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And good morning, good morning,
good morning, and welcome, welcome,

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welcome. It's time now for a
community connection right here on K one,

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the one you trust. I'm Tom
Davison. I'm joined by Dale Lewis,

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the original Buffalo Dall. How are
you doing there, young man? Good

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morning, every about it And we
have Dana Broncado with us here from the

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Weather Channel, right Dana. Hello, Well, I'm from Jupiter entertain hear

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me, Yeah, yeah, sure
can I'm from from Jupiter Entertainment, which

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preaces a show for the Weather Channel. Oh wonderful. Now we've got a

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little bit of multimedia going on here
today because Dale has been a long time

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Dale has been a long time newspaper
guy. And also he is h been

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writing a book here too called Footprints
in the Do And this is something that

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well, the folks from the Weather
folks have had a little bit of an

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interest in is as well as people
who've been reading about our local history and

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very much a local little mystery.
How did you get involved with this?

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So? I actually I came across
this case. It's only because of the

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title of Dale's book. I happened
to be searching for cases that involved do

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and I came across Dale's title and
I was like, Oh, this seems

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incredibly interesting. And so I read
a little bit more about the Mullendork case

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and was just fascinated by the complexity
of it and just the mystery of it,

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and did a little digging found a
way to get ahold of Dale,

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And once I talked to Dale,
I was like, we have to make

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this into a Weather Channel episode.
Well, this sounds great. I'm gonna

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switch over here to Dale here because
I want to bring everybody up to date.

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A lot of people listening know about
his book Footprints in the Doe,

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and you've been with this before on
it, but let's take a refresher course.

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This happened right here in our own
backyard. Dale. Yeah, four

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hundred thousand acre rancher family owned the
New Orleans Saints professional football team. Shot

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between the eyes and the middle of
the night on his ranch up by Pahuska.

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He held the largest life insurance policy
ever written on anyone in the country.

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It's quite a story. You couldn't
make it up. And I want

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to up getting myself subpoenaed over that
book really by the Attorney General today,

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Multi county grand jury investigation and then
they put me under a gag order on

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it. Oh my bro, you
couldn't make something up like this. Dana

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and I have been visiting about it
quite a bit, and I'm very excited

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that they're coming into town. I
think it's great for Bartlesville and they're going

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to be shooting out at wool Rock. Well, this is awesome. Now,

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Dana, have you ever been up
this way and have you ever been

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to wool Rock? I have not
that I've heard. It's absolutely gorgeous.

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The field producer who's coming out there
named David Lewis. He saw some photos

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of it and was like, I
may never want to leave. Well,

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it's the way a lot of people
are once they get around here. They

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just say, hey, say you
know there are citizens. You know,

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we might have another Lewis here in
the community. That would be wonderful.

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Yeah. He loved nature and he's
thrilled to be coming out there. He's

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very excited about about just the story
itself and the cattle ranch and just everything

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that Barnolsville has. Now a question
for you here, you're going to be

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set up to do some shooting for
the program. I understand you can have

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a lot of guests and everything too. How long will you be in our

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community? I think we're gonna be
there about three days. I believe that

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we will fly in on Sunday the
ninth, and start interviews on the tenth,

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continue on the eleventh, twelfth,
possibly thirteenth, and fly out either

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the thirteenth or fourteen. And Dale, You've got some people that kind of

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lined up here that we'd I like
to talk to, wouldn't, don't you.

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He's gotta pulls his list out there. I've got Bill Hall, Yeah,

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they d a. He was elected
and I started serving thirty days after

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the murder. H Dana, you
tell me if I'm wrong on some of

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these people, because she's the one
that's been getting Bart Perrier, who was

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the cold case investigator when Chubb Anderson
was captured in our own Earl says,

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or she's going to interview. And
a lot of people may not know this

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about Earl, but his family has
some His dad was the horse manager out

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at the Mullendora ranch for years,
and I believe Earl lived on the ranch.

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I'm heading over to Friday for him
from here, and I think Earl

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will tell us more about that,
and also Ty Cook is going to be

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there, and he was the sheriff
at the time in o Sage County when

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Chubb Anderson was captured. And I
think Dana's got a couple more lined up,

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don't you. Dana? Who do
you have? Dana, I think

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you may have covered them all.
I'm just going through my list in my

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head, but I think you may
have covered them all. Hi, Bart,

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you most important? Bill an Earl. Well, this is gonna be

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nice. We really appreciate you coming
out here to our community and to take

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an especially taking an interest in this
story. There are just so many luc

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ends here. And you know Dale's
been doing his darkness, doing his research

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into this for many, many years. The book is kind of like the

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start of it. But you produced
a lot of videotapes on this, Dale,

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have you nine hundreds of them?
On eight years and making of that

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book. I was wondering, Dana, do you know when this might be

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showing on the channel? Yeah?
So it takes It's interesting because it takes

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a long time from once we gather
the interviews, the b role, you

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know, any reports or photographs or
facts of the case. It can almost

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take up to a year to edit
have a legal review of the episode right

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the episode, you know, just
put it all together and make it as

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good as possible. It can take
up two year, so it may be

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next year before it airs on the
Weather Channel, but we will keep you

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on the loop. Well, that
is great. We really appreciate this.

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And of course, you know,
it's an ongoing story, as they say,

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and Dale has been following it,
you know, ever since, and

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it's really nice that you've taken an
interest in this. And like you said,

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you know it ties in nicely with
the Weather Channel. Who who knew

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that you know, your group,
the Weather Channel and Dale Lewis would all

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get together to forensically solve a murder. That's amazing how weather can play a

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role in an investigation. And it's
we're on our fifth season here, and

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each season has about twenty two episodes. So I think the weather plays a

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more important role in some criminal investigations
than people may realize. And that's what

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this show does. It dives into
how that weather aspect helped or hurt an

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investigation. Well, Dale has been
playing these videotapes every now and then over

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there at Pahuska, at the theater, at the Constantine theater, and I

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understand you're gonna be using some of
these, uh, these videotapes to kind

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of intermash into what's the stories being
told when it finally hits television. Is

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that is that true? Yes?
And we are so thrilled that Dale is

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going to share them with us because
he has interviews with people who may not

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be around anymore, um, you
know, and they talk about to do

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in some of these videos. So
the fact that he's you know, going

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to share these in the episode is
absolutely amazing and will help so the reading,

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so the viewers, you know,
exactly how do did play role?

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This is really going to be amazing. Now Dale and I have known each

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other for a few years now,
and uh and Dale has been busy over

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there hanging out by the mercan Deal
in Pahuska and telling people about the story

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and then the folks going into the
mercantal they buy the book. By The

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thing is is that we've heard the
story and everybody really wants that conclusion.

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And I think probably the family more
than anybody else does too. And I

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think a project like this we just
might unearth a few things, I hope,

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So I think it would be really
fascinating if though, and you know,

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I know Chubb was never technically arrested
or charged. But I think with

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Dale's health and Bart's help, you
know, we can we can bring viewers

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to a conclusion that everyone agrees on. This is gonna make a great episode.

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It really is. But I maybe
I'm jumping the gun here, but

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I really think this would be something
that might have a Hollywood flavored to it

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before too long, I hope.
So I think that you know, David

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Lewis and I were talking, he's
the field producer, and you know,

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he said, we would love to
see this case get more national coverage because,

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like Dale, like Dale, Lewis
said, I mean, it has

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so much to the story. I
mean, the mystery to it, just

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the high profile victim, and there's
just there's just so much to it that's

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intriguing to people. And that's why
it caught our eye. And that's why,

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you know, even though it's a
case from nineteen seventy, which is

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rare that we ever do a case
from that long ago because it's just so

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difficult to do. Even though it's
from nineteen seventy, Dale has helped put

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together visuals and help tell the story
in a way that viewers can still understand

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what's happening. He's done a very
great job, in my estimation, of

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preserving the facts and preserving the story
and keeping the interest going. And one

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of the time, you know,
a case from nineteen seventy, photos,

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reports, all that stuff that gets
lost over time, you know, it

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gets some files get misplaced, But
miraculously for this one, there are still

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people around who have records and photographs
and videos, and without that stuff,

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we wouldn't be able to tell the
story as well as it will be told.

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And I'm gonna so, what's what
We're here to jail here because you

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know, doing the footwork on this, this wasn't just a lark. This

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wasn't just a weekend project. This
this took a lot of time, eight

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years. But Jove's the one that
contacted me. I of course had heard

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of the murder, but I'd never
met job Anderson before. But he started

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calling and writing me from Lansing prison. He could only have one guest,

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and he put my name down,
and everyone in the country wanted to see

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him. Bill Curtis from any television
was especially after him. But he just

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put my name down. It was
just kind of a something. It's pretty

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special for a writer to fall into
into that. But I wanted to ask

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Dana's is there a particular story,
whether related story, that sticks out to

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you that you guys have done.
Real quick, we're about to run out

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of time, but is there anything
special that you've done. You know,

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we've done some very interesting ones.
There's one that's gonna be airing in season

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five as well, where it surprisingly
no weather helps the person commit the crime

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and it involved an airplane and you
know that they're gonna being pushed out of

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the airplane. But because there was
no weather and no wind and no rain

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and no haze, he was able
to do this, and he chose his

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stay specifically because of those weather relates
the reasons, and it's it's it's just

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very fascinating to me. You know, even something as little as no weather

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is weather. Indeed, you know
when you're going to go out on something

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as devious as that, and you
don't want to get caught, I guess,

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so you're gonna leave no stone unturned. Yeah, yep, flight paths

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were changed. It's a very interesting
story. We'll be airing it in season

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five. That I hope you'll get
to see as well. All right,

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hey, Dana, we'd like to
maybe a sync up with you here sometime

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early next week. Hopefully we can
get to one of our reporters to possibly

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just kind of observe how this is
put together, not getting away, because

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we have rule one here at the
radio station. We report the news,

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we don't become the news. So
when you get into town then would be

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great. We would you like to
have that done. And Dale is always

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you always have an open door policy
here. Whenever you got something, we

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always open the door. And they
say, dal come on in, dog

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on it. I'll talk to David
and see if see if maybe David or

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one of the folks that's what they
would like to come down and maybe for

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an early morning interviewers. Something that'd
be good now is that David Lewis,

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Dale Lewis, is there a relation? Is there nepotism going on here?

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I don't think so, you know, we don't know that yet, so

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we don't know the answer yet.
David Lewis was going to look into his

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genealogy and see if there was any
connection because he says he does have family

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in Oklahoma. Well, very good, you know, Dana, thank you

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very much for being with us.
Dale, thank you very much. This

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has really been something and welcome to
Bartlesville. We look forward to the visit

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here from the camera cruise and from
the reporters on the scene. And thank

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you to all of you at the
Jupiter Entertainment for first of all finding the

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story and be willing to take take
a gander on it. Thank you so

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much for having us. The crew
is so excited to come to Bartlesviil next

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week. All right, we'll see
you Dale, take off. You gotta

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go there, Dana. I'll call
you back on about five minutes. All

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righty, Thank you books and you've
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