Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 2: He is at time now for our community connection right
Speaker 2: here on K one, the one you draft. Doctor John
Speaker 2: Allens is in here with us, and we've got wild
Speaker 2: Brew coming up here in just a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: This is this is pretty came up pretty fast on us.
Speaker 2: That's right as August twenty third. It's going to be
Speaker 2: a Tulsa. It's going to be at the rBST Center.
Speaker 2: That's right, all right, So this is great. Tell us
Speaker 2: a little bit about it, what folks can expect and
Speaker 2: why we're doing this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so other than it's a good time and it's
Speaker 1: pretty tafty.
Speaker 3: So Wild Brew has been around for I think this
Speaker 3: is the twenty seventh year, which you know, for a
Speaker 3: fundraiser is a tremendous run. It is for a brewery
Speaker 3: and restaurant festival, it's a tremendous run and it's really
Speaker 3: you know, kudos to the committee down there u Tulsa.
Speaker 3: That's they're kind of the ring leader on this event
Speaker 3: and the champions of this event, and they're big supporters
Speaker 3: of the Sutton Center and have been for a long time.
Speaker 3: So that's what Wildbrew benefits is the work that we
Speaker 3: do at the Sutton.
Speaker 1: Center, And what is the work we do with the center, doctor.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you asked.
Speaker 3: We conserve two different endangered birds for the Fish and
Speaker 3: Wildlife Service and for the US those are the prairie
Speaker 3: chicken and the masked bob white. And by the way,
Speaker 3: those two birds are going to be featured in our
Speaker 3: logos and branding for Wild brew two different beers that
Speaker 3: we have down there are sort of supporting each one
Speaker 3: of those birds from the New Story.
Speaker 4: Brewery, and so that's some of the work we do.
Speaker 3: Is conserving those birds. And then we also have quite
Speaker 3: a few survey programs, so we go out and we
Speaker 3: see what is around us, what's in the wild, and
Speaker 3: we do that over the course of many, many years
Speaker 3: so that we can determine long term trends in the
Speaker 3: wildlife it's around us. So we focus on a few
Speaker 3: species there. And then we have an education program where
Speaker 3: we take raptors and falcons and owls out into the
Speaker 3: classroom or out to festivals, and so that's sort of
Speaker 3: our outreach and we get, you know, we get to
Speaker 3: talk to people and share more of what we do there.
Speaker 2: Now your education Billow we've had him in here a
Speaker 2: few times. He is something else. He really gets into
Speaker 2: this and he made sure that the kids whenever he's
Speaker 2: got the mobile exhibit, they get into it as well,
Speaker 2: and just by.
Speaker 1: Accident they start learning things. How does that happen?
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of fun next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: you learn a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I've always found that to be the best kind of
Speaker 3: learning experience where there's a little bit of a wow
Speaker 3: moment associated with it, and so so it's really it's
Speaker 3: an effective teaching tool because.
Speaker 4: It's it's novel.
Speaker 3: I mean, how often do you sit around with a
Speaker 3: big bird and get to watch it, you know?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this bird is almost as big as he
Speaker 2: is and very well behaved. And Artemis has got a
Speaker 2: kind of a fun personality too, So that's right.
Speaker 1: So it's pretty cool. Now.
Speaker 2: The work that was really put the sudden Avian research
Speaker 2: on the map was how we brought the bald eagles back.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I'm sure many people may remember back in the
Speaker 3: eighties bald eagles were you didn't see them because because
Speaker 3: there were none around, and the Sutton Center they went
Speaker 3: to i think Florida and they found some eggs and
Speaker 3: of course this was all permitted and approved and everything,
Speaker 3: and we brought the eggs back here to hatch Southern
Speaker 3: bald eagle chicks and they used We didn't have mama
Speaker 3: bald eagles, so we used chickens to sit on the
Speaker 3: eggs and turn the eggs, incubate the eggs, and when
Speaker 3: the chicks hatched, they used puppets. They had eagle shaped
Speaker 3: puppets to feed the chicks so that they didn't associate
Speaker 3: food with humans and they could maintain some of their
Speaker 3: wild tendencies.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And so those initial efforts, which meant went for years
Speaker 3: and years, uh, sort of resulted in the seed population
Speaker 3: that is now naturally reproducing all around us. Now there's
Speaker 3: over three hundred nests in the state of Oklahome.
Speaker 2: I do remember living in Florida. I've seeing the bald
Speaker 2: eagles right around some of the little islands that you
Speaker 2: don't really see on the maps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those things are huge.
Speaker 2: I had no idea how big an eagle, god, especially
Speaker 2: a bald eagle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, whoa. You know, we have to think of something.
Speaker 2: Research center here for making sure that they're thriving now
Speaker 2: and now we've got another project with our other birds
Speaker 2: that you've been working just as diligently to make sure
Speaker 2: that they have a fair shake at surviving too.
Speaker 1: And the work is ongoing, and this is why we
Speaker 1: need the money.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: It's this ain't free.
Speaker 3: It's it's not free, and it's and it's labor intensive.
Speaker 3: And you know, I learned I learned this the other day.
Speaker 3: You know, when a Bob White saw a Bob White
Speaker 3: egg is a small golf ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And and when they when the chicks come out there of
Speaker 3: course that size and uh, sometimes their their feet are
Speaker 3: a little curled right like like a club foot might be.
Speaker 3: And you know, if this was a standard you know,
Speaker 3: agricultural operation, you might just sort of let that bird
Speaker 3: go its way and not not be too concerned. But
Speaker 3: but we actually make little splints out of masking tape
Speaker 3: for them, and so you can flatten their feet out
Speaker 3: and they have little shoes that they walk around in
Speaker 3: for a couple of days, little masking tape shoes and
Speaker 3: and after a few days of you know, flat structure
Speaker 3: and putting weight on them, their feet all flattened out
Speaker 3: and they can grow to be a healthy adult.
Speaker 1: Wow. Great.
Speaker 4: And it takes time and effort to do that, you.
Speaker 3: Know, and and attendance and uh and care and and
Speaker 3: the people that we have working on these projects are
Speaker 3: are really committed.
Speaker 4: To the birds, you know, to the wildlife.
Speaker 2: So how do we get tickets to this wild brew
Speaker 2: Extravaganza coming up to twenty third at the RBS Center
Speaker 2: in Tulsa.
Speaker 3: Glad you asked Tom. You go to wabbrew dot org.
Speaker 3: That's wabrew dot org and you can find tickets there.
Speaker 4: If you're a brewery.
Speaker 3: And you want to sign up, you can sign up
Speaker 3: there and come and be a vendor.
Speaker 4: If you're a restaurant, you can.
Speaker 3: Sign up and come and share some of your food there.
Speaker 3: This is we're getting close to the deadline, the printing deadline,
Speaker 3: so I think this is about the last week when
Speaker 3: you can get in and get your logo on some
Speaker 3: of the printed material. Of course, it still get on
Speaker 3: the website if you want to. We're expecting two thousand
Speaker 3: people or so. That's historic trends. We've sold close to
Speaker 3: five six hundred tickets right now.
Speaker 4: Wow, you should definitely come.
Speaker 1: So all right, this sounds really good.
Speaker 2: Now this also benefits the breweries and the restaurants too,
Speaker 2: because people can get a little sample and say, hey,
Speaker 2: you know, next time I'm in town, or next time
Speaker 2: I'm in that neighbor, we'll probably visit you and maybe
Speaker 2: again and again and again. And I think that's part
Speaker 2: of the reason twenty seven years is paid off, because
Speaker 2: everybody wants to kind a piece.
Speaker 1: Of that action.
Speaker 4: That's right. I mean, it's a it's a great marketing event.
Speaker 3: And of course, you know, twenty seven years ago, marketing
Speaker 3: and media is a lot different than it is.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you almost apples and oranges.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but if you if you think about the dedication
Speaker 3: of the breweries and restaurants that you know, many of
Speaker 3: them come back here to year to year. This really
Speaker 3: is a mainstay event. It's a community event and people
Speaker 3: want to be there. It's also a well oiled machine,
Speaker 3: so getting in and getting out is easy.
Speaker 2: And you don't have to reinvent the wheel every year.
Speaker 2: That's right, That's great. So how many brewers about thirty?
Speaker 3: I think we have about thirty five breweries signed up
Speaker 3: right now, and I think twenty six, twenty seven maybe restaurants.
Speaker 4: I think we've got a few more coming in.
Speaker 2: We can make like thirty two to thirty two that'd
Speaker 2: be great. Yeah, even fifty or fifty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're our objectives are to hit forty.
Speaker 4: That's that's all really okay. But we've got the floor
Speaker 4: plan laid out.
Speaker 3: You know, there's sort of a few aisles along the
Speaker 3: edges and then there's a patron area in the middle.
Speaker 3: So if you go a little bit up on your tickets,
Speaker 3: you can get into the patron area and have a
Speaker 3: little extra elbow room for seating. And I think there's
Speaker 3: a little upscale food in there and things like that.
Speaker 2: So what you're saying is, because of all the varieties
Speaker 2: of food and beverage to sample that once should probably
Speaker 2: wear loose fitting clothes.
Speaker 4: I think that wouldn't be a bad idea.
Speaker 2: An apron on an apron, Well, it depends on your manners,
Speaker 2: but you know, just make sure you got the wattle
Speaker 2: room there.
Speaker 1: But once you do some walking around folks, it'll probably
Speaker 1: be calorie neutral. Yeah, yeah, I think so that's what
Speaker 1: I'm going with.
Speaker 2: I think so, and of course I might not be factual,
Speaker 2: but I'm going with it.
Speaker 3: And we've got a deal at the Double Tree across
Speaker 3: the across the street for you.
Speaker 2: Know, spend it down there spend the night and tell
Speaker 2: us so why not you know, I mean it's a
Speaker 2: beautiful town.
Speaker 1: It is by day by night. Come right home to.
Speaker 2: Beautiful Bartles build in the daylight and say, ah, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't experienced that was That's right.
Speaker 1: This is wonderful.
Speaker 2: Again, just go to the wild brew dot org and
Speaker 2: that is the website. It'll tell you a little bit
Speaker 2: about what's going on with the money is raised for. Also,
Speaker 2: it tells you a lot about the fun you're going
Speaker 2: to have, and it'll tell you how much you need
Speaker 2: to put down in order to have such fun and
Speaker 2: help out a great cause at the same time. See
Speaker 2: this is this is what I like about putting the
Speaker 2: fun in fund raising.
Speaker 3: There's a there's also I should mention this as an
Speaker 3: online auction. I think it started okay, so I gotta
Speaker 3: check that out. We have a number of trips and
Speaker 3: packages on there. I think there's some h some art available,
Speaker 3: and and that online auction goes until near the end
Speaker 3: of the event. So I think that closed like seven
Speaker 3: on the twenty third, which as you go check it out,
Speaker 3: you can get to it from the website.
Speaker 1: Wonderful. Thank you doctor Ellis. Thanks for being a part
Speaker 1: of it here today, wonderful being. We'll see you at
Speaker 1: Wow Broue. I don't you guys don't play wild thing
Speaker 1: down there, do you? Ann No, you don't do that.
Speaker 2: I just been silly anyway, it's a lot of fun.
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