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H.O.P.E and what it means through the lense of Sweethearts & Heroes with guest Winton Buddington · Aired Out

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  Speaker 2: this morning. I'm gonna ask my friend went in that
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  Speaker 2: in just a little bit. First off, though the World
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  Speaker 2: newspaper on a Wednesday, Deb Phillips with us, Good morning, Deb,
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning JD doing good?
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  Speaker 2: What's that vegetable, Deb that you just can't stomach? On
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  Speaker 2: this National Eat your Veggie's Day today? Is there one?
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  Speaker 2: Is it Brussels sprouts for you to Oh?
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  Speaker 3: No, I do like Brussels sprouts. I don't like okrah
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  Speaker 3: or lima beans.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot about okra. You know my dad. My dad
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  Speaker 2: used to do lima beans in the microwave and we
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  Speaker 2: used to call them crunchies because they were still frozen
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  Speaker 2: on the inside. But anyway, Deb, it's so great to
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  Speaker 2: have you on the air every Wednesday. I loved reading
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  Speaker 2: it again today. Chris will be here soon. It comes
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  Speaker 2: out every single Wednesday morning. Tell me, tell us, tell everyone,
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  Speaker 2: Deb what's in there? Today?
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  Speaker 4: We are chuck full.
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  Speaker 3: This week we have we're congratulating seven of our local
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  Speaker 3: high school graduates on their achievements. We also have this
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they have a good selection and yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: It is a great deal. It's a great deal. What else?
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  Speaker 2: What else is in the world this week?
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  Speaker 3: Barry Opera House as their theater's summer camps coming up
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  Speaker 3: and always well done, very well done. And you know
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  Speaker 3: Casa Azteca has a lunch Combo special which is a
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  Speaker 3: You get a free soft drink, free chips and salsa
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  Speaker 3: and it's good from eleven am to three pm Monday
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  Speaker 3: to Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I think I saw that in the last edition of
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  Speaker 2: the World, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was June June fourth edition. Yeah, we had
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  Speaker 3: that in there. Yes, and I've already used my coupon.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a good deal.
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  Speaker 2: Deb. If you ever want to go out to lunch,
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  Speaker 2: Casa Azteca, you have my full attention. I love it.
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  Speaker 3: It's great.
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  Speaker 2: That's fantastic, Deb, Thank you ever so much. There's some
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  Speaker 2: fourth annual Worcester Arts Festival. I mean there's just there's
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well this next week we'll have you know, all
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  Speaker 3: week's paper.
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  Speaker 2: I get so much information from you guys. We've got
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  Speaker 2: some great things happening in our community. Course, the food
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  Speaker 2: trucks up at the Central fromaut Marketplace parking lot every
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  Speaker 2: Sunday all summer long. We got Thunder road racing coming
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  Speaker 2: up tomorrow night. There's just tons of and tonight curry
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  Speaker 2: you park right here in the Granite City. We got
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  Speaker 2: the food trucks, the concerts, we got the Farmer's market
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  Speaker 2: all starting this afternoon, and the weather should be just
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  Speaker 2: fine for it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm hoping that's that's a really fun fun thing.
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  Speaker 2: To go to it really is. Thank you so much, Deb.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else you can think of this morning.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good good, all right.
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  Speaker 2: You let us know if there's anything else that you
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  Speaker 2: can think of that we can promote this week.
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  Speaker 3: And we're on it all right, Thanks dadie.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Deb. Deb Phillips from the world right there,
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  Speaker 2: Central from Out's favorite weekly newspaper. How do I know that?
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  Speaker 2: Not just because it says it right here, just because
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  Speaker 2: it is and has been for a long time. We're
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  Speaker 2: talking about almost as old as I am, fifty plus years.
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  Speaker 2: We'll just leave it at that. Winton Buddington is my
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  Speaker 2: guest this morning from Sweethearts and Heroes. He returns to
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  Speaker 2: the airwaves, went and good morning, my friend. How the
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  Speaker 2: heck are you?
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, j D. I'm awesome today. How are you great? Man?
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  Speaker 2: So let me start out first by saying Happy Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: Happy hump day to you man. What's that veggie? What's
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  Speaker 2: that one veggie Winton that you just no matter what
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  Speaker 2: you do to it, no matter what is sprinkle on it,
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  Speaker 2: you just can't put it down.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You know, initially I might have said Brussels sprouts, but
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  Speaker 5: I've really taken a liking to roasted Brussels sprouts that
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  Speaker 5: you cook them up with bacon and drizzle him with
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  Speaker 5: some honey.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 4: Honey or maple syrup.
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  Speaker 5: And so I can't say Brussels sprunts anymore, but I'd
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  Speaker 5: have to go with the line of beans because I
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  Speaker 5: use we do have lime of beans in our freezer,
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  Speaker 5: but I use them as the ice pack, not the vegetable.
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  Speaker 2: So I love that. That's great, Oh man, winning just
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  Speaker 2: how that car?
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  Speaker 1: You?
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  Speaker 2: Man? Where are you right now?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, it seems like every time we talk,
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  Speaker 5: I'm in a different place. So I'm actually out in Indianapolis,
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  Speaker 5: Indiana right now. My brother in law lives out here
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  Speaker 5: with his son, and my mother in law.
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  Speaker 4: Is out here now.
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  Speaker 5: In an assistant living and so we come out here
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  Speaker 5: as often as we can to spend a little time
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  Speaker 5: with them.
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  Speaker 4: And so we're out here. Tomorrow we'll be driving back
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  Speaker 4: to New York.
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  Speaker 2: So you said Indianapolis, Yep, Wow, that's awesome. What's the
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  Speaker 2: weather like out there?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's it's been great. Today's a beautiful right now.
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  Speaker 5: It's sixty five and sunny. It's gonna be a gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: Day to day, low humidity, So yeah, we're at sixty
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  Speaker 2: three with I would say mostly sunny skies right now.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna warm up about ten but some some weather
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  Speaker 2: coming in for tomorrow and Friday looks like possibly in
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  Speaker 2: the form of some thundershowers here. But let's let's jump
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  Speaker 2: in head first to Sweethearts and Heroes and what you
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  Speaker 2: guys are doing. You know, I was having a conversation
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  Speaker 2: yesterday with someone and they're like, there's just so much
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  Speaker 2: going on with what is Sweethearts and Heroes and that's
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot to unpack. You guys are and Tom's
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  Speaker 2: at fault for that. Yeah, there's just you guys do
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  Speaker 2: so much. There's so much happening. We say, the world's
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  Speaker 2: numbermber one student empowerment organization.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just it's been an amazing year for us.
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  Speaker 5: I think this year we had Josiah and Pat were
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  Speaker 5: booked pretty much every day up until this past Monday
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  Speaker 5: was the last visit in a school that we had
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  Speaker 5: scheduled for.
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  Speaker 4: The year, so.
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  Speaker 5: And Tom and Rick frequently every other week they were
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  Speaker 5: booked this year. So it's an incredible year. And then
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  Speaker 5: with all of the electrical contractor circle work that we're
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  Speaker 5: doing now, and we had a partnership with the Montgomery
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  Speaker 5: County Sheriff's Office in New York and doing circles with
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  Speaker 5: their deputies and school resource officers. So it's been we
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  Speaker 5: got a lot of different different pieces going.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys at Sweethearts and Heroes aren't just saying
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  Speaker 2: all right, school's out for the summer. We're all on
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  Speaker 2: vacation for the next couple of months.
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  Speaker 4: Now. We you know, we try to give everybody a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of a breather in the summer. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: we've got.
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  Speaker 5: Joe's going to be working with a school district in
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  Speaker 5: their summer program. He's going to be doing a circle
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  Speaker 5: training for students for six visits over three weeks in
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  Speaker 5: their their summer program, training the older students to run
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  Speaker 5: circles with the younger students. That's actually going to be
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  Speaker 5: up in Vermont at Johnson State UH and working with their.
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  Speaker 4: Summer Trio UH students and their.
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  Speaker 5: The students that are helping run that the bridge program
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  Speaker 5: for students coming into the college in August.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, Tom and.
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  Speaker 5: Ricker Actually next week they're going to be back up
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  Speaker 5: in Alaska doing circles with the Lineman Electrical companies up
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  Speaker 5: in Alaska, and he's got a couple more of those
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  Speaker 5: type of trips the summer.
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  Speaker 4: Rick is going to be working with.
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  Speaker 5: The Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Group that he's done the last
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  Speaker 5: three years in Pennsylvania for three or four visits this summer.
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  Speaker 5: So it's closed down a little bit, but it's still
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  Speaker 5: a busy, busy time for us.
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  Speaker 2: I would guess that Tom would have plenty to say
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  Speaker 2: to these line workers as we're approaching Father's Day and
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  Speaker 2: understanding that many fathers are not able to be with
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  Speaker 2: their kids on Father's Day weekend, not able to be
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  Speaker 2: with their families, you know, like like like Kyle was saying,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, you know, when when we need line workers,
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  Speaker 2: we need them right now, no matter what is going on.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of like the military, it's it's it's the first
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  Speaker 2: priority in your life more than anything else.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And you talked about, you know this, you might
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  Speaker 5: have some thunderstorms coming in interesting experience last week for
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  Speaker 5: me being out here in Indianapolis, we had thunderstorms and
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  Speaker 5: we had tornado sirens going, and you know, we're trying
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  Speaker 5: to watch some of the Stanley Cup and it kept
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  Speaker 5: getting interrupted for tornado warnings, which is not something I'd
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  Speaker 5: experienced before, but just thinking about you know, in those
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  Speaker 5: times when there are those disasters, that the people that
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  Speaker 5: get in their trucks and get out there to try
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  Speaker 5: to get everything back the way it should be. So
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  Speaker 5: does the linemen just drop everything and go no matter what?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's can be a lot of dads without their
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  Speaker 2: kids this weekend everywhere I said, across the country.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And I think that that's you know, don't
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  Speaker 5: I don't have kids of my own, but as a
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  Speaker 5: principal for fourteen years and thirty two and a half
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  Speaker 5: years in education, you know, I had a thousand students
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  Speaker 5: in my building when I was principal, and so I
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  Speaker 5: looked at them like my own kids, And that's I
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  Speaker 5: mean that the I think a lot of men struggle
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  Speaker 5: with that role of fatherhood, being that role model and
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  Speaker 5: being there to provide for their family and what we
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  Speaker 5: traditionally expected them as men. And but also you know,
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  Speaker 5: as we do our circle work, it's it's how do
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  Speaker 5: you how do you also show that vulnerability?
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  Speaker 4: How do you show that that side of you that
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  Speaker 4: we all have, but some of us just keep locked up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Josh Miller from Vermont. Fatherhood comes in here the
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  Speaker 2: second Monday of every month, and we sit down and
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  Speaker 2: we talk just about fatherhood alone and what it means
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  Speaker 2: to be a father and the difference between being a
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  Speaker 2: father and being a dad, you know, and the standards
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  Speaker 2: that we are held to, the expectations that we are
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  Speaker 2: are held to. You know, It's it's not easy, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I was just a couple of nights ago. I was
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  Speaker 2: the only parent in the house for a little while,
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  Speaker 2: had chicken cooking on the grill, and had a little
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  Speaker 2: girl standing in the backyard with a softball love on
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  Speaker 2: softball in her hand, staring at me while I was
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  Speaker 2: on the patio tending to the grill, trying to get
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  Speaker 2: dinner right, trying to get dinner right, but also the
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  Speaker 2: unspoken communication in someone's eyes is really intense. We'll just say,
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  Speaker 2: We'll just say that the chicken was a little crispy
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  Speaker 2: that night, but I got in a few catches. And
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you just just got to do what you gotta
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  Speaker 2: do to You got to do what you think is
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  Speaker 2: right at the time and reprioritize.
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  Speaker 5: And those those moments in education we call them teachable moments.
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  Speaker 5: To take advantage of that present themselves that you might
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  Speaker 5: not have fully planned for, but it's it's the moment
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  Speaker 5: you need to take advantage of, to have that time
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  Speaker 5: with that ball flying back and forth and yeah, a
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  Speaker 5: conversation at the same.
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  Speaker 2: Time, you know, exactly this weekend, we have a few
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  Speaker 2: more graduations that are pending. This this is a big
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  Speaker 2: time in so many lives. There's all kinds of different graduations.
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  Speaker 2: We're graduating from high school and we're getting ready for
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  Speaker 2: that major gear shift in life, whatever it may be,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's college or otherwise, whether we're jumping into the workforce,
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  Speaker 2: graduating from college whole nother story, and graduating from middle
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  Speaker 2: school or middle school into high school, elementary school in
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  Speaker 2: the middle school. This is a time of transition. It's
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  Speaker 2: a time of excitement for many students. It's a time
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  Speaker 2: of pride for many families for the graduate. What's some
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  Speaker 2: of the messages that you think sweethearts and heroes hopes
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  Speaker 2: that these graduates will resonate with as they shift into
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  Speaker 2: the next gear, whatever that may be, whatever stage that
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  Speaker 2: might be in life. What are some of the primary
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  Speaker 2: things that you're like, you know, we worked with these schools,
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  Speaker 2: we worked with these kids through the year, whether it
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  Speaker 2: was anti bullying, whether it was understanding what hope is,
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  Speaker 2: being a better person, listening better, whatever it might be.
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  Speaker 2: We're hoping that these kids are going to carry the
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  Speaker 2: torch and remember these things and exercise what they've learned
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  Speaker 2: in their next chapter.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I what immediately comes to mind is is hope. And
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  Speaker 5: for us, hope stands for hold on possibilities exist, and
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  Speaker 5: we don't. You don't know what that's going to look like.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you're graduating college, you don't know what the
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  Speaker 5: job's going to be. And if you if you have
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  Speaker 5: a job that you're headed to that you don't know
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  Speaker 5: everything that's going to happen there. And maybe that's not
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  Speaker 5: you know, we don't necessarily have thirty year careers and
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  Speaker 5: in businesses and industries anymore. People move around, So there's
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  Speaker 5: there's possive that message of hold on possibilities exist for
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  Speaker 5: something better and different and engaging for us is one
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  Speaker 5: that we hope students really carry with us with them
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  Speaker 5: as they as they move on through life. And the
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  Speaker 5: second one is that everybody he has superpowers, You have talents,
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  Speaker 5: you have powers that you can tap into that make
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  Speaker 5: you unique. And who you are, and those are the
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  Speaker 5: powers that allow you to step up and be there
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  Speaker 5: for somebody else when they're struggling, and help somebody through
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  Speaker 5: a difficult situation.
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  Speaker 4: And it's really that sense of.
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  Speaker 5: Curiosity and awareness and connecting with other people that we
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  Speaker 5: try to help students build through the circle work as well,
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  Speaker 5: to build.
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  Speaker 4: That sense of community.
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  Speaker 5: So wherever they find themselves, whether it's in a college
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  Speaker 5: door with new people, there's a new community to explore
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  Speaker 5: and get to know people and tap into your superpower
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  Speaker 5: to do that, whether it's just going to the next
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  Speaker 5: grade level, you know, going to middle school. That middle
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  Speaker 5: school transition. I actually think it's harder on parents than
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  Speaker 5: it is on kids. Kids are looking forward to it,
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  Speaker 5: and their parents are seeing their little babies grow up
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  Speaker 5: and take a step away from them when they kind
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  Speaker 5: of go into middle school and want to be with
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  Speaker 5: their friends a little bit more so.
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  Speaker 4: But those possibilities exist too, and parents can hold that
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  Speaker 4: message for themselves as well. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Powerful stuff there, man, But I want to kind of
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  Speaker 2: take a little bit of a deeper dive on the
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  Speaker 2: subject of hope. I had a friend yesterday who had
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  Speaker 2: some very bad news that came into his life and
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  Speaker 2: he was very upset, discouraged, sad, not really feeling a
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  Speaker 2: massive amount of hope in his life at the time.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I was thinking when I was speaking
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  Speaker 2: with him about a message that your colleague rick Yarish,
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  Speaker 2: who was burned alive in Iraq from a roadside barm bomb,
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  Speaker 2: covered in diesel fuel, broken leg, literally his whole body
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  Speaker 2: on fire, sixty percent of his skin burned off, years
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  Speaker 2: of rehab, and I mean literally his ears, his fingers
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  Speaker 2: burned off. This guy's not only carrying himself through life
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  Speaker 2: with sixty percent of his body burned, but also an
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  Speaker 2: artificial leg. And his message to me something that is
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  Speaker 2: always resonated with me. I know you've heard the same
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  Speaker 2: thing from rick Is and I was trying to push
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  Speaker 2: this yesterday with my friend that Rick reminds us that
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  Speaker 2: bad things will always always happen to us. But think
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  Speaker 2: of some of these these things in life that happen,
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  Speaker 2: whether there's suddenly or whether we're expecting them to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe someone that's that's dying, maybe something that is we're
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: in the process of losing losses is very very hard
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  Speaker 2: to process, and sometimes we're never really able to fully
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: process it. But think of these these events in your
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: life as opportunities to be on the other side of
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: them and to look back at them in the rear
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: view mirror and say, I got through it. I'm still alive.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: It sucked and it's probably going to stay with me forever,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: but I have hope in that I will be able
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: to withstand the next event that presents itself to me.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: And I you know, I was trying to push this
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: yesterday and I don't know if I'm finding the right
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: words here or not. I think you know what I'm
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: talking about, though, Winton.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, And it's you know, as it's that that mindset
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: that you know, today's today's not great, Today might be awful.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: Today is that moment of grief, but it's that mindset
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: that that's not going to be forever like it is today,
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: that tomorrow is going to be different, and there's different
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: possibilities tomorrow than there are today, and we just have
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: to keep that mindset and to move through. And when
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: we go through those challenges that we face in life.
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: The loss, the heartache, the heartbreak, as we move through them,
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: we grow and we change because we've persevered through that hardship.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: And we come out in a different place, and that
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: different place leads us to different opportunities, and we can't
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: see those opportunities where we are now because we're not
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: in that that place. We're not you know, sometimes I
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: think about it as that you know that I like
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: being out in nature and hiking, and you know, you
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: spend the time struggling to hike up the mountain.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: And your view changes. You can see things that you
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: couldn't see when you were down in the valley.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: And and that's how that's one of my mindsets for
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: when I'm going through a struggle is you know, this
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: is this is climbing up that next hill, that next mountain,
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: And the one thing I know is when I get there,
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: the view is going.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: To look different.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: And that's that hold on possibilities exists, because there's going
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: to be something different when you when you get to tomorrow.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: You might run into It might be as simple as
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: running into.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: A different person in the grocery store that says something
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: to you and it totally changes.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Something for you. See, you don't know.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: I'm real glad you're saying this right now, because I
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: also know, especially the fact that you're in Indianapolis. Right now,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: you're not aware, at least I don't think you are,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: that we've had hearing Fremont. We've had a particularly rough
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks in the news with some real pain
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: and heartache. We've had several fatalities on our roads, local
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: people that are well known and well loved. Young girl
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: twenty six years old crashed her motorcycle. She's no longer
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: with us. Just recently, a few days later, a father,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: two kids, eight years old and two hit head on.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: The kids didn't make it. The father did. Yeah, our
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: you know, And I called the other day. I called
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Tom uh to just just tell him, hey, man, we've
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: got some heavy stuff that we're carrying around here in
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: central Vermont right now. It is fair to say that
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: many Vermonters who are grieving right now aren't feeling a
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: huge amount of positivity and hope right now. M Sometimes
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: we just have to say this sucks, and it will
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: always suck. It will never this will never turn into
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: anything positive. We can have fundraisers, we can begin scholarships,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: we can create annual events around some of these horrible
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: things that have happened, and we have in the past,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: but it's okay to say, you know what, We're just
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: never going to get over this. We need to hold
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: each other close. We need to rethink the way we
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: carry about our days. We need to make sure that
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: we're spending the amount of time that we need to
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: spend with our family and our friends. We need to
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: make sure that we end phone calls with I love you,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: if you love that person. We need to just stop
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: and take a deep breath. I mean, I just had
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: a father in here not too long ago, a couple
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: of weeks ago. He'll be back in tomorrow. Whose son
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: sober for six years, six years, everything's going great for him,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: has a relapse and overdoses and dies. I mean, you know,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: And I was trying. I'm trying to tell tom this
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: on the phone. I mean, there's there. I'm just gonna
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: be honest with you. There's a lot of great things
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: going on. There's a lot of good there's a lot
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: of great stuff that's happening. I was just talking about
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: what's happening in Curry Park and our community and and
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: just getting together and being with one another. But there's
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: some really really heavy, heavy stuff that's happening right now.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on? Man? I don't know
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: if the planets are aligned, but it's it's it's almost
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: like Vermoners are almost afraid to check the news. It's
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: it's it's like every day or every other day, man.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: And I'm listen, you know me winning. I'm not trying
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: to be a negative Nancy here. I'm not trying to
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: be a Debbie Downer. I'm just saying, how do we
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: find the hope that we're going to get through this
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: and that tomorrow's going to be better?
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: How do we do that? Well?
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: I think it's it's finding those moments and for gratitude.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: And you know, I think I think back to and
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: they mentioned Father's Day and I was twenty five when
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: my dad passed away. You know, so we're you know,
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: over thirty six years ago, thirty six I don't know,
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: I can't do my math right now, but over thirty
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: years ago, and.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: I still find those moments. You know, he built the.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: House I grew up in, and my allowance growing up
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: was doing work on the house, whether it was putting
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: a drop ceiling in or wiring a plug or And
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: I still find those moments for that gratitude when I'm
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: doing a project for the skills that he taught me
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: all those years ago, and all of those people that
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: have been with us that are no longer with us
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: have left us those gifts of gratitude, and part of
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: the way that I get through things is to think
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: about those moments and.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Cherished those moments.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: Of gratitude for the joy they brought us when they
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: were with us, and that keeps them to some degree
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: for me anyway with me and helps me move through
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: the things that I need to move through, because everybody
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: is struggling with different things. Some are extremely tragic and
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: the loss of a life one way or another.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Others are are our.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: Own challenges and expectations we put on ourselves that we
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: may or may not be meeting. And it's the way
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: through is to find those moments of gratitude and positivity.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: And express them.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, don't tap the brakes, get right out there
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: and express them.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Brian McKeon has sat on this couch several times right
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: here next to me, and he is he's a gratitude guy,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: practices it by verbalizing it. Every day, goes for a
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: walk and lists off the things that he's that he's
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: gracious for in his life, and some of these things,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: and we've talked about this, are right in front of
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: us that we for whatever reason, we're just we're comfortable
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: with it. It's the norm. We take it for granted.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: It's it's uh, you know, just going out to the
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: garden last night for me, for me barefoot, planting the
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: rest of the vegetables and water in the garden and
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: looking up at a beautiful twilight sky while I was
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: doing this. Little things like that. But we're so clogged
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: up and fogged up in our minds, preoccupied distracted with
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: so much in our lives that just really doesn't have
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: a whole hell of a lot of substance to it.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Went you know what I'm saying.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: Yep, Yeah, it's it's those things that you know, we
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: had a little bit of rain last night. My brother
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: in law has a nice covered porch and just sitting
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: out there, you know, I was thinking, this is a
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: beautiful yeah night, right, you know, the rain's coming down.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: I'm thinking, yeah, the flowers are getting water, the grass
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: is getting what they need, and.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: It's just being grateful for those those little things.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: You know, that that first zip of coffee in the morning, Yeah,
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: is an opportunity just to express gratitude for the morning.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: In the day, Yeah, just waking up, yep, and beginning
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: your day. And it may not always begin right and wonderful,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: but we've got a day in front of us to
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: do and to choose however we want to spend it.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I want to great stuff when I want to. I
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: want to talk about before we close out this morning,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: about your thoughts on the art. And I don't know
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: if that's the right word, or maybe the skill, and
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: maybe that's not the right word either. I don't know
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: about listening to others. You and I both have had
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: conversations about this before that, and you've we both have said,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: and you've told me several times that there is a
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: world of difference between listening and hearing. Hearing is by
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: a listening is something that is so much beyond that.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: It is so hard to listen to others when you've
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: got your own echo chamber going on in your head.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: You know you're right, You know that this is the
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: way that others should think about this should see it,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: and that frankly, if they're not aligned with how you
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: see it, they're grossly missing the ball. So how is
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: it possible for us to shut up and listen, truly
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: listen to what someone else is saying or listening to
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: their body language.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know, we talk about behavior as
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: a form of communication, our bodies language and how we
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: move and carry ourselves or a form of communication. And
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: I think really for listening is for me anyway, It's
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: it's about humility in some ways in that if I
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: really am listening to somebody else, I'm getting myself out
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: of the way. Oftentimes, somebody starts talking and we're already
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: in our head formulating what we want to say, yeah,
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: and how we want to jump in, or somebody has
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: is sharing their experience, you know, you're talking about cooking
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: on the grill and playing catch with your daughter, you know,
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: And I might be tempted to talk to want to
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: jump in and share, Oh yeah, I had this great
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: chick in the other night and we did this and
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: we did you know. And but if I'm really listening
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: to you, I'm getting myself out of the way. My
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: story isn't the one that needs to be important right now.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: It's your story. And you know, in our circle practice,
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: that's that's really the key role of the talking piece
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: is if you have the talking piece, you get to share,
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: and if you don't have the talking piece, you need
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: to be listening. And oftentimes people will cut each other
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: off to share their side, and they want to share
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: what they did that's related to that topic or question,
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: and they're not really letting somebody finish, and they're not
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: really listening to somebody to understand what they're saying.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: Because sometimes people the words people use are not.
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: Really what they're what they're saying, there's a message that
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: they're communicating that's on those words, but it's only they
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: can only get it to that word level at that point,
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: so that that's really you know, the art of listening
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: is really kind of for me getting yourself out of
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: the way and being present with that person in what
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: they're saying and how they're saying it.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: You know what I've realized. I've realized that I'm a
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: better listener when I'm on the air, significantly better when
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: I'm on the air, and significantly poor at it when
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I'm not on the air. And I need to do
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: a much better job not just with my wife and
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: not just with my little girl, but also with my friends.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: And you're right. I mean before while they're speaking, you're
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: you've got your your script. It's it's plugged in and
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: ready to go in your head.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: We just got to comment here saying hearing is just
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: acknowledging the words someone says. Listening is to actually understand them. Wow.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: Mm hm.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: Not an easy thing to do, man, No, And there's
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: so much to that understanding because it comes with the
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: person's tone and their body language and everything to that understanding.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: Why do you think you're a better listener on the air,
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: I think it's because I'm plugged in and I'm live.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: H I think I think there's a greater pressure for
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: me during a live interview like we're having right now,
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: and and you know, in real life off the air,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: which wow, that's a whole another planet. Yeah, there's just
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: so much that's being said and so much that's happening,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: and trying to work out the schedule. What about that
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: birthday party this week? And we got the Mountaineers game
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: we're going to also what do we you know, what
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: are we having for dinner tonight? I mean, it's just
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: so much that that's difficult to filter through. I don't know. Man.
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think another part of listening is that
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: that connection piece is that when you you know, I
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: think sometimes people interrupt because they're they're trying to make
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: that connection and share their story that relates to somebody
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: else's story so that they can see that they have
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: a shared story and a shared a shared connection and
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: a shared Yeah.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: But we've all met those We've all met those people
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: went and that were like, oh, yeah, I did that
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: all I had the same thing happened to me one
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: time at band camp. We've all heard that. And and
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: the one uppers too. That's a whole, another whole, another episode.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: We're not going we're not going down that road today whining.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: But yeah, man, it's it's it's not easy. And and
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Thomas has talked a lot about this before. And you
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: can see Tom's uh, his eyes in his brain and
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: what's going on when he's listening. He is very good
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: at zip in his lip, especially in Circle. But you
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: can see in his eyes that he's processing and he's
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: got a millillion and one follow up questions, yeah, and
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: comments and comments, not just questions, comments.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: To He's he's looking for those connections among all of
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: the people in Circle. In response to the question. And
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: sometimes they're not obvious. Sometimes they're a little layer deep
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: and he's unpacking that in his mind as he's listening.
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: And you know, as as we're talking this morning, and
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: you know, we're talking about people that have gone through
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: struggles and are dealing with the loss and and things,
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: and that's listening to them is important. And you know,
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: asking a question about you know, what, what are some
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: of the positive stories that somebody that may not be
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: with us, What are some of the positive memories with
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: that person? And really be present with them while they're talking.
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: It's one of the ways that we kind of take
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: their hand and help them, help them continue to move
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: through the grief and the sadness that they're currently in
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: to see that there are some possibilities that exist.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: Wow, right now we are approaching we're over the halfway
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: point of June. The school years are finishing up. If
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: they haven't already finished. Sweethearts and Heroes is going to
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: be very active this summer working with line workers and
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: different businesses and companies and speaking engagements and so on
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: and so forth. But what about schools next year? What
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: about the schools that want to renew their contracts with
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: you guys. They want you back. By the way, Thank
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: God for all of the North Country Chevy dealers who
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: are supporting you guys and making sure that there isn't
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: a school out there that says we just can't have
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Sweethearts and Heroes, we can't afford it, because we've got
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: all these North Country Chevy dealers working together, pulling together saying,
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: don't worry about it. We're going to get you there
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: because it's that important. But what about schools that not
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: only want to have you back, but also haven't yet
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: discovered Sweethearts and Heroes and what they can do for
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: their students for their administration next year. We want to
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: have you, we're thinking about it. We have some questions.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: What do they do right now? When?
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: So the best way is you go on Sweetheartsanheroes dot
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: com and there's a contact forum on there, and then
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: I'll that contact form will come into us and I'll
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: set up a time to meet via zoom or a
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: phone call and talk about our programs and services and
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: we'll figure out what's going to work best for the school.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: We have a range from our presentations to our circle
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: visits to training students to training staff and circle. We
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: have our online lessons and resources, so there's a lot
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: of different ways that we can help support schools and
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: our calendar we're starting to we're booking for next year.
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: I'm in the process of confirming right now with a
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: lot of schools that we talked to in the last
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: month or so that we got tentative things on the
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: calendar and they were waiting for school budgets and things
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: to be approved. So I'm spending a lot of time
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: now circling back to those schools saying, Okay, are we
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: a go for this date? Can I make it confirmed
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: on our calendar? And so we're booking next year right now.
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: But but he has a question, just wants more information
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: and whether you're a school, whether you're a business or industry,
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: because like we've been talking about, we've we do our
• 48:11
  Speaker 5: circle work with Lineman groups, we do our circle work
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: with sheriff's offices. Any place that you've got a staff
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: and a group together, circle. Tom when he ran his restaurant,
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: did circle with his restaurant staff and it brought the
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: restaurant staff closer together and they were more productive and it.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: Turned his business around. Just by doing circle and building
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: that building that connection.
• 48:42
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  Speaker 2: Thanks to Deb Phillips from the World for hopping on
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  Speaker 2: Gives us a little snapshot of what's happening in and
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• 54:53
  Speaker 2: busy traffic, got people enjoying some of the sunshine on
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  Speaker 2: Community calendar, yes, Gino reminding us, and we talked about
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  Speaker 2: this earlier this morning, and I'm gonna take a dive
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  Speaker 2: into the community calendar right now. We talked about what's
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: happening in Curry Park today, and we're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about it again right now. The food trucks, the farmer's market,
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  Speaker 2: the live music Curry Park tonight. Gino's going to be
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  Speaker 2: over there with the heading church. Great people doing great things.
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  Speaker 2: Grab some of their signs. GINO, you owe me a
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  Speaker 2: couple of signs for the window here on North Main Street.
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  Speaker 2: And GINO, if you're listening, you owe me some airtime too.
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  Speaker 2: You better get in here, sit down, chew the fat
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: with me, hang out. Wing Wednesday is on over at
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  Speaker 2: the VFW Post seven ninety and Barry at five o'clock tonight.
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  Speaker 2: I stopped off there a few nights ago during the
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  Speaker 2: Men's Horseshoe League. They had burgers under grill and all
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: kinds of stuff, and I'm like, the funniest thing. JD.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, get over here. Let me tell you. I
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: would throw one horseshoe on your team, and I would
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: throw it four maybe five feet on a good day,
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: and that would be the end of my run on
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: your horseshoe league team. Anyway, Thursday we got racing under
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: the lights tomorrow at thunder Road flying Tiger's Triple Crown
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  Speaker 2: seven o'clock. I'm not sure about the weather on that.
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: I'll be watching it carefully along with you because it's
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: not supposed to be great. Just relax, will be okay.
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  Speaker 2: We might get it in Friday Father's Day weekend. Wow,
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  Speaker 2: can I say the words car shows?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: I can. Mayo Healthcare has THEIRS on Friday in Northfield
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  Speaker 2: from eleven to two. The barbecue is going to be going.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be great. Eighth two meets. They've got
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  Speaker 2: theirs going on every Friday at the I think in
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  Speaker 2: at the Parking Ride in Willison. I got to get
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  Speaker 2: Cyrus back on. They're doing great stuff over there in Burlington.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: What else Friday Toy Story five Premiere Paramount twin right
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  Speaker 2: here in Barry. I'll be there plugged in live streaming
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  Speaker 2: talking with you while you're waiting in line getting your
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  Speaker 2: tickets or maybe you're getting in advance at FGB Theaters
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  Speaker 2: dot com. I don't know. Get your popcorn, get the
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: cap and butter on there, get a drink. Come on indoors.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Toy Story five Friday night live streaming right out front
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  Speaker 2: of the paramount is where I will be. Please come
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  Speaker 2: give me a hug. Yeah, Ginos saying Pasta Ray might
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: be up at Curry Park. Pasta Ray and I have
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: played an amazing game of phone tag. She won. I
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: hope to hope to meet her soon, maybe tonight. Also
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: this weekend, kicking off Friday, the Queechi Balloon Festival. I
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: hope the weather's going cooperate so they can get that in.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: It's so much fun. We were in a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years ago. I just loved it. Saturday Lacing Up for
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  Speaker 2: Cancer Thanks to Erica Scott for coming on the air
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  Speaker 2: with me. For over two decades. They've been doing this,
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  Speaker 2: the Lamoyle Area Cancer Network, pulling together a lot of money.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: We're talking about three million dollars that they've raised over
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  Speaker 2: the last twenty years to do what with to give
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  Speaker 2: to Vermonors to help them well they're going through treatment.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing. The walk is happening on Saturday People's Academy.
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  Speaker 2: Get up there, walk for the fighters, Walk for the survivors,
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  Speaker 2: Walk for the ones that we miss every single day.
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  Speaker 2: Be there if you can on Saturday for that. You
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  Speaker 2: Sunday is today Wednesday? Oh my god, Sunday, Jdy, you're
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: talking about Sunday on a Wednesday. Well, because these are
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: the kinds of things you need to be thinking about.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: You need to start planning your weekend right now. There's
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: so much going on in Central Vermont, and so much
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: of it is more than good. It's great. They get
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: the food trucks over at the Berlin Mall on Sundays.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: I know some of the you'rs saying Central Vermont Marketplace.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: Others are saying Berlin Mall either one, don't care where
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  Speaker 2: it is. Get up there Sundays every Sunday, all summer long,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: from noon to seven. Food trucks up there. If you'd
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: like to be a vendor I'm gonna give you a
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  Speaker 2: phone number here. It's Annie Riley and her number is
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  Speaker 2: two seven to two ten sixty six. Dropping that into
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  Speaker 2: the comments too. See, you don't even have to take notes.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: Call Annie teller you'd like to be a vendor for
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: the food trucks. Let's see. Deb Phillips this morning was
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: talking about the Berry City Wreck Department bringing back their
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: summer camps. Yeah, there's just get on their page, man,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: Barry City Wreck Department, get on the page. We got
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: the second annual downtown Barry Wing Walk that's coming up
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: in the twenty seventh. Oh, on the twenty fourth, that's
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: next weekend, right think it is. Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: in Tonbridge, twenty fifth annual. It's gonna be amazing, all
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: star lineup huge. It's going twenty fourth, twenty fifth, twenty sixth,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: twenty seventh and the twenty eighth. That's a lot of bluegrass.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: If you love bluegrass, the place to be is in
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: Tunbridge Jenny Brook Bluegrass dot Com. Thank you, Taylor. I
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: was afraid I would forget. Taylor made sure that wouldn't happen.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: The Father's Day Chicken Barbecue at the East Very Fire station.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: It's Sunday. Gotta get that into my notes. I'm sorry
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: that I that one slipped by me. It's a big one.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: How long have they been doing that? Anyways? Taylor? Do
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: you know freaking long ass time? Long time? You can
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: smell the chicken from that Father's Day barbecue at the
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: Eastbury fire Station. I think you could probably smell that
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: chicken in China, especially if you've got a day that's
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: a little windy. Holy moly, everything everywhere smells great. I
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: want to tell you about a couple of things here
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: happening in July, and I know it's a ways away.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: This morning, Whitten and I were talking about a lot
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: of things. If you missed it, go back in and
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: give it a re listen. But a lot of what
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: we talked about is how many of us are grieving,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: and you know, we don't even have to we don't
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: even have to know personally these folks that have perished recently,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: and some of these tragic accidents on our roadways. Hearing
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: fromont just reading the stories, just seeing it seeing it
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: in the feed of Facebook is enough to impact us.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: And there's that There's been a lot of it, and
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: it's heavy Central from mont Home Health and Hospice has
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: a grief support group that is going to go for
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: six weeks. I'm going to give you a phone number
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: here to register for it. I believe that it's virtual.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: You can join from your phone, you can join from
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: your laptop, from home wherever. This is really important stuff here.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: If there's nothing that's saying that you have to commit
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: to all six weeks, I'm going to put this right
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: in the comments right now. If this is something that
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: can help you, I want you to be able to
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: jump at it right there. Two two three, eighteen seventy
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  Speaker 2: eight to register and it starts up July seventh again,
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  Speaker 2: runs for six weeks, no charge.
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  Speaker 4: Do it.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: The other thing tomorrow Tomorrow, right here, unaired out, Vincent
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: Arbusio Senior is going to be coming back and sitting
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: on the couch. This is the father whose son just
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: overdosed and passed away in Randolph or Royalton. He's gonna
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: be on the couch with me tomorrow with an amazing
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: follow up to his first interview with me. And he's
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: gonna be talking about something that he has organized that
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: he was alluding to that he wanted to do well.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: It's one hundred percent now. It's going to happen at
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: Vincent's campground in South Royalton. Vincent's Battle of the Bands
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: July eleventh. I don't know what you got planned for
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: July eleventh, but rethink it. It put this at the
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: top of your priority list. It's gonna be unbelievable. He's
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: gonna be in here tomorrow. He's going to tell you
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: all the bands that are going to be there. I
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: think both theyers one of them. I think we're gonna
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: have another musician who's going to be with Vincent tomorrow
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: here on the couch. This is one not to miss tomorrow.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: Trust me, Vincent's Battle of the Bands. If you haven't
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: seen the poster, you will. It's on the aired up page.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: Please share it. It's going to be a big deal.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: That's on July eleventh. July twelfth, we have a couple
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: of things going on in addition to the Upper Valley
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: Cars and Coffee. A car show that's happening at the
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: Powerhouse Mall in West lab which is going to be
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: a huge deal. We have the grand opening of the
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: new restore. It is going to be not at the
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: Big Lots building, which I screwed up and told everyone
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: that it was. It is not going to be in
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: the Joe Ane Fabrics building like some people are still saying.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: It is going to be in the Advanced Autoparts in
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: that plaza in Berlin. July twelfth, eleven am for the
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: grand opening. I'll be there and I'll bring you there
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: with me. If you can't make it, I'll show you
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: around with a live live stream. We'll do a few interviews.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: This can be live music. It's going to be a
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: great time. July twelfth, again, that's a Sunday. I would
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: love to see you there, Taylor. Thanks for reminding me
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: about the Father's Day chicken barbecue. God, I can't believe.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: There's just so much going on. I can't believe I
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: forgot about that. Hey, thanks to Travis Payette for hopping
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: on the air with me the other day. I found him.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: I tracked him down. Iron Order Motorcycle Club doing a
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: kid's free bicycle giveaway on July twenty fifth, Summer Street Taffn,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: Travis and the rest of the Iron Order Motorcycle Club
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: Rock Solid Crew went out and purchased twenty two new bicycles.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: Purchased them outright and then purchased outright twenty two helmets
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: to go with those new bicycles. And they're going to
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: be giving you you kids a chance to win every
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: single one of them at five o'clock on Saturday, July
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: twenty fifth again at Summer Street Taffron right there in
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: the parking lot. Free entry doesn't cost anything. Getting kids
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: on bicycles. I think it's fantastic. If you haven't seen
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: this poster online, I'll tell you where you will see it,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: right in the window here on North Main Street at
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: the aired out studios. Super super cool stuff. I'll see
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: you around. We'll see you tomorrow morning, maybe see you
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: Thursday night at thunder Road Flying Tigers. If the weather cooperates,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: have a beautiful rest of your day, be kind, take
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: a deep breath, take care of yourself, and if it
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: means that the chicken on the grill is going to
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: burn a little bit because you've got bigger and more
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: important priorities, do just that. We'll see you tomorrow morning
• 1:10:54
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