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

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It is at time now for our
community connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust. So put
on your dance shoes because we are

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talking with our stars today and they
are the Bartlesville Stars for Pants to Independence.

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Dancing with the Bartlesville Stars, Miss
Sarah Freeman, we see you a

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lot around here. How you been
I'm good, thanks for having us and

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Rusty got we see you in here
usually with Miss Charley. I am that's

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right, I've been good, been
good. All right. So you got

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the hustle, you got the bump, you got the waltz, you got

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the rumba, you got it,
you got it all going on. How

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your ankles holding up, young lady. Yeah, I mean they're hanging up.

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But this isn't this isn't for the
faint of heart. This is some

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rigorous training and practice and coaching.
It's really fun. We're having a great

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time. So Rushy, how you
doing? You kind of mailing it in

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or you No, no, no, no, there's no We are fully

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focused and involved. And I told
my wife after the first couple of practices,

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there's muscles. I didn't realize I
had oh you'll find that. Yeah,

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but no, we're ready. And
you named all those dance routines.

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Ours is next level. It's Ken
and Barbie. Oh that's in Echelona in

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and of itself. Well there you
go together, all right, So tell

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us a little bit, Patsy Independence
Recurts is our wonderful school that's right here

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on the East Frank Phillips Boulevard used
to be the old Will Rogers School,

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and it's a school that is sought
out by a lot of people. There

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are people who actually moved to Bartlesville
just so their kids can attend this school

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and for kids who are on the
autistic spectrum, and they do a wonderful

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job and it is probably one of
the best places you can put your money,

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and especially if you want to have
some fun and watch people dance and

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have fun and do all this.
I understand we have something called virtual ticket

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sales going on. Explain that to
me, So you know what, this

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will be my first year participating in
the first year going it's completely sold out.

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Like it is, it's sold out
weeks ago. But I think partnering

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with kwo in, we were able
to come up with virtual ticket sales,

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so if you were bummed maybe you
didn't get to go in person, No

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worries. If you give a minimum
of fifty dollars, you can go to

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the voting section in the barzel Pti
Dancing with the Stars section. Then you'll

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get a link to watch it in
about three or four a few days before

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before the show. Yeah. Please, It's another way to another way to

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get involved, another way to drum
up some more money for this wonderful organization.

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I drive by it every single day
before going and leaving work and didn't

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realize the impact that really made to
our community. And so when we did

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kind of our kickoff session the mid
August, it's easy, you know,

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why not give to this great organization? Now, Sarah, you've been working

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hard, and you always work hard
at everything you do. But but this

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has been a lot of fun.
But it's also been a lot of work,

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hasn't it? It has? But
you know, what better way to

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support the community than by making just
a complete fool of ourselves. Oh no,

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We've all kinds of people, and
I'm raising money for a great you're

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having fun, don't don't play it
off. I know you're having a ball.

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Oh no, we are definitely having
fun and it's been a really good

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experience. We have a coach that's
been helping us, a choreographer, and

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she says that we're doing good,
so we're believing her. She would never

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lie and we got to give a
little shout out to Jim Williams. That's

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our choreography. Well, this is
really cool. Now the virtual tickets are

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great because this is we had stand
by the last time when we were talking

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about this on the air in case, you know, somebody you know got

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called out of town or you know, the sickness or something like that,

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tickets could be used. But now
this way with fifty bucks, it goes

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to Paths and the independence and you
get to watch it on TV and you

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can really use it to you know, have a live streaming party. Oh

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I know, I have family that
is out of town that wouldn't be able

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to attend, so now this is
a way that they'll be able to watch.

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So really just expand the network of
people that can vote, support PTI

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and watch us do some amazing dancing. A little thing you need to know

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is that with k onetv dot com
you can watch that, especially with your

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special length when you make your donation. You can get that on Roku,

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and you get that on Apple TV
as well as your computer. So if

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you got the old big screen,
the big plasma out there in the living

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room, you know you need to
be on the big screen. Yeah,

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you need to be. I mean
that's just talent is bigger than life.

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I can tell you it's good.
Now, this has really been something else.

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How long have you been working sair? We started in August I think

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was when we had our kickoff meeting, and then we started doing our practices

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not too long after that. Once
we kind of got our plan in action,

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and now we're pretty steady and meeting
regularly. I will say, I

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don't want to give away all of
our secrets and tell people how much we're

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really working. So Rushie, how
light are you on her feet? I

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don't know how to take what you
just said there, Tom, but I

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will say that it has been a
lot of fun, and I think both

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of us are more than willing to
embarrass ourselves for free. Oh so to

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know that we're able to do it
for a great organization. I mean,

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again, this is an easy,
easy way to get signed up. This

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is this is really pretty cool.
You know the thing is is that every

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person I've met over the last few
years who participated in this, they came

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bit too it kind of going ah, shucks, I don't oh gosh,

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she willis. And then they come
back out like can I do it again?

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You know, everybody really got a
really good rush, a really good

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rush from participating and helping raise money. Well, you know, I have

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to say that I have a great
mentor at the Credit Union, Mark Wilburn,

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who is our COO. He was
in the very first Dancing with the

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Stars. He was the very first
act of the very first Dancing with the

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Stars, I believe, and you
know it's kind of his claim to fame

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around the office, but he has
been encouraging and said it's going to be

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so much fun, you're gonna love
it, and I believe it to be

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true. So but we're having a
great time now for the folks who don't

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know. We're going to be doing
this at the community center, and it

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takes a lot of people to fill
that up, and you field it up

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so good on you first of all, and the way that you go about

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it. Of course, if you
go to the past, to the Independence

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website, look for Dancing with Bartlefield
Stars one of the events. Just click

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on it and I'll give you the
how too. I have to do just

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kind of look around there it'll be
there. Just you know, click search

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boom you there. Fifty bucks to
get the link. But you know if

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you got a thousand, yeah,
I have to even pay because it's that

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time of year, you know,
I'd rather give it to the independence in

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that deep dark hole they call the
federal government. That I mean absolutely,

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we want you to find an easy
way to make that those donations. Those

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donations also kind of votes. So
when people go in and make a donation

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or buy a ticket, they get
to pick a team, and we want

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them to pick us because we are
amazing, because Kennon Barbie is like the

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best couple of twenty twenty three besides
maybe Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. But

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you know, it's a great opportunity
for people to give to a good organization,

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support the school, and vote for
Sarah and rest. Now, can

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you tell us a little bit about
what you're going to be presenting and what

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what dances there are you going to
be putting together here for this? Well,

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we really can't. It's very fourteen
classified yeah, you have to get

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the ticket to see it. Yeah, yeah, I don't want to spoil

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anything. Yeah, we will spoil
it. But there is a movie,

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the Barbie Movie, and there are
definitely some things that are just plucked right

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out of there, just spot on, and it's gonna be a lot of

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Yeah, it's gonna be very entertaining. I'm going to take your word for

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it, and I'm gonna go get
a ticket so I can watch this,

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because you know, I'm sitting there
like, all right, it's too good

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to be true. I got to
see how this works. I want to

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know what else you know about other
dancers? What other information can you give

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us? Chris Reebard's got nice shoes, nice shoes. Yeah, okay,

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that's all. That's all. He
was just a secret DIVI. You guys

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work good. Good. That's good
to know. Yeah. So you see

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every basically goes well, the radio
telling you absolutely nothing about what we're going

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to do. But it's for a
good cause, and this is really cool.

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This means you have to watch it
any way you can, And of

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course the best way to do it
now is to go to the website and

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just find out all your options.
And you can also find out how this

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all works and why it's so much
fun and why it's such a great cause

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right here in our community. Yeah, I think that people really underestimate the

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value that PTI brings to Bartlesville and
to our education system in general, the

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way that they collaborate with the school
district, and really, you know,

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like you mentioned, people move here. People come from four different counties to

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bring their kids to PTI and what
a great, great resource that is.

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It is, and you know,
I'm just about a block away from the

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school. We're pretty protective of it
because you know, folks intends to get

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a little ottle liquid there in the
air, like all your horses here.

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We got the kids got that,
you know, and usually mind their manners

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and take good care of everything.
But it's really a special resource, and

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we really love them as neighbors,
to be quite honest with you, doing

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all kinds of great things on the
inside that you can't see from the outside.

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But if you go to the website
you can figure out, you know,

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really easy. You got pictures about
all the improvements that are going on

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there and how they can best help
kids adapt to their own abilities to what's

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going on around them and it's really
kind of a little miracle that we have

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right here. Yeah, it's really
fascinating. It's great to see. And

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you know, one of the traditions
of Dancing with the Stars is for one

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of the students and staff to dance
together. And so there is a student

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staff partner that will be participating and
they'll be really fun to watch as well.

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This is going to be fun.
Now. I worked a little something

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here with the dentist a couple of
years ago. We did we did a

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grilled cheese cook on for PTI,
and we had we had students that were

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helping out with the cooking aspect of
it all. Of course, Dennis and

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I got to eat all savage,
but I mean it's a lad. It

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was a win for me. I
tell you what, you put food in

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front of a fat boy, you're
good. But anyway, I enough about

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that, Rusty. Now, what
can you tell folks that you can say

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about this and what makes your your
team so valuable to the overall success of

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this big Dancing with the Partials field
starts extrata down. Well, we're getting

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deep, Tom, We're getting real
deep. So I'll start with we're competitive.

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All the teams are quite competitive,
but at the end of the day,

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it is about PTI and so we
want while we want all your money

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on your boats, as long as
you're just giving, that's all that really

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matters. At the end of the
day, it does. So what really

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sets us apart. I want to
tell you, Tom, I just they

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made me sign an NDA before I
came in here, and so I'm really

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nervous about what I can and can't
say. All I can tell is ken

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and Barbie, Barbie, Kennon Barbie, you go to other Man, Mala

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Bo Barbie, up and down in
all around. It's gonna be It's gonna

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be funny. Yep, it's gonna
be something. Well. You know,

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the thing is, this is something
that happens once a year and it never

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gets tiring because you just never know
what the heck's gonna happen. Like last

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year, you know, there there
were tons of money raised last year,

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and I know we're gonna raise as
much, if not more, this year.

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But I mean, there's some eye
popping presentations, there are some very

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fun presentations, but overall it is
just thoroughly entertaining, and that's really what

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it's kind of all about. As
far as the visual and the expectation,

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but the real good feel good is
when you make that gift. I think

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when I last year was my first
year to attend, and I think by

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going and seeing it, that's when
I thought, Okay, maybe I could,

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I could maybe think about participating in
this. And now I'm really happy

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that I made that choice because it's
gonna be really fun. But yeah,

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it's a it's a great event.
It's real cheeky and fun and everybody has

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a good time with it and that's
what makes it so great. Rusty,

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how'd you get interested in it?
You know, there's a person by the

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name of Jenny Brown. I don't
know. There's probably six or seven people

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in bartelw that know Jenny Brown.
She twisted my arm a little bit and

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immediately my mind went to, oh
no, I can't do that. But

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kind of like when we talked about
big Brother Big Sister, when I put

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myself in the shoes of the kids, it was like, what it's not

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about me, let's go, let's
go embarrass myself, which again I still

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think, are are we really going
to embarrass ourselves? I think I think

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it's a top shelf act. That's
kind of how I got involved, so

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give it up to Jenny Brown.
She helped twist my arm a little bit.

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Well, this is absolutely outstanding and
this is a lot of fun.

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Folks. Go to the website with
PTI Paths two Independence, Paths two Independence

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right here in Bartellsvielle, and it'll
tell you all about how you can make

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your vote count for the kids and
also for the dancers of your choice too.

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And get that ticket so you can
watch everyone in there glory on k

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one tv dot com with that special
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