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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
with Try County Tech. We have

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Randall and Braiden in with us today
and guys, it's great to have both

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of you here in studio. Thanks
for having us. So glad to be

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here. Now, Braiden, we
got some paperwork for our high school kids

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to get done. Yes, we
just did our high school acceptance. We're

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so excited for our students to come
in August, but I still need them

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to finalize their enrollment. That is
due by the end of the month,

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so the end of May. Please
get that enrollment finalization done. Oh please.

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You know you can't move anywhere until
the paper is Also, I've got

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to have all their documentation. As
soon as I've got that, they're ready

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to roll. Speaking of ready to
roll, Steam camp is coming up,

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random, Yes, it is.
We got that coming up real quick.

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It'll be starting in June, and
we got some spots, but that registration

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is going to close the end of
the month, so and not very many

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left. So get if you haven't
registered yet for the summer that summer camp,

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now's your chance. Now how do
we go about that? It's right

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there on the website. Ye'll try
County Tech dot edu find that they're on

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our homepage. There'll be a link
to the registration page there. And now,

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what's all going on? We've got
a lot, just so much.

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What's going on there? Oh yeah, it's busy. We kind of restructured

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some of the adult stuff too,
so we have EMT starts in July.

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We have Construction that's focusing on electrical
it's a three month course, it starts

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in July. Then we also have
construction. We've got welding that starts.

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Introduction to welding will start as well
in July, and then our basic Machining

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class and we've restructured those to three
month courses. So for seven hundred and

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fifty bucks, you come in for
ninety days, two nights a week,

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and you get the skills training in
each of those categories and if you want

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to continue to build on that,
then you'll you can just stay and keep

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going. But we're going to run
those for on a flexible schedule so our

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adults have the opportunity to get in
there and get out and get education.

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So then go to work. Where
was this when I was shocked? Yeah?

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No, judge. I'm telling you, man, here, I am

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sixty four. I'm like going.
You know, welding sounds pretty good.

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I've ever met an unemployed welder.
No, No, and we broke it.

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We broke those down for advance.
So like in construction, instead of

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taking all electrical, plumbing, heating, and air carpet, you can choose.

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So if you want to just go
the electrical route, you can do

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that. If you want to do
just plumbing, you can do that.

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We've got those all scheduled out and
those schedules are listening on our website at

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Trek countytech dot edu. Just like
a doctor, you can be a specialist.

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It's an incredible opportunity for our students
at a quick pace. You know.

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Yeah, oh, I think so
too. Now with the young people

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coming in, they've got a wide
day. The world is at their finger

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tips out there at Trek County.
Yeah, break, It's an incredible opportunity

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for our high school students. You
know, I wish I would have had

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this opportunity when I was their age, because not only are they getting to

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jump start on against their peers,
but they're really getting their feet wet and

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see if this is a career they
want to pursue, you know, whether

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they're college bound, career bound,
or they're undecided. Tray County kind of

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has a little bit of everything for
everyone. You know, we have graduation

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this Thursday, so we're so excited. Now you do that at the center,

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doce Yeah, it'll be at the
Center. We have two different ceremonies,

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so we have a large audience.
But we're so proud of our students

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and their accomplishments. Well you oughta
be, you gotta be. You know

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that that's a beautiful campus you've got
there. And folks will say, oh,

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you know, that's a big parking
lot and it's kind of these little

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building until they go in and go
this a little know, you guys really

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make good use of your space.
Yes we do, Yes we did,

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and we you know, we just
reopened our cosmetology salon. So while they

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may not be taking clients very much
longer for the school year, you know,

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come August, come out and check
out the new facility. It's absolutely

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beautiful. Now we're into the summer, we've got summer classes and everything,

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and everybody keeps going, ah,
well, summer's a break. We'll not

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crack downy Tech because learning is a
year round, ongoing thing, and I

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tell us a little bit about what
may be coming up and fall if you

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can, because I know that the
push is going to be on pretty soon.

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Absolutely. Yeah, we're still taking
enrollments and pushing that. We've got

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our cosmetology is full for the fall, but taking applications for coming into January

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or even jumping on that wait list
in case there's somebody that can't make it,

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So still not too late for that. We practical nursing is full and

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going in we'll be We're starting to
take applications this summer, starting for the

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spring for our practical nursing program.
We got a couple of spots we got

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in our automotive collision and autotomotive service, so jump in. We can get

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you going in that if that's what
you're interested in. And then again we've

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got all of our flex classes for
accounting and that we'd love to get our

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student sins. We have a certified
medical administrative assistant. So we're getting ready

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to launch a new hopefully get ready
to launch a new a new program here

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real soon too. Waiting for some
finalization on it, but yeah, it's

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gonna be some good stuff that's amazing. I guess the shorter list would be

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what does it drag out of?
Yeah? Yeah, because every time you

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guys come in, there's already like
three or four things brand new. Yeah.

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We're constantly looking at what we can
do to improve our service to our

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community members and the businesses in which
that are a part of our community,

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because it's a win win for everyone. If we can produce, we can

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educate students to go to work,
our employers win, our students win for

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their success, and that's their success
makes it our success. Brighton, How

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hard of a sell is it for
these youngsters when you tell them that you

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can come in, get your credit, to get your courses, and if

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you want to go on to college, you can transform to at least oak

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Woo or just go out there and
start working debt free. It's so awesome

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because you know, I don't think
it's a hard sell at all, especially

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when step on our campus and kind
of get to see all of the different

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things. You know, we're not
necessarily a college, but we're not necessarily

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a high school, but we have
such a beautiful campus and again a variety

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of opportunities and really the sky's the
limit or even past that for our students.

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Now, when when students approach you
saying, well, you know,

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I'm thinking about it, what can
I expect? So I imagine I'm a

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sophomore, just just a silly little
sophomore. What do you tell a person

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who's that age. You know,
our first and foremost is, you know,

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we treat our students like adults because
that's what it's going to be like

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no longer no, and you know, and you know that's we have such

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a great culture at Tri County and
being able to relay that and have that

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ripple effect on our students. You
know, it's a totally different environment than

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it would be in a school setting. And again you're there with like minded

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individuals. Everyone has a different background, but you're coming together for one common

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thing in your program. You get
smart. Yeah, now, Randal,

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how tough is it when you got
a person who hasn't been in school for

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a while, but you know,
here they are, they're taking classes,

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and they're they're getting ready to take
classes. I imagine there's a little bit

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of nerves, but once it get
in it it goes away. Absolutely.

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You know. The one thing that
we hear time and time again from our

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adult students. Is there is just
the level of support that they're getting and

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the skills that they're learning are applicable. They're they're going able to walk into

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the workforce, whatever career field they're
choosing, and have a sense of confidence,

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you know, when they leave us
that they're ready to go to work.

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And that's our job. You know, we we we survey our employers.

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We want to know what do they
need, what are they what do

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they need from employees coming in,
and so we then we try to build

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those skills around our classes so our
students can walk into the workforce confidently ready

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to go. And that's not just
you know, special to their career.

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I mean, we're talking about soft
skills and resumes and interview skills, and

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we want them to be you know, the best version of themselves so that

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they can be successful and whatever they
choose. Wow, you guys even had

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the polish. Yeah, I like
that anything and everything where that's right.

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You know something, I see a
lot of very familiar faces when whenever we

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talk with our friends from cry County
at Tech. And that's because you guys,

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like you're there forever and there's a
reason for that. I understand.

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The school is one what is it
the Malcolm bald Ridge Award from just like

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coolest places to work for quality,
you know, and again going back to

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that culture, you know, it
really starts at the top and trickles down

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to all of our educators there at
Tri County and again, being able to

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make that impact and have that you
know, once in a lifetime chance of

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education for these students is huge for
us and you as well. You've been

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there a little bit more than a
minute. Yeah, Yeah, I'm coming

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up three years, a little over
three years, so yeah, we're heading

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down the road. But I've been
a part of Track County, been a

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part of me. I attended there
in high school. Yeah, I've put

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two kids. I got two kids
in one graduated to in now. So

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it's part of our life. Yeah, and it's generational. You know,

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my dad attended classes there and so
it's generational. And I know the difference.

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It's not a thing that you get
to call work when it's something that

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you love and you know what it
means and you know it's there's learning some

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life skills that are going to change
the direction of some life. So it's

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important it's valuable and I'm just honored
to get to be a part of it.

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It's a humbling experience for sure,
Brandon. How do we get to

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know more about Try counting Tech?
Can we just go to the website?

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Yeah, try cutting tech dot du
You know, it's kind of the catch

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all for all of our information.
Check out our socials. We have an

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awesome social media presence, so Facebook, Instagram, be up to date on

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all of that. But all of
our contact information is on there and we're

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always ready to help. Like I
said, where they're all summer, So

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if you need anything, give us
a shout. And I got a question

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with you, Rayl. What if
we want to take a look at it,

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you know, with without the filter
of a camera, without the filter

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of a website. Can we go
there in person? Can we just make

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a phone absolutely, make a phone
call, send an email. You can

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even my phone the phone number that's
on there. You can text the number

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that Braid and I have. We'd
love to schedule a tour for you and

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get you to show your campus,
answer any questions we have for you and

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help you get get get you going
down the road. Well, you can't

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make it any easier nods a texting
machine going, you've got a text.

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Well, everybody likes to tax,
so it's that's I always point that out.

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So it's some people don't like to
make a phone call. But if

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you want to shoot a quick text
and we can schedule it that way,

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that works for us, and machine
grabs it. Hot dog, let's go.

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That's technology. I guess I got
to catch up. Maybe I need

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a few classes out there. All
right, we've been talking with tray Countie

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Tech. I want to thank you
both, Randall Braiden for both coming in

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here today and have yourself an enjoyable
week, and thank you so much.

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Just thank you