Speaker 1: Morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's time
Speaker 1: now for our community connection right here. Okay, one, no one,
Speaker 1: you trust. We have Eric Minton in here, and uh
Speaker 1: we've got the great Bartlesville Egg.
Speaker 2: Hot Yep, it's back again this year.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 1: When are we gonna do this?
Speaker 2: We're gonna do it April nineteenth this year.
Speaker 1: All right, Dan, well what time we need to be around?
Speaker 3: You want to be at ten o'clock and we're gonna
Speaker 3: do this one at Unity Square.
Speaker 1: No, this is gonna be a lot of fun. I
Speaker 1: remember the last time you were in here. Uh, folks
Speaker 1: were They had so many questions because they said, this
Speaker 1: is just wait, sounds way too fun. Is this where
Speaker 1: we're going to get the instructions and everything else?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you'll meet there at ten am. All kind
Speaker 3: of give you the instructions of everything. And there's some
Speaker 3: twists this year. I don't I kind of leave those
Speaker 3: to the end, but there's some big ones this year.
Speaker 1: Oh, the Man of Mystery here. Now this is year
Speaker 1: number four for this. Yes, this is starting to become
Speaker 1: quite the tradition.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've realized it was year four and was like, man,
Speaker 3: next year's five I'm gonna have to do something.
Speaker 1: How does this work?
Speaker 3: So basically and pass you show up, I give you
Speaker 3: some instructions of kind of how it's gonna work, and
Speaker 3: then we release some clues on Facebook. So there's an
Speaker 3: event page on Facebook the Great Bartlesville Egg Hunt. So
Speaker 3: we kind of break it down for everybody and then say, okay.
Speaker 2: Here it is.
Speaker 3: And it could be all over Bartlesville, it could be downtown.
Speaker 2: You never know.
Speaker 3: And so until we release those clues and then basically
Speaker 3: you go out and you do your best to find
Speaker 3: an egg.
Speaker 1: Now, these are kind of unusual eggs. These are ones
Speaker 1: you make.
Speaker 2: Yeah, each one's unique handmade.
Speaker 1: Wow glass yep.
Speaker 3: Glass comes out of a furnace at twenty one degrees.
Speaker 1: That's tough. And these eggs are a little bit more
Speaker 1: valuable than the ones at the grocery store.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they might be a little bit more expensive. You know,
Speaker 3: prices on eggs have come down now.
Speaker 1: So a little bit.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they're all glass eggs. Each have their own
Speaker 3: unique designs. Some have multiple colors, some of them glow
Speaker 3: in the dark. Some of them have what we call
Speaker 3: dichroic glass, which is a real shimmery.
Speaker 2: Product.
Speaker 3: You can put in The egg was actually used on
Speaker 3: the heat shield for space re entry, and they found
Speaker 3: you can put it in glass.
Speaker 1: So now these things are collectors items.
Speaker 2: I mean if people want to collect them, for sure.
Speaker 3: But I have had people reach out, you know and say, hey,
Speaker 3: we've gotten one every year. We can't go this year,
Speaker 3: you know, and I'm like, it's limited stock.
Speaker 1: Very limited too. So how long does this last? Is
Speaker 1: this like a week long hunt?
Speaker 2: No, it's really just that day.
Speaker 3: But you know, each year I've had to make it
Speaker 3: a little more difficult because the citizens of Bortlesville and
Speaker 3: people who come out, you know, every year we make
Speaker 3: it a little harder and they are finding it quick.
Speaker 3: So I think last year we had about two hundred
Speaker 3: people and I think we had twenty four eggs and
Speaker 3: they found them probably within i'd say forty minutes.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness sake. So they're on it. They're all
Speaker 1: about this, Yes, man, how many are up for grabs
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 3: So this year we're gonna do twenty four as well.
Speaker 3: But the clues are gonna be a lot harder this year.
Speaker 1: All right, So you got to go to the Facebook
Speaker 1: page kind of get.
Speaker 2: Your Yeah, you get some information there.
Speaker 3: I post some stuff out there, but really the day
Speaker 3: of the event will get you everything and it should
Speaker 3: be a good time.
Speaker 1: So you need to show up ten and you have
Speaker 1: a unity square to get the final detail. You got it,
Speaker 1: maybe you can put it all together here. Now, when
Speaker 1: we talk about we talked about these eggs just being
Speaker 1: cool and so unique. How do you go about doing this?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, how are they made? I mean,
Speaker 1: I know they're made of glass, but I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about making glass.
Speaker 3: So there's multiple processes to the glass and how you
Speaker 3: want to approach that.
Speaker 2: But with mine, it's blown glass.
Speaker 3: So basically I go into my furnace which has got
Speaker 3: molten glass at twenty one hundred degrees. When I go
Speaker 3: in and get glass out, that's called to gather, and
Speaker 3: at that point I can I have different colors. It's
Speaker 3: kind of like my palt painted palette. I have what
Speaker 3: they call fritz little pieces of broken up colored glass
Speaker 3: that I buy from my suppliers, and then I pick
Speaker 3: whichever colors I want to go into. Why that glass
Speaker 3: is hot, I can roll into it, it sticks to it.
Speaker 3: When I put it in my reheating furnace, it melts
Speaker 3: it into the glass, so it's.
Speaker 2: All becomes one.
Speaker 3: And then I have the option to you to add
Speaker 3: more colors, designs twists. When I go in and get
Speaker 3: another gather, I could come out and add more color.
Speaker 2: I could just leave it cased.
Speaker 3: So some of the eggs have color inside them, some
Speaker 3: of them the colors right on the outside. So it
Speaker 3: just depends if I've decided to put dichro in, if
Speaker 3: I make it glow in the dark, if I hit
Speaker 3: a mold and put a pattern in it, So they're
Speaker 3: all can be very different.
Speaker 1: Wow, how long does it take to make your average egg?
Speaker 3: So the average egg, I would say, I do get
Speaker 3: a little involved in it, and one of them all
Speaker 3: to look good, so you know, I mean, I could
Speaker 3: probably spend ten minutes on an egg, but then it's
Speaker 3: got a cool and it takes twelve hours to cool.
Speaker 3: Then once it's cooled, as long as it's made it
Speaker 3: through that whole process, I then have to grind off
Speaker 3: the rough edges and polish them, and then that can
Speaker 3: take a while too, depending on how much polishing and
Speaker 3: grinding I've.
Speaker 1: Got to do.
Speaker 3: So overall, I would say, you know, if you want
Speaker 3: to say I want an egg, I won't be able
Speaker 3: to produce that egg ready to hand it to you
Speaker 3: until probably a day and a half later. By the
Speaker 3: time it's come out of the furnace, it's cooled, it's
Speaker 3: been cold worked, and it's ready to go.
Speaker 1: And that's the minimum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the minimum.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's you know, making it not so much,
Speaker 3: but the way glass has to cool and then some
Speaker 3: of the afterwork can take some time sometimes.
Speaker 1: My goodness sakes, this is going to be great. It's
Speaker 1: the Great Bartlesville Egg Hunt. Watch the Facebook page same name,
Speaker 1: then show up at Unity Square on April nineteenth at
Speaker 1: ten am. And remember they're twenty four eggs, tons of
Speaker 1: clues and really a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody seems to enjoy it, have a good time,
Speaker 3: all ages, family friendly. A lot of people will say, oh,
Speaker 3: it's more like the adult hunt. You know, it's a
Speaker 3: little little harder, but everybody's welcome to come out and
Speaker 3: enjoy it.
Speaker 1: And folks, what are they say? Well, what's in it
Speaker 1: for Eric Minton?
Speaker 3: Just the joy of watching everybody come out, the community
Speaker 3: getting together. I do have some eggs that usually after
Speaker 3: the hunt, those who may not have found any I
Speaker 3: do have some for sale, but again it's it's limited.
Speaker 3: It's really not a big moneymaker or anything. It is
Speaker 3: just something that kind of started small, evolved and I'm
Speaker 3: happy to do it.
Speaker 1: Oh my, well, Eric, I want to thank you for
Speaker 1: being with us today and we're going to send folks
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 2: Awesome, that's great.
Speaker 1: Alrighty folks, the hunt is on. You've been listening to
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