have it kind of going
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  Speaker 4: all afternoon and then we'll try to wrap it up
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  Speaker 4: around ten pm. Our local bars that are along Main Street.
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  Speaker 4: Main Street is gonna be closed down for the whole afternoon,
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  Speaker 4: so don't park on Main Street that day. But we'll
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  Speaker 4: have our local bars actually outside selling beverages and stuff
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  Speaker 4: for kids. In addition to the bounce house, we'll have
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  Speaker 4: a foam pit, a big giant foam party. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: bring some extra towels, maybe maybe bring your your swimsuits
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  Speaker 4: for your kids. Hopefully it will have great weather that
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  Speaker 4: day and we'll be able to utilize that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you might. Yeah, yeah, No, I love this, man.
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  Speaker 1: This sounds like my kind of party from back in
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  Speaker 1: the day. I love it. You guys are kind of
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  Speaker 1: bringing back I think, what I love so much about
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  Speaker 1: my childhood and some of those events. Foam pit is
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  Speaker 1: super cool. You guys should bring the hose, get a
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  Speaker 1: field out in a volleyball net and mud volleyballs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there we go. Excellent time, But this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be one heck of a party and a summer a
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  Speaker 1: summer of on. You guys have really got going on
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  Speaker 1: between the two of you. This is very cool. I
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  Speaker 1: know you said you're gonna wrap it up for around
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  Speaker 1: like ten pm. But as somebody who's a big fan
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  Speaker 1: of live music, if we want an encore man, let
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  Speaker 1: him go a little on here, let him play an.
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  Speaker 4: Extra sign too. We'll put out a good word with
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  Speaker 4: the city administrator. We'll see what we can do there.
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  Speaker 4: You go, anything else you want to share this morning, gentlemen, We.
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  Speaker 3: Just we'd love to see a big turnout. We've put
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  Speaker 3: a lot of time into this. I know they the
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  Speaker 3: Morse Apartment Fund, has put a lot of effort into
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  Speaker 3: this event. You know, it's a big it's a big
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  Speaker 3: deal for our community. We're all volunteers, you know, so
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  Speaker 3: it takes the community to support us. And that's why
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  Speaker 3: we want to have a celebration involvement everyone, because it's
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  Speaker 3: important for us seeing them.
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  Speaker 4: And I think like most small towns, we love our fireman.
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  Speaker 4: We want to do everything we can to try to
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  Speaker 4: support them and thank them for doing a great job
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  Speaker 4: of keeping us all safe.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is our chance.
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  Speaker 4: To really go all out and hopefully at June sixth,
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  Speaker 4: if you're around Morrison you'll be able to stop in
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  Speaker 4: and say hi. And even if it's just for a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, but if we want to stay all day,
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  Speaker 4: please do.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a a good day. Absolutely. If you're
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  Speaker 1: hearing this and you know about it now, you're not
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  Speaker 1: allowed to say there's nothing to do because now you
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  Speaker 1: know about it. Gentlemen, thank you so much for what
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  Speaker 1: you do and for coming on the show and sharing
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  Speaker 1: the information. Looking forward to one heck of a party man.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks Brandon, thank you,