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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's time now for our community connection
and we're talking with Mike dump with

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Okay Water Sports, and my goodness, it's that time of year again.

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We're going to get some warm weather
and let's go play in the water.

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That's right, I mean, it
is that time of year. It's a

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beautiful day out there today, and
we're just looking forward to a great season,

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a great summer, and hope everyone
has a chance to come out to

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Riversport now with river Sport. This
is really a cool place. If you've

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not been there, it's the best
part of the fun of going to Oklahoma

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City because when you think Oklahoma City
sometimes you think bricktown. You think,

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well, Okay, it's a it's
a big city. You don't think about

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the water too much. But you've
changed everybody's way of thinking over the last

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three or four years. Well,
we'd like to think so. I mean,

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this is truly unique, not only
for our Oklahoma City, but really

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for the whole state. This is
there's really nowhere else on earth that has

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everything that we have in a downtown
area with the whitewater rafting, all the

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kayaking, the tallest ropes core really
of its kind in the country. So

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it's a pretty unique thing that we
have here. Now, correct me if

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I'm wrong. You even have Olympic
athletes who trained there on occasion, Am

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I right? We do. We're
an official US Olympic and Paralympic training site.

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We're the only river in the entire
country with that designation. So you

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know, it's a really cool thing
that you can come and go kayaking,

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go rafting on the same in the
same places that these athletes train. So,

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you know, we think, you
know, we'd like to say a

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lot, talk a lot about authenticity
that this is not a theme park.

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I mean, you're having a lot
of fun like you would at an amusement

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park, but you're doing at a
place that athletes trains and it's for everyone.

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It is because there's a lot of
amusement there. There's a lot of

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fun. The whole family can participate. You're gonna get some exer signs,

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you're gonna get some sunshine, you're
probably gonna get you a little bit wet,

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but for most of all, you're
gonna have fun. That's right,

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I mean fun. You know,
we love to see all the smiles and

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I mean this is it's truly incredible
that you have Class three and four.

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It's right here in downtown Oklahoma City. You know, we have professionally trained

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raft guide so you don't need any
experience and uh and you're just gonna have

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a total blast. I mean it
used to be to go to Colorado to

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do something like this, and we
have it right here. And not only

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that, we've got surfing as well
now and tubing and skiing and you know,

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just so we'll keep you busy all
day. Okay, you had me

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at surfing. I'm an old Florida
boy. So now we had some gentle

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waves on the Gulf coast, a
little bit more exciting on the Atlantic coast.

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I can't wait to see what kind
of what kind of surf you have

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right there in Okac. Yeah,
we have a surf Okac, which is

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a it's a flow rider system.
We're actually going to have a national championship

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for surfing this summer. But it's
something everybody can do. You can you

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can just bodyboard if you don't want
to do the stand up, but we

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you know a lot of people start
you know, doing the bookie boarding,

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then they learn to stand up and
we've got some people that are kind of

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real pros here right in right in
Oklahoma City. So it's it's pretty cool.

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Catch a wave and okay, see, I love it. I love

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it. And on top of that, it's affordable. Families can go there

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and have a good time, and
you know, really it could be an

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annual event for for some families.
You have a little bit, a little

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bit of a drive, it's well
worth it though. Yeah, I mean,

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you can spend the whole day,
like I said. And then we're

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right next to Bricktown, so it's
it's just a great family destination for folks

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across the state. And uh,
and you're, like you said, it's

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affordable and you can do things here
that you just can't do anywhere else.

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I mean by literally walking from surfing
to snow skiing within just a couple hundred

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feet. We have a new snow
skiing snowboarding simulators. So these are things

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you would never think you could do
in Oklahoma. Wow. I like this.

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You know, you're you're keeping folks
home and they're enjoying it, getting

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to see pretty much the different sporting
thing is that they could see in the

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world all right here in their own
backyard that is. How did you come

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up with this idea? Well,
you know, we wanted to kind of

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bolster active outdoor culture, you know, here in Oklahoma. And you know,

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we recognize we don't have mountains or
we don't know the ocean, but

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we you know, we we have
this opportunity to create something that really no

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one's ever done before. And you
know, it's starting to work and just

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getting more people active and realizing that, you know, we do have a

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lot of water in Oklahoma, so
this could ignite an interest in getting into

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paddling. You know, you don't
have to just be in Oklahoma City to

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do that, but we can teach
you and show you all these different things

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that you can do, and then
and then maybe decide, hey, I

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want to go to Colorado and do
real, real whitewater rafting you know at

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some point, or kayaking. But
you know, we have you're not compromising

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here because we've got the full on
Class three and four rapids right here.

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So wow, this is amazing.
You can shoot the rapids, you can

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do some snow skiing and even some
surfing too, while enjoying the nice Oklahoma

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City skyline. How y'all like that? Talk about bonus. Yeah, we

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joke. A lot of people are
so surprised, even people from Colorado are

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coming here to go whitewater kayaking because
it's you know, you can stay on

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the water all day, you ride
up a conveyor belt, there's no busting

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involved, you know, and so
you know, it can be a full

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day on the water and you're staring
at a skyline as you're going down the

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rapids, which I think is about
the only place in the world you do

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that. Usually you're in the mountains
or somewhere in the forest. Oh man,

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this is really too much. This
is really too much. You know,

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I'm very proud of you folks for
having the ingenuity and the wherewithal and

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being able to create the resources in
order to make this possible for all Oklahomas.

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This is really a treasure. You
know when people say Oklahoma, how

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about that? Well, hey,
how about how about what's going on over

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there in your backyard? Yeah?
And you know, the cool thing about

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it is, again for us,
we're a nonprofit. This is about you

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know, encouraging act of outdoor lifestyles
and we have programming that that families can

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get involved in. You know,
we have we have classes. You know,

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you could learn to learn to row
or learn to kayak and ultimately can

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lead to, like like I said, a new a new hobby, a

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new interest. So you know,
I think it's there's there's really something for

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everyone. And literally we've got a
mini ropes course for for five year old

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or to given three year old.
We have tiny little harnesses so you can

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truly bring you know, all ages
to this and have a blast. Well,

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this is just too much fun.
This is just too much fun,

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folks. You're going to have to
see it for yourself. You're gonna have

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to enjoy it for yourself. Get
immersed in it too. What is your

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website so folks can read up on
it. Yeah, it's River Sport OKC

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dot org and it has all the
information about our passes and our schedule.

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We have a lot of events um
coming up. In fact, we've got

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a large scale rowing event this weekend, and we've always have something going on.

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Another thing I highlight is new to
the venue is Barquey which is a

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very large dog park and restaurant and
bar that is on the property. So

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that's a really cool new feature so
you can bring your dog. This is

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this is too much fun. And
where are you located? Right? You're

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right there by Bricktown. What's your
physical address? We're eight hundred River Sport

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Drive, so we're just south of
Bricktown. Very easy to get to.

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So you're a halfway. You're halfway
between there and Toby Keiths Hit. We're

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right just south of Toby Keats.
So if you follow the canal you'll end

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up in the boathouse and the street
at River Sport. Well, whatt dog?

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You know? I know, I
can see it right now. I

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can see it right now. This
is too cool. So, folks,

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if you're looking for a nice little
getaway that's not all that far but still

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a million miles from anywhere, it's
right here in your own backyard. It's

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a in Oklahoma City. It's at
River Sport, and you gotta you just

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gotta check this out. Now.
Do we need reservations? Now? You

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can just show up. You can
book you can get your passes in advance

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online. So it's really up to
you on what you do. Our saturdays

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can get pretty busy, so but
but there's plenty to do. So I

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encourage you to check out our website
and come on out. I want to

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thank you very much for being on
here with us today. And I've given

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us a little sunshine, a little
bit of a smile here too, And

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of course a great idea for a
great getaway. I'd make it Oklahoma City,

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make a river sport. Well,
we welcome everyone down. We promise

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you we'll put a smile in your
face and you'll have a job a lot

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of fun.