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And welcome malcome mancome Mary Lynn,
ma'am with okam is with his heir on

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part two of our community connection today. And we're talking october Fest. You've

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got a new word for this,
which I like, fam venturous. That

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is true. We are a very
family friendly october Fest. And good morning

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Tom, and good morning to you
boy. This is gonna be a lot

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of fun. October seventh is coming
up faster than you think. I think

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the billboard yesterday said eighteen days,
So now we're at seventeen days in counting.

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Maybe all right, Now, we're
gonna do this right there by your

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building. We're gonna do it on
Dewey between fourth and fifth Street, downtown

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in the heart of Bartlesville, just
like we have for the past gosh,

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I guess maybe six seven years.
It's been a really big success and we're

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super excited to be downtown again.
It allows everyone with familiarity, of course,

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but it also allows our downtown partners
to really get in the groove and

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help participate with us. Well.
It is going to be a fun groove

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because there is something for everyone.
Like you mentioned, it is family friends.

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It's not twenty one and over.
This is for the kids as well

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as the adults, and even for
us folks who might be a little bit

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beyond adult, you know, in
our happy years as we call. I

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think what's really fun about this october
Fest is there is something for everyone and

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all ages. You see grandparents bringing
their grandkids, You've see mom and Dad's

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bringing their kids. It is just
extremely wholesome. Of course, there is

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beer and wine, but people are
very responsible in Bartlesville. They can have

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a good time, but they know
how to have a good october Fest but

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be appropriated at the same time.
Indeed, now we've got all kinds of

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great things going on here. Some
of the games we've got here for the

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kids especially, we have the Jumpy
House, the fun Crafts, giant duck

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pick game, Jettycat prizes. I'm
not sure that we'll get their frame,

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and is a shalute bag. So
the Shoot Day which I probably am butchering

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it. You know, in Germany, children when they go to school,

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they get these giant bags, the
shoot Day bags that are filled. They're

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cone shaped and they're filled with all
kinds of school supplies, crayons, colored

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pencils, pencils, and they are
quite something. They're very decorative. And

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it's it's quite the deal. Some
of these shoota bags are as big as

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the kids. They may be like
three feet big anyway, So every year

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we've brought it to october Fest where
the kids get to have their little bag

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and they get to fill it with
all kinds of goodies, maybe some like

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pumpkin erasers, some colored pencils,
crayons, coloring books, all kinds of

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fun stuff that they will be able
to put in there. We have temporary

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tattoos that are Fall themed and so
always lots of good surprises, maybe a

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little bit of candy, not a
whole lot, but maybe a little bit

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of fall candy. The jumping House, though I have to say I'm really

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excited about it, has multiple components
to it, so it has more than

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one room, It has slides,
it has all kinds of features. So

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I'm hoping that they'll allow adults in
it too. It looks fun. Probably

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not but it, but it looks
fun. We do have a lot of

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crafts that are for the kids.
We've got some really fun kind of wooden

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little ornaments that are very I guess
woodland creature themed that the kids will get

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to like fox raccoons that they'll get
to decorate and take those home. Of

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course, we have face painting that
and then we also have family friendly and

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then the kids can do some of
these games. Some of them maybe not,

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it depends on the age of the
kid. But we have cornhole.

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We have ax throwing. Unfortunately it's
not a real ax, or fortunately it's

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not a real ax. It's it's
a it's a more of like a rubber

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ax, and so it is.
It is friendly for the family. One

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of the most popular games that we
do every year that actually is quite a

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family competition is root beer pong.
I heard that it gets kind of competitive.

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It does. We had a mom
and a son who played it I

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think three times last year. But
you come on you it's set up with

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the red solo cups are on the
table and you have your little ping pong

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and you try to get it in
typical fashion of playing pong. The cups

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are filled with water, not root
beer. That would be a little sticky,

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but the winner gets a mug and
they get a nice root beer.

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So that's always fun. So that's
very popular. This year we've also added

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our Giant Game of Life, which
if you've ever played the board game Game

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of Life. Now it's going to
be a giant where you're actually playing on

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a giant board. The cars that
we have that you have to drive in

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you have to carry around are probably
yeah so big. They're made out of

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a hard board. It's kind of
fun. You get a pet if you

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land on a pet, you have
your little baby if you get babies,

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and you go through the game of
Life, and then we have some fun

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prizes. We also, excuse me, have our Pet Pet game. And

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then of course we have our annual
zoo Fall. The zoo Fall. If

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you know what a cake walk is, it's like a cakewalk, but instead

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of cakewalk, many of our businesses
downtown and throughout Bartlesville donate really cool prizes.

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And so you buy a ticket to
play this game and you've you're umber

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is drawn after the music stops,
and you get a really cool prize.

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Now, mary Lyn, we also
have some that are very much for adults

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of the games. Yeah. So
we have hummer Schlagen, which is the

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traditional game that you have a giant
piece of wood, you have a nail,

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and then you have to drive the
nail into the piece of wood with

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your hammer. And there's very specific
rules for that, and so that one

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is always for adults. It could
be potentially dangerous, of course it's not,

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but anyway, and then we also
have our beer stein competition, which

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is your good old fashion. You
have to get your leader of beer,

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hold your hand out, you can't
bend it, and we see who can

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hold their beer the longest it's filled
to the brim. We have the beer

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stein Relay, which is also fun
and quite entertaining. We have groups of

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four They have to do a little
relay and basically pass the beer stein off

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from each leg of their team to
each other without spilling any beer. The

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team who does it the fastest and
who has the most beer in their stein

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that is the team that wins.
And of course we have prizes for that.

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So I think overall again we have
a little bit of something for everyone.

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Tickets are on sale right now.
Tom we ask about that because it

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looks like we have a special deal. Yes, right now, students can

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get in for seven dollars. It'll
go up to ten on the day of

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the event, or actually October first
is the last day. They're on sale

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October two through October seventh. On
the day of the event, tickets will

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raise adults are twelve right now,
they'll go up to fifteen at that time.

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And then the really exciting part that
we're so thankful to be able to

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do is children and twelve and under
are free. We again really try to

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make all of our family events very
child friendly but as also pocketbook friendly for

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the parents so that they can come
out but that their kids can enjoy all

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of this for free. And the
games are also all free. So now

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this is a lot of fun,
and we do raise money because the music

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festival that we have every June and
the children's programs that go along with it,

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and they're not free, so we
have to we have to kind of

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help it out a little bit.
And this is a fun way to do

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it with okay a music with October
Fat it is critical for us through October

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Fest, Chris Kendall, our hashtag
Giving Tuesday events. These are fundraisers for

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us, and so every penny matters, and you know, we try to

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do it maybe in a different way
in the sense of having a big gala.

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We try to do events that really
involve the whole community but also bring

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the Bavarian German culture as a benefactor
for Mozart on his behalf. We try

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to bring that to Bartlesville, so
we really hope people will come out and

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support us. And I should say
all of the children's games are free.

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Some of the adult games cost a
little bit to play, but they're not

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bad. They're all affordable. Now, we got all kinds of food,

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We have all kinds of beverage,
but we also have a great way to

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burn off those calories too. Live
music. Who do we have. We

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have Makshnell, Lost Capella, and
of course everyone's favorite King Cabbage, so

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we are very excited to have everyone
back. We also have the German American

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Society Dancers coming back. They are
fantastic. They will get everyone in the

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mood to do some nice polka dancing
as well as the Chicken Dance, so

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that's always a big win. And
then as far as the beer and wine,

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Painted Horse I'm sorry, not Painted
Horse, the Palace Rooms is coming

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to provide the wine for us,
and we're very excited. They're also going

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to have pretzels. We have Scissor
Tail Brewing Company, Fat Toad Brewing Company,

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and Cooper and mill Is back,
so we're excited to have them back

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this year. So you can't go
wrong with all the October fusts, some

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the loggers and the pilsners, all
the wonderful beers that will be handcrafted.

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They should all be amazing and I'm
very excited to partner with Palace Rooms.

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David Callwait has just been amazing.
He's been a huge help. He's helped

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he's also on our board, but
he's also helped us put together all of

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the beer vendors for the season,
so we can't go wrong. Thank you,

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David. Now we've been telling people
where they can get the prices of

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the tickets. Where do we go
online? How do we reach you there?

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So you can go to okayammusic dot
org and click on the October festab

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and it takes you right there,
lets you buy your tickets online. If

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you would like to volunteer, we
still desperately need some volunteers for our children's

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games and some of our adult games. The shifts are not that bad.

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You would get in for free and
then you could enjoy the rest of your

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time there. So if you're willing
to give us an hour and a half

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to two hours of your time,
then we are so happy to have you

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come in and let you in for
free. Mary Lynn mim with OKAM,

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thank you for being our guest,
absolutely, thank you. Alrighty folks today

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