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The Loop in Sun Prairie · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Sean praibowl with you Joy seven storm track forecast from
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  Speaker 1: meteorologist Dana Fulton. She says, mostly sunny today, a high
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  Speaker 1: year seventy, Partly cloudy tonight with slight chance of isolated shower,
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  Speaker 1: low forty nine. Tomorrow it's Tuesday, partly sunning, slight chance
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  Speaker 1: of an isolated shower early tomorrow and highest seventy. And
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  Speaker 1: for Wednesday, we love Wednesdays. Mostly sunny, a high of
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  Speaker 1: seventy five. Currently it is fifty one. We have sunshine
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  Speaker 1: here at thirteen ten wib A. Speaking of the sun,
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  Speaker 1: let's head on up to beautiful sun Prairie and we
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  Speaker 1: are joined by Rachel Kansenmeyer. She is with the Loop
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  Speaker 1: Sun Prairie. Rachel, welcome to the program.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to talk with you. And I had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to check check out a little bit of information
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  Speaker 1: about the Loop of course online the loopsp dot org
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  Speaker 1: as the website the loopsp dot org for people that
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  Speaker 1: don't know about the Loop. What is the Loop?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So we are a five oh one C three
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  Speaker 2: non community flex space, so in short, community center, So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we have basically we're just kind of creating a space
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  Speaker 2: that's inclusive space, warm and welcoming for folks to come
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  Speaker 2: together and just kind of yeah, be together.
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  Speaker 1: It's such a cool concept. And I see the word
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  Speaker 1: flex space and I know, like and like the home
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  Speaker 1: building world, they always talk about flex space, like like
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  Speaker 1: areas of the house that can be used for multi purposes,
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  Speaker 1: similar kind of thing here. You guys have space where
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  Speaker 1: you can do whether it's concerts or like bridle showers
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  Speaker 1: or like, is that kind of the concept here, Yes, yep, it's. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We our space is a little under I think a
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  Speaker 2: thousand square feet, so it's an intimate space, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's designed it's basically one open room and it's designed
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  Speaker 2: to be able to accommodate different events like you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: bridle showers, baby showers, birthday parties, and then we also
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  Speaker 2: have live music we've been hosting, We've done mini makers
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  Speaker 2: markets where we have some farmer's markets that we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be doing in November. So yeah, it's just kind
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  Speaker 2: of a space we you know, we rented out for
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  Speaker 2: private rentals, and then we also want to you know,
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  Speaker 2: incorporate more community you know, public events like the live
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  Speaker 2: music and the markets and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's fantastic talk this morning with Rachel Katzmeyer with
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  Speaker 1: The Loop and Sun Prairie. Rachel, let's talk about the background.
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  Speaker 1: What was kind of the impetus for this, and was
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  Speaker 1: this kind of what's that void area that that the
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  Speaker 1: Loop is filling.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so my husband and I my step son, he's nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, when he was a you know, a teenager,
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  Speaker 2: my husband and I noticed it was actually kind of
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  Speaker 2: a lack of a space for him and his friends
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  Speaker 2: to hang out. So it actually started with this kind
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  Speaker 2: of idea of how can we provide a space for
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  Speaker 2: teens or young adults, And from there it just kind
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  Speaker 2: of grew into, well, let's not just focus on teens
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  Speaker 2: or young adults, let's focus on everyone in the community.
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  Speaker 2: We noticed there was a shortage of event venues, private rental,
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  Speaker 2: you know, spaces, stuff like that, so we just kind of,
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  Speaker 2: as we were, you know, coming up with kind of
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  Speaker 2: the concept, it just kept growing and growing to include
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  Speaker 2: more groups of people. And and yeah, it was just
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  Speaker 2: kind of a creating a space where you know, people
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  Speaker 2: could just kind of come and hang out, and we
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  Speaker 2: don't really have those spaces anymore.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, and Rachel just thing. You mentioned that because
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  Speaker 1: I've noticed there are a lot of communities some of
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  Speaker 1: these just kind of you point out that you don't
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  Speaker 1: really see these much anymore. You're starting to see some
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  Speaker 1: folks saying, hey, there's there is this this space missing it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it used to be, you know, back in
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  Speaker 1: the day, whether it was whether there was church or
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  Speaker 1: whether it was like a community organization. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: those spaces have have gone away, and we forget about
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  Speaker 1: the importance of having, you know, a useful area for
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  Speaker 1: the community to get together, and whether it's an event
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  Speaker 1: like a like an art show or you mentioned things
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  Speaker 1: like the farmer's market or or something like that, having
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  Speaker 1: a place for that is really really important. And I
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  Speaker 1: had a chance to to check out your Facebook page
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  Speaker 1: and sy and kind of get some you a look
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  Speaker 1: as kind of what it looks like on the inside.
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  Speaker 1: It is a really cool space. Can you tell us
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about the building, of course you're at
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  Speaker 1: two two East Main Street and some prairie, a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of the history of the building and what was
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  Speaker 1: there and how you guys converted into the space that
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  Speaker 1: it is now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it actually, yeah, it's in the historic part
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  Speaker 2: of Sun Prairie. So it's been there for a very
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  Speaker 2: long time. It's been actually the kind of original drag
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  Speaker 2: of downtown Sun Prairie, you know, back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, there's been so many different things there there
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  Speaker 2: as a craft store, a toy store, a dry cleaners,
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  Speaker 2: let's see what else there's It's it's been a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But so basically, I, my friend and I we would
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  Speaker 2: walk every morning after our kids would get on the
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  Speaker 2: bus and go to school, and I would walk past
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  Speaker 2: the space and I would just look in. The door
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  Speaker 2: has this really cool nineteen sixties door, so it's just
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  Speaker 2: really unique. But I would always like peek in and
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  Speaker 2: just kind of be like, I want this space, Like
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  Speaker 2: there's so much that could be done, you know. I
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  Speaker 2: just like I had a vision with this space. And
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  Speaker 2: so I ended up hunting the landlord down. He's a
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  Speaker 2: very hard person to find, so I did, you know,
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  Speaker 2: my detective work on the internet, and I ended up
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  Speaker 2: actually catching him on his landline and I talked to
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  Speaker 2: him for about forty five minutes and just kind of
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  Speaker 2: told him my thoughts about creating this space and you know,
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  Speaker 2: for the community, and how I want to we want
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  Speaker 2: to really kind of liven up the downtown area again.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, a lot of focus has been put
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  Speaker 2: on the west side of some prairie, which is great,
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  Speaker 2: but it seems like this historic downtown is kind of
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  Speaker 2: being forgotten about. So you know, he he was kind
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  Speaker 2: of like, I'm not sure I really want to rent it,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, okay. So then the next day
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  Speaker 2: I called him back and I just you know, was like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: can I just come in the space and feel the
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  Speaker 2: energy and just kind of talk with you a little more.
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  Speaker 2: And he was open to it, and by the end
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  Speaker 2: of you know, me leaving that meeting, he had agreed
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  Speaker 2: to give us a shot. So yeah, so it's pretty cool,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, there was like so much I knew
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  Speaker 2: there was a lot of beauty in the space, it
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  Speaker 2: just kind of had to be freshened up of it.
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  Speaker 2: So he actually let me come in take the plaster
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  Speaker 2: off the wall, so there's the original brick beneath, so
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  Speaker 2: we have, yeah, the exposed brick now, and I tore
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  Speaker 2: down the old drop ceiling. We still have the drop ceiling,
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  Speaker 2: but now it's white. So it just kind of gives
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  Speaker 2: us this like new life. But it's everyone who comes
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  Speaker 2: in this space, talks about the energy there and how
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  Speaker 2: it makes them feel calm, and yeah, there's just something
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  Speaker 2: about the space that it just has this like really calming,
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  Speaker 2: nice feeling just to be in it. So it's it's
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  Speaker 2: a special Yeah, it's a special place.
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  Speaker 1: It looks absolutely amazing and folks can check it out
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  Speaker 1: online the loop sp dot org. That's the loop sp
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  Speaker 1: dot org. People are saying, we're exactly in sup Perri
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  Speaker 1: the pizza joints right across the road. If I if
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  Speaker 1: I'm visioning in envisioning it, am I thinking of the
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  Speaker 1: right right intersection there right? That's uh selvy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're we're kind of like a kiddy corner from Salvators.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah or yeah, and there used to be a bead
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  Speaker 2: shop right across the street too, So yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 2: unique little space. It has kind of like a teal exterior.
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  Speaker 2: We have the loop on our windows. We're working on getting.
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  Speaker 2: We want to get like a nice big we have
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  Speaker 2: there's like a wood board on top for perfect for
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  Speaker 2: like a letter a reader board sign, So we're hoping
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  Speaker 2: to get one of those so we can like kind
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  Speaker 2: of put our events up there, and you know, we'd
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  Speaker 2: like to eventually do like where people can submit something
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  Speaker 2: that they want, like a phrase or something that they
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  Speaker 2: want to have up for like a week. So then
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  Speaker 2: you know, people could drive by and just see the
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  Speaker 2: different things that we're doing. But yeah, that's that's further
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  Speaker 2: down the road.
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  Speaker 1: So sounds super cool and Rachel real quick. For people
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  Speaker 1: that are interested, how do you go about bookings? And
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  Speaker 1: and how would they start that conversation If somebody saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I've got a band or I've got my you know,
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  Speaker 1: my my uh uh me and me and my friends
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  Speaker 1: are are artists, we want to do a maybe an
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  Speaker 1: art show, do a gallery type thing. How how would
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  Speaker 1: somebody get in contact with how how do the bookings
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  Speaker 1: work for the Loop.
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  Speaker 2: So basically they could go to our website, the Loop
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  Speaker 2: sp dot org and then if you if they scroll down,
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  Speaker 2: there's a contact us button. So basically just contact us
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  Speaker 2: through our website and then it's usually me, you know,
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  Speaker 2: behind the screen responding to people. So yeah, that's the
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  Speaker 2: way to do it. Otherwise you can even you know,
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  Speaker 2: message us through Facebook or Instagram, so whatever is easiest.
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  Speaker 2: And then yeah, just kind of I'm open to all
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  Speaker 2: ideas and we really just want to support. You know,
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  Speaker 2: people's ideas and what they want to do, So don't
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  Speaker 2: hesitate to reach out if you think it's a silly idea.
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  Speaker 2: Chances are we're going to love it. So yeah, just
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  Speaker 2: go to our website and that's the that's a good
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  Speaker 2: way to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I also have upcoming events on the website as well. Again,
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  Speaker 1: that website, the Loop l oop the loop sp dot org.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Loop sp dot org. Rachel, thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for your time, thank you for the cool work
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  Speaker 1: that you're doing in sub Prairie and look forward to
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  Speaker 1: continued success and talking with you very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, awesome, thank you for having me in.
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  Speaker 1: Take care and that's Rachel Katzmeyer. She is with the
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  Speaker 1: Loop and sub Prairie again. That website the Loop sp
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  Speaker 1: dot org. That's the Loop s p dot org. More
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  Speaker 1: of Madison in the Morning is next right here on
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