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

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We've got a bonus feature for you
today with our Community Connection, and

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we're talking with Aaron Kirkpatrick. He
is the preaching minister with Adams Boulevard Church

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of Christ and how are you today. It's been a while since we've had

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you in here. It has I
think it was about this time last year

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we were doing kind of a relationship
summing deal and I think's last time we've

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got a chat. Yeah. Well, this time we're going to do it

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on a kind of a bigger scale, a big time relationship avand what we

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got here. Yeah, So I've
been working with pastors from all over our

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community to create an event that's really
focused on maybe putting the unity back in

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community. I like that. And
we're calling it Bartlesville's biggest pot luck ever.

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Oh boy, this is this is
gonna be huge potla. Guy.

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Do you go going to church?
They did potlucks? Oh yeah, oh

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all the time. So, like
I remember as a kid, I was

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always the one like you, you
wanted to sneak out as fast after that

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closing prayer song as possible to get
to the lunch line because there was always

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like the big bucket of KFC Pride
Chicken. Somebody brought it and it was

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somebody did and it was going to
go super quick. So I grew up

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doing pot lugs. Oh yeah,
and uh. And you know, we

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we've been talking about our community,
talking about you know, we've got tons

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of people moving here Oklahoma. You
may know this is the ninth fastest growing

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state in the country right now,
it is, and for the last several

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years, Bartlesville has had about fifty
new family groups moving into Bartlesville every single

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month. Now we also have people
who move away or you know, pass

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away, like so, I mean, it's a churn, but that means

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we've got a ton of new people
who have moved into our community and they're

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from all over. They don't know
anybody, No, they don't and talk

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to any adult. What they'll tell
you is one of the hardest things to

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do as you get older is make
new friends. So we were talking as

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pastors, saying what can we do
that would bring the community together and not

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make it about a It's not a
fundraiser, it's not a you know when

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we're not I don't know, it's
not a big project. It's there's no

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there's very little structure. There's no
presentation, there's no band, there's no

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it's just like, hey, what
if we all just came and brought enough

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food for us and to share with
other people, put it out all out

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on tables and said, hey,
if you want to come and eat,

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come and eat. And so that's
what we're gonna doo. Okay, well,

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there you go. This this is
gonna be a big event. What's

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the date. It is April fourteenth, So it's a Sunday afternoon. Okay,

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We're gonna do it from five thirty
to seven, long enough for everybody

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to come and have fun. We're
also we're telling people bring a bag chair,

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you know, a lawn chair of
some kind. And then bring if

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you've got a long game, if
you like you know, corn hole or

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ladder ball or washers or you know, whatever it is, bring that with

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you. Set it up, and
if you like playing it, probably somebody

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else will like playing it with you. There you go. So it's I

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mean, it couldn't be less formal, and I think it's gonna be a

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lot of fun. I think it's
gonna be a blast. The only thing

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you have to bring is yourself in
a dish. Yeah, and if you

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and that's assuming. What we want
is if you can provide food, provide

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food. But if you're hungry,
right, if you're a part of our

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community and you're like, you know, I don't have food to share,

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that's okay, it's just company.
We'll share ours. It's for everybody.

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Now. When you say putting the
unity and community, you're doing that at

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Unity Square, and we're coming together
as one but one community's right. I

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think I put it together here,
that's right. But and this is really

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gonna be I think it's gonna be
one of those things that you guys could

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probably do this every year if you
wanted to. Well, you know,

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let's just get through the first one
first. That's on the panic on your

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face. We're not sure how this
one's gonna go. So anyway, we

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want this to be a rousing success. And we want you to meet new

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people. We want you to feel
comfortable in your new surroundings. We want

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you to feel welcome here in Bartlesville, right. I mean, if just

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if just the folks to go to
church somewhere, show up and bring food,

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we're gonna have a ton of people
there it's not just for church folks

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either. You don't have to go
to church anywhere. Just come and be

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a part of it, right if
you're from the area and you want to

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come and hang out, We're going
to have a great time. We're going

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to eat well, and we're going
to make new friends. That's what it's

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all about, you know. So
much of the American experience has been around

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a meal and then the friendship.
So the just making acquaintance with someone that

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is quite a part of that too, And this is going to be a

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nice gathering at you and I think
mother nature is probably going to cooperate pretty

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darn well with this too, I
hope. So we're working on backup plans.

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The easiest way to stay updated on
something like this, we have a

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Facebook event that's being shared by people
all over the community. It is yees.

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So if you get on Facebook and
you just you know, search for

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an event Bartlesville's Biggest pot Luck ever, you'll find it. It'll find it,

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and you can let us know you're
coming. That will help us.

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Just I say that we're going to
set up the same number of tables for

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food regardless, but it would at
least be good to help spread the buzz,

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get people excited about it. But
that's the easiest way to stay updated

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is just to follow the event there
because we're posting it regularly. Now,

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I want to go into just a
little something here about the Adams Boulevard Church

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Christ. Easy to find warm cold. It's exactly right right behind the water

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tank. Yes, and it's a
big church, and it's a nice church,

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and it's a friendly church. Yeah, you know Church Christ. We

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do potlos well. So this is
in our DNA. I was going to

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say, that's in your wheelhouse here. We like the joke. You know.

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We talked about being family at our
church. If you're if you're a

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guest there, like you either got
to sneak out during the closing prayer or

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you're not leaving for fifteen or twenty
minutes because our church is so friendly,

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like you walk out. We had
a family come a year or so ago.

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As I got to know him,
they said, the first time we

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came, it was so fun that
I was worried it was a cult.

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It wasn't, which is why we're
here now. Why we're here now,

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that level of like of friendliness.
You talked about the American story is one

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of food. But like the whole
ministry of Jesus was when you know what,

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He's always eating with people because and
I did the research on this,

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one hundred percent of people eat,
they do so, so why not languished

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for hours on that when I could
tell, oh, man, it's you

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know, you wouldn't believe how far
down the rabbit hole I had to go

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to France stat But once you once
you realize like this is the common human

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experience, there's no easier way to
set up a place to build unity,

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right, a way to build unity
to build friendships. You and I talked

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about the fact that friendships. I've
got a mathematical formula that I use.

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But but friendships or relationships are experience
multiplied by time. Right, So every

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friend you have, you have a
series of stories in your head of things

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y'all did together that were that were
experiences that stood out, And it happens

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over a length of time. The
one day you go, I'm friends with

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this person. How that happen?
It's simple, you had unique experiences with

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this person over time. So this
event, it's a unique experience. We

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never done anything like this before.
And you're gonna come out and see so

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much food it'll bog your mind.
I can't believe how many tables our church

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provides just for dessert when we do
a pot luck. Oh can you imagine

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the desserts that are going to be
there for your desserts? I think a

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wood for miles. It's gonna be
amazing, right, So, a unique

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experience is an opportunity to meet new
people. And then, because Bartlesville is

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such a great community anyway, you
see the same people everywhere you go.

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If you make one new friend,
that's gonna be an awesome opportunity. So

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that's going to lead two more new
friends. But having one to begin with

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is one hundred percent increase of what
you had before you showed up. And

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that, my friends, is solid
math. We're just dropping knowledge bombs left

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and right this morning. We're going
to convince ourselves for geniuses here in a

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minute. But you can be the
genius by proving us right there you go.

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So I want to know, since
you grew up doing potlucks, what

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was your favorite dish? I told
you mine was a fried chicken. Actually

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it was like like a cheese or
scarlet potatoes and stuff like being Irish.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, you
know, any form of potatoes, your

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good potato, so butad cheese,
I'm there, Yeah, that was it.

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Yeah, so the scaloped potatoes there
you go, that's the thing for

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you to bring. Then, And
you know, we've had questions from people

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with food sensitivities, and so we're
gonna have labels where people can I'll tell

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you the two questions. We have
food sensitivity and what about my dish?

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So the same answers for both.
We're gonna have like name tags you can

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put on your dish to make sure
you get it back. But if it's

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a special like if you had a
food sensitivity, right, if I was

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gluten sensitive, gluten intolerant, then
make a gluten free dish and bring it

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to share and put gluten freeze exactly. Then you label it and then other

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people know, oh that's awesome,
like somebody who shares, you know,

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my needs brought something that I can
have. So everything's gonna be labeled.

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We're gonna be Lutheran for a day. Actually, we're gonna have Lutherans there.

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I know, I know, tell
you that. And jest, there

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was a joke that went around in
the up North where I'm from. Your

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moms will loose and you got you've
got casserole dishes with labels with your name

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on the bottom of every one.
It's like, yeah, yeah, well

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the Church of Christ is what happens
is you just leave anybody anybody's dishes they

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didn't take home. You just set
out on the display. You know people

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will grab it. But I don't
want to walk home with a thousand dishes,

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you know, sitting in my church. You'll never find them. So

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we're gonna we're gonna have you label
your stuff. It'll help people find the

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food that they can eat, and
it will help make sure that everybody gets

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their stuff back. There you go, and it's gonna be a lot of

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fun. You're gonna meet friends and
you're just gonna enjoy yourself for the day.

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It's gonna just put that on your
calendar right now, fourteenth April fourteenth,

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five thirty to seven. You know, you show up a few minutes

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early and bring your food or whatever. But it's gonna be a really great

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time. And let me say one
more thing too. We've had so we

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were really intentional not to do business
partnerships or sponsorships because we didn't want because

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we really just wanted to be simple. We're not trying to raise money.

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We're just trying to throw a party. But as a result then we've had

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some people who have businesses and say, hey, I want to come set

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my you know, my my tint
up and smoke meat that I can share.

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Like that's great, come and do
that right there. Really there's no

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sign up for this, it's just
show up and share what you got.

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Yeah, well, there you go, com a yard as they say,

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exactly, Wow, this is wonderful. I want to thank you very much

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Aaron for coming in and of course
looking forward on Facebook. It is the

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biggest potluck Bartlesville's biggest pot luck ever
on the fourteenth, five point thirty and

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Unity Square. We're going to put
the unity and community and community in the

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unity and we're gonna put some food
and all y'alls. You got it.

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That's one hundred percent Come and join
us. Alrighty, it didn't come out

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to eloquent, but that's the way
it's gonna be. I want to thank

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you for being part of our broadcast
today and once again, folks, you've

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been listening to our community connection