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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, Welcome, Welcome Maltham. It's

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time now for our community connection right
here on K one, the one you

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dry. So I'm Tom Davis and
we've got a cast of well half a

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dozen or so and we're here at
the Bartonsville Theater. MS Roddy, how

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you doing today? I'm doing great. And it's a beautiful day too,

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so it's just even better. Well, yeah, I tell you what,

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idiots, and we've got to the
youngsters all ready to go for another great

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presentation. Tell us a little bit
about this black Box theater. So the

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black Box Theater is actually my classroom
that's transformed into a performance space, so

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it's really close. And the play
check please is about blind dates gone bad.

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Oh that never happens. Yeah,
I feel I want to know who

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these friends are dates. But what's
really fun about it, we're making it

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dessert theater. So not only do
we have the actors on stage performing,

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we have performers singing, and we'll
have a staff of a maydr D and

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waiters who will be in character interacting
with the audience as well, making it

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a very immersive experience. This reminds
me of a restaurant called ed Bevis up

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in Chicago where everybody's singing, they're
doing something. But this is really gonna

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be good. So blind Date's gone
bad? And where what, errand does

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this come from? It's modern day, it's been the play has been around

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a while. Fun fact, I
actually did this when I was in high

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school, which wasn't very long ago
by the way, fular record, like

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about four years ago. I played
the characters Pearl and Melinda. Yeah,

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so it's really fun to kind of
like come back to it. And I

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think the kids are so much funnier
than I ever was. So yeah,

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it's mostly modern day. Well,
it's taken around the horn and young lady

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introduced yourself and tell us what character
are you gonna play. My name is

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Sophia Hewittt, and I am playing
Linda. She is crazy. That's the

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best description. Oh well, I
tell you what you're gonna be one to

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watch. Come up to the microphone
there, I'm Rye Ryle and I'm playing

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girl and I'm going on half of
the blind Dates. Half of the Blind

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Dates. Okay, let's say get
the microphones over the gentlemen here, and

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I'm guy and I'm the other half
of the blind dates. Okay, I'm

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Riker Birch, and I am Lewis
and Matt. Which one is like crazy

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obsessed with the girl and the other
one is like not paying attention at all.

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I've got a question for the cast. Any of you four ever been

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on a blind date? No?
No, no, no, okay,

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just you know, I'm just check
and see maybe they did their homework.

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Now. Is this possessed any kind
of challenge for you having not been on

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a blind date? Or can you
just kind of put yourself into it?

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I can just kind of like knowing
like the characters. It's kind of just

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like a conversation between two people,
So I just kind of like get connected

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with the partner and just go as
if no one else is there and just

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have fun. Well that's pretty good. Now in your situation here, you're

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gonna have a lot of action going
around you. Is it gonna be kind

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of difficult to concentrate? Yeah,
it's crazy. I just I just have

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to react to the best I can. He's underselling, isn't he? You

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gonna have to go watch and perform
what about you? Yeah, it's hard

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to stay in character when everybody else
is just acting so crazy and we're like

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the normal people. So well,
let's go to the abnormal one here,

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Linda, Who's gonna play crazy here. So my character basically talks to herself

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the entire time because she's actually a
split personality. So there's Linda, and

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then there's her imaginary friend Walter,
and then Walter has a seeing eye monkey

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named Dolores. Sorry I can't even
remember my own character's name anyway, So

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it's basically the three of them talking
to each other, except Laura. She

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hollers like a monkey talking to themselves, and then Guy just sits across the

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table like the whole time. So
it's literally just me talking to myself from

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my seed. It's really funny.
In my personal opinion, that's kind of

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heavy. I mean, you played
a lot of roles, but that's kind

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of heavy. Did you give awards
out for that kind of stuff? Eventually?

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Oh, yeah, it's ride and
grabbed the microphone up there for you.

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You've been at the school for just
just a couple of years, Yes,

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this is I'm in the middle of
my seventh year here, all right,

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Yeah, seventh though. Wow,
I thought it was just like two

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or three or something like that.
Time flies when you're having fun. Oh

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you know what, these kids,
these youngsters, these young people, they

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have fun and this is really kind
of a neat almost kind of a lifestyle

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for the students. Once they get
bit by the theater bug. I mean,

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they're totally absorbed. We call the
glue trap the glue trap. Does

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it get stuck bob in your head? Yeah, I know what you're talking

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about. But it's a fun one
too. You learn a lot of life

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skills, you know. First of
all, you know, acting is a

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lot of fun, it really is. Performing is a lot of fun,

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it really is. But when you
get into adulting, you know you're going

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to have to know these things like
courage, a little bit of confidence,

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a little bit about how to maybe
sell a message that you're trying to convey.

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Depending on what kind of work you're
in, you're going to need to

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know teamwork. Boy Er, You're
going to need to know teamwork. And

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you know, when it comes to
putting on a performance, unless you are

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running the lights, the mic and
you're the only actor on stage, you

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gotta know teamwork. That's very true. One of the things I loved most

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about our department is we really foster
the culture of working together for better or

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worse, helping someone out when they're
not going to ask for help. And

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a lot of kids also step up
to the opportunity to try something new,

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and there's always students who've done it
before who are there to help them.

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I'm going to ask a question to
just show a hands here for the folks

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I'm watching on TV. Anybody ever
get put outside of their comfort zone?

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Acting? Everybody unanimous right there?
It's kind of like all the time.

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Is it? Is it true that
most people who act are kind of shy

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until they get on stage. I
definitely have been a very shy person all

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my life, and I still am
unless I am on stage because I find

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that being in a character is like
different from being myself, so it kind

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of gives me the opportunity to become
a more confident person. Has that transferred

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back to your own being. I've
seen that it definitely has. I Like,

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the first time I came here,
I definitely wasn't as I was definitely

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more shy. But now I feel
like I'm able to like talk about the

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things that I know and whatnot,
like boldly going where no actress has gone

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before with his character Linda. Yeah, imagine every monkeys. Wow. Now

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what about you, what's your experience
been with theater. It's been a growth,

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isn't it. Yeah. I was
super shy, and I still am

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super shy. But once you get
into theater and you get the group that

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you get and you just aren't shy, and you step on stage and it's

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like you're somebody else and a young
man that came up to the microne here

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real quick. What was your aha
moment when you said I got this,

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I finally got this. My aha
moment? Yeah, you know, kind

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of thinking I want to be in
theater. But oh well, my brothers

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they did so much in their high
school and they had like child roles and

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I would fill in for their child
roles in their high school, and I

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just loved it so much. So
you got absorbed. Yeah all right,

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so you're kind of an easy one. Yeah. What about you? What

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was your moment where you kind of
said, this is this stuck with me.

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I'm in the glue trap. So
I have like not really done theater

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all my life. Uh, and
then I got to the high school and

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I saw the Hobbit, and I'm
like, that would be so cool to

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be in and so I auditioned for
it, and I'm like, oh,

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I think my chances of getting a
dwarf are pretty good. And I'm like,

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Okay, I'll probably just get a
dwarf and I'll be happy with it.

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And then I ended up getting the
lead the Hobbit, and then I

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just did and I made friends with
like all the seniors, and I just

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loved the like environment and acting on
stage. And I'm just like, I'm

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stuck second the Glee trap. And
my daughter was in it too, She

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says, I'm ever so thankful I
don't have hair on my feet. You

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know, that was that was her
only that was her only thing. You're

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worried about that. It's Roddie.
It tell us everybody about the dates and

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the times and how we can get
tickets for this performances. So this is

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actually going to be a very exclusive
performance. It's going to be Thursday,

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Friday and Saturday at seven pm.
But I have thirty seats for each night.

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So we're currently selling tickets. Contact
me, email me and I can

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put one aside, but we're gonna
sell out. Reservations are gonna get filled

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up real fast. Are already filling
up. Tickets are ten dollars, and

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that's a little bit more than normal. However, it's entry, a drink

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and a small plate the food that
we're serving, So that gets you food

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and something to drink. And then
we offer different plates for two fifty each,

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so you can come with a bunch
of friends and each get something different

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in share. Or if you're a
picky person, you're like I only like

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apple pie, you just get apple
pie. We have options of sweet and

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savory. Try to give a little
bit of everything available. Just get ready.

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If we were acting ever gets beyond
high school, you will be doing

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dinner theater. I guarantee it,
and just sounds like it would be kind

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of a good primeer for it.
Yeah, I keep telling I refer to

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the staff, the waiters, and
the made I keep telling them. So

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I'm gonna I like, I'm telling
them how to be waiters, Like I

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was one who hasn't been a waiter. Yeah, parents at a restaurant.

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I was doing that at five.
Yeah, so they're thirteen or fourteen,

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No, they're probably all fourteen by
now. Yeah, And I'm like,

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okay, so this is what this
section means, and this is what the

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job of a server. This is
the job of the hostess. This is

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what you're supposed to do. It's
also totally normal for the servers who go

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up to the hostess and gossip the
whole time instead of I was like,

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instead of serving tables. However,
don't do that. But it's also good

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to know that if you're going to
be a working actor, you'll probably be

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waiting tables sometime between parts. Just
so you know, I just want to

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break it to you gently. Maybe
all right, all right, but this

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is gonna be great. And how
do how do we go about getting the

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tickets? Do we contact the school? Do we contact you? Do we

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email them? So the most efficient
way is to email me at ro d

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d y aj at bpsh ok dot
org. I'll put that in the little

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story here when we get done,
so you can just kind of linker up

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right there and there you go click
presto change. Oh, you got it.

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And then any student who is involved
in the production, production or like

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just in my class, tell them
what night you want to go, give

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them your money, and then they
can pick it up and deliver to people

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as well. Sales is another thing
you're going to be well acquainted and well

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versed with on the Way by the
feet and fortune in the Great White Way

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of New York. This one I
was already talking about going to New York.

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So anyway, I want to thank
everybody for coming in break a leg

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figuratively not literally. Insurance costs money, and Miss Roddy always a pleasure.

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I always look forward to you bringing
in a cast every few weeks or so

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so we can get reacquainted with some
of our Bartlesville High School students and let's

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just have some fun. Okay,
all right, great, hey, thanks

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for being with us today, ladies
and gentlemen right here on our community connection

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