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Welcome to A New American Town , a

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podcast proudly presented by Visit Bentonville

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. I'm Allison Nation from the Visit Bentonville

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team , broadcasting from Hxton Road Studios

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near the Bentonville Square . Thanks

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for joining us as we share captivating stories

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and updates from our city , connecting you

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with the locals that make this town worth visiting

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. We're kicking off the seventh

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season of A New American Town with a special

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edition , an episode dedicated

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entirely to getting to know our new host

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for 2024 , Jacqueline House .

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Hi , welcome to the podcast

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, jacqueline , thank you . Thank you , I'm excited

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.

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We are so glad to have you and I'm so excited to have this conversation

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with you today . We have met a few

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times , but this is our first opportunity

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to really get to know each other , so

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let's jump right in . Introduce yourself

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please .

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Well , hello Bentonville . My name is Jacqueline

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House and I am not a native

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of Arkansas but I do consider myself

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in Arkansas . I have lived here for over

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25 years , originally

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from the Chicagoland area . I

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came here for college and never left . I

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always tell people my mom

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says you just went to Arkansas . You never came home

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, you didn't come back , you just

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went to Arkansas and we never saw you in the city

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again . I was like sorry , mom , but

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yeah , lived here , like I said , for over 25

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years . I am married

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to my college sweetheart . His

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name is Raymond . We have three kiddos . I

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have one that's about to go off to college

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which is really wild . I'm

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just trying to wrap my head around that . And

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then the next one after that goes to college

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next year . They need to take a nice

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little break because we have an 11-year-old

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too , so it's fun times in

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the household . Currently

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I host Good Day NWA , which

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I hope that you've heard of Benville . We

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get to talk about all the fun stuff happening in

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Northwest Arkansas . So

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we've been doing that for about this year is our sixth

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year doing the show and it's been really

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, really fun . We get to brag on Northwest Arkansas

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because we understand that we have a really

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really special place here and

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so there's so many things happening and so many people

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doing a lot of great things and a lot of organizations

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really working hard boots on the ground

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to make sure that people have things to do

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and feel welcome , and so we really , really love

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to be able to have that platform for people to use .

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Love that . That's so important to us at Visit Benville

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as well . So as we're starting

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to delve into things to do in Benville

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, places to stay , where to eat , I

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just really wanted to start with what

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you recommend about Benville . What are some of

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your favorite go-to things

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to do ?

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Yes . So I like really kind of

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chill , low-key places . So the

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Tower Bar at the momentary really love

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that . That's actually a really great place

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to go , especially at night because you

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get to see Bentonville and

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it's right there , you know , close to A3 Market

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, so that's a really fun spot

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that I like . I love the Hive at

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21C . That's really good

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. I like the Hive because it's like really

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swanky , it's

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elevated and

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I really just like it , especially on a warm

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day you go eat and you hit the

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trail that's like right behind it . So that's

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nice too . I love

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pasta . So to vola . I

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recently actually went to Table

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on Six for brunch

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Indeed Delicious . I

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like that too . So several places when

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I go places you know North

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West Arkansas , wherever I go , food is really important

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because I love to eat . So I just want

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to make sure that you know wherever I go there's good places

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to eat and luckily here in North West Arkansas we have

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some great places and Benville has got

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some really good spots .

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Love that . Thanks for sharing . When

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you go to Crystal Bridges , what's

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your to-do list ? When you're spending

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time at the museum , eat at

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11 .

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Love that Very

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, very good . My

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family and I love puzzles

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, and I say my family and I , it's really

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them , because I'm capturing

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pictures and videos of them . There

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is a certain place in the galleries

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where there's a puzzle of the artwork

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and we have done that , like

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we have sat there and that's what we

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did . That was . Our activity is that we put together the puzzle

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with the artwork . So that's really , really

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fun to do , definitely . Got

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to go to the kids' box . You know I do have a younger

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one , so you know the puppets and

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some of the drawings and stuff . We always

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hit that piece up , also outside

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, where the kind

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of big life size checkers

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and I think there's a

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lot . Yeah , we love that too , especially when it's really

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really nice outside . And

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then , of course , going through the galleries . That's

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really fun to do . And

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then walking the trails . You

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got to do it , you got to get on the trails

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. There's so many things outside to see at

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Christopher Bridges as well , we love the love sign

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. Of course my kiddos love all that

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. I guess they're copper

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animals that you can find kind of on the trail

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too . So that's fun to do too when we're there . Love

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that , Thanks for sharing .

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When it comes to sharing with

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our audiences things to do in Bittenville

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and places to eat , what do you think are

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going to be some of your favorite stories to share ? And

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I can I can hint at some of the topics

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we'll be covering in 2024 , such as

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Fresh Grass 2024

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. At the momentary , we're going to be

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exploring some of the exhibitions coming up

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at 21 C Museum Hotel , possibly

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chatting with some folks from the airport

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learning about what's coming for XNA

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. What

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else comes to mind for you that you think is exciting

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to share ?

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One thing I think that's really exciting to share

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is I love the theater scene here

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in Northwest Arkansas

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. It's awesome . There's so many

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shows to see . I mean Benville's

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home to Tric Theater , which

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just did a merger with Arkansas

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Philharmonic Orchestra

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, so now we're Ovation , we're one kind

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of organization , but the office

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you know where the kids take classes is down here , so if you have

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a budding actor in your home

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, they can get into theater . Also

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, too , we've got the

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meteor down here , which is so

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awesome , such a cool spot and shout

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out because Benville actually has

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been a part of a couple of movies and

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the meteor was a part of that . So I

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think just a little kind of fun things like that . Like

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, did you know that the meteor

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was part of a movie ? Or

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you know the Benville

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Square , the courthouse , was also a part of a movie

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. So just a little kind of fun

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, fun hidden things like that I think are really

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fun to share with people because you can easily

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Google , like you know where to eat and we've

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got some great places . But fun things like

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that . Like , did you know those

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?

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are fun to share and we should make sure we

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cover the plays that folks

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can see when they come to town , presented by Tric Theater

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, because they do some great productions throughout the year . So

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, jacqueline , what are you looking forward to as our

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host ?

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So this is great actually , because , of

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course , I host a show on

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TV , but this is a great medium as well , because

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I've been interested in podcasting and

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how it works and everything and it's really , really

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fun because I feel like it's a little bit of a more relaxed

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kind of environment for people . So

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I'm really looking forward to Meeting

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people that I have not met yet , because

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of course , there's so many people here in North

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West Arkansas , there's so many people doing some awesome

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things but really looking forward to

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like maybe even introducing people To

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Bentonville . We know that the area is very transient

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. You know people move here all the time , so

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Hopefully the podcast

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can really serve as a way for people to

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navigate their way through Bentonville

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as they either visit or as they

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move here and just trying to figure

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out Kind of what are the spots that

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are gonna be their go-to spots .

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We are so excited to have you here with us .

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Yeah , I'm excited too . I'm excited , I'm

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excited to , of course , talk to people , because I can do that

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all day long , like just talking to people

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and get to know them and Find

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out . You know what they're up to and you

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know what they're doing to make our community great , because it's the connections

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that are really important and

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that's how we all work together . To make our community

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great Is that we have to get out there and we have to meet people

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.

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Well , folks , if you're planning a trip to Bentonville this

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year , our podcast is a great place

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to get that inside scoop . Jacqueline

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, thanks so much for joining us for a new season

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To everyone listening . We hope you

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have a chance to tune in to our upcoming episodes

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hosted by Jacqueline . Don't forget , visit

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Bentonville is here to assist you to find

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things to do , where to eat and stay and

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find out what's going on in the city . Give

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at visit bentonvillecom . Thanks for listening

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