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Eight five five ninety Bible and good
morning, good morning, good morning,

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good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome in. It's time now for

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our community connection right here on K
one and the one he trusted. Being

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brought to you by Arnold Moore knee
Campionial Home, Tall Grassloadors in Wesley and

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Kitty College. Now I've been talking
to miss Tammy here with the Bartelsville round

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Up Club. We got talking so
much almost forgot we had to do a

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show. But welcome. How are
you doing today? I'm doing just fine.

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It's always a good day when you
get out of bed. Oh yes

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it is. Now we're talking the
forty second annual Green Country Rodeo. And

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this is a big time. It
always is, it always has been.

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It is it is. It's a
big event for Bartlesville. Now, this

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got started in quite a different way
than I would have thought. You said,

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a bunch of firemen had this for
a long time ago. Yes,

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years ago. The firefighters had the
rodeo and it was at where the stadium

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is now the stadium. Yeah,
and they put on a fireman's rodeo for

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years. Well then they quit doing
it, and so bartles are a round

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up club. Picked it up forty
two years ago and started having a big

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rodeo. This is pretty darn cool. I got a lot of history to

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it, and of course we have
some historical figures that have been associated with

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this a long way, some of
them your family members too. Yeah.

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Yeah, Now when we put together
the rodeo, everyone loves it, but

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they don't know how much work it
takes to put into it. It's not

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one of those things before you paint
the barn and put on a show.

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No, they work all year long, and this is our biggest fundraiser to

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keep the grounds up. We've got
forty eight acres out there and we keep

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it up and keep it mode and
repairs, bleacher repairs, leak repairs,

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I mean, you name it.
We have the repair. We have to

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do the repairs, and it's all
volunteer. It is a quarter of directors.

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We have an absolute amazing board of
directors and president of the Round Up

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Club has it's you cannot believe that
hours and hours and hours him and his

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family have put in. Goodness.
Thanks. Yeah, Now we've got we've

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got some covered bleachers out there and
grateful silties. But it takes a while.

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Takes a little bit of you know, a little green to keep keep

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things up and going, like we
said, but I understand that we have

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some really cool events even for the
eaty biddies all the way up to the

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big timers. Yes we do.
We have um for the little kids,

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We'll have the calf Scramble and that's
free all the little kids and watch fun.

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They sometimes they have like two divisions
like twelve or eight to twelve and

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seven and unders. I don't know
what the clown will do. He'll come

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up with something fun. Yeah,
and then they'll they'll run out there and

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chase those calves down and grab the
ribbon off their tail and they'll get money

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for it if they bring the ribbon
back to the clown. And that's always

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always just a fun, fun event. Um uh. And then we have

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the the barrel race. Now we
have the barrel race is one of the

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main events, the open barrel race
during the rodeo, and that's a high

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dollar entry fee. But we have
for each end of all vigil night Thursday,

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Friday and Saturday, we have the
young kids that come and enter the

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rodeo. We have peewee barrels eight
and under and then nine to fifteen,

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So those kiddos can come and run
barrels at a nightly jack pot and it's

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a lot cheaper entry fee. So
all the local people around here that's got

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a little barrel racer in their family
come out in barrel race. It's a

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lot of fun. And you enter
that nightly. You don't have to call

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in, like if you're a professional. Even though you might be tiny mites,

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they are competitive. Oh, yes
they are, Yes, they are.

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We are blessed with a community.
Well, Oklahoma's just kind of famous.

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Yeah, the whole state is this. There's a barrel racer somewhere in

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somebody's family and and you know,
the pretty serious about it. Okay I

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found that out. Yeah, pretty
serious about it. And it's just a

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lot of fun. What other events
do we have coming up in this well?

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Also the mutton busting I forgot.
That's get a little kiddos that Now,

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that's it. Nightly jack Pot,
nightly, and you have to be

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in by it'll start at seven o'clock. The rodeo starts at eight, but

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they'll do the muttonbusters sometime between seven
seven thirty, so you come about six

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thirty to enter up for that.
As far as those little ones are concerned.

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That's the eight second ride. Oh
yeah, yeah. They come to

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the rodeo for the mutton Buster and
the grand Entry. Well, you know

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the thing is with the little winds
on the on the mutton Busters, as

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they say, uh, that's big
time for them. But then again they

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bounce right off and they bounce right
back up. They don't get hurt.

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Yeah yeah, they just say,
well dog, never another try, and

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there's another rodeo, or just dry
on the corner. And what do we

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have for the bigger people we have
here? We got we've got the wild

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horse race, a wild horse,
yes, yes, And that's where they'll

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turn out a horse that is not
tame at all, and they'll could turn

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him out with a halter on him, and they'll have three guys out there

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read to snub him down, get
him saddled, and then one rider will

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get on and ride him across the
finish line. And it is wild,

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rough and tough, yes, And
that'll be right at the beginning. So

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you've got to be there, you
know, got to get on time because

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it's the first event usually and it's
always a good start. Of course,

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there's the bull riding and the saddle
bronc Ride and the barrel back riding um

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uh now my favorite or the tied
tie down events, the tie down calf

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Ropen tie down, uh, Team
Ropen Steer, open Um Women's Breakaway,

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very very famous event. Now it's
really it's finally getting it's its name.

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Yeah, yeah, it's finally getting
its dou at the rodeos. It's it's

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real competitive. This sounds like this
is gonna be a lot of action.

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It is. It is and and
the Bighorn Rodeo Company is our Stockholm tractor

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and they do their very best to
keep it moving right along and keep you

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interested. And we have a funny
man that is just the best. I

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think his name is Gooby. He
is hilarious. Now, what are the

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knights for the barnith the round up
corner. It is July twenty seventh,

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twenty eighth, and twenty ninth.
So there's very few three day rodeos in

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Oklahoma, and this is one of
them. Because we are IPRA and ACRA

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and and open I mean local people
can come and inner. But IPR is

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International Professional Rodeo Association. ACR is
American Cowboys Rodeo Association, and those are

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two of the big biggest associations around
and very competitive. We'll get people from

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several states to come and compete.
Well, and I know that you have,

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yes, yeah, yes, what's
the farthest way you think you have

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to make? Well a few years
ago we had somebody from New York.

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Yes, yes, and we've had
them from Idaho and Iowa. Um,

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I don't remember a California person.
Well you had half New York kind of

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takes a cake right there. I
can see Idaho, I can see Iowa,

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but New York kind of threw me. Yeah that was a I think

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that was a BRONC rider. Yeah
that was during COVID. They're looking for

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somebody too. I got a chance. Yeah, let me breathe. But

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no, we get them from Missouri, Kansas, Texas, a lot of

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a lot of Missouri, Kansas,
Texas, Oklahoma. Um and you know

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five or six states. This several
competitors. Well that's great. Where do

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we get our tickets? Well,
you can you can call me. Um

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My number is nine one eight four
four zero six eight one two, and

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I can put you in touch with
a couple of queen candidates. Oh they're

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the ones old, the good or
I've I've got tickets, and you can

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tell me which queen candidate you want
credit to go to and um and we

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can get to discount tickets all the
way till the Wednesday before the rodeo,

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the twenty six something tells me with
the Queen's hare, whoever tells the most

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tickets might be taken the crowd.
You're exactly right. And this is one

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of the few rodeos that it's only
based on ticket sales um and and that's

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a lot of controversy controversially. You
know, people want to go, they

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want to do the big horsemanship competition
and uh, the speech and beauty and

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all that stuff, which is fine, it is wonderful and very um admirable,

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admirable, But there's all those other
kids out there that are just not

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not not there yet, but but
they want to be. And this is

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a chance for them between some really
nice prizes. But they've got to get

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out there in hustle it, and
that's that's kind of hard to do people,

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you know, the heat not But
so if you've got somebody knocking on

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your door, please at least buy
one ticket. And there's raffle stuff for

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them on the tickets. So there's
a oh what do you call those grills

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the Blackstone? Oh yeah, nice. Not for the rodeo tickets you get

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to enter entry into the Blackstone.
And then for the Little Bridges tickets there's

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a five hundred dollars meat package donated
by Rainy's Custom Meats there and yes,

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yes, good neighbors, Yes they
are. And that's another thing I wanted

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to mention was our sponsors. Well, you've got great sponsors. We do.

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We've got the best community then in
the whole wide world. I wouldn't

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ever want to live anywhere else.
A few of our our biggest ones where

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Bartlesville's Visitors Bureau. They're just behind
us one hundred percent and we are so

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thankful for them. And then there's
the State farm people Jim Moore, Zach

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Henderson and Matt Spence. They always
help us out and they're they're just great

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sponsors. Williams Concrete and then the
Back Roads Bar. Those are some of

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our biggest sponsors this year. Nice. We have so many. I couldn't

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there's there's not enough time. And
I apologize if I didn't say their name,

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but we will at the rodeo.
Oh yeah, can sing. Yes,

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you can be sure it will be
mentioned every night at the rodeo.

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You're, you're, you're, we'll
be thanking you for your sponsorship. Yeah,

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I'm sure you're going to see their
banners out there and the banners we

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put up banners along the road and
in the arena and um, well,

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I tell you what. Every year
about that time it turns into the place,

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you know something's going on. It's
like, hey, wow, flights

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camera and we'll have a photographer there
too, sweet Cindy ab A photography.

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She always takes pictures for us,
and you can find her on our website.

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Her not website are at Facebook page. Yeah. So uh and she

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takes really great pictures. So if
you want a picture, just holler at

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her. You'll see her out there
and she can take a little session with

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you or whatever. She gets around. I mean she's everywhere. Yeah,

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she's really a nice person and we
really appreciate her. Oh my goodness.

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Thing. Oh and the cost to
get in the rodeo, Yeah, it's

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ten dollars at the gate. That's
it. Yeah, wow, that's pretty

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reasonable. It is it is.
And our discount tickets are eight dollars,

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so even better. Yeah, that
call and UM for kids from seven to

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twelve years old, it's five dollars
and there's no advance or discount on the

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five dollars. Tickets six and under
is always free. Okay, very good.

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This is family fun, This is
our harry d. This is a

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tradition, and this is really where
it's at. It is it is.

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They have so much fun out there, and of course we have cold beer

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and lots of hamburgers and Indian tacos. I've heard the hamburgers in the Indian

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tacos are kind of legendary. They
are, and they're very good. They're

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very good. We've got some great
cooks and the border directors. Can I

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just say their names? I just
I cannot praise them enough for what they

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do out there. They spend hours
out there preparing for all our events.

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Devin Gray is our president. UH
works full time job and and and keeps

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that place going. Yeah. UM
and Tamra Hope, Kim Hoppeck. They

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are out there every day. They
put our programs together. We'll be selling

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programs there. I believe they're going
to be five dollars. I'm not sure,

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but we have a couple of thousand
dollars worth of raffle prizes if you

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buy those programs and your numbers drawn. We got a couple of thousand dollars

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worth of prizes for all three nights. So it's worth your five bucks,

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I tell you. And we only
print like I don't know, I want

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to say three hundred. So everybody's
got a good chance, very good and

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um so, uh so, I
said Kim and Tamra. And then there's

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the Peterson's Jessica Peter Send, Brodie
Peterson, Mike Peterson, Caitlin Peterson,

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uh so, many people. The
Shambles, Amanda Shambles. She she controls

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the queen content Okay and her husband
Mark, and in their families, their

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extended families, they just you know, neighbors, you know, and anybody

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that wants to volunteer, give me
a call. We'll we'll get you in

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there, get you in the rodeo, and you see a little bit rodeo,

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but you got to do a little
bit of work. It's a nice

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trade off with a nice trade off. Yeah, well this is gonna be

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really exciting and I really can't wait. This is gonna be a lot of

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fun. So we'll do a little
story here on the internet here and tell

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you about where you can find your
your tickets and everything else like that.

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And of course our video is going
to keep playing on the Facebook Live as

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a recording for a good long time. But the good thing is it's on.

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It's happening. It might be a
little bit warm, but we've got

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we've got a lot of things to
keep you occupied out there. Hey,

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the concession stands air conditioned, so
you know you can get a little bit

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of a rest. That's good.
Yeah, Oh jeez, Well, I

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gotta tell it, dam I mean, this has been a lot of fun.

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It's also been an education too.
Well, thank you. I hope,

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I hope I can inform this is
a really good event for Bartlesville.

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And I'm surprised at the people that
don't know anything about it. Well,

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we get so many people who move
in every year a chance that you know,

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it's kind of new to them.
So if you're a newbie, you've

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only been here about a year,
year and a half or so, this

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is where it's at. You gotta
you haven't seen anything until you've seen this.

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And it's located right before Acress the
airport, right across from the airport

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on the west side of the Research
Center at the Highway sixty. You can't

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miss it, No, you cannot, between the Research Center and the right

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Yeah. Oh say, Casino was
a nice sponsor too. Oh that's great.

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We got we gotta we got most
of them in now. Yeah.

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Yeah, Well, Tammy, thank
you very much. Well you're sure welcome,

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all right, folks, you