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Well, hello again, KCIW

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listeners, and welcome to Curry Cafe.

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I'm volunteer Rick McNamer.

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Every Sunday from three to four, your host,

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Ray Gary, and I put together a panel

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of guests to discuss various topics of interest

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that impact our wonderful community.

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And we have a big one today. So

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and now here's Ray to tell us about

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today's show.

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Yes. We have a big, mover and shaker

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who's gonna change the,

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the entire fabric of this community and Crescent

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City, but we'll get to him in just

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a minute because I have couple of announcements

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to make.

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One is I have been trying forever to

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put together a bit of a political show

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here, and I can't seem to get

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both sides to cooperate. So, if you're out

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there and you would like to participate in

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a political

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conversation,

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just get a hold of us, k c

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I w dot org, and we would love

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to have you in here.

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My other announcement is I went to the

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Checo Players,

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show the other night and saw

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out of Howard's head.

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This is a three

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at three play,

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by Howard Patterson, who's a local person.

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And I've been to a lot of plays

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there, and I think this is the best

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one I've ever seen. I've said after the

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first one, I

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I turned to the person I was with

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and said, this is this is incredible. It

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was very, very well done. I would highly

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recommend you go see it. It's very different.

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All three little plays are entirely different,

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and they're very, very well done.

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Okay. That's a good shout out. Good shout

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out. Yep.

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Okay. Now I'll turn the microphone over to

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our guest today who we should,

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all be pleased he's here. He's he's he's

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hopefully gonna take care of one of the

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one of my problems with this area. We'll

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get into that later.

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So,

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mister Ralph, you will introduce yourself,

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give us a little background or whatever you

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wanna say, or

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if you have some merch for sale or

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if you wanna just plug something. The microphone

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is yours.

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Well, pleasure to be here.

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Thank you for the invitation. Nick Roehl with

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PPA,

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the partnership

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for the performing arts.

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Our core focus is supporting youth and performing

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arts in

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Curry and Del Norte Counties,

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we run a wonderful classical music series

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up in Brookings. We have a concert coming

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up at the end of the month at

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the Seventh day Adventist Church, and,

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we do a lot of good work helping,

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helping bring the world to an area where

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a lot of folks

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don't have the opportunity to go to the

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world. We bring the world to them through,

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the different work that we do with,

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all the different types of performing arts that

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we support. So very happy to be here.

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And that concert coming up,

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Nick, is gonna be,

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high school,

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mostly high school,

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kids? The concert coming up at the Seventh

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day Adventist

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Church is we took over a nonprofit

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three years ago, a Brookings nonprofit

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called Friends of Music. We're now on the

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fortieth season.

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And internationally

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acclaimed artists,

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we have

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Dmitry Kuzov

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and Yulia

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Fedusiva,

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on piano. So cello and piano,

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February 22, 3PM.

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Oh. $20, adults,

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18 and under free, and,

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they've got a wonderful program set up for

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us. So

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Wow. Don't just come yourself. Bring a friend.

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That's that's a big deal. And, You bet.

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If you're gonna bring a friend. World talent

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right here in our community.

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Yes. Yes. And then, they'll be doing outreach

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in the schools the next day

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after that. So not only do they perform

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for the public,

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the kids, they go into the band room

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and work with the kids, and that's just

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a golden moment, transformative moment for those kids.

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That really sounds terrific. It does. Yeah.

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Playing in the high school band that has

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some really

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well known talents and famous people.

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And, you know, this and I'm glad you

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we talked about this earlier. The community, what

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we talked about, I think it includes,

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Crescent City because we're we just all work

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together. It's just like we're all in one

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place.

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And a great example of that is the

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Wild River Symphonies. So it's really more the

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the Wild River region

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versus Yeah. Del Norte County, Erie County. The

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Wild River Symphony has

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true professionals in it. It's got the continuing

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casual adult musician

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and some of the,

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up and coming musicians from both high schools

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in the group, and and they do a

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great job. And

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they perform

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a concert every spring and another every winter,

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and they do one concert in, Brookings and

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one down in Crescent City.

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so do do the Brookings and the Crescent

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City kids get together then a lot

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for that kind of thing? Absolutely. Oh, that's

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great. They rehearse every Monday. So Together. Yes.

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Together. Well, that's awesome. So

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when we had our our concert last September

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at, Azalea Park, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

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We that was pretty big.

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Bigger than big. Yeah. Now we asked,

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Corey Tamandong at Brookings Harbor High School and

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Dan Sedgwick at Del Norte High School to

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combine their two jazz bands to open for

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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Those kids will remember

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that Oh. The rest of their lives. Mhmm.

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at the end of that concert, those kids

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owned the dance floor. It was,

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no kidding. Just pure joy.

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All the all us oldsters, you know, we

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were we were out of gas. We were

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off the floor, and the kids came in,

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and they took over. Over.

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Yeah. Have you noticed that how you run

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out of gas sooner than you used to?

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every day I can't do that anymore thing

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that I have to do around. I just

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hired people to cut down brush and stuff

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because I just don't wanna do it anymore.

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That's

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one thing we're doing that's a lot of

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fun, we're looking forward to, concert opportunities

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PPA, Partnership for the Performing Arts. We recently

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contrabassoon

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to be used between the two high schools

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in Wild River Symphony. So this is an

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instrument that is a full octave below a

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bassoon.

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It plays way down in the basement,

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and,

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we're not used to hearing that. This is

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an instrument that a lot of colleges don't

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Most high schools would get their ITs to

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have,

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and we've got one to be shared here

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between our high schools. And we're gonna have

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a lot of fun with it. The

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Wild River Symphony will program a piece for

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it, and,

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the,

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both high schools, it'll be

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one one school will get it for one

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semester, one for another semester. It'll go back

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and forth. They're gonna have a a whole

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bunch of fun with it. And in,

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down at, I think it'll be at the

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United First Methodist Church

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United Methodist Church in Crescent City, we're going

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to bring up a couple professional bassoon players

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from Southern California. We've done it before, and

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we call that group the Double Trouble Read

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Company. But we're going to also,

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bring in a couple bassoonists from the Wild

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River Symphony, and we'll do a quartet with

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three bassoons and one contrabassoon and things like

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Peter Gahn,

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Sorcerer's Apprentice, things like that, baby elephant walk.

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Oh, man. We're gonna have a lot of

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fun. So That sounds great.

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And and and that was donated, you say,

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to you? Or who who how did you

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come by that instrument? I wrote a check.

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I bought it, and then we donate it.

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And is it, not knowing much about the

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that type of instrument, is

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it more difficult to play

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or about the about the same?

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It's a busy instrument for the left and

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right thumb. Each each thumb has about seven

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keys to work.

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or two keys maybe. But, the good news

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is that Corey Tamondong,

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the director at Brookings Harbor High School, played

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contrabassoon all the way through college. So he's,

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very comfortable with the instruments. So

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he'll probably be in the hot seat for

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this bassoon quartet we put together Oh, wow.

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Concert at the March. Alright. Show your stuff,

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man. Yes.

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I'm not familiar with that instrument, but to

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say if it plays so low,

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evidently everything it plays is probably very slow.

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You wouldn't wouldn't wouldn't

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deal with Flight of the Bumblebee or something

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like that.

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Oh, it has to do a little bit

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with the facility of the player. Okay. Yeah.

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Doesn't it all have to be balanced? Seems

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to me if you're playing something slow, it's

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easier than if you're playing it fast because

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you can,

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I don't know, less make less mistakes, but

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I know absolutely nothing about playing an instrument?

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Well,

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you can learn, Ray. Well,

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Sherry keeps telling me, well, this isn't a

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g, and we were doing a c, and

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Where? Then then another friend of mine criticizes

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another singer for saying that, you know, she's

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good, but she's very flat.

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And I have yet to have anybody explain

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to me what flat means. Sounds good to

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me. I don't know what flat is. Well,

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we like you in the audience, and if

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we're playing it.

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gonna be off pitch, you wanna be sharp

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instead of flat. There you go.

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Wow. We accept

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above pitch better than we accept low pitch.

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I used to record a show for for

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Shirley Hyatt was one of our longtime

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volunteers here. Also a professional

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violin player. Oh, I I think does she

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say she has perfect pitch? Yes. I I

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have no idea what it is either, but

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it's good. I mean, like, I'm the super

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network. So I would she does. She would

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announce the record and play the record, and

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and I was recording.

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And sometimes she would just be kind of

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just cringing, making these faces. And and then

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when it was over, she said talk about

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how she could barely get through it. And

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I said, you selected the music.

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And and this is bluegrass music, and she

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said they're out of key or out of

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she again, she tried to explain to me

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what that meant. I had no idea. But

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but she yeah.

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But evidently being out of key for that

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particular kind of music is okay. But you're

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our best friend then. You're a forgiving audience.

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An audience of Ray Gary as well.

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Sounds would be great.

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Well, so so, Nick, I mean, you're a

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resident. You've got an interesting background. You you

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started in a why don't you give us

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just a real

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a little bit of your background

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and how you ended up back here? The

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color hit my canvas in, 1959

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when,

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I joined

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band at my elementary school in Fort Dick.

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And my parents bought me a cornet, and

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I still don't know how they could afford

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to pay for it. We, we didn't have

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any money.

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And,

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that led to wonderful time in high school,

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college, and so forth, and eventually to

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a music retail career spanning almost fifty years

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in Southern California.

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And

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2019,

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when I sold all my stores, I looked

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at the check and looked at my wife,

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and I said the only reason I'm holding

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this check is because my little elementary school

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offered band for the first time, and my

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parents found a way to buy me an

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instrument. Well, it's not our money. It's their

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money.

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So we said we're gonna take this entire

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check and

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sign it over to a donor advised fund

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to support performing arts and public education

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in the area where I grew up. And,

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we moved from down south back home here

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to,

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to the area and haven't looked back. We've,

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given hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands

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of dollars worth of new band and orchestra

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instruments to the districts up here.

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We spearheaded the overhaul of Crescent Elk Auditorium

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down in Crescent City that hadn't seen a

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lick of work since it was built in

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1929.

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That's the largest

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concert appropriate

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indoor venue in Del Norte and Curry Counties.

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Much too small, but Yeah. It's all we

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have.

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And,

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our flagship project is raising in the neighborhood

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of $50,000,000

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to build a performing arts and civic center

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that,

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we can all enjoy.

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Well, you you you spread your joy from

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music to the other kids around here then

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by doing all of that. I mean, you

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can't

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get much better than that, I don't think.

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It's a it's a high privilege.

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And and for

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kids like me,

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myself,

364
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getting hooked up to music, my my little

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story, and it's a little story, but finding

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a little,

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plastic ukulele in my grandmother's attic one time,

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and we had a little booklet

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to play some chords.

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And, I mean, that started me off, man.

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And believe me, I'm not like I'm a

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famous rock guitarist, but it has given me

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music pleasure up until now, and I'm in

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my seventies.

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And that opened the door. It did open

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the door. And my parents like yours bought

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me my first guitar. It was Christmas. I

378
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was probably 10 or 11, and, you know,

379
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it just went on from there, and and

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they were behind me to,

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to back me up if I wanted to

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continue that. So And it's wonderful

383
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stuff. I guess I had a similar situation

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to my talented career.

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My parents when I was about eight or

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10 bought a record player,

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and I've been doing that ever since. Well,

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there's

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playing records. Well, that's And you do that

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on your Not records, it may be on

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your two shows here that we have. Yes.

392
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You bet. Yeah. Our parents are our unsung

393
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heroes, you know, because Well, they certainly can

394
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be, and I will say mine

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were that too. It's just like your parents

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were also. Well, my father, I think, was

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a little disappointed because he was constantly telling

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me to turn that damn music down.

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He didn't care for little Richard or any

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of those people, though.

401
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I don't know why. I don't either. His

402
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loss.

403
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Well and and back to my parents again,

404
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we had like, after the Beatles, I think

405
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every kid in America almost had to join

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a garage band. We had a few. And

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we would practice at my house,

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and, you know, they they put up with

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that stuff. Mhmm. And and they enjoyed it

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too. So

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so

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you now

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so you started out with the with the

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coronet. I wanna keep saying coronet,

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but

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you branched out into other instruments

417
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beyond that?

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It ended up jack of all trades, master

419
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of none. I went from cornet to trumpet.

420
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They're basically the same instrument. Trumpet is a

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little bit brighter. Went to that in high

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school. And then,

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in high school, a a person remains a

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very close friend today.

425
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I could tell he was gonna be first

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trumpet, and I was gonna be second trumpet.

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That just didn't work, so I needed to

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fix that problem. So I took up the

429
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tenor saxophone

430
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Mhmm. Continued to play the trumpet, but I

431
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I I needed to be the first in

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this section. You know how you are when

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you're a kid.

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And, and I took up the bassoon, then

435
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I took up the flute. And

436
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once I figured out in college that I

437
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wasn't going to be a band director, that

438
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shoe didn't quite fit, I went back east

439
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and studied band instrument repair

440
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Oh. And returned to Santa Barbara. That's how

441
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I got into the music industry.

442
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And the fact that I'd played all these

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brass and woodwind instruments was very valuable because,

444
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like,

445
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I could test every instrument that I reviewed

446
00:16:28,434 --> 00:16:30,375
versus just saying, Ah, it's okay.

447
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Where back east did you go?

448
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There was a repair school set up inside

449
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a factory in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

450
00:16:38,269 --> 00:16:40,769
Oh, wow. Okay. A company that manufactured,

451
00:16:41,389 --> 00:16:44,210
the Getzen band instruments and so forth. Okay.

452
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Speaking of

453
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YouTube fanatic.

454
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Anyway, there's this two part,

455
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YouTube

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program,

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by the guy that fixes Willie Nelson's guitar,

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and he's just showing how he does some

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of it. Now I'm a woodworker and a

460
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And this is part of the guitar he's

461
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had since he was young. Isn't that the

462
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same guitar he's had since he was For

463
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for a long, long time. Okay. I gotcha.

464
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Right. Right. And he's fixing all these little

465
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cracks and things like that, but

466
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he still wants to keep that hole there.

467
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He's not putting a pickguard there.

468
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Used. Well used. Yes. Well, that hole is

469
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the signature. Right? Yes. It is. Yeah.

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Yeah. In fact, he mentions that that,

471
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at some point, Willie Nelson was having some

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kind of a problem with his body, and

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and they bought him a regular strap that

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that

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hooks on either end of the guitar. I

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don't know what you call that, but he

477
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had, for years, used this thing that just

478
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that hooks into the, the sound hole. The

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sound

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hole, and he he used the regular strap

481
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for about two weeks and gave it back.

482
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He didn't like it. So

483
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little Willie Nelson,

484
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little known fact there. Well, Willie's still out

485
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there doing it. Good grief. Is he out

486
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there? I think he's in his nineties. Yeah.

487
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He Yeah. Incredible.

488
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Great story. Yeah. Some somebody told me recently

489
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that, he's kind of upset because his lungs

490
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are finally

491
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shot and he can't smoke dope anymore. So

492
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that would be a big I didn't think

493
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he'd ever quit that. No. What but it

494
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didn't say he quit. He just said it

495
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was harder on him.

496
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So and Nick, you have so you've had

497
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a long career in the music,

498
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music musical instrument repair biz. Yeah. And that

499
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was down in the Southern California area. You

500
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said out of Santa Barbara mostly?

501
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First store I was in Santa Barbara, and

502
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then we had others, Agoura Hills,

503
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Valencia.

504
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Oh, you had a mobile Redland,

505
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San Diego.

506
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Wow. Around. Uh-huh.

507
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Yeah.

508
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I brought in my repair expertise, and and

509
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they were all retail outlets. We did rentals.

510
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We had repair techs at every store. We

511
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went out and sent educational

512
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sales associates to all the band rooms in,

513
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about eight counties Southern California.

514
00:19:03,670 --> 00:19:04,970
Wow. Stop in

515
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and we might rent an instrument. We might

516
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do a demonstration to help a kid with

517
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a mouthpiece, do a whatever it happened to

518
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be, shoulder to cry on for the band

519
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director

520
00:19:14,565 --> 00:19:17,065
and, provide a lot of service to help

521
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local music programs.

522
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Yeah.

523
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And with that, how to cover a lot

524
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of high schools in that, I mean, compared

525
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to what we have up here too, and

526
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I say that between Crescent City and Brookings.

527
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I think we saw it on average 200

528
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to 200 we were in 200 to 250

529
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band rooms a week in Southern California. A

530
00:19:35,505 --> 00:19:37,684
week? Wow. Yeah. Yeah. So

531
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a lot of good business. We also dealt

532
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with

533
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a,

534
00:19:42,384 --> 00:19:44,545
continuing casual adult musician and a lot of

535
00:19:44,545 --> 00:19:46,644
professional musicians as well, and

536
00:19:46,950 --> 00:19:49,769
a lot of success stories there, good stories,

537
00:19:49,829 --> 00:19:51,289
fun stories. Yeah.

538
00:19:51,589 --> 00:19:53,750
Carl Hunter, the tenor sax player for Big

539
00:19:53,750 --> 00:19:55,829
Bad Buddha Daddy started coming in my store

540
00:19:55,829 --> 00:19:57,509
in Santa Barbara when he was 12 years

541
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old.

542
00:19:58,470 --> 00:20:00,069
Oh, he's done. So I've known him for

543
00:20:00,069 --> 00:20:02,009
a long time. Wow. And

544
00:20:02,855 --> 00:20:04,535
watching kids like that grow up and you

545
00:20:04,535 --> 00:20:05,974
see some promise and you say, I wonder

546
00:20:05,974 --> 00:20:07,595
where that promise is gonna lead.

547
00:20:08,134 --> 00:20:09,275
Yeah. And,

548
00:20:11,734 --> 00:20:14,055
those kind of stories, they remind you of

549
00:20:14,055 --> 00:20:15,575
why you get up and go to work

550
00:20:15,575 --> 00:20:17,960
every morning. You know, you can you have

551
00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:18,619
the opportunity

552
00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:19,500
to

553
00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,840
be of service to these people and help

554
00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:24,359
them on the way, not be get in

555
00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:25,840
their way, but help them on the way.

556
00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,279
Yeah. I accomplished something important that makes it

557
00:20:28,279 --> 00:20:30,220
work while getting up. Yeah. Yeah.

558
00:20:30,845 --> 00:20:33,244
And and right now, you say you do

559
00:20:33,244 --> 00:20:34,464
have a repair

560
00:20:35,644 --> 00:20:38,464
facility at, Crescent City High School?

561
00:20:39,005 --> 00:20:39,805
Yes. Back,

562
00:20:40,204 --> 00:20:41,085
2020

563
00:20:41,085 --> 00:20:43,005
before my wife and I my wife, Lisa,

564
00:20:43,005 --> 00:20:43,825
and I, we

565
00:20:44,529 --> 00:20:47,250
moved back here in January 2021. But in

566
00:20:47,250 --> 00:20:48,390
2020, I

567
00:20:49,009 --> 00:20:51,750
because the band director at Delmar High School

568
00:20:52,210 --> 00:20:52,710
is

569
00:20:53,089 --> 00:20:55,890
also happens to be from Santa Barbara and

570
00:20:55,890 --> 00:20:57,829
grew up in my store taking lessons.

571
00:20:58,745 --> 00:20:59,144
And,

572
00:21:00,345 --> 00:21:03,005
he and his brother David, a very accomplished

573
00:21:03,545 --> 00:21:05,164
pianist and trumpet player,

574
00:21:05,465 --> 00:21:06,765
and her sister Grace.

575
00:21:07,465 --> 00:21:07,965
Dan,

576
00:21:08,985 --> 00:21:10,825
grew up taking lessons, but also when he

577
00:21:10,825 --> 00:21:12,904
was going to Humboldt State and then Oregon

578
00:21:12,904 --> 00:21:16,200
State getting his bachelor's master's teaching credential.

579
00:21:16,660 --> 00:21:18,819
He worked six summers in my repair shop,

580
00:21:18,819 --> 00:21:21,299
and I taught him basic repair. So because

581
00:21:21,299 --> 00:21:22,359
he had this expertise

582
00:21:23,539 --> 00:21:24,599
in 2020,

583
00:21:27,390 --> 00:21:30,235
I I had a friend down in Southern

584
00:21:30,235 --> 00:21:32,075
California closing their store, and they had a

585
00:21:32,075 --> 00:21:34,654
fabulous repair department. I bought the whole thing.

586
00:21:34,875 --> 00:21:36,315
And we moved it up here, and that

587
00:21:36,315 --> 00:21:38,634
was the bones for starting a a a

588
00:21:38,634 --> 00:21:39,134
repair

589
00:21:39,434 --> 00:21:42,315
ban instrument repair facility at the high school,

590
00:21:42,315 --> 00:21:44,700
and it's in a 20 by 50

591
00:21:45,159 --> 00:21:47,740
square foot dedicated building at Delmar High School

592
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,839
right across the way from the, the band

593
00:21:50,839 --> 00:21:52,519
room. And we teach,

594
00:21:52,839 --> 00:21:53,579
two classes

595
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,845
five days a week, 25 kids,

596
00:21:56,565 --> 00:21:58,904
study repair there, some go on to vocational

597
00:21:59,044 --> 00:22:00,565
technical school, and,

598
00:22:01,204 --> 00:22:03,444
we're also able to take care of all

599
00:22:03,444 --> 00:22:05,865
the instruments that have been donated to the

600
00:22:06,085 --> 00:22:08,184
district over the past six years.

601
00:22:08,519 --> 00:22:10,759
And we do work for Brookings Harbor High

602
00:22:10,759 --> 00:22:11,740
School and,

603
00:22:12,279 --> 00:22:14,200
do contract work for other high schools as

604
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:16,440
well, Eureka High School and so forth. Oh,

605
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:17,980
really? Down that? Okay.

606
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,759
Now even some up in, up around Eugene

607
00:22:20,759 --> 00:22:21,980
and so forth. Okay.

608
00:22:22,974 --> 00:22:24,734
You know, that's one thing since I wasn't

609
00:22:24,734 --> 00:22:26,734
in that that type of a band, but,

610
00:22:26,734 --> 00:22:27,954
yeah, those instruments,

611
00:22:29,294 --> 00:22:31,534
when high school for, like, a high school

612
00:22:31,534 --> 00:22:33,554
band, are most of those donated?

613
00:22:34,529 --> 00:22:37,170
Because the way the budgets and stuff work

614
00:22:37,170 --> 00:22:38,630
nowadays, I don't know.

615
00:22:38,930 --> 00:22:40,150
And those,

616
00:22:41,090 --> 00:22:42,850
the oh, I can't even think of the

617
00:22:42,850 --> 00:22:45,809
name. The instruments, they're not cheap by any

618
00:22:45,809 --> 00:22:46,785
by any means.

619
00:22:47,904 --> 00:22:48,965
Well, there are,

620
00:22:49,664 --> 00:22:50,164
inexpensive

621
00:22:50,465 --> 00:22:52,945
instruments, but in the industry, we call those

622
00:22:52,945 --> 00:22:54,884
ISOs, instrument shaped objects.

623
00:22:55,984 --> 00:22:56,484
Okay.

624
00:22:57,105 --> 00:22:57,505
And,

625
00:22:58,865 --> 00:23:01,424
when we came back up and started this

626
00:23:01,424 --> 00:23:01,924
process,

627
00:23:03,630 --> 00:23:05,549
at Delaware High School, as an example, they

628
00:23:05,549 --> 00:23:07,869
were buying used instruments off of eBay, and

629
00:23:07,869 --> 00:23:10,029
they really didn't have any repair tools and

630
00:23:10,029 --> 00:23:12,130
so forth. They're just kind of

631
00:23:12,430 --> 00:23:14,830
backyard mechanics trying to put them together and

632
00:23:14,830 --> 00:23:15,970
make them work. And

633
00:23:17,474 --> 00:23:18,055
the program

634
00:23:18,595 --> 00:23:21,154
wasn't growing as it should because they didn't

635
00:23:21,154 --> 00:23:22,134
have the inventory.

636
00:23:22,674 --> 00:23:22,994
Yeah.

637
00:23:23,634 --> 00:23:24,695
At both districts,

638
00:23:25,075 --> 00:23:26,455
hats off to the superintendents.

639
00:23:26,835 --> 00:23:29,339
They believe in music. They they believe in,

640
00:23:29,659 --> 00:23:31,419
but we're rural. Right? And we don't have

641
00:23:31,419 --> 00:23:33,119
a lot of money in these two counties.

642
00:23:33,259 --> 00:23:35,099
So they only they did as much as

643
00:23:35,099 --> 00:23:37,740
they could. Kids are growing everywhere. We got

644
00:23:37,740 --> 00:23:40,380
great band directors just a little bit shy

645
00:23:40,380 --> 00:23:41,279
on the inventory.

646
00:23:41,579 --> 00:23:42,079
So,

647
00:23:47,285 --> 00:23:48,744
part of PPA's

648
00:23:49,365 --> 00:23:52,244
core mission for the first five years was

649
00:23:52,244 --> 00:23:54,424
to get enough instruments in each district,

650
00:23:55,220 --> 00:23:57,779
brass, woodwind, orchestral strings that any kid who

651
00:23:57,779 --> 00:23:59,700
wanted to play, there's a quality instrument there

652
00:23:59,700 --> 00:24:01,640
sitting for and waiting. That wouldn't

653
00:24:03,779 --> 00:24:05,779
wouldn't hold back any kid who wanted to

654
00:24:05,779 --> 00:24:07,859
to take a music class. Yeah. They didn't

655
00:24:07,859 --> 00:24:09,835
have to buy their own. They didn't have

656
00:24:09,835 --> 00:24:10,494
a mediocre,

657
00:24:11,034 --> 00:24:13,115
inferior product. They had a good quality name

658
00:24:13,115 --> 00:24:13,934
brand product.

659
00:24:14,554 --> 00:24:14,794
And,

660
00:24:16,714 --> 00:24:18,154
I got in by the skin of my

661
00:24:18,154 --> 00:24:19,054
teeth, so,

662
00:24:19,835 --> 00:24:21,514
my parents couldn't afford to buy me an

663
00:24:21,514 --> 00:24:22,734
instrument when I was

664
00:24:23,299 --> 00:24:26,099
starting out in, in the school. So this

665
00:24:26,099 --> 00:24:27,859
is it's a personal victory for me as

666
00:24:27,859 --> 00:24:29,779
well knowing that any kid who wants to

667
00:24:29,779 --> 00:24:32,259
play can play. Yeah. That man, that that's

668
00:24:32,259 --> 00:24:33,079
a big deal.

669
00:24:33,539 --> 00:24:35,140
That that really is a big deal. Yeah.

670
00:24:35,140 --> 00:24:37,005
So So we're we're pretty happy about that.

671
00:24:37,005 --> 00:24:39,964
And you're right about the rural communities that

672
00:24:39,964 --> 00:24:41,424
we do live in,

673
00:24:42,044 --> 00:24:43,424
maybe not as rich,

674
00:24:44,125 --> 00:24:44,625
monetarily,

675
00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:45,984
but

676
00:24:46,365 --> 00:24:47,105
I've noticed,

677
00:24:48,684 --> 00:24:49,744
it's a very

678
00:24:50,179 --> 00:24:51,079
art community,

679
00:24:51,700 --> 00:24:53,559
whether it's Crescent City or Brookings.

680
00:24:54,579 --> 00:24:57,299
Music, theater, we were talking about. A lot

681
00:24:57,299 --> 00:24:59,240
of people are into the arts

682
00:24:59,779 --> 00:25:01,480
up here, and I think that's a plus.

683
00:25:01,954 --> 00:25:03,474
It's a it's a big plus. We go

684
00:25:03,474 --> 00:25:05,634
to the the more urban areas. There's a

685
00:25:05,634 --> 00:25:07,474
lot of more whistles and bells and shiny

686
00:25:07,474 --> 00:25:10,434
things and things that get us distracted, sometimes

687
00:25:10,434 --> 00:25:12,115
in a good way, sometimes in a bad

688
00:25:12,115 --> 00:25:15,494
way. And I think here in rural America

689
00:25:15,795 --> 00:25:17,460
that the performing arts,

690
00:25:17,940 --> 00:25:18,679
all arts,

691
00:25:20,339 --> 00:25:22,359
they're a little bit more important to us.

692
00:25:22,980 --> 00:25:24,339
Yeah. You bet. And,

693
00:25:24,980 --> 00:25:26,039
a lot of participation.

694
00:25:26,579 --> 00:25:27,299
Yeah. And,

695
00:25:28,179 --> 00:25:31,355
the kids in band here in, Brookings and

696
00:25:31,355 --> 00:25:33,534
the ones down in Crescent City,

697
00:25:34,954 --> 00:25:36,875
if you've ever been in school band, you

698
00:25:36,875 --> 00:25:37,774
know it becomes

699
00:25:38,075 --> 00:25:40,174
a secondary family to you.

700
00:25:40,714 --> 00:25:41,214
And

701
00:25:42,794 --> 00:25:44,255
if you happen to be

702
00:25:44,940 --> 00:25:48,380
homeless, single parent, abused, suicide prone, whatever it

703
00:25:48,380 --> 00:25:49,440
happens to be,

704
00:25:50,220 --> 00:25:52,220
banned becomes the only reason you come to

705
00:25:52,220 --> 00:25:54,159
school. It's a literal lifesaver.

706
00:25:54,619 --> 00:25:56,700
I was gonna say probably save some lives

707
00:25:56,700 --> 00:25:57,919
out there. Yeah. So

708
00:25:58,380 --> 00:25:59,204
all kinds of

709
00:25:59,765 --> 00:26:01,524
good things come out of it, and kids

710
00:26:01,524 --> 00:26:02,244
who are,

711
00:26:02,884 --> 00:26:06,644
in band, in choir, on average perform 15%

712
00:26:06,644 --> 00:26:08,424
higher on their SAT scores.

713
00:26:08,964 --> 00:26:11,125
So even if they do nothing with music

714
00:26:11,125 --> 00:26:12,265
after high school,

715
00:26:12,630 --> 00:26:13,130
they

716
00:26:13,589 --> 00:26:16,329
enter adulthood more equipped to be

717
00:26:16,869 --> 00:26:17,369
successful.

718
00:26:18,390 --> 00:26:20,250
Reason to go to school, I would

719
00:26:20,549 --> 00:26:21,910
that would have done me a lot of

720
00:26:21,910 --> 00:26:24,230
good because I had so no reason to

721
00:26:24,230 --> 00:26:25,750
go to school and did nothing while I

722
00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:26,410
was there.

723
00:26:27,274 --> 00:26:28,095
If I'd had,

724
00:26:29,115 --> 00:26:31,515
well, played an instrument and had the band

725
00:26:31,515 --> 00:26:32,815
guys to hang out with.

726
00:26:33,355 --> 00:26:33,835
When

727
00:26:34,394 --> 00:26:35,434
I don't know. I think we were about

728
00:26:35,434 --> 00:26:37,355
in the fourth grade. Somebody came in to

729
00:26:37,355 --> 00:26:39,914
give us all an aptitude test about whether

730
00:26:39,914 --> 00:26:40,894
or not we could

731
00:26:41,230 --> 00:26:43,649
be in the band, and I failed miserably.

732
00:26:43,789 --> 00:26:44,769
You had to just

733
00:26:45,470 --> 00:26:47,230
clap in time with the beat or some.

734
00:26:47,230 --> 00:26:49,149
You're probably familiar with the test, and I

735
00:26:49,149 --> 00:26:51,149
thought, oh, boy. I'm gonna be the next

736
00:26:51,149 --> 00:26:51,649
Elvis.

737
00:26:52,429 --> 00:26:54,669
And all my friends got instruments, but I

738
00:26:54,669 --> 00:26:56,634
didn't. So But at the end but at

739
00:26:56,634 --> 00:26:58,095
the end of the day, the

740
00:26:58,474 --> 00:27:00,634
performers on the stage need the audience just

741
00:27:00,634 --> 00:27:02,154
as much as the audience. Yes. Yes. So

742
00:27:02,154 --> 00:27:04,315
that's my part. Yeah. Yeah. So if we

743
00:27:04,315 --> 00:27:05,775
don't have both, there's no

744
00:27:06,315 --> 00:27:07,214
it doesn't work.

745
00:27:07,914 --> 00:27:08,414
Yeah.

746
00:27:09,595 --> 00:27:10,894
Audience and critic.

747
00:27:11,599 --> 00:27:14,279
That's my job. Oh, okay. Criticize everything that's

748
00:27:14,279 --> 00:27:16,799
wrong. Alright. Speaking of audiences and people playing,

749
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:17,700
instruments,

750
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,839
as everybody knows, there's a lot of music

751
00:27:21,839 --> 00:27:24,240
in this community. Every just about every night,

752
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,654
there's somebody playing someplace. But we have a,

753
00:27:27,974 --> 00:27:30,315
thing at the at the, Checo Brewery.

754
00:27:30,855 --> 00:27:33,494
Every Thursday night, there's an open night open

755
00:27:33,494 --> 00:27:33,994
mic.

756
00:27:34,535 --> 00:27:36,295
And just go in there and buy a

757
00:27:36,295 --> 00:27:37,734
beer or not buy a beer and just

758
00:27:37,734 --> 00:27:39,255
sit and listen to this for a couple

759
00:27:39,255 --> 00:27:42,299
of hours. And we have some amazingly talented

760
00:27:42,299 --> 00:27:44,700
people here that are just kind of hiding

761
00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:46,299
out in the woods. But it's well worth

762
00:27:46,299 --> 00:27:47,200
your while to

763
00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:50,140
to go over there on Thursday night and,

764
00:27:50,539 --> 00:27:53,119
listen to the music and meet lots of

765
00:27:54,034 --> 00:27:56,194
nice people. Yeah. A lot of like like

766
00:27:56,194 --> 00:27:57,734
like minded people. Yes.

767
00:27:58,194 --> 00:28:00,434
Yeah. Lots of fun. Great reputation for that

768
00:28:00,434 --> 00:28:03,095
night, isn't there? Yes. People have a blast.

769
00:28:03,234 --> 00:28:05,315
And and when you hear open mic, you

770
00:28:05,315 --> 00:28:07,095
think, uh-oh. You know? But

771
00:28:07,410 --> 00:28:09,009
it's not it's not that at all. Just

772
00:28:09,009 --> 00:28:11,250
about everybody that plays there is at the

773
00:28:11,250 --> 00:28:12,390
very least good,

774
00:28:12,690 --> 00:28:15,430
and then some are very, very good. So

775
00:28:16,690 --> 00:28:17,330
Yeah. And I

776
00:28:18,289 --> 00:28:19,809
I've been there a few times, and it

777
00:28:19,809 --> 00:28:22,549
is it's a great atmosphere. Mhmm. Great atmosphere.

778
00:28:23,724 --> 00:28:26,204
Everybody it's everybody seems to be at ease,

779
00:28:26,204 --> 00:28:28,365
and, yeah, it's a good time. And it's

780
00:28:28,365 --> 00:28:30,284
it's a large room, so you're not like

781
00:28:30,365 --> 00:28:32,284
I went to an open mic recently in

782
00:28:32,284 --> 00:28:33,105
a bar here,

783
00:28:33,804 --> 00:28:35,964
and everybody's on top of everybody. And if

784
00:28:35,964 --> 00:28:37,484
you wanna move away a little bit and

785
00:28:37,484 --> 00:28:38,609
talk, you really can be

786
00:28:39,569 --> 00:28:42,210
good. But this room is is large enough

787
00:28:42,210 --> 00:28:43,490
that you could sit in the back and

788
00:28:43,490 --> 00:28:45,250
talk and listen to the music or sit

789
00:28:45,250 --> 00:28:47,650
up front. And Yeah. There's a dance floor

790
00:28:47,650 --> 00:28:48,150
and

791
00:28:50,289 --> 00:28:52,015
lots of fun. It's it's it's a good

792
00:28:52,015 --> 00:28:55,295
time. Mhmm. Well, so, Nick, let's talk about

793
00:28:55,295 --> 00:28:56,035
this partnership

794
00:28:56,335 --> 00:28:58,815
for the performing arts. That's a very big

795
00:28:58,815 --> 00:29:00,434
deal. I know it's an ongoing,

796
00:29:01,775 --> 00:29:02,670
deal, and it's

797
00:29:04,190 --> 00:29:05,090
long range.

798
00:29:05,549 --> 00:29:07,710
We're gonna talk about it more, but if

799
00:29:07,710 --> 00:29:09,090
you can look long range,

800
00:29:09,549 --> 00:29:11,390
do you have an idea when you think

801
00:29:11,390 --> 00:29:12,049
it might

802
00:29:12,509 --> 00:29:13,009
be

803
00:29:13,390 --> 00:29:16,190
I shouldn't well, completed and ready to,

804
00:29:16,670 --> 00:29:19,045
rock and roll, so to speak. So we're

805
00:29:19,045 --> 00:29:21,605
not so much talking about PPA. We're talking

806
00:29:21,605 --> 00:29:23,924
about the performing arts, civic staff. Sorry. The

807
00:29:23,924 --> 00:29:24,884
settings. Others. Yeah.

808
00:29:25,765 --> 00:29:28,085
My bad on that. Yeah. Right. But that

809
00:29:28,085 --> 00:29:29,605
but that's a big deal. That's gonna be

810
00:29:29,605 --> 00:29:31,065
a big deal for this community.

811
00:29:31,509 --> 00:29:33,509
Absolutely. It's gonna be a big deal. There

812
00:29:33,509 --> 00:29:35,109
are so many groups. I mean, big bad

813
00:29:35,109 --> 00:29:37,670
voodoo daddy Yes. When we brought them to

814
00:29:37,670 --> 00:29:38,730
Azalea Park,

815
00:29:41,589 --> 00:29:43,210
on the last day of summer,

816
00:29:44,664 --> 00:29:46,825
it was a a high five figure bet

817
00:29:46,825 --> 00:29:47,884
it wouldn't rain.

818
00:29:48,825 --> 00:29:51,545
And it rained buckets eight days later. That

819
00:29:51,545 --> 00:29:53,144
was a big issue. And there was no

820
00:29:53,144 --> 00:29:54,585
place else we could hold it, so we

821
00:29:54,585 --> 00:29:57,559
couldn't have a contingency plan, right, of

822
00:29:59,620 --> 00:30:01,400
if there was bad weather. Right.

823
00:30:02,019 --> 00:30:03,940
And up here, that can be an iffy

824
00:30:03,940 --> 00:30:04,440
proposition.

825
00:30:05,299 --> 00:30:08,420
Right? So the center will allow us to

826
00:30:08,420 --> 00:30:10,440
bring groups in because

827
00:30:10,765 --> 00:30:12,384
we can sell enough tickets

828
00:30:13,325 --> 00:30:16,365
to pay for bringing bigger groups in, all

829
00:30:16,365 --> 00:30:17,345
different styles,

830
00:30:18,204 --> 00:30:18,704
and

831
00:30:19,244 --> 00:30:20,464
we're not restricted

832
00:30:20,845 --> 00:30:22,544
just to the summer months.

833
00:30:23,579 --> 00:30:24,079
Yes.

834
00:30:24,539 --> 00:30:27,019
We could go year round. When when I

835
00:30:27,019 --> 00:30:28,940
introduced Nick, I said that one of the

836
00:30:28,940 --> 00:30:30,319
things he's doing is,

837
00:30:31,819 --> 00:30:33,339
like a change in the attitude I had

838
00:30:33,339 --> 00:30:34,480
when I moved here.

839
00:30:34,855 --> 00:30:36,134
One of the things I knew I would

840
00:30:36,134 --> 00:30:37,414
have to give up because it's such a

841
00:30:37,414 --> 00:30:38,954
small town is I would probably

842
00:30:39,575 --> 00:30:41,355
never be able to go to a show

843
00:30:41,815 --> 00:30:44,375
of somebody I heard from, heard about, or

844
00:30:46,054 --> 00:30:48,134
but now he's building a big enough and

845
00:30:48,134 --> 00:30:50,154
a professional enough, building

846
00:30:51,230 --> 00:30:53,230
that those people will come. I think we

847
00:30:53,230 --> 00:30:55,309
can get some fairly decent names here for

848
00:30:55,309 --> 00:30:56,369
the size of that.

849
00:30:56,750 --> 00:30:57,250
Yes.

850
00:30:58,670 --> 00:31:00,670
A lot of different styles. It won't just

851
00:31:00,670 --> 00:31:02,990
be, you know, the classical music series that

852
00:31:02,990 --> 00:31:05,070
we have up in Brookings. We love that.

853
00:31:05,070 --> 00:31:05,230
And

854
00:31:06,644 --> 00:31:08,724
but we can bring in country western groups.

855
00:31:08,724 --> 00:31:10,484
We can bring in jazz. We can I

856
00:31:10,484 --> 00:31:13,224
mean, there's all different bring in dance, theater,

857
00:31:13,285 --> 00:31:15,785
all kinds of different things? Right. So

858
00:31:18,005 --> 00:31:20,085
because it is basically like, we talked about

859
00:31:20,085 --> 00:31:20,825
a theater.

860
00:31:21,329 --> 00:31:23,650
Of Yes. Seating how many people did you

861
00:31:23,650 --> 00:31:24,950
say would 800

862
00:31:25,329 --> 00:31:28,529
seats 800 people. So Great. And I'm holding

863
00:31:28,529 --> 00:31:31,250
up pictures here of of, I don't know

864
00:31:31,250 --> 00:31:32,690
if you can pick this up. Oh, there's

865
00:31:32,690 --> 00:31:35,704
another camera. Well Okay. But, anyway, Ray Everybody

866
00:31:35,704 --> 00:31:37,164
has got it to look at.

867
00:31:38,184 --> 00:31:39,644
Wow. Look at that. Yeah.

868
00:31:42,025 --> 00:31:44,105
No. But and and it's, like I said,

869
00:31:44,105 --> 00:31:44,605
ongoing,

870
00:31:45,384 --> 00:31:46,284
you were talking

871
00:31:46,904 --> 00:31:47,404
how

872
00:31:48,345 --> 00:31:48,990
how much

873
00:31:49,470 --> 00:31:49,970
is

874
00:31:50,269 --> 00:31:52,130
the estimate of the total cost?

875
00:31:53,710 --> 00:31:55,630
Let's put it just at a round number

876
00:31:55,630 --> 00:31:58,429
of 50. It Okay. It's in that neighborhood.

877
00:31:58,429 --> 00:32:00,109
It'll probably go up a little bit. Things

878
00:32:00,109 --> 00:32:02,690
always do. Yeah. But, we recently

879
00:32:04,335 --> 00:32:05,875
completed an extremely

880
00:32:06,335 --> 00:32:06,835
intensive

881
00:32:07,214 --> 00:32:09,315
deep dive feasibility study,

882
00:32:12,734 --> 00:32:15,375
and we looked at at the construction of

883
00:32:15,375 --> 00:32:17,855
the center, the the ability to fundraise the

884
00:32:17,855 --> 00:32:18,355
money,

885
00:32:19,109 --> 00:32:19,609
the,

886
00:32:20,150 --> 00:32:20,970
buy in

887
00:32:21,670 --> 00:32:24,329
of the greater region to use the facility,

888
00:32:24,630 --> 00:32:26,970
and the different revenue streams that

889
00:32:27,269 --> 00:32:30,069
the performing arts and civic center would have

890
00:32:30,069 --> 00:32:32,825
to keep the doors open once built.

891
00:32:33,205 --> 00:32:36,005
Everything came back with a great report, and,

892
00:32:37,205 --> 00:32:40,744
people want this Yeah. Willing to support it,

893
00:32:41,445 --> 00:32:41,945
and

894
00:32:43,525 --> 00:32:44,345
game on.

895
00:32:44,884 --> 00:32:45,945
And can people

896
00:32:46,859 --> 00:32:49,680
support it right now if donations are there

897
00:32:50,380 --> 00:32:52,720
ways to to donate right now?

898
00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:55,680
There is a wonderful, lovely

899
00:32:56,140 --> 00:32:57,519
button on our website

900
00:32:57,900 --> 00:32:59,759
that says donate. Well, hello.

901
00:33:00,220 --> 00:33:02,319
Okay. And the website is?

902
00:33:02,724 --> 00:33:04,105
Ppa

903
00:33:04,484 --> 00:33:07,704
Okay. Delnort.org.

904
00:33:07,924 --> 00:33:11,944
Okay. Easy to remember. Ppadelnort.org.

905
00:33:12,085 --> 00:33:13,845
Yes. And and I can tell you that

906
00:33:13,845 --> 00:33:15,740
the button works. Oh.

907
00:33:16,519 --> 00:33:19,000
But that doesn't mean Nick isn't gonna lose

908
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:19,740
the check.

909
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,640
Right. He he called me up a couple

910
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,160
of weeks ago, said he wanted to have

911
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:25,660
lunch,

912
00:33:26,039 --> 00:33:27,960
and I had no idea what that was

913
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:28,460
about.

914
00:33:28,815 --> 00:33:29,315
And,

915
00:33:30,494 --> 00:33:33,134
the lunch was him telling me that he

916
00:33:33,134 --> 00:33:34,974
lost the check that he thinks I sent.

917
00:33:34,974 --> 00:33:35,474
So

918
00:33:36,494 --> 00:33:38,654
so now he has two checks, and I'm

919
00:33:38,654 --> 00:33:40,414
not very good at keeping track of this

920
00:33:40,414 --> 00:33:42,255
stuff. He'll probably cash both. That's a good

921
00:33:42,255 --> 00:33:43,849
ploy. Yeah. Score.

922
00:33:44,630 --> 00:33:45,289
Right on.

923
00:33:46,630 --> 00:33:49,109
Well, PPA is a five zero one c

924
00:33:49,109 --> 00:33:53,130
three nonprofit, so all donations are tax deductible

925
00:33:53,429 --> 00:33:55,509
to the full extent of the law. So

926
00:33:55,750 --> 00:33:56,250
Yeah.

927
00:33:57,065 --> 00:33:59,804
And so let's talk about also the

928
00:34:00,184 --> 00:34:02,025
the board of and I I have it

929
00:34:02,025 --> 00:34:05,704
right now, the the performance arts, the board

930
00:34:05,704 --> 00:34:06,924
members. Yes.

931
00:34:07,785 --> 00:34:09,545
A little bit about we talked about one,

932
00:34:09,545 --> 00:34:11,224
and we've had her on the show here,

933
00:34:11,224 --> 00:34:12,525
Michelle Carrillo.

934
00:34:12,989 --> 00:34:13,489
Yes.

935
00:34:14,030 --> 00:34:16,429
So so Michelle isn't a board member. She

936
00:34:16,429 --> 00:34:19,329
is on contract to PPA Oh, okay.

937
00:34:20,349 --> 00:34:23,010
And is the head of our capital campaign.

938
00:34:23,789 --> 00:34:24,110
And,

939
00:34:24,750 --> 00:34:27,489
Michelle is CEO of a company called ThinkPlaceUS,

940
00:34:28,965 --> 00:34:30,965
and she is just,

941
00:34:32,164 --> 00:34:33,305
doing a fantastic

942
00:34:33,765 --> 00:34:34,825
job for us.

943
00:34:35,445 --> 00:34:36,425
Amazing woman.

944
00:34:36,885 --> 00:34:39,285
And, we are so fortunate and so proud

945
00:34:39,285 --> 00:34:40,105
to have her.

946
00:34:40,405 --> 00:34:40,905
So,

947
00:34:43,670 --> 00:34:45,510
it's like she's she's a member of the

948
00:34:45,510 --> 00:34:47,750
family. Well, again and and we have have

949
00:34:47,750 --> 00:34:49,269
her on the show too. She is an

950
00:34:49,269 --> 00:34:51,289
amazing woman. Yes. Yes.

951
00:34:51,989 --> 00:34:55,269
And, PPA currently has a 12 member board.

952
00:34:55,510 --> 00:34:58,614
We've got a city council member. We've got

953
00:34:58,614 --> 00:35:00,714
a school district board member and,

954
00:35:01,414 --> 00:35:04,135
well, a number of people within our shared

955
00:35:04,135 --> 00:35:07,194
communities that are also in an advisory capacity

956
00:35:07,655 --> 00:35:09,780
Okay. That help us a lot. Wow.

957
00:35:10,260 --> 00:35:10,760
Yeah.

958
00:35:11,219 --> 00:35:12,980
So do people in Crescent City seem to

959
00:35:12,980 --> 00:35:14,760
be pretty excited about this?

960
00:35:16,659 --> 00:35:19,140
I would I would tell you everybody's excited

961
00:35:19,140 --> 00:35:21,219
about it. Yeah. There's a place for everybody

962
00:35:21,219 --> 00:35:22,039
at the center.

963
00:35:22,659 --> 00:35:23,059
It's,

964
00:35:24,835 --> 00:35:27,015
so many different things that we can offer,

965
00:35:28,114 --> 00:35:29,494
not just live performances,

966
00:35:29,875 --> 00:35:32,195
but as we were talking a little bit

967
00:35:32,195 --> 00:35:32,695
earlier,

968
00:35:34,195 --> 00:35:36,994
the the lobby itself can be used for

969
00:35:36,994 --> 00:35:38,855
wedding receptions, for fundraisers,

970
00:35:39,750 --> 00:35:41,130
things of that nature.

971
00:35:41,750 --> 00:35:42,250
The

972
00:35:45,269 --> 00:35:47,929
theater can be used for town hall meetings,

973
00:35:48,070 --> 00:35:48,570
for

974
00:35:50,150 --> 00:35:52,250
corporate retreats, for conferences,

975
00:35:52,869 --> 00:35:53,190
for,

976
00:35:54,824 --> 00:35:56,585
and all the different types of arts that

977
00:35:56,585 --> 00:35:57,244
can be

978
00:35:57,545 --> 00:35:58,764
poetry poetry,

979
00:35:59,144 --> 00:35:59,644
theater,

980
00:36:00,425 --> 00:36:01,565
choir, band.

981
00:36:02,344 --> 00:36:02,844
Yeah.

982
00:36:03,144 --> 00:36:06,105
Covers the gamut. Yeah. Covers the gamut. Yes.

983
00:36:06,105 --> 00:36:08,650
A lot of different opportunities and a place

984
00:36:08,650 --> 00:36:10,269
to meet in times of emergency.

985
00:36:11,289 --> 00:36:13,369
We don't really have that in in the

986
00:36:13,369 --> 00:36:15,210
area where Well, we don't. We can bring

987
00:36:15,210 --> 00:36:17,449
800 people together in one room where they

988
00:36:17,449 --> 00:36:18,510
can receive information,

989
00:36:19,130 --> 00:36:21,530
ask questions, get them answered, and have a

990
00:36:21,530 --> 00:36:22,695
sound system that

991
00:36:24,135 --> 00:36:25,114
sounds like that.

992
00:36:26,215 --> 00:36:29,114
All garbled and noisy and boomy, right? Yeah.

993
00:36:29,175 --> 00:36:31,015
And as a, I don't know, I guess

994
00:36:31,015 --> 00:36:31,515
unintended,

995
00:36:33,414 --> 00:36:36,394
addition, I'm looking at these these drawings here,

996
00:36:36,929 --> 00:36:39,809
or you don't call those drawings. They're they're

997
00:36:39,809 --> 00:36:42,929
paintings. They're Renderings. Renderings. Yes. And each one

998
00:36:42,929 --> 00:36:43,589
of them

999
00:36:44,130 --> 00:36:46,389
contains at least one or two,

1000
00:36:46,769 --> 00:36:49,010
in one case here about five, pretty girls

1001
00:36:49,010 --> 00:36:51,190
walking around. So that might be some incentive

1002
00:36:51,250 --> 00:36:53,164
for donating to the

1003
00:36:54,664 --> 00:36:56,125
Of course, it would be. Yes.

1004
00:36:57,305 --> 00:36:58,985
And probably some neat guys too, but I

1005
00:36:58,985 --> 00:37:00,605
haven't oh, wait. Yeah. Yeah.

1006
00:37:01,465 --> 00:37:02,605
Well, it

1007
00:37:02,985 --> 00:37:05,065
like, we were talking too earlier about the

1008
00:37:05,065 --> 00:37:05,965
grants, a

1009
00:37:07,199 --> 00:37:09,440
performance center or building, whatever you wanna call

1010
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:10,179
it like that.

1011
00:37:10,639 --> 00:37:12,099
It's it's gonna be,

1012
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,820
it's good for people that want to

1013
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:18,260
issue a grant.

1014
00:37:18,744 --> 00:37:21,164
Right? Yes. Because of all the positive,

1015
00:37:22,264 --> 00:37:23,405
things it could be.

1016
00:37:25,385 --> 00:37:28,184
And depending upon who's giving how much, of

1017
00:37:28,184 --> 00:37:30,204
course Well if we're getting into

1018
00:37:31,144 --> 00:37:32,284
big big donors,

1019
00:37:32,980 --> 00:37:35,539
$7.08 figures, then there's naming rights for the

1020
00:37:35,539 --> 00:37:37,640
center, you know, four parts of the center,

1021
00:37:37,860 --> 00:37:40,119
the lobby, the theater, the whole shebang

1022
00:37:40,420 --> 00:37:42,980
Yeah. Stuff like that. So who knows? You

1023
00:37:42,980 --> 00:37:44,900
know? Well, and we all we were also

1024
00:37:44,900 --> 00:37:47,344
talking about the big corporate,

1025
00:37:47,824 --> 00:37:49,125
meetings, if you will,

1026
00:37:49,824 --> 00:37:51,364
rather than taking place in

1027
00:37:52,224 --> 00:37:53,684
Southern Cal or Sacramento.

1028
00:37:54,065 --> 00:37:54,565
This

1029
00:37:55,025 --> 00:37:57,905
area just attracts people just for its beauty

1030
00:37:57,905 --> 00:37:58,405
alone.

1031
00:37:59,180 --> 00:38:01,900
Yes. I think. I mean, we the Wild

1032
00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:04,700
Rivers film, we talk about that. The directors

1033
00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:07,280
and the people that wanna put together independent

1034
00:38:07,340 --> 00:38:09,039
movie. It's just such a beautiful

1035
00:38:09,340 --> 00:38:09,840
area,

1036
00:38:11,340 --> 00:38:12,480
and so unique.

1037
00:38:13,194 --> 00:38:15,034
We have our lovely rivers. We have our

1038
00:38:15,034 --> 00:38:16,974
hiking. We have our rugged coast.

1039
00:38:17,514 --> 00:38:20,315
We have redwoods, redwoods, redwoods. That's what gets

1040
00:38:20,315 --> 00:38:20,815
us,

1041
00:38:21,755 --> 00:38:24,155
the fishing. But the redwoods are the number

1042
00:38:24,155 --> 00:38:26,549
one draw. That's that's why we have

1043
00:38:26,849 --> 00:38:29,250
international tourists coming here. Yeah.

1044
00:38:30,049 --> 00:38:31,969
Not to discount the other things, but that's

1045
00:38:31,969 --> 00:38:33,190
the number one draw.

1046
00:38:33,730 --> 00:38:34,230
And

1047
00:38:34,530 --> 00:38:36,309
from a, economic

1048
00:38:37,089 --> 00:38:37,589
standpoint,

1049
00:38:37,925 --> 00:38:39,844
the longer we can keep these people in

1050
00:38:39,844 --> 00:38:41,525
our area, the better it is for our

1051
00:38:41,525 --> 00:38:42,025
hospitality

1052
00:38:42,324 --> 00:38:42,824
industries.

1053
00:38:43,284 --> 00:38:44,965
Yeah. Get them to stay a night. Get

1054
00:38:44,965 --> 00:38:46,824
them to stay too nice instead of

1055
00:38:47,525 --> 00:38:50,609
staying overnight in Eureka, grabbing a hamburger at

1056
00:38:50,609 --> 00:38:52,929
McDonald's, going out to the Grove Of Titans,

1057
00:38:52,929 --> 00:38:54,469
and ending up in Coos Bay.

1058
00:38:56,289 --> 00:38:58,789
You know, so, we we make a dollar.

1059
00:38:58,849 --> 00:39:00,929
Right? Yeah. The other thing we have is

1060
00:39:00,929 --> 00:39:03,329
you can walk around in, December here in

1061
00:39:03,329 --> 00:39:04,869
a light shirt, pretty much.

1062
00:39:05,385 --> 00:39:07,644
We've, we've got some pretty mild weather.

1063
00:39:07,945 --> 00:39:10,265
You're not very likely to get snowed in

1064
00:39:10,265 --> 00:39:11,324
if you come here.

1065
00:39:12,664 --> 00:39:14,905
Not likely. It has happened, but not likely

1066
00:39:14,905 --> 00:39:17,304
is right. Not likely. No. Not very likely.

1067
00:39:17,304 --> 00:39:18,719
That's why I didn't say never.

1068
00:39:19,679 --> 00:39:21,780
Because Buzz is so picky. I don't know.

1069
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:22,659
Oh, no.

1070
00:39:23,039 --> 00:39:24,500
No. And, of course, the other

1071
00:39:25,119 --> 00:39:26,880
back to the weather when the it's a

1072
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:28,880
110 in the valley and all the way

1073
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,800
all over the place, you can come here

1074
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,760
and actually be outside in the afternoon, be

1075
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,114
okay. Put a sweater on. And not only

1076
00:39:36,114 --> 00:39:38,275
okay, but enjoying all the all the beauty

1077
00:39:38,275 --> 00:39:39,255
that we do have.

1078
00:39:39,554 --> 00:39:40,694
Yes. Yes.

1079
00:39:42,034 --> 00:39:44,114
Well, you know, it it's I'm just really

1080
00:39:44,114 --> 00:39:46,534
glad to hear that the communities are working

1081
00:39:46,674 --> 00:39:49,414
together. We talked about this too. Brookings, Harbor,

1082
00:39:49,579 --> 00:39:51,440
Crescent City. I lump it all at

1083
00:39:51,739 --> 00:39:53,099
one because it's just,

1084
00:39:54,059 --> 00:39:56,380
it just seems like one big community up

1085
00:39:56,380 --> 00:39:56,880
here.

1086
00:39:58,780 --> 00:40:00,159
And that the high school

1087
00:40:00,460 --> 00:40:01,199
high schools,

1088
00:40:01,820 --> 00:40:04,139
like you said, the, band instruct the music

1089
00:40:04,139 --> 00:40:04,639
instructors

1090
00:40:05,214 --> 00:40:07,554
get along well and work with each other.

1091
00:40:07,614 --> 00:40:09,534
Very healthy competition between

1092
00:40:09,934 --> 00:40:11,934
That's great. You know, they they push each

1093
00:40:11,934 --> 00:40:14,034
other, and they'll go off to this competition,

1094
00:40:14,175 --> 00:40:16,914
that competition, Eugene, Portland, Santa Rosa.

1095
00:40:17,869 --> 00:40:18,369
And

1096
00:40:18,910 --> 00:40:21,390
one time they'll go there, and Brookings will

1097
00:40:21,390 --> 00:40:23,550
win over Del Norte, next time, Del Norte

1098
00:40:23,550 --> 00:40:24,910
will win over Brookings, and,

1099
00:40:26,510 --> 00:40:28,430
they just pull each other up. Continue to

1100
00:40:28,430 --> 00:40:30,130
pull each other up. It's just fantastic.

1101
00:40:30,430 --> 00:40:32,914
Right. You know? Healthy healthy rivalry

1102
00:40:33,614 --> 00:40:34,255
instead of,

1103
00:40:35,454 --> 00:40:38,335
just competition that doesn't take very far, doesn't

1104
00:40:38,335 --> 00:40:40,655
build. You know? Right. So Right. All good

1105
00:40:40,655 --> 00:40:41,155
stuff.

1106
00:40:41,855 --> 00:40:44,195
So so they do travel the high school

1107
00:40:44,735 --> 00:40:46,679
musicians, I mean, say they do travel quite

1108
00:40:46,679 --> 00:40:48,380
a way sometimes for performances

1109
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:49,579
and competitions

1110
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:50,380
and

1111
00:40:50,679 --> 00:40:52,679
Yes. Not often, but they do. I mean,

1112
00:40:52,679 --> 00:40:54,920
the travel budgets are travel budgets, but up

1113
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:55,579
to Portland,

1114
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,280
to the Green Center, down to Santa Rosa

1115
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,199
is is a common one. Oh, wow. Some

1116
00:41:00,199 --> 00:41:03,094
more local stuff where down in Eureka or,

1117
00:41:03,414 --> 00:41:05,494
up to Eugene over to the over to

1118
00:41:05,494 --> 00:41:06,394
the Valley somewhere.

1119
00:41:07,734 --> 00:41:10,875
Okay. The places that have performing arts centers

1120
00:41:11,734 --> 00:41:14,554
will TikTok, TikTok. And I was gonna say,

1121
00:41:15,494 --> 00:41:17,909
hopefully soon we'll have one here in Crescent

1122
00:41:17,909 --> 00:41:20,230
City or there in Crescent City. Well and

1123
00:41:20,230 --> 00:41:22,089
and that will allow us

1124
00:41:22,789 --> 00:41:23,849
to hold festivals

1125
00:41:24,150 --> 00:41:26,250
that we cannot hold at this point.

1126
00:41:26,630 --> 00:41:27,929
Just the school district's

1127
00:41:29,269 --> 00:41:32,234
superintendent says, I'll be able to have things

1128
00:41:32,234 --> 00:41:34,074
happen here instead of me having to go

1129
00:41:34,074 --> 00:41:35,275
somewhere else all the time

1130
00:41:35,914 --> 00:41:37,914
Yeah. Because we'll have the ability to do

1131
00:41:37,914 --> 00:41:39,054
it. Yeah.

1132
00:41:39,594 --> 00:41:41,295
So, yeah, good things.

1133
00:41:42,599 --> 00:41:44,680
Well and, again, there's there's just a lot

1134
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,019
of passion behind behind the music.

1135
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:49,880
You know? Is this gonna do away with

1136
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:51,640
the auditorium that they have at the high

1137
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:52,380
school now?

1138
00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:55,320
Is it going to what? Is it gonna

1139
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,284
do away with is it gonna replace it?

1140
00:41:57,844 --> 00:42:00,424
Well, there there isn't an auditorium

1141
00:42:00,724 --> 00:42:02,424
per se at the high school.

1142
00:42:03,364 --> 00:42:05,924
The, auditorium is at Crescent Hill Middle School,

1143
00:42:05,924 --> 00:42:08,324
and that will still be used. It's 385

1144
00:42:08,324 --> 00:42:09,784
seats versus 800.

1145
00:42:10,244 --> 00:42:11,010
So there are

1146
00:42:11,489 --> 00:42:13,570
some some things that will happen there, or

1147
00:42:13,570 --> 00:42:14,469
we can do,

1148
00:42:15,010 --> 00:42:15,829
non competing

1149
00:42:17,250 --> 00:42:18,849
events concurrently. Uh-huh.

1150
00:42:19,250 --> 00:42:21,329
A play at one, a concert at another,

1151
00:42:21,329 --> 00:42:22,389
something like that.

1152
00:42:23,489 --> 00:42:26,150
At the high school, there is a cafeteria

1153
00:42:26,369 --> 00:42:29,785
with this very low rage raised stage at

1154
00:42:29,785 --> 00:42:30,525
one end.

1155
00:42:32,025 --> 00:42:34,105
This was the laughing stock when I was

1156
00:42:34,105 --> 00:42:35,724
in high school back in the Paleozoic.

1157
00:42:36,345 --> 00:42:38,425
All our concerts happened in the gym, and

1158
00:42:38,425 --> 00:42:40,880
we hated it back then. I went to

1159
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,559
a play in Crescent City. I guess it

1160
00:42:42,559 --> 00:42:44,579
wasn't the high school. It was a small,

1161
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,519
typical auditorium. And one of the things they

1162
00:42:47,519 --> 00:42:48,820
handed out as you were

1163
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,079
were coming in were cushions for the seats

1164
00:42:52,079 --> 00:42:54,885
because, evidently, they were kinda old. So so

1165
00:42:54,885 --> 00:42:57,204
so so that's Crescent Elk Middle School. And

1166
00:42:57,204 --> 00:42:59,734
if you went there, before November

1167
00:42:59,734 --> 00:43:00,585
2022,

1168
00:43:03,125 --> 00:43:04,724
that was the one I was speaking that

1169
00:43:04,724 --> 00:43:07,704
was in extreme disrepair before we spear spearheaded

1170
00:43:07,765 --> 00:43:09,619
the overhaul. Mhmm. But now on the the

1171
00:43:09,619 --> 00:43:13,320
seats were these plywood laminated seats from 1929.

1172
00:43:13,539 --> 00:43:15,140
If you didn't have the cushion, boy, you

1173
00:43:15,140 --> 00:43:17,400
just didn't have the cockpit at all. Right.

1174
00:43:17,460 --> 00:43:19,940
Yeah. So now there's nice comfy padded chairs.

1175
00:43:19,940 --> 00:43:20,440
Oh,

1176
00:43:21,994 --> 00:43:25,135
and how many is that seat? 385.

1177
00:43:25,195 --> 00:43:27,454
Oh, that's bigger than I thought it was.

1178
00:43:27,594 --> 00:43:29,215
Yeah. Yeah. But

1179
00:43:30,235 --> 00:43:32,875
the stage is very small even, for a

1180
00:43:32,875 --> 00:43:34,255
middle school there. The

1181
00:43:35,119 --> 00:43:36,640
the the stage at the,

1182
00:43:37,119 --> 00:43:39,280
Performing Arts And Civic Center will be seven

1183
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:39,780
times

1184
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:41,380
the size of that stage.

1185
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:43,599
We can do anything we want on that

1186
00:43:43,599 --> 00:43:44,980
stage. It's really cool.

1187
00:43:45,679 --> 00:43:48,945
Hopefully, a world destination even for Crescent City.

1188
00:43:49,265 --> 00:43:50,244
Yes. Yeah.

1189
00:43:51,744 --> 00:43:53,844
Yeah. That's, yeah, that's wonderful.

1190
00:43:56,785 --> 00:43:57,285
Well,

1191
00:43:58,305 --> 00:43:59,605
so back to the

1192
00:44:00,704 --> 00:44:02,005
well, we were talking about

1193
00:44:02,639 --> 00:44:04,559
working with the the 5013

1194
00:44:04,559 --> 00:44:05,039
c's

1195
00:44:05,359 --> 00:44:07,779
Mhmm. You know, that which is

1196
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,039
how how tough is that to get all

1197
00:44:11,039 --> 00:44:11,859
of that together

1198
00:44:12,159 --> 00:44:15,599
and start getting, you know, funding from for

1199
00:44:15,599 --> 00:44:16,099
that?

1200
00:44:17,875 --> 00:44:20,355
A lot of moving pieces in in in

1201
00:44:20,355 --> 00:44:22,215
in a five zero one c three.

1202
00:44:23,394 --> 00:44:26,114
It's significantly easier to form one than it

1203
00:44:26,114 --> 00:44:28,355
used to be back in the day. Twenty,

1204
00:44:28,355 --> 00:44:30,035
thirty years ago, there was a lot more

1205
00:44:30,035 --> 00:44:31,735
paperwork. It was kind of daunting.

1206
00:44:33,449 --> 00:44:35,690
Didn't take all that much work to form

1207
00:44:35,690 --> 00:44:37,389
our five zero one c three.

1208
00:44:37,849 --> 00:44:38,250
It's,

1209
00:44:38,809 --> 00:44:39,550
very crucial,

1210
00:44:40,010 --> 00:44:42,969
forming the board. It's difficult to find board

1211
00:44:42,969 --> 00:44:43,469
members.

1212
00:44:43,769 --> 00:44:46,089
There are so many nonprofits, and most people

1213
00:44:46,089 --> 00:44:48,505
who are on one board well, you'll find

1214
00:44:48,505 --> 00:44:50,284
that they sit on two or three boards.

1215
00:44:50,905 --> 00:44:53,945
And the, the doers versus the people that

1216
00:44:53,945 --> 00:44:54,925
just show up

1217
00:44:55,465 --> 00:44:58,344
are very taxed for their time, and,

1218
00:44:59,065 --> 00:45:00,045
that's a challenge.

1219
00:45:00,619 --> 00:45:03,019
We all fight for the the same great

1220
00:45:03,019 --> 00:45:03,760
board members

1221
00:45:04,140 --> 00:45:07,179
Yeah. In both counties. Being being a part

1222
00:45:07,179 --> 00:45:09,179
of a nonprofit with the board, we have

1223
00:45:09,179 --> 00:45:12,539
that same problem here, obviously. We're constantly looking

1224
00:45:12,539 --> 00:45:15,199
for volunteers, learning to do shows, but to

1225
00:45:16,275 --> 00:45:18,135
fill in, what I guess you'd call management

1226
00:45:18,194 --> 00:45:19,255
positions or

1227
00:45:19,635 --> 00:45:20,855
things of that nature,

1228
00:45:21,315 --> 00:45:22,375
the boring stuff.

1229
00:45:22,994 --> 00:45:25,315
Yes. The boring necessary stuff. Yeah. But to

1230
00:45:25,315 --> 00:45:27,155
get everybody on the board to agree to

1231
00:45:27,155 --> 00:45:28,320
something, it can be,

1232
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,160
pulling teeth there. Yeah. There's a similar challenge

1233
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,099
with the service organizations like

1234
00:45:34,559 --> 00:45:36,500
Elks and Rotary and Kiwanis.

1235
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:38,719
I'm in the Rotary in Crescent City, and

1236
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,039
I presented a Rotary in Brookings up here,

1237
00:45:41,039 --> 00:45:41,539
but

1238
00:45:42,724 --> 00:45:44,344
those memberships are dwindling.

1239
00:45:45,525 --> 00:45:47,925
The people are older. They're aging out, and,

1240
00:45:49,045 --> 00:45:50,805
the people that will join a service group

1241
00:45:50,805 --> 00:45:52,644
like that are the same people that will

1242
00:45:52,644 --> 00:45:53,945
join a nonprofit.

1243
00:45:55,204 --> 00:45:55,704
Yeah.

1244
00:45:56,085 --> 00:45:59,430
So they're also competing for the same people

1245
00:46:00,210 --> 00:46:02,289
to join their organization. So it's tough in

1246
00:46:02,289 --> 00:46:04,690
that regard. And the same donations from the

1247
00:46:04,690 --> 00:46:07,170
same people as well. Yeah. People who give

1248
00:46:07,170 --> 00:46:09,105
money and people who don't. So Yeah. I

1249
00:46:09,105 --> 00:46:11,184
had a I had an interesting comment from

1250
00:46:11,184 --> 00:46:11,785
a fellow

1251
00:46:12,224 --> 00:46:13,284
a business owner,

1252
00:46:13,905 --> 00:46:15,525
several months ago. We were

1253
00:46:15,824 --> 00:46:17,505
we do a car show down at Lucky

1254
00:46:17,505 --> 00:46:19,585
Seven every summer to raise money for the

1255
00:46:19,585 --> 00:46:20,885
center project, and

1256
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:22,400
this,

1257
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,160
business owner was we're outgoing getting raffle items

1258
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:27,619
for the for the car show.

1259
00:46:28,559 --> 00:46:30,079
The guy says, boy, I get so tired

1260
00:46:30,079 --> 00:46:31,840
of these people coming by and knocking on

1261
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:32,500
my door,

1262
00:46:33,039 --> 00:46:34,880
and all they do is see me once

1263
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,079
a year with their hand out, and then

1264
00:46:36,079 --> 00:46:37,244
they ever come back and give me a

1265
00:46:37,244 --> 00:46:39,085
business. I said, that's that's part of our

1266
00:46:39,085 --> 00:46:41,664
rural penalty, and you have to embrace it.

1267
00:46:41,724 --> 00:46:43,005
If you're in a big earth and he

1268
00:46:43,005 --> 00:46:44,684
said, I bet you had that problem all

1269
00:46:44,684 --> 00:46:46,125
the time down in Santa Barbara. I said,

1270
00:46:46,125 --> 00:46:47,724
it never happened to me once. Nobody asked

1271
00:46:47,724 --> 00:46:49,644
me for money. There's too much money down

1272
00:46:49,644 --> 00:46:50,704
there, and

1273
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,239
too many people doing a good job. The

1274
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:57,239
boards are easy to form because there's so

1275
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,320
many people to choose from. Right. Up here,

1276
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,079
we have a lot more need, a lot

1277
00:47:01,079 --> 00:47:02,539
less money, fewer resources,

1278
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,400
and don't blame the guy or the gal

1279
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,005
who's knocking on your door.

1280
00:47:07,565 --> 00:47:10,144
They're working for you. Oh, yeah.

1281
00:47:11,724 --> 00:47:13,644
You can elect to give or to not

1282
00:47:13,644 --> 00:47:14,144
give,

1283
00:47:14,605 --> 00:47:14,844
but,

1284
00:47:16,125 --> 00:47:18,125
don't shoot the messenger there. They're out there

1285
00:47:18,125 --> 00:47:20,144
doing good work. They're donating their services.

1286
00:47:20,769 --> 00:47:21,269
Right.

1287
00:47:21,970 --> 00:47:23,349
He and then he went

1288
00:47:23,650 --> 00:47:24,950
to, I get

1289
00:47:25,410 --> 00:47:25,910
it.

1290
00:47:27,010 --> 00:47:29,190
Well and there again, the the trade off.

1291
00:47:30,369 --> 00:47:32,530
Do do you really wanna live in an

1292
00:47:32,530 --> 00:47:34,375
in an area that you

1293
00:47:34,755 --> 00:47:36,355
can pick and choose, I guess, down there,

1294
00:47:36,355 --> 00:47:37,154
but you're in,

1295
00:47:37,554 --> 00:47:39,494
what I would call, like, mass humanity?

1296
00:47:39,954 --> 00:47:42,275
I'm kinda where I moved from in the

1297
00:47:42,275 --> 00:47:45,255
Sacramento area, not quite as big as Southern

1298
00:47:45,394 --> 00:47:45,894
California.

1299
00:47:47,369 --> 00:47:47,869
But

1300
00:47:48,409 --> 00:47:50,089
the trade off to being up here in

1301
00:47:50,089 --> 00:47:52,730
a rural rural area, I think it's so

1302
00:47:52,730 --> 00:47:54,030
much better up here.

1303
00:47:54,650 --> 00:47:56,650
Yes. We get to peel away all those

1304
00:47:56,650 --> 00:47:57,789
layers of sophistication

1305
00:47:58,170 --> 00:47:58,650
that we

1306
00:47:59,934 --> 00:48:02,255
that develop when we live in a very

1307
00:48:02,255 --> 00:48:04,295
urban area. Right? We get down to more

1308
00:48:04,295 --> 00:48:06,255
of the basic person and,

1309
00:48:06,894 --> 00:48:09,054
you know, such a joy. It is. You

1310
00:48:09,054 --> 00:48:11,949
don't need those things. You know? But my

1311
00:48:11,949 --> 00:48:14,349
grocery store's about five miles away and the

1312
00:48:14,349 --> 00:48:16,510
hardware store about the same and things that

1313
00:48:16,510 --> 00:48:18,050
I I go to.

1314
00:48:18,670 --> 00:48:20,510
Where I lived in Alaska was a 100

1315
00:48:20,510 --> 00:48:22,130
miles to buy a nail, so

1316
00:48:22,750 --> 00:48:24,769
this is better. And the weather's better.

1317
00:48:25,309 --> 00:48:26,369
Yes. Yes.

1318
00:48:27,364 --> 00:48:29,444
Well and, Ray, you've talked and you talked

1319
00:48:29,444 --> 00:48:30,984
about it too, like, just at

1320
00:48:31,364 --> 00:48:33,924
the the Checo brewery, just the atmosphere, the

1321
00:48:33,924 --> 00:48:34,424
camaraderie.

1322
00:48:34,724 --> 00:48:37,125
Yeah. It it is different. Yeah. It's a

1323
00:48:37,125 --> 00:48:37,864
lot different.

1324
00:48:38,244 --> 00:48:40,905
Now we don't get those kind of experiences

1325
00:48:40,964 --> 00:48:42,025
in the big city.

1326
00:48:42,324 --> 00:48:43,170
No. We don't.

1327
00:48:43,650 --> 00:48:46,049
It's all too impersonal. You don't know anybody.

1328
00:48:46,049 --> 00:48:48,949
Everybody you know, everybody knows everybody here. Yeah.

1329
00:48:50,049 --> 00:48:51,730
For better or for worse. For better or

1330
00:48:51,730 --> 00:48:53,650
for worse. Right. It's good things in bed.

1331
00:48:53,650 --> 00:48:55,170
I guess it could work. It gets you

1332
00:48:55,170 --> 00:48:57,675
at times. Yeah. You can't go sneaking around

1333
00:48:57,675 --> 00:48:59,755
with some snake or something and then nobody

1334
00:48:59,755 --> 00:49:00,894
knowing about it.

1335
00:49:03,035 --> 00:49:05,055
Well, like I said, though, Nick, it's a

1336
00:49:05,835 --> 00:49:08,155
this project, boy, when it finally does come

1337
00:49:08,155 --> 00:49:10,075
to fruition, I think it's gonna be just

1338
00:49:10,075 --> 00:49:11,614
a huge boost for everybody.

1339
00:49:12,420 --> 00:49:12,920
Everybody.

1340
00:49:13,219 --> 00:49:14,359
Not just the people

1341
00:49:14,659 --> 00:49:17,059
in Crescent City, but up here and and

1342
00:49:17,059 --> 00:49:19,619
the people who come in to to enjoy

1343
00:49:19,619 --> 00:49:20,599
what we have here.

1344
00:49:20,900 --> 00:49:22,659
Yeah. So the way the calendar will work,

1345
00:49:22,659 --> 00:49:25,239
we'll have a full time program director, obviously,

1346
00:49:25,300 --> 00:49:27,079
and that position will be,

1347
00:49:29,355 --> 00:49:31,114
we'll have that person in place a couple

1348
00:49:31,114 --> 00:49:33,135
years before the center opens because

1349
00:49:33,434 --> 00:49:35,135
you have to get groups in the pipeline

1350
00:49:35,275 --> 00:49:37,515
for two years sometimes. Just our classical music

1351
00:49:37,515 --> 00:49:40,394
series, we're already wrapping up the booking for

1352
00:49:40,394 --> 00:49:43,679
our, you know we've got 26, 27 on

1353
00:49:43,679 --> 00:49:46,099
the books, and we're working on 27, 28.

1354
00:49:46,239 --> 00:49:48,559
Because that's what that's how you need to

1355
00:49:48,559 --> 00:49:50,079
play the game. Otherwise, you don't get the

1356
00:49:50,079 --> 00:49:52,000
artist. You don't have the the as many

1357
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:53,059
choices. So

1358
00:49:53,735 --> 00:49:55,655
we'll have to have groups booked and have

1359
00:49:55,655 --> 00:49:57,515
them in the pipeline ready to perform.

1360
00:49:57,974 --> 00:49:58,474
Otherwise,

1361
00:49:58,934 --> 00:50:00,614
the center will be open. There'll be nobody

1362
00:50:00,614 --> 00:50:01,434
on the stage.

1363
00:50:01,894 --> 00:50:04,695
Yeah. Don't want that. But do you you

1364
00:50:04,695 --> 00:50:05,594
have people

1365
00:50:05,894 --> 00:50:06,394
now,

1366
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:08,880
you said, already booked? Did I hear that

1367
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:09,380
correctly?

1368
00:50:09,679 --> 00:50:10,900
That's for the classical

1369
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,460
series that we do up here in Brookings.

1370
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,239
Oh, okay. Yeah. We're we're Okay. I'm sorry.

1371
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:17,840
Okay. I gotcha. But it would be this

1372
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:19,859
90%. You're right. You have to have that.

1373
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:21,405
Yeah. Well And,

1374
00:50:22,445 --> 00:50:25,005
the the basic philosophy of the center is

1375
00:50:25,005 --> 00:50:25,505
that,

1376
00:50:27,324 --> 00:50:30,445
students first, community second, for profit third, which

1377
00:50:30,445 --> 00:50:30,945
means

1378
00:50:31,405 --> 00:50:33,885
the school districts will have first shot at

1379
00:50:33,885 --> 00:50:34,545
the calendar,

1380
00:50:35,119 --> 00:50:35,619
Community

1381
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:38,579
groups will have second shot at the calendar

1382
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:41,760
calendar, and then touring groups and so forth,

1383
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,400
corporate, whatever it happens to be, will have

1384
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,000
third shot. The good news is we're rural,

1385
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:47,440
so there's gonna be room on the calendar

1386
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:48,099
for everybody.

1387
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:49,860
Yeah. No kidding.

1388
00:50:51,135 --> 00:50:51,635
So

1389
00:50:52,015 --> 00:50:52,835
looking ahead,

1390
00:50:54,335 --> 00:50:57,394
maybe it's fantasy, but let's say you finally

1391
00:50:57,614 --> 00:51:00,335
get a a target date where you feel

1392
00:51:00,335 --> 00:51:02,035
or you think it might be completed.

1393
00:51:02,809 --> 00:51:05,449
Let and let's say within a year of

1394
00:51:05,449 --> 00:51:06,510
that date,

1395
00:51:06,969 --> 00:51:09,690
would you start trying then to book people

1396
00:51:09,690 --> 00:51:10,510
to come in,

1397
00:51:11,050 --> 00:51:12,750
or do you have to have it

1398
00:51:13,050 --> 00:51:15,635
already built before you even do that? Well,

1399
00:51:15,635 --> 00:51:16,755
I think 2029

1400
00:51:16,755 --> 00:51:18,514
is a fair time to say that the

1401
00:51:18,675 --> 00:51:20,835
that, that that's our target to open Oh,

1402
00:51:20,835 --> 00:51:22,434
okay. Is in 2029.

1403
00:51:22,434 --> 00:51:23,574
2029. Alright.

1404
00:51:24,835 --> 00:51:27,234
Which means we'll have to start putting people

1405
00:51:27,234 --> 00:51:28,855
in the pipeline next year.

1406
00:51:29,155 --> 00:51:30,340
Oh, wow.

1407
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:33,519
You know? Yeah. Just write the contract so

1408
00:51:33,519 --> 00:51:35,440
that, you know, if what I've hit the

1409
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:35,940
unexpected

1410
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,079
Michelle is doing a great job for a

1411
00:51:40,159 --> 00:51:41,920
2026 is gonna be a big year in

1412
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:43,059
the fundraising process.

1413
00:51:43,375 --> 00:51:45,375
I'm just not to put the, the weight

1414
00:51:45,375 --> 00:51:47,855
on her shoulders. There's a whole team between

1415
00:51:47,855 --> 00:51:48,434
the board

1416
00:51:48,815 --> 00:51:51,954
and what Michelle does and her team and

1417
00:51:52,414 --> 00:51:54,594
the acceptance of the community overall.

1418
00:51:56,039 --> 00:51:57,960
I spend a lot of my time meeting

1419
00:51:57,960 --> 00:51:59,640
with a lot of people in Delaware and

1420
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:01,960
Curry Counties to promote this project, and,

1421
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:05,079
everybody's very positive about it. We're gonna we're

1422
00:52:05,079 --> 00:52:06,780
gonna make it happen. It's,

1423
00:52:07,079 --> 00:52:07,900
there's no

1424
00:52:08,534 --> 00:52:09,194
no doesn't

1425
00:52:09,574 --> 00:52:11,574
you won't find that in my dictionary. Nowhere

1426
00:52:11,574 --> 00:52:13,894
can Well, that's that's huge for what you're

1427
00:52:13,894 --> 00:52:15,114
doing. That's for sure.

1428
00:52:16,934 --> 00:52:18,074
2029,

1429
00:52:18,775 --> 00:52:20,739
can't put it down to the month, but,

1430
00:52:21,539 --> 00:52:22,980
let's say 2029.

1431
00:52:22,980 --> 00:52:25,140
And, Alright. So we have to start the

1432
00:52:25,140 --> 00:52:27,960
booking process a couple years before that. Yeah.

1433
00:52:28,260 --> 00:52:28,760
Wow.

1434
00:52:29,460 --> 00:52:30,680
Before we

1435
00:52:31,300 --> 00:52:33,059
get to the end and forget to do

1436
00:52:33,059 --> 00:52:35,140
it, could you, give the website one more

1437
00:52:35,140 --> 00:52:37,255
time? Or Oh, yeah. Please. Explain how we

1438
00:52:37,255 --> 00:52:39,094
get money to you or what alley we

1439
00:52:39,094 --> 00:52:41,275
can meet you in, slip you a check?

1440
00:52:41,414 --> 00:52:43,275
Unmarked singles are always great,

1441
00:52:44,375 --> 00:52:45,835
in bundles of 1,000,000.

1442
00:52:46,614 --> 00:52:47,114
Yeah.

1443
00:52:47,974 --> 00:52:53,250
The website is ppadelnort.org,

1444
00:52:53,950 --> 00:52:56,829
and PPA stands for the Partnership for the

1445
00:52:56,829 --> 00:52:57,890
Performing Arts.

1446
00:52:58,190 --> 00:53:01,070
Ppadelnort.org.

1447
00:53:01,070 --> 00:53:01,809
No spaces.

1448
00:53:04,605 --> 00:53:06,844
And we expect the donations to be flowing

1449
00:53:06,844 --> 00:53:08,284
in from here on out. You got the

1450
00:53:08,284 --> 00:53:08,784
KCIW

1451
00:53:09,164 --> 00:53:09,664
bump?

1452
00:53:10,045 --> 00:53:11,565
Yeah. It's very, very valuable

1453
00:53:11,965 --> 00:53:13,105
Right. In this community.

1454
00:53:13,644 --> 00:53:15,505
Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah.

1455
00:53:17,324 --> 00:53:20,065
So we're we still have about five minutes.

1456
00:53:21,220 --> 00:53:22,119
Let's go

1457
00:53:23,300 --> 00:53:24,360
back to,

1458
00:53:24,739 --> 00:53:26,260
well, I had a I had a note

1459
00:53:26,260 --> 00:53:27,860
that I had, and now I don't have

1460
00:53:27,860 --> 00:53:30,019
that note. Who are you looking forward to

1461
00:53:30,019 --> 00:53:30,519
booking?

1462
00:53:33,300 --> 00:53:35,715
Oh, do you have ideas already? Yeah. Of

1463
00:53:35,715 --> 00:53:37,555
course. I mean We have to hurry up.

1464
00:53:37,555 --> 00:53:39,795
Most of my favorites are dying off, as

1465
00:53:39,795 --> 00:53:40,934
we speak. So

1466
00:53:41,235 --> 00:53:42,855
Well, right now, we're looking for,

1467
00:53:44,515 --> 00:53:45,655
the we we had

1468
00:53:46,115 --> 00:53:48,914
summer's last blast September, big bad voodoo daddy

1469
00:53:48,914 --> 00:53:51,420
at Azalea Park last September, and now we're

1470
00:53:51,420 --> 00:53:54,719
looking for artists for this coming September and

1471
00:53:54,940 --> 00:53:57,440
focusing heavily on country western. So,

1472
00:53:58,219 --> 00:54:00,699
a number of different groups, it's who's got

1473
00:54:00,699 --> 00:54:03,099
their tours scheduled along the West Coast that

1474
00:54:03,099 --> 00:54:04,800
we can pick off on one of those,

1475
00:54:05,635 --> 00:54:07,235
or who can we coax to come out

1476
00:54:07,235 --> 00:54:09,315
with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy? They didn't have

1477
00:54:09,315 --> 00:54:11,394
a tour. They built it around us, but

1478
00:54:11,394 --> 00:54:13,235
that's because I've known half the band for

1479
00:54:13,235 --> 00:54:14,835
forty years. I had a little bit of

1480
00:54:14,835 --> 00:54:15,655
an end there.

1481
00:54:16,835 --> 00:54:18,355
Got a friend that knows Asleep at the

1482
00:54:18,355 --> 00:54:18,840
Wheel

1483
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:21,640
very well. Oh, I love that. Them in.

1484
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:23,719
One of my favorites, Asleep at the Wheel.

1485
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,739
Saw that a couple times in Sacramento.

1486
00:54:26,119 --> 00:54:27,800
Yeah. Yeah. So that would be you know,

1487
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:29,160
a group like that would be fun. We'll

1488
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,079
see what we get. Great. We're out there

1489
00:54:31,079 --> 00:54:32,219
looking. And,

1490
00:54:34,484 --> 00:54:36,804
yeah. Good. Big bad voodoo daddy. Everybody wants

1491
00:54:36,804 --> 00:54:38,164
them to come back. They had such a

1492
00:54:38,164 --> 00:54:38,905
great time.

1493
00:54:39,284 --> 00:54:41,605
I would recommend Arnold Guthrie if he's still

1494
00:54:41,605 --> 00:54:42,505
singing then.

1495
00:54:42,964 --> 00:54:43,464
Yes.

1496
00:54:43,844 --> 00:54:45,605
You think of him as being somebody of

1497
00:54:45,605 --> 00:54:47,864
the sixties, but I've seen him several times.

1498
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:51,240
Different show each time. He's very, very funny,

1499
00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:52,619
very, very good, very

1500
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:55,000
Yeah. He's excellent. He's an excellent show. Yeah.

1501
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:56,920
He's more as much a storyteller as he

1502
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:58,519
is a singer, and he does both of

1503
00:54:58,519 --> 00:55:00,760
those very well. Yeah. I'm old enough. I

1504
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:02,920
grew up listening to Woody instead of Arlo.

1505
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:03,420
Yeah.

1506
00:55:05,434 --> 00:55:07,434
Well, yeah. The, I caught some of the

1507
00:55:07,434 --> 00:55:08,414
Woody myself.

1508
00:55:08,795 --> 00:55:09,295
Yes.

1509
00:55:10,155 --> 00:55:12,554
The the Arlo fans are replacing those old

1510
00:55:12,554 --> 00:55:14,094
Woody fans, I think. But

1511
00:55:14,554 --> 00:55:16,815
anyway, he was very, very good.

1512
00:55:17,530 --> 00:55:19,210
And the other one I would have recommended

1513
00:55:19,210 --> 00:55:21,150
was Janice Ian, but she's retired.

1514
00:55:22,410 --> 00:55:24,329
Yes. Yes. My friend who knows I've got

1515
00:55:24,329 --> 00:55:25,930
a friend who's very close to Asleep at

1516
00:55:25,930 --> 00:55:27,769
the Wheel. Yeah. And he's had a mastering

1517
00:55:28,410 --> 00:55:30,970
he has a mastering business in Nashville, and

1518
00:55:30,970 --> 00:55:33,295
he's done all the mastering for Janice Ian.

1519
00:55:33,295 --> 00:55:35,375
So Oh, really? Oh, he did. I I

1520
00:55:35,375 --> 00:55:37,535
met her once, and she said she liked

1521
00:55:37,535 --> 00:55:38,195
my hair.

1522
00:55:38,894 --> 00:55:39,394
So

1523
00:55:39,695 --> 00:55:41,075
she's a lovely lady.

1524
00:55:42,255 --> 00:55:43,875
Tell her to write a song about it.

1525
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:48,640
Well, I'm I'm curious because I I am

1526
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:50,579
a huge fan of Sleep at the Wheel

1527
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,900
for for many years. How do you

1528
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:54,640
how did you come across them, or how

1529
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:56,180
do you know of them?

1530
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,614
You know, that group dates back to the

1531
00:55:59,614 --> 00:56:01,855
nineteen seventies. I Right. I still have their

1532
00:56:01,855 --> 00:56:02,594
first album.

1533
00:56:02,974 --> 00:56:03,474
Wow.

1534
00:56:04,175 --> 00:56:06,014
Wow. They've been on our radar for a

1535
00:56:06,014 --> 00:56:06,835
while. Okay.

1536
00:56:08,655 --> 00:56:11,474
Great repertoire, the different things they do. And

1537
00:56:11,980 --> 00:56:13,500
Yeah. Well, I don't even know what to

1538
00:56:13,739 --> 00:56:15,980
rockabilly or whatever. What would you call that?

1539
00:56:15,980 --> 00:56:17,579
I I don't even know. I don't know.

1540
00:56:17,579 --> 00:56:19,900
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. Number that?

1541
00:56:19,900 --> 00:56:20,640
The version.

1542
00:56:20,940 --> 00:56:22,719
Right? Right. Right.

1543
00:56:24,699 --> 00:56:25,019
The

1544
00:56:25,795 --> 00:56:27,635
Miles and Miles of Texas, I think that

1545
00:56:28,275 --> 00:56:30,114
I have them on my Pandora as a

1546
00:56:30,114 --> 00:56:32,275
matter of fact. Yeah. When that comes up,

1547
00:56:32,275 --> 00:56:32,934
all the

1548
00:56:34,434 --> 00:56:36,534
kind of genres that fit that

1549
00:56:36,835 --> 00:56:38,829
boat, if you will, come on to play.

1550
00:56:38,829 --> 00:56:40,589
But, yeah, that's some good stuff. I don't

1551
00:56:40,589 --> 00:56:41,789
know if you wanna have a laugh for

1552
00:56:41,789 --> 00:56:42,530
ole poly.

1553
00:56:44,190 --> 00:56:45,949
You know, that was the other day, kinda

1554
00:56:45,949 --> 00:56:47,250
reminded me of my childhood.

1555
00:56:47,630 --> 00:56:48,130
Eating

1556
00:56:48,510 --> 00:56:50,909
eating nothing but biscuits and I know the

1557
00:56:50,909 --> 00:56:53,875
song. Okay. That's right. Very good. Very good.

1558
00:56:53,875 --> 00:56:54,375
Yeah.

1559
00:56:54,835 --> 00:56:56,755
What's and now I'm I'm talking about it,

1560
00:56:56,755 --> 00:56:58,195
and I can't remember the name of the

1561
00:56:58,195 --> 00:56:59,735
the lead guy, the big tall,

1562
00:57:00,914 --> 00:57:03,155
I can't either. Oh, my lordy. How bad

1563
00:57:03,155 --> 00:57:03,815
is that?

1564
00:57:04,515 --> 00:57:06,339
Okay. But people coming to the center, the

1565
00:57:06,339 --> 00:57:08,019
whole point is the variety. We have to

1566
00:57:08,019 --> 00:57:10,359
bring variety to the quality for everybody.

1567
00:57:11,940 --> 00:57:12,440
So,

1568
00:57:13,699 --> 00:57:16,500
most people here speak country western, so certainly

1569
00:57:16,500 --> 00:57:17,000
we'll

1570
00:57:17,380 --> 00:57:19,460
we'll focus on that, but also the jazz

1571
00:57:19,460 --> 00:57:19,960
classical

1572
00:57:20,420 --> 00:57:22,425
folk. All of it. All all of it.

1573
00:57:22,425 --> 00:57:24,345
Right? You know, the older I get, the

1574
00:57:24,345 --> 00:57:27,224
more I I like it all. Yeah. I

1575
00:57:27,385 --> 00:57:29,085
and I've talked on this show before,

1576
00:57:30,025 --> 00:57:32,505
about my first intro to music was my

1577
00:57:32,505 --> 00:57:35,144
dad's country and western albums that he would

1578
00:57:35,144 --> 00:57:36,045
play from,

1579
00:57:36,549 --> 00:57:39,109
Bob Wills, you were talking about, Patsy Cline,

1580
00:57:39,109 --> 00:57:41,670
Johnny Cash. That was my first hearing of

1581
00:57:41,670 --> 00:57:44,150
music, and I still love that old Yes.

1582
00:57:44,309 --> 00:57:46,309
That old country stuff. And we wanna bring

1583
00:57:46,309 --> 00:57:48,150
in some good dance troops. I mean, Delanort

1584
00:57:48,150 --> 00:57:50,230
and Curry County both have some great dance

1585
00:57:50,230 --> 00:57:50,730
programs.

1586
00:57:51,190 --> 00:57:51,690
Really?

1587
00:57:52,244 --> 00:57:55,464
Didn't okay. Absolutely. Yeah. Well, that's exciting stuff.

1588
00:57:55,844 --> 00:57:58,324
Very exciting stuff. And theater. And I'm

1589
00:57:59,284 --> 00:58:01,444
we we can expand our theater so that

1590
00:58:01,444 --> 00:58:03,525
it's more back in the day, that was

1591
00:58:03,525 --> 00:58:05,844
a very vibrant, strong class in our high

1592
00:58:05,844 --> 00:58:06,344
schools,

1593
00:58:06,829 --> 00:58:08,349
and we need to get back to that.

1594
00:58:08,349 --> 00:58:09,250
And then there's,

1595
00:58:10,349 --> 00:58:14,369
career technical education opportunities in costume design and,

1596
00:58:15,070 --> 00:58:16,670
cell building and all that kind of stuff.

1597
00:58:16,670 --> 00:58:18,525
All kinds of things we can do to

1598
00:58:19,164 --> 00:58:21,244
be of service to our kids. Okay. Well,

1599
00:58:21,244 --> 00:58:23,344
that's I tell you, we got some exciting

1600
00:58:23,404 --> 00:58:25,565
stuff coming, and we're running out of time

1601
00:58:25,565 --> 00:58:27,824
down to thirty seconds. Thank you, Nick Roehl,

1602
00:58:28,045 --> 00:58:30,284
for being our guest and talking about what

1603
00:58:30,284 --> 00:58:32,860
should be a boon to this community here.

1604
00:58:32,860 --> 00:58:34,460
Well, an honor and a privilege to be

1605
00:58:34,460 --> 00:58:37,179
here. I I appreciate the invitation, and, thank

1606
00:58:37,179 --> 00:58:39,679
you. Thank you. You're all listening to KCIW

1607
00:58:40,619 --> 00:58:42,000
one hundred point seven

1608
00:58:42,460 --> 00:58:44,480
in beautiful Brookings, Oregon.

1609
00:58:45,019 --> 00:58:47,594
Thanks for listening. You betcha. Thank you again,

1610
00:58:47,594 --> 00:58:48,815
Nick. Deep bows.