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And I've got a guest, actually
two guests joining me in the studio

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from the Singing Legioneers. We have
Bruce and we have Bill. We're excited

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to have you guys in the studio. How you doing. We're doing great,

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well, just awesome. We're excited
to have you in here. I

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get to see you perform so many
times, and it's been really fun to

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visit here for the last fifteen to
twenty minutes because I get to talk to

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you rather than here he sing,
which is it's fun to hear you sing,

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but it's great to hear the passion
while we're talking. And we'll start

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over here. Let's talk about how
long have you been a member of the

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Singing Legioneers. I joined in two
thousand and six, so what's that a

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little bit eighteen years already? Yeah, I've been there for a while in

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Bill, how about you, Holung. I came right right when we broke

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out of COVID and take our masks
off about four years ago. And overall,

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how many members are there currently?
And I suppose that kind of ebbs

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and flows, but what is a
pretty general number? Twenty eight or twenty

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nine, very nice, and there's
room for more, which is one of

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the reasons we're having this discussion today. Yes, and thank you, thank

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you for doing this. We excited
to do this. We are looking to

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recruit singers and we're looking for another
fifteen or twenty singers. Now, everything

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I know about the singing legionnaires was
wrong because I thought I have to be

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a veteran, I have to be
an legion member, I have to be

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none of those things. So if
I'm a singer and I'm a patriot,

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and I watch what you do and
say that looks amazing, I'd like to

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be a part of that, chances
are there might be a place for me.

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Exactly. And if you have sung
for a men's course before, you

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will understand that singing in a men's
course is a little different. Yeah,

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and it's a little bit different sound. So absolutely, And it's a come

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as you are on Monday night.
We practice it at seven o'clock every Monday

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night at the Alliance, the Armory
at the Alliance, it's just west of

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the Alliance. Come and sing with
us, and sing with us for three

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weeks and we make a decision and
you make a decision as to whether or

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not you want to continue. Very
nice, and Bill, what part like

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when you're singing, because there's you
know, there's the tenor and the base.

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What are the different parts even I
don't even know the names of the

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Well, we've got bass and baritones
and first and second tenors, and Bruce

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and I are in the first tenor
section first tenors. Okay, right,

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it's four part in part. Are
there certain parts that you're looking for,

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Like, hey, we really have
a need for this, you kind of

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just whichever we need. We need
people in all four parts in all four

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okay, very nice. We've recently
recruited another two or three or four bases

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and a couple more bar tones,
but bar tones and second tenors are probably

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the hardest spots to fill. Okay, very nice, And so like the

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ideal candidate, would that be somebody
who maybe like sang in the choir at

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church, or they sang when they
were in school, or is it even

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somebody that I've never sang in anything, but I love to sing. If

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you've had some background in music,
it's actually a little bit better. But

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if you haven't had any background,
come and see if you like it.

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Yeah, we have people that don't
read music that sing with us, So

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it's not it's not anything that you
can't learn. Nice, very nice.

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And again, if somebody would like
to join, you don't need to be

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a veteran, You don't need to
be a Legion member. You need to

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basically have a passion for this and
be a patriot and say I want to

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come out and let's talk. We'll
visit with Bill. Let's talk about some

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of the cool things you guys get
to do. I see you at events

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all the time. But for people
who maybe didn't know that's who that group

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was, it was singing. What
are some of the things you guys do

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throughout the year. For example,
I think it's been about a year and

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a half or so ago it was
the I think it was the one hundredth

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anniversary of the courthouse downtown. We
go down there and we sang a couple

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of well we're saying the Star Spangled
banner and a couple of other numbers down

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there right in the court outside in
the court area. We do that as

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a community service. We also sang
at the grand opening or the ribbon cutting

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of the State Veteran Cemetery just north
of town here. That's kind of an

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example of the types of things we
do. We also go to retirement homes

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as a community service and we get
around those quite often, very nice.

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And one of the other things I
talked with Bruce a little bit about you

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guys, also has nothing to do
with the singing, but it helps pay

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for the singing. You place the
flags around Sioux Falls, and you said

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there's like six hundred of those.
Yeah, it's called the Avenue of Flags,

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and eight times a year, weather
permitting, we put flags out through

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the city of Sioux Falls. There's
a charge for that. I think right

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now it's thirty six dollars per flag
per year and we'll put that flag out

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eight times. That's amazing and it's
well supported. So financially, there's no

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obligation for anybody that sings with us. You don't need any money. You

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have to find your own way to
practice. Very nice. And also add

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Bruce, that we provide a tuxedo
type uniform on loan permanently if you're going

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to be a permanent member, and
polo shirt so that we all have more

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or less a uniform when we sing
together, a consistent look. Well,

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very good. Thank you guys so
much for coming in to visit. And

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we're going to remind people if they
would like to join, if they'd like

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to be a singing Legionnaire, to
show up on Monday seven pm. They

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can go this Monday, they go
next Monday, and go every Monday,

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because you guys sing each Monday.
And it's at the Alliance building is sixteen

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hundred. The building they're in is
seventeen hundred West Russell. They refer to

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that as the Armory, but that's
the building that has the American Legion of

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the VFW and many other groups in
there. And do they just go right

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to the front door or the back
door or either way the door on the

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north side and we're right to the
left when you walk in. Very very

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nice. And again that's Monday night, seven pm, the Singing Legionnaires.

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Bruce Bill, thank you so much. For coming in. Thanks Joe,

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thank you, and again if you
would like to know more, I'm going

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