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S3 E 11 - Lunch Art Ft. Erica Kypreos, Bri Listol, and Calvin Pettit · Inside the OSD

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  SPEAKER1: Each and every student in the OSD has unique interests, talents, and passions.
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  One of the best things about being a superintendent is having a front row seat to watching our kids pursue their interests and what is important to them.
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  Today, we are talking with our OHS school nutrition team and a student who is using her talents to bring great fun and joy to others each day
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  through lunch art.
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  SPEAKER2: Welcome to this episode of Inside the OSD podcast, where it's all about the kids.
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  Here is your host, lifelong educator and our superintendent, Doctor Leslie Bergstrom.
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  SPEAKER3: Hello, and welcome to the OSD. Could we please introduce yourself to our listeners?
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  SPEAKER4: Um, hello. My name is Calvin J. Pettit. Um, that's my name.
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  Yes.
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  SPEAKER3: Very nice to meet you, meet you, Calvin.
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  SPEAKER4: It's a pleasure to meet you, Doctor Bergstrom.
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  SPEAKER3: Thank you. So you are illustrating the lunch menus at OHS every day?
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  SPEAKER4: Well, yes. Yes, I have for the past few months, I believe.
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  SPEAKER3: Okay, so tell us how you started doing this and what it entails.
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  SPEAKER4: So I started doing this just because, you know, I feel, you know, that, um, I just felt like,
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  you know, when I was younger, I remember going into--I had a teacher.
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  I forgot her name, but she was an English teacher, and she, you know, she had this large bulletin board in her room next to her
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  chalkboard. And on it, she would she would decorate it for different seasons and different holidays.
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  So she had a paper, Halloween decorations and Christmas decorations and I, I always remembered that.
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  And I always loved going in and seeing that.
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  So what happened was, is, is that it was it was October and it was coming up on our homecoming game.
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  And I was like, "well, let's do some fun things for homecoming, some fun themed things," because we had themed days going up to homecoming,
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  right? So I asked if I could start doing the board and start doing art on it, and they said yes.
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  So I've been, um, drawing illustrations and writing down the weekly lunch menus on this whiteboard over there and
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  doing fun illustrations. And I've been doing it ever since, and I've been loving it.
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  SPEAKER3: Well, you started to share a little bit about why it's important to you, but tell us more about that.
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  Why is it important to you to dedicate that kind of time?
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  I mean, you're doing really cool stuff. Thank you.
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  What makes this something that you want to spend your time on?
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  SPEAKER4: Well, as I said, um, it's it's mainly just because, you know, I want to make people happy.
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  You know, I look around every day and I see, you know, lots of people as I walk through the halls of this building and,
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  you know, walk down the street or ride my bike.
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  And I've, you know, I've realized that a lot of people, you are-- yeah, I, I don't want to say sad,
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  but a lot of people are just, you know, just like, "eh," you know?
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  SPEAKER3: You want to add more joy.
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  SPEAKER4: I want to I want to add more joy to people's lives.
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  You know, I, you know, humans live for only about, you know, let's say 100 years.
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  SPEAKER3: So that's generous.
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  SPEAKER4: That's a generous amount. That's a generous amount.
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  But, you know, I just I, I want to spend, you know, I want to spend each day of my life making other people's lives
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  happier and making others lives, you know, better.
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  So if that means using my, um, artistic abilities to, um, you know,
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  do that, then it's just what I gotta do.
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  SPEAKER3: Yeah. You're making people smile, right?
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  SPEAKER4: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER3: Thank you. Yeah. So what will you take from this experience if you look back, look back on this ten years from now,
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  what do you think you'll think about your your illustrations brightening people's days?
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  SPEAKER4: Well, you know what I think is that I--You know, I'd hope that it made somebody's day happier.
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  You know, I, you know, I just, you know, I go and I do this and I really and I don't know if
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  that many people notice it. You know, I don't know if many people care, but, you know,
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  if it makes at least one person's day a little bit brighter, a little bit happier.
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  SPEAKER3: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER4: Then that's all I need.
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  SPEAKER3: Absolutely. Calvin you don't--It doesn't need to impact everybody. Sometimes just one person is enough,
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  right? Yes I love that. Thank you. And now we're going to move to our school nutrition team.
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  So could you two please introduce yourselves and your background in the OSD?
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  SPEAKER5: I'm Erica Kypreos. I am the lead here at the high school kitchen.
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  I am also a mom of four students in the district.
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  I am
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  SPEAKER6: Bri Noyce. I am a cook at the Oregon High School.
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  I also graduated from Oregon, and I have three kids going to the Oregon School District as well.
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  SPEAKER3: I love that you not only work here, but your kids are here.
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  And I know you're a graduate because I was your assistant principal, so I love that.
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  Yeah. Um, when Calvin came to you to offer this service, what was your reaction?
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  SPEAKER5: Absolutely. I mean, it took it took something off of our day, you know?
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  SPEAKER3: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER5: Some days we were writing when the kids are walking in and.
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  SPEAKER6: Um, you got, like, a joy to it.
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  SPEAKER5: Yeah. He did.
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  SPEAKER6: I mean, during Christmas time, every day.
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  It was a different Christmas movie up there.
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  It was so cool. I loved it.
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  SPEAKER5: Yeah. I mean, just all the homecoming, like you said, was was always a fun, uh,
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  creation, but it was it kind of started with Calvin coming in every day and like,
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  "oh, the kitchen smells good. What are you making today?" And us having conversations around the lunch and food and,
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  you know, and him just coming in.
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  SPEAKER3: And spreading joy.
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  SPEAKER5: Yeah. Just having a conversation with us.
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  And so that's kind of how I feel like it morphed into this.
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  "Well, can I do this?" I was like, "yeah, have it.
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  Like, go for it. Let's, you know, you enjoy it.
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  I'm happy you enjoy it." Thank you. It makes me happy to see you enjoying it.
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  SPEAKER4: I'm happy. I'm happy
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  SPEAKER5: you're happy.
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  SPEAKER6: You also like to come in with new ideas.
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  Yes, yes. He was thinking about doing getting kids excited about all different food and gives us great ideas to think about maybe doing a raisin day?
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  SPEAKER4: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER6: Raisin day. Excited about
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  SPEAKER4: raisins
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  SPEAKER6: again.
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  SPEAKER4: Raisins--
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  SPEAKER6: Okay, tell me about this.
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  SPEAKER4: Um, well, Raisin Day is a concept I thought of.
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  I, I realized that we had a surplus of raisins in in our, like, stock.
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  Um, and when students would buy them, if they would buy them, they wouldn't buy them for,
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  you know. "Oh, raisins. I'm gonna eat these." It's "oh raisins.
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  I'm gonna use this so I can actually, you know, get lunch at a good price" because it comes as,
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  like, a package deal. You have to--anyway.
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  So they're like. And then they would just, you know, discard them or throw them around,
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  you know, not like, like classic, like, food fight stuff, but, you know, they just discard them.
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  And I was like, "well, your raisins used to be liked.
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  Raisins used to be cool." You know?
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  SPEAKER3: I still like
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  SPEAKER6: them.
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  SPEAKER4: Yeah. So I was like, "what do we what--what can we do to both get rid of the surplus of raisins and actually have students eat them?" I thought of this
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  thing. It's like, I believe it's April 30th.
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  April 31st is National Raisin Day in the United States.
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  Okay. So what I thought of is have I'm gonna it's like, you know, have people wear purple--challenge people to wear purple.
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  Then they come in, you get free boxes of raisins, you get like, um, food with raisins in,
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  like, raisin bread, oatmeal raisin cookies.
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  I have a ton of those. You know, those little, like the ads for raisins with the dancing
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  SPEAKER3: raisins singing. For sure. The Motown, the grapevine.
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  Yeah yeah.
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  SPEAKER4: Yeah. The Motown. Yeah. I have a ton of those figures and those little, like, puppets,
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  the stop motion ones, I, I, I'm a, I'm a puppeteer.
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  I build stuff like that. Wow. So I decorate it with that.
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  I have a, I have a costume from Halloween a few years ago.
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  Well, not a few years ago, but a while ago of one of those raisins.
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  And I was thinking about dressing up and, you know, doing the dance, you know, having the music playing.
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  SPEAKER3: I have to put this on my calendar because I want to see people
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  SPEAKER4: love raisins again. Right. We had the same problem in the 80s.
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  We had this problem now . Let's do Raisin Day!
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  You know, it's just something dumb I thought of in class.
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  SPEAKER3: Dumb, but not dumb. This can be really cool, right?
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  Yes, exactly.
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  SPEAKER4: I just--it was just one of those thoughts, like a shower thought kind of.
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  So that's that's that's my concept of Raisin Day.
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  SPEAKER3: We'll have to find more ways for you to spread joy, Calvin, because you've certainly spread it to me today.
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  I really love that conversation.
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  SPEAKER5: Just having conversation with him every day like this. Yeah.
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  Is like, we look forward to it.
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  SPEAKER4: So thank
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  SPEAKER5: you. You say you hope you bring joy to one person.
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  You bring a test to the kitchen every day when you step in.
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  Thank you.
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  SPEAKER6: Sometimes we look out there.
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  SPEAKER5: Calvin.
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  SPEAKER6: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER3: Is there anything the two of you would like to add about our school nutrition program?
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  SPEAKER5: Um, no, I mean, not really. We enjoy what we do.
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  We enjoy these kinds of connections with our students.
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  SPEAKER3: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER5: Um, aside from, you know, being the ones that feed them, we like having relationships and friendships and getting to know each individual
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  student as much as we can.
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  SPEAKER3: And it makes it all worthwhile, doesn't it?
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  SPEAKER5: It does.
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  SPEAKER3: It really
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  SPEAKER5: does. Parents here and we kind of I feel like, "how do I want other schools to treat my kids?" So,
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  you know, that's how I want to go about our day and with everybody else's students.
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  So.
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  SPEAKER3: Well, thank you both for that very much.
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  And thank you, Calvin. Um, like I said, you made my day, and I'm coming back on Raisin Day.
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  Thank you. I can't wait to see it.
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  SPEAKER4: We'd love to have you.
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  SPEAKER3: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER4: At least I
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  SPEAKER3: would. I appreciate that.
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