Doc & Jacques: Azalea Festival Princesses – Leadership, Growth, and Community

In this episode of the Doc & Jacques radio variety show, hosts Dr. GiGi Reed MD and Jacques Kepner tail with six high school-aged participants of the Bookings Azalea Festival Princess Pageant. The show highlights the young women’s backgrounds, passions, and aspirations, focusing on their leadership, academic achievements, and community involvement. The participants discuss their motivations […]

Episode Transcript

(00:10):
Welcome.
You have now entered again
the cosmic radio receptors of KCOW
one hundred point seven FM in Brookings, Oregon.
Thank you for tuning into this week's fantastically
fabulous program.
I'm doctor Gigi, and my cohost is, as
always, Jacques Kepner.
How are you today, Jacques Hippo? I'm wearing

(00:32):
two pairs of glasses because
you forgot my reading glasses at the house,
but that's okay. I forgive you. No problem.
Hey. Greetings, everyone, and welcome to the Doc
and Jacques radio variety show. She's shaking her
head. She's really pissed off.
I wanna mention that you're hearing this live
show on KCIW in Brookings, Oregon. That said,
the same show will be rod rebroadcast

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in exactly one week from now, each and
every Wednesday on KZZH
ninety six point seven FM in Eureka, Humboldt
at the at 8AM in the morning, those
of you that wake up early down there.
And then a few hours later at 1PM
on my old alma mater,
k f u g one zero one point
one FM in Crescent City, California. So now

(01:13):
you know,
doctor Gigi and I have your coast
covered.
Okay. We normally have a medical marvels according
to my brilliant bilingual German physician,
patent holding scientist, and professor,
But you were not having Not today. Not
We have a full program today. Okay. We
have a full program, and you'll see why

(01:33):
Mhmm. In just a minute. I'm gonna I'm
going to take my glasses off and because
I'm reciting this by memory, not by planning.
Shh. Don't tell anybody I'm not taking my
glasses off. I wanna start off with something.
You know that if you just slow down
and you take a more introspective
look at the abundance of talent and beauty

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within our midst,
we might just learn a few things and
be better off because of it.
What am I talking about? Well,
for the second year in a row, today
on the Doc and Jacques Show,
we have the distinct privilege of speaking with
six
individual,
talented,
young, vibrant, and enthusiastic
women
representing the best of their class and generation

(02:16):
at the upcoming
Azalea Festival
in Brookings, Oregon. Woo hoo. Now off script,
this is something that happens nationwide
in our United States Of America. There are
these,
high schools throughout our land, and they all
pretty much follow the same routine of having
these,
pageants
of representing the best of the best.

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These women,
in the prime of their high school years,
have already distinguished themselves as leaders, innovators, and
the newest thinkers and pillars
of our community.
Calling them princesses
may be a bit archaic
in our evolving society. But for now,
they are called just that. And just like

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real princesses, they all are in line to
possibly
become
the next queen.
Wearing crowns
can be both figurative and literal.
I saw a crown on Ray Simon last
week when he, came into the studio,
and he looked quite good, our sound engineer,
that is.

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Though they may wear crowns I was expecting
a laugh, doctor. Not funny. Okay. Sorry.
Though they may wear crowns, their true strength,
strength lies not only in their outward appearance,
but in the boundless energy, focus, and dynamic
spirit
that they bring to just about everything they
do.
Through academic excellence to community service, these princesses

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are redefining
what it means to be both regal and
relatable,
inspiring many of those who encounter them.
So on today's Doc and Jacques Radio Variety
Show,
we will celebrate the dreams and the drive
and the determination
of these remarkable
young women.
For in their stories,

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we just may
find a reflection of the best of what
this generation
has to offer. So with that, ladies, welcome
to the KCIW
Studios. Welcome. Welcome. Alright. It's crowded here in
the studio.
We have six of you in the gallery
total,
but only three at the microphones
at this time. So,

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what we're going to do is we're going
to,
take two different shifts. So you ladies are
in here on the first shift,
and we'll start with this. And I feel
sorry for the
the the the three others that are waiting
to come in here because they will have
no time to set up. They're just gonna
have to come in at the mid show
break And wing it. And wing it and
put it on. And we'll we'll you you
three will pass those three, and everything will

(04:45):
be okay. So we're gonna do it in
two different shifts. Let's start with the the
the first of you three. Ladies ladies, give
doctor. You're gonna start up, Gigi. Yes. I
was trying. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for
handing over.
Thank you, doctor Gigi. Alright. So we have
three young women here in the studio,
and we're gonna start
asking every single one of them their name

(05:07):
and their age. And whenever they will answer,
they will answer with their name before they
answer to any question. Alright.
Danielle, you go first. What's your name and
age? I'm Danielle Dotson, and I'm 18 years
old. Alright.
Alina.
Hi. I'm Alina Solomon. I'm 18 years old.
Alright. Alright, Alina. Welcome. Hello. My name is
McKenna Ratliff, and I am 17 years old.

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Alright. McKenna. All three of you are welcome.
What is your favorite subject in school? Yeah.
I'm Danielle Dodson, and my favorite subject in
school is anything having to do with literature
and English. Woah.
That's my field. What he thinks he knows.
Hey. Today, by the way, today is Speak
Like Shakespeare Day. National Yes. Today is Today
is National Speak Like Shakespeare. So how

(05:52):
oh, what was that? That was cool. Upstairs.
We Okay.
Anyway And how about you, Alina? Hi. I'm
Alina. My favorite subject in school is history
because I like to see how history repeats
itself.
Wow. That's kinda my favorite too, hon. I
excel at history and English. Okay. We're Oh,
okay. Yes. I'm McKenna Ralif again.

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I would also have to agree with Denny,
that my favorite is English. I love expressing
myself in writing. So I don't. Yeah. Cool.
Cool. That's what actually he does.
You do write. Yeah. That's kind of prologue
I wrote. It's not AI. Tom Tom Bosak
or other sound engineer thinks it's AI, but
it's not. I wrote that myself.
Oh, she's shaking right at me again. Oh,

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I'll let you talk. Three people here. Okay.
Fine. Alright. Danielle,
what do you like best about our beautiful
coastal area, and what do you like the
least?
About our beautiful coastal area, I would say
I love the beach, and I love all
the community and the people here. What I
like the least is probably just the rain.
It just gets a little extra rainy during
the winter seasons, and I miss that sun.

(06:55):
Yeah. We had a nice sunny day today.
Yeah. It's been real windy, but, but in
the past few days, but but it's been
really nice and sunny. We're finally on. Too
windy. Too windy to even mow the lawn.
That never happened. My cusp. Well, I'm so
thin now that when I mowed the lawn
the other day, I kinda blew away.
Yeah. As you know that many of you
know, I'm six foot four, and I'm about

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thirty five pounds.
Elena.
Yes, ma'am. What are your favorite what's your
favorite thing about this area? What do you
like about here?
I like the amount of rivers that we
have. Some of my best memories have been
going upriver with my siblings.
I personally wish that we had a mall
here or more things to do. That was

(07:36):
what you liked the least. You wished there
was a mall. That's okay. Yeah. That's right.
And when you go upriver, where do you
talk about the Chetco or you go up
to Smith River or you go up all
of them or the Rogue? I go up
to Loeb. I don't know which river that
was originally, but I go up to Loeb.
And what do you, catch?
We don't catch anything. We just swim. Oh,
yeah.
I'm just kidding. Oh, you don't go fishing.

(07:57):
You just go swimming. I'm I'm your catch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Freak out. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Swimming. Nice. You
don't swim in the ocean?
I do swim in the ocean, but I
do spend most of my time upriver.
Alright. You have to wear a wetsuit when
you go in the ocean. Nope. I just
jump right in. You're 18 years old. You
know? What do you say, man? I put
my toe and it's like, oh. It's I

(08:18):
could do it at 18. Well, I feel
like I'm 18.
No. But thirty five pounds is a little
better. Sixty six, though.
Darn it. Okay.
Get on with that. Okay, McKenna. Alright. I
love that we have so much variety. We
have the redwoods. We have the beach. We
also have the river, like she said.
What I don't like the the most is
probably how many people there are. There's not

(08:40):
that many people, and I wish we had
a Ross. I love Ross. A Ross. Outlet?
Yes. Store? Yes. You gotta go. Did you
gotta go over Grants Pass? Yes. I gotta
go all over to Grants Pass. There is
not one in Crested City. No. There is
a sport sporting big five. Yeah. Crossed Dust.
Yeah. Yeah. Mine all that.
No. None in Eureka either?
Oh. And then I I don't know. There

(09:01):
is or not. But remember, there are at
Brookings here, so it's kinda funny. Yeah. You're
right. I know that. Yeah. You're right. But
wait. It's the same. This is this is
far. Just far too.
Well, we have Walmart and Walmart down in
That's still thirty minutes. Right? Yeah. That's thirty
minutes. Yeah. True. Yeah. That's so people go
still go shopping shopping? You don't do any
online or most online shopping? No. Because it

(09:22):
takes so long to get here.
It takes like a month. Yes. Yeah. And
another thing is true. But now she said
there's not enough people. I was gonna say
there's too many people. There's traffic. But, again,
we're much older generation than you. Well, plus
Do you guys It's in the At least
I am docusant.
Right.
In
the tourist season during the tourist season, I
guess it's hard to cross 101

(09:43):
in Brookings?
Yeah. It can be. You gotta cross if
you're right downtown, it is. Yeah. There's always
a lot of traffic coming right through Brookings.
They've never bypassed it, which is okay.
But the downtown is just what it is.
It's just a strip. I wanna one. Right?
Now the big questions.
Uh-oh.
What inspired you to participate

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in the pageant?
Danielle.
I would say the tradition behind it. My
family has lived in Brookings since the nineteen
thirties, and I thought that I would make
them proud by trying out and getting out
of my comfort zone doing this. Wow. Wow.
Wow. Wow. And your last name is?
Dotson. Dotson. Okay. So there's you you come
from an older family here in town. It's
been around.

(10:23):
Cool. And No. Getting out of your comfort
zone. So it's kind of it's not something
that
you were I'm not I'm not typically wanting
to do that. Yeah. I used to be
really shy growing up, and then I got
this amazing job at Fat Irish. And ever
since then, I started flourishing, and I could
conversate with people, hold eye contact, and it's
been the biggest confidence boost in my life.

(10:44):
And that's why I'm here. How long you
worked at at Fat Irish? It's about three
years now. Wow. Maybe that's where I've seen
you. Okay. I think we have seen you
there. At Fat Irish here in Brookings, it's
a neat place. So why is it why
is it confidence boosting?
Just seeing myself being so shy. It
was really hard to not have a voice
but have so much to say. But now
I have a voice and I can vocalize

(11:05):
what I need to say and what I
need to get my point across. Wow. Very
cool. So do you learn that? Is that
part of or just being in a group
where you have to represent somebody, is that,
like, a passive
learning or do you actually get taught stand
on the soapbox and say something type thing?
It was passive. It at first, it was
kind of a definitely a curve for me,
coming from

(11:26):
no talking at all to having to smile
and talk to people every single day as
a part of the job. But it's great.
I love it. Wow. That's very interesting. Very
cool. Well spoken.
Yeah. Talina, what inspired you to participate?
So my mom was actually an Azalea princess.
So that's who inspired me to join the
pageant was my mom. Cool story. Right? Wow.

(11:49):
And that was a few years ago. Right?
I mean Yeah. Just a couple.
I mean right? I mean, I don't know
how old Ramona is, but it's, you know.
Right. Older than 18, I hope.
Yeah. Very cool. So I'll so
was she in the how long have the
Azalea Festivals been going? We think we're not
sure. We should know this stuff. You know
what I mean?
We think from our collective thing, it's the

(12:11):
eighty second or eighty third. I thought it
was higher than that. But it might be
Florence's that I'm thinking of. Florence has got
110.
Everybody's kinda looking at each other. Well, hey,
everybody out there, if you, wanna call in
and tell us, what year it is, we
have no phone number to give you, But
that's okay. Alright. Yes.
Your mom was a princess.
Cool. Back in the day. Very nice. Same

(12:31):
high school. Yep. Same everything. Cool. Do you
get do you get a trophy or something
to take home? It's just pictures. Just pictures.
Yeah. Well Cool. Something very cool. McKenna.
My sister actually did the pageant in 2023.
So that inspired me to join the pageant,
but
my real meaning behind it was to encourage
younger people

(12:52):
to step out of their comfort zone. I'm
a super soft spoken, quiet person.
And I wanna just show people that even
if you are quiet and you are soft
spoken, that you can step out of your
comfort zone.
Well spoken. Yeah. Yeah. And it's it's part
of the
learning process, right? Because you do have to,
well, you're coming on the show to speak.
Yes. And there's thousands of people that will

(13:14):
be listening to this. So there you go.
So you have to do this. When you
are at the, up on the stage, are
you each gonna be going individually
through a litany of questions or whatnot? Yeah.
We will be. Just I think it's just
one question.
Is it? Yeah. But, like, privately, we have,
like,
An interview. Like an interview. Yeah. Okay. When
is the Azalea Festival? It's May It's May

(13:36):
3 at 6PM at the Elks Lodge. Oh,
it's at the Elks Lodge this year. How
cool? Is it usually there or no? I
don't know. I think the last, like, three
years it's been there. Right. Yeah.
Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Wow. And is the public
invited or it's just pretty much Yes. The
public is invited. Cool. Okay. So me might
show up. Who knows? I like The Elk.
That's a nonprofit. Right? Yeah. So yeah. It

(13:56):
is.
I think so. Right? Or 516.
So,
you learn how to speak
passively by being in the group. You learn
how to probably
present yourself
passively, or are you taught that? Or do
you teach each other? How do you I
mean, so you are well spoken,

(14:16):
and
I I I wonder if that can be
taught passively
because somebody has to tell you how to
pronounce things or how to word stuff. Right?
No? What do you think?
I believe that it's just we are kind
of taught really quickly in a group setting
etiquette and just being the public appearance and

(14:37):
showing that
how we have
how we're different from others in our grade
and on our school.
Now do teachers know
when you're in the princess in the pageant,
or do students say, hey. I've felt an
uptick.
Have you done something, oh, yeah, on my
pageant? Do people notice?
Yeah. So we actually have screens up at

(14:59):
our school, and they have our picture. And
it's called the Azalea Princesses. They have our
picture up at school. So all of our
teachers know that we're in the pageant.
Oh, okay. Well, bummer. I wish they would
have. You would have said no, but they
noticed that we're all of a sudden so
cockatoo.
And, McKenna, are there men allowed on the
there's a there's a men's side of it.
Right? There's a king or or a princess?

(15:21):
No. There's not. We have little princesses which
are younger than us. So,
they're, like, second grade. But, yeah, they walk,
down
the runway a few times, and they also
are in the parade with us.
But, yeah, no men So the parade is
on on Saturday.
As far as we know, May 3. Right?
Yes. So we should know this. Parade

(15:43):
is later in May. Oh, it's later in
May. But the, the the electing of the
princesses
takes place a week ahead of time or
whatever. Okay? We should really, really
look it up. Google it fast, quick.
Just
Okay. So what She's mad at me. What
are you,
most passionate about
from the pageant,

(16:04):
from,
the social work or what you're doing or
your life hobbies?
Anything at all. Danielle, you're on. Danielle, you're
on. Yeah. What's what are you most passionate
about? You say you like school, the the
English. English. Yeah. Getting out of your shell.
I'm most comfortable about making others feel comfortable
with me. That's what makes me I'm very

(16:24):
compassionate, and I have a drive to talk
to others now that I can talk. And
I have a drive to make others feel
like they're always welcome to talk to me
and to come up to me first or
I come up to them. I want those
to feel safe around me, and that's probably
what drives me to do this pageant and
to just be a good citizen overall. Well,

(16:46):
kudos to you. You were the first one
to arrive today. Yes. Yeah. Came in. Fantastic.
Came in. Yeah. Took her cape off.
Put the crown down. Yeah. Put the crown.
Put the Now what are you most
passionate about outside of school or the pageant?
Oh, probably softball. I love softball. Oh, that's

(17:06):
right. We haven't talked about sports yet.
I'm the varsity
catcher, but I come up to pitch sometimes,
but primarily catcher. And it's Wow.
It's been a really great year for me
so far, and I'm really enjoying it. Are
you a good hitter? Are you pretty good
at the field? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yep. Have
you hit a home run?
No. I just turned left handed this year

(17:27):
for batting wise just so I was a
little bit closer to first base. My batting
average has increased quite a bit. I'm at,
I wanna say like,
like, out of six out of 10 times
I get on base Wow. It's pretty great.
They're all so fast. Oh, yeah. He could
run. Cool. So you turned left handed, meaning
you're usually right handed, but now you're batting

(17:48):
left handed? You can teach that? Yes.
Freshman through junior year, I've got
right handed. But this year, coach was like,
mhmm. We're gonna we're switching it up, and
we're gonna make you a lefty. Who's the
coach of the baseball team? Tony Barron. I
think we were gonna interview him. Remember he's
the one when Tristan Harkins, the principal came
in? We were gonna talk with Tony, but
that's okay. Maybe one day. Yeah. Do you

(18:10):
write with your right hand? Yes. Do you
know sometimes to write with your left hand
to teach your brain to use the left
hand a little better? I can write with
my left hand. I just think I look
neater and prettier on my right hand.
Cool. Well, that's very cool. Doctor has handwriting
like a left handed person that
never has written in our life. I used
to see it. Actually, you get very nice

(18:30):
handwriting. Oh.
Elaina. Elena. Thank you. Elena.
What are you most passionate about? I'm most
passionate about animals. I have a cat named
Hades that I'm absolutely obsessed with. Hades? Yeah.
He's a Hades.
Yeah. Al razor. Yeah. He is. I found
him on the roof earlier.
Wow. Yeah. I don't know how he got

(18:50):
up there. Well I don't think the devil
can get any names. Right? Hades. Didn't get
any Did you name him Hades? I did.
Yes.
Oh my god. What is the German we
just learned Hades. Hoe. Hoe. Hoe. Hoe. Hoe
is Although we have the river Hadez, is
that? Hardis? Oh, this is a river that
she's Not at all. She's teaching me German
as we speak.
Wow. Haiti is Okay. So cats and what

(19:12):
else
with with, animals?
Do you wanna be a veterinarian? Yeah. I
don't wanna be a veterinarian. I'm actually going
to college for plant science and plant biology.
So Oh, so plants are not animals. I
know.
I know. Tell us. I'm passionate about a
lot of things. Yeah. Tell us. Plants? Tell
me. I'm interested. I absolutely love I have

(19:32):
so many plants in my room. My mom
would joke with me and say that it's
because I didn't wanna breathe the same oxygen
as my sister.
So
I have a lot of plants, and that's
what drove me to go into plant science.
Wow. Wait. So you already started taking classes?
I haven't, but I start school in August.
And are you gonna go local SWOC, or
are you gonna go? I'm going to Montana

(19:55):
State University. What? Woah. You're moving to the
big sky. Is that it? The state of
the big skies? Montana.
Going From the land of sky blue waters.
That was the old hams beer
ad.
Very cool. You know, that's something we were
gonna add we're gonna add ask them about
college. We'll get into the question like that.

(20:15):
Yes. McKenna, what are you most passionate about?
What's your what what gets you going?
So I'm super passionate about, serving my community.
Even before the pageant, I was I'm super
involved with my church and community service. Just
the other,
the other week last week, we did a
huge Easter egg hunt where we put out
20,000 eggs and served 900 tri tip sandwiches.

(20:36):
Wait a minute. That's Wedged a thousand. 30
thousand dollars in eggs.
Yes. It was it was amazing. I just
I just love just bringing our community together
even if it's just with the Easter egg.
What church do you go to? I go
to Living Waters, Four Square Church. Alright. I
think we have Four Square Church here. Yes.
Not too far from this area.
And you had

(20:56):
20 20,000. Yes. 20,000 of our helpers. We
had a lot of helpers. We probably had,
like, a 20
helpers from our church come. Wow. Yep. It
was such a blessing. It was amazing. Everybody
eating eggs, pretty much? Yeah. And trying to
We had, like, 1,200 people show up to
work. Woah. Yeah.
Woah. This is last,

(21:16):
last Sunday. To Saturday. We did it Saturday.
I had,
I was gonna have my entire family
for dinner,
last Sunday, but I decided to have ham
instead.
Oh, shit. Do you get it? Yeah. I
was gonna have my whole family for dinner.
Over Like, I was gonna eat my entire
family.
It's one of us. A bad bad joke.
We we we need the little sign. Hey.

(21:37):
Laugh. Grace Simon gave me the thumbs up.
He likes it. I think Tom was like
through his
Okay. So this community service, do you go
to different groups to help the community or
is it all through church? It's mostly through
church. Our church really loves to, show the
love of Jesus through community services.
We also do, like, for example, like, a

(21:57):
parents night out where all parents can drop
their kids off at our church and just
go have a date and do whatever. So
we do I do a lot through that,
but also, obviously, the pageant.
So Very cool. I I still try to
get my head wrapped around what the pageant
is. Okay. So it's a you have to
excel. You have to be good in school.
Do you not? All all you ladies are
shaking your head. Okay. You have to do

(22:18):
well in school. You can't be flunking a
bunch of classes like Right. Yeah. Somebody I
know.
I'm darn it. I looked again. No. I
didn't flunk that many.
So you have to do well there, and
then you just have to be kinda civic
minded and kinda what are some of the
qualities? Danielle, do you have any super qualities
that you kinda know that you should

(22:38):
have to be a princess? Obviously, the
academics, but also attendance in school. You have
to show up and be there and be
present. Oh, darn it. You have to show
that you can be out there in your
community and make an effort to help others
and help
things that are involved around you.
There's
leadership behind it. You have to be a

(22:58):
leader and prove that you can
be a leader. There's a resume that you
write up before entering
to get accepted in. And so in the
resume, you'll put
special qualities of yourself,
your GPA,
Cool. Why you wanna do the pageant, your
dreams,
aspirations.
Right on. Good. Those are some of the

(23:20):
preliminary
stuff you need to fill out
and get done before you're okay. I'm starting
to kinda get it. Alright. Ask Elena. I
will ask, do you have anything to add
to that, Elena? I do. I think that
having patience with others and being kind is
a quality that you have to have in
order to be a princess.
And
also liking to be around kids

(23:41):
because I have a lot of kids that
come up to me because they recognize me
from the pageant. So you have to be
good with kids. Wow. Oh, very cool. Doctor
Gigi. Wanna be a good example. Doctor Gigi
has lots of patients.
She does. She's got, like, 5,000 patients. She's
saying that she did.
Luckily, the English people know that it's spelled
right. Weigh
in on this. Some of the things that

(24:02):
Yeah. So I think that was very well
said.
All of those are very true.
I came in super shy, like I said.
Like, I do not like talking in front
of people, but, I've learned how to do
that. So I don't know. Some people are
just born with it being like, oh, let
me just go talk to them, but I'm
not. So I think that's a good quality
to have, but it's not needed. But they

(24:23):
well, very well said. And you're all all
friends outside of the pageant? Does in Europe,
you the 18 year olds are in the
same class and you're I'm homeschooled, actually. So
I know all these girls,
but, yeah, I don't go to school that.
Young youngest one. You're 17. Yes. I am
17.
Okay. We only have a few more minutes.
We're gonna get a few more minutes. But

(24:43):
real quickly, Danielle,
why why would you like to be queen?
What are you gonna bring to the the
queenship?
Queenship
is gonna be
pretty big staple for any of us, though,
and I think it just shows
truly
who's gonna be the leader and who's gonna
be inspirational
to younger generations

(25:03):
coming, wanting to put potentially join this pageant
and
continue on the legacy and the tradition,
we have to work hard. And I think
that queenship shows the hard work and effort
that you had to put in. Right on.
And while we here, I'm gonna ask you
one of the last questions, and that is
where do you see yourself in, let's say,
five years? You'll be 22, 20 three years

(25:24):
old. Where do you see yourself? I wanna
be an RN. An RN? Really? Yes. Long
time. Right? Good dog here. Yeah. My end
goal is to be an anesthesiologist.
Nope. There we go. We've been better yet.
Yeah. Cool. Nice.
Alright. Well, very good. That's where you're gonna
stay you wanna see you'll be graduate. Are
you going to college anywhere?
I'm gonna start off just prerequisites
here at the local SWAT campus, and I

(25:45):
wanna go to OIT. Right. We know Jill
Toveldi who's been on the show. Yes. Right.
She's the dean. So tell her to shock
and talk. Said hello.
Alright.
Elena. Elena, where, why do you wanna be
the queen?
I personally don't care whether I win or
lose. I've gained so many friendships from this
pageant. I would be thrilled to see any
one of my girls win. But if I

(26:06):
do win, I wanna be able to show
my siblings, because I have three younger sisters,
that they can,
win the pageant. Very noble. Very, very noble
and well stated. And where do you see
yourself in five years from now? I see
myself getting my master's degree in plant pathology
and having,
yeah, and having an apartment with my cat

(26:27):
and maybe
one or two other cats.
Maybe up there in Montana? Yeah. Okay. Cool.
Cool. Montana's a beautiful state. You'll love it.
Right. I like so. Alright. We're gonna round
off, the the interview. So you three that
are out there in the waiting room, get
ready because we're gonna be in this fairly
soon. Alright. McKenna, what why do you wanna
be the queen?

(26:48):
Just like she said, I joined this pageant
not to win, but to Right. Just to
gain experiences,
gain the confidence to talk in front of
people.
So,
like, honestly, it's not it's not, like, deep
in my heart that I win. But, obviously,
if I win, I'll be super happy.
So yeah. Cool. And you're wearing one of
the things that goes across your street. What
is that thing that's sway? It's our sash.

(27:10):
A a stash? A sash. Yeah. And it
says Azalea pageant
princess. Princess. Yeah. And I just noticed you
all you don't even you could take off
your if you other three out there have
a name tags on your jackets like everybody
else is wearing, then you don't need to
wear one of my self made little stupid
ones. You were in a sash too there.
You got one, Aliyah? You got one or
two? Okay. No fun. McKenna,

(27:30):
where do you see yourself in five years?
You're gonna be 20 you're gonna be the
youngest of everybody here. Yes.
I want to go to beauty school and
get my aesthetician license, hopefully, my master's aesthetician.
And I wanna come back to Brookings, hopefully,
and run my own aesthetician spa.
Wow. So that's when you do people's faces
and stuff, do facials and all that. Yeah.
Yeah. So I wanna own my own business
and hopefully be married. There we go. Yes.

(27:52):
Doctor Gigi doctor Gigi will be working starting
next week, right, with Chetco Medical And And
and Estes Estes Esteshetics.
And the first thing you're gonna do, doc,
is what? Give me a Botox injection
and liposuction?
And how about muscles? You know, buff me
up a little. Oh. Oh, empty.
People will never learn.
Okay. Any last encouraging words for

(28:16):
other people out there? Yeah. Any any any
last
say goodbye, hello? Yeah. Any shout outs?
Younger siblings?
Oh, yeah. Princess, pageant, mistress.
Teachers. Teachers.
No. Okay. Alright. We're shouting out. Hey. Go
families. You guys have great daughters.

(28:39):
You first three have been very patient. Thank
you for being on the radio the first
time. Now you're all veterans. You could say,
yeah. I've been on the radio. That's no
problem, man. We're a really cool guy and
a doctor.
Pretty pretty neat. You're,
good luck. We will be there. I think
we will be, in attendance
on at the Elks.
And so we look forward to seeing you

(28:59):
again, all three of you. And thank you
again for so much for coming on the
Doc and Jacques and and expressing yourselves so
very, very well. Okay, folks. We are gonna
let these ladies walk out into the
ether out there, and and we're gonna switch
over so you can all three dismantle.
And,
while they are doing that and switching out,

(29:19):
just set it there in front of you.
You can set it right on the there.
Yeah. There you go. You just set the
microphones.
There we go. Good. Thank you again,
Danielle, Alina, and McKenna.
Alright. I want to say that at this
point, it is that mid show break. You're
tuned in to KCAD w one hundred point
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(29:42):
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community radio. Alright. We have we have switched
in to the three gals. Hey. There's three
new ones. I'm gonna look over to the
right. Hi, Abby. How are how are you?

(31:09):
Abby, what's what's your full name?
My name is Abby Fillippe. Okay. I want
you to bring it up a little bit.
That that thing of maybe drop it down
a little there you go. There you go.
There you go. And speak right into it.
And then we have Sofia. Hi, Sofia. Hi.
And your full name is? Sofia Bauer. Bauer.
Okay, Sofia. And then last but not least
is? Amelia Bruce. Hey, Amelia. Okay. I'll try
to remember that.

(31:30):
Amelia because we can't see your name tag,
but that's okay. That's alright. It fell off
somewhere. We'll remember it. That's okay. Amelia and
Sofia and Abby are now in the transposed,
positions of being the the pageant,
princesses that are here representing their high school.
And we're gonna start off with the first

(31:50):
questions. Doctor Gigi here, and I am Jacques.
And how you say my name is if
somebody sticks
a sticks a Needle in the a needle
into the, electric outlet, you'll get a shock.
So that's how you can say, hey, Jacques.
Okay. Doctor. Gee. So we're asking the same
questions, but because we now have three new
people here.
Amelia, you're the number one. Amelia. Okay. You're

(32:12):
sitting over there, and we ask about the
name and age from everybody. You go first.
My name is Amelia Bruce, and I'm 18
years old. Alright.
My name is Sofia Bauer, and I'm 17
years old. We got My name is Abby
Phillippe, and I'm 18 years old. I am.
17. We have
five, four,
18 year olders and and two 17 year

(32:34):
olders. But you're all seniors. Right? Yeah. I
turn 18 in two days. So Oh. Yeah.
Hey. Well, pretty happy birthday to you. Thank
you. Alright. Very cool.
Sofia, why don't you ask to start off
with the actually start off with Amelia.
Amelia, what is your favorite subject in school?
My favorite subject in school is probably English.
But

(32:55):
other than that, I love all the health
classes, like medical classes. I took some last
year. Yeah. And I love all the medical
classes. They, like, really interest me. Right. It's
cool. Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. Well, English major is
what I was. Yeah. I got my degree
in English. Yep. Now don't ask her what
she got her degrees in.
So Degrees.

(33:15):
Okay. Sofia?
Your favorite subject in school? My favorite are
probably anything to do with medical and health
classes. How dare you? You don't. You guys
must have a lot of health class. I'm
winning here. Right? No. I think more people
like English in this So far. Let's My
work. Let's have it gone to Abbey.
I'm actually in the same boat as them.
Right now, my favorite class is body structures.

(33:37):
I love learning about the human body.
I'm actually gonna go into psychiatry. So Woah.
I love learning about the brain and its
functions. So Woah. That's obviously my favorite unit
in body structures. Taught anatomy. You taught anatomy
at SWOC last year. She's a physician active
physician in our area. But at one point,
she was teaching the,

(33:59):
anatomy.
Yeah. And Yeah. All the four ones. She
she showed she when they talked about the
brain and how massive it is, they brought
me in. It showed me off. Yeah. I
think it's you're well, you're welcome to laugh
all you wish. Okay, Tia. Please do. Okay.
Amelia,
we'll start back with you. What do you

(34:20):
like best about our coastal area and what
do you like least?
What I like best is probably all the
hiking, like, all the popular spots. I think
it's so cool that we only live, like,
minutes away from all these cool, popular spots.
And, like, people have to travel so far
to see these spots, and we only live,
like Right. Not even that far. So I

(34:42):
think that's super cool.
My least favorite thing
is probably how small the town is because
I love shopping.
There is no mall here. So if we
wanna go shopping, we have to travel, like,
either two hours or, like, for a better
better mall, like, six hours. So that's probably
Where's the six hour mall? Portland. Portland. Right?

(35:04):
Eugene. Eugene. Eugene. Eugene has a big okay.
Now, Amelia, are you have you were you
born and raised here in this, Yes. I
was. I've lived here all my life. So
you're a Brookings native. Mhmm.
Very, very good.
Sofia, what is you asked the question, I
don't. I
am so sorry. What do you like best
about your

(35:25):
Well, I like best is the the river
and the beach. I've grown up on the
river. My parents have always had campouts and
ever since I was a baby, they put
me in the river. So I love that
part about it. I love it. So you're
here from here too. Right? You grew up
here? Grew up. Chetco, the road Chetco. Yeah.
And the Smith River are right in our
neighborhood. Yeah.
It's good stuff. Now what do you like
least?

(35:45):
Probably that it's really small and then all
you gotta do for teenagers and other kids
is just drive around or go to the
rivers or beaches. So yeah. Well Well, there's
a bowling area south the little south? Little
yeah. Yeah. You guys don't have one here.
Right? Trust me. There's no bowling alley here.
The bowling center, they call them now. But,
trust me, in most of America, that's what,
the high schoolers do. They drive around town

(36:08):
Yeah. Just see what's, what the excitement is.
So it's you're not missing on that. But
now that's three or four of you that
have,
said that it's it's small. We like the
smallness of Brookings and Crescent. We're also a
couple months older than you, ma'am. A couple
a couple months old. How about Abbey?
My favorite part is definitely the river. I
love the river and I love the redwoods.

(36:29):
I love going just in the redwoods and
going to the trees, and I actually took
my senior photos there. Wow. Now you go
down to Crescent City and go out that
that area? Because there's not too many redwoods
here unless Yeah. I go up,
like, when you're going to Medford, I go,
like, on the Smith River and I go
into the woods there. Yeah. Yeah. The Jedediah
Smith. Mhmm. Those areas. Wonderful.

(36:50):
The tight tight What do people like? The
rivers. Right? I'm I'm
I grew up kind of by a river,
so I'm more ocean bound. I think the
ocean is
the ocean. That and you're like big brains.
Yeah. Hey. Okay.
Amelia,
coming back,
what inspired you to participate in the pageant?

(37:12):
I've always seen the pageant going on. Like,
I've had family friends in the pageant, and
I've always thought it was super cool when
I was little. And also, like, it's it's
like getting out of my comfort zone. I've
always been super shy, so it's been hard
for me to talk in front of random
people
and making new friends.
So this was, like, a great opportunity for

(37:33):
me to get out of that comfort zone
and make, like, new friends of people that
I would have never talked to. And now
we're, like, really good friends. So it's
so So so pageant, the pageant
pathway starts
at 17, 18, or does it start younger
when you could make improvement as a younger
person? It starts at like but you have

(37:54):
little princesses with her. Right? They're little Mhmm.
Yeah. Second grader or something. Do they? Oh,
I don't know what it was. It's younger.
Mhmm.
Can they be taught a little bit so
they don't have to say, I'm so shy.
I wanna go to the pageant. Or does
it not start earlier? They are being, like,
taught a little bit, but there's not, like,

(38:15):
an exact pageant for them. They're just in
the pageant with us.
So Yeah. That's kinda the only way they
can experience how it's like. Well, we heard
just in the first half heard how,
the
when when you become more confident
that you then can go and talk to
the younger girls and make them feel more
confident as well. Right?

(38:37):
So it starts with the school year starting
And you're all seniors. Right? You have to
be a senior. Right? That's Yep. There's is
there there's not like a a frosh or
freshman. No. There's just So it starts with
the first day of being a senior you
can apply. Yep. Mhmm. And you have to
meet some requirements. Right? You have to be
a pretty good student. Yep. You have to
have good grades,

(38:58):
not have bad attendance,
good person in school.
So yeah. Oh, gosh. Alright. Sofia, what inspired
you then to participate in the pageant, come
up with a different answer?
Right.
Well, I've always watched it, the parade and
all the princesses and I've always just been
a little girl being like, oh my gosh,
I wanna do that. I'm interested in it.
And then my cousin was actually in the

(39:19):
pageant, so I gotta watch it and I
was like, yes, that is the next road
I will be taking. So, yeah. Very cool.
Always kinda looked at
Abby, we didn't ask you if you'd
were you born and raised here?
No. I grew up in the Sacramento area,
and then I moved here when I was
in sixth grade. Okay.
And, honestly,

(39:40):
I'm ready to move away. Are you? Really?
I miss the beach being like a vacation,
and now it's more like It's always here.
And it's always here, and it's not like
a feeling. Trust me. Sacramento was hot during
the summer, but that's okay. Yeah. Well, I'm
actually city. I'm actually moving to Reno for
college. Yeah. Right. At the University of Nevada

(40:00):
or is it Yeah. Yeah. The, junior
JC or what? We have Montana. Now we
have Nevada. Do you guys have a college?
Yeah. I'm going to Okay. What was it?
Sorry. Amelia, where where you Wait. Wait. Wait.
Where you finally go? I'm going to SOU
in Ashland for nursing. SOU.
Oh, you were gonna get some Oregon University.

(40:20):
And taking nursing, okay, and again, you you
always drop a good name and talk to
your GG Reed, don't you? And Sofia. And
I'm going to OIT in Klamath Falls to
become a sonographer,
at Ultrasound Tech. IT,
Oregon
Institute of Technology.
Yes. Yeah. Wow. Oh, wow. And that's in

(40:41):
Klamath Falls. Yeah.
That's a couple what? Three, four hours from
here. Right? Not too bad. That's kind of
a cool little town.
We got stuck there, Gigi.
Yes. Was that that was kind of they
have an elk's club there, we found out.
And there's a Safeway. Right? Yeah. Yes. There
is a Safeway.
That's all I need, safe food and Ross.
Alright. Continue, Gigi.

(41:03):
Okay. Now I'm thrown off. So Okay. So
we talked about the participation.
Did we ask you? Mhmm. What no. Okay.
Hey.
What What was the question?
What inspired you to
preach the pageant?
Honestly, just past girls who've done the pageant,
specifically Abby Geisler.

(41:24):
Another Abby. Yeah. She was a senior when
I was a freshman, and,
she kinda just welcomed me into band specifically,
and we came we became kind of really
good friends. And then when she did the
pageant, that kind of just inspired me. Like,
I wanna I wanna do the pageant when
I'm a senior. Hey. Who's the band director
at,
high school? Corey Tamondong. We've had him on.

(41:45):
We've had him on. We've had him on.
Yeah. Yeah. We've had the So what do
you play what what are you doing in
band? I play trumpet.
Oh,
cool. You do? Trumpet is really hard to
play. Usually, it's the guys because it's hard.
Yeah. Dang.
And I'm actually first chair.
Oh, wow. Well, at least you're starting. Right?
You're you're getting First chair is good. Oh,

(42:05):
it's your first year of First chair is
like First chair, I think I said first
year. No. First chair. First chair. I knew
that. I was just testing you.
Oh, gosh. Okay. Let's go back over to
Emilia and ask her the next question. Because
I'm falling off my script here. Okay.
What are you most passionate about?
And,

(42:26):
It's okay. It can be it should be
in the pageant
part, in family, or whatever your hobbies or
school, whatever you want. Especially good if you
have, you know, separate groups. Go ahead. I'm
most passionate
about
my sports. I've always played sports my whole
life. What's important? I play basketball and soccer.

(42:47):
K. And I've always been super passionate about
those sports and just always
been willing to help younger girls whenever they
come in and
show them a good example of how to
be when they first, like, as a freshman,
you know, to, like, get on the coach's
good hand, basically, you know? That's very smart.
Don't don't mess around at practice. Focus. And

(43:08):
if you focus, you'll get further in the
sport. You'll be better. Like, just try your
hardest every practice. Don't be embarrassed to try
your hardest
And you'll get you'll get far. Yeah. And,
Amelia, why do you wanna, be the queen?
I would love to show the community
what a good person I am and how
willing and respectful

(43:29):
I am and how willing I am to
help out in the community whenever. Cool. So
Good answer? Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Very nice. Alright.
How about you, Sofia? What are you most
passionate about?
I'm most passionate about never giving up and
trying your hardest. I'm also in soccer and
basketball, so I've always had to do my
best. And then
I've
encountered two ACL surgeries before I was 18,

(43:52):
so I've always been keep going, never give
up. So I'm always doing physical fitness. I'm
always at the gym just trying to make
sure no one tells me that I can't
do it.
Right on. And why do you wanna be
the queen? To just
when I when I was in when I
was a little girl and I was watching
the parade,
I just wanna present that same feeling to
some other little girl. Like, oh, my gosh.

(44:13):
That's so cool. Like, I wanna do that.
I just wanna give that feeling to another
girl.
Very cool. That can be pretty powerful if
you have that feeling. And that's
as a matter of fact, that's how we
got into medicine. I wanted to
purvey that feeling to somebody else. Somebody's helping
you. Somebody cares. So And it's never too
late. You started late. You know? So she
didn't I started very late going to medical

(44:35):
school. But she, yeah. You never were a
nurse either. We were she was a scientist,
but
you're the scientist,
drill and a professor. Okay. Where are we?
Abby. Abby. What are you most so
if you have more than one thing to
be most passionate about
I guess it's not most. Most is only
one. Right? You can give another one. Okay,
Abby. What are your most compassionate about subjects?

(44:58):
Honestly,
my career goals. I talk about my career
goals a lot.
I wanna go into pediatric psychiatry
because I I just really wanna help people,
especially the youth.
I feel like,
mental health in the youth is, really,
like
there's a stigma
with,
children's mental health, and I kinda wanna change

(45:19):
that. And I constantly talk about my career
goals, what I'm gonna go into. I've known
that I wanted to be a pediatric psychiatrist
since I've been a sophomore. I mean, that's
even too big of a word for me
to pronounce. Yeah. That's pretty awesome. It's it's
a lot.
But that's honestly what I'm most passionate about.
That's, like, my main goal. Nothing will change
that. Wow. You know, you guys are young

(45:40):
and,
three years of high school was shrouded in
COVID, not being able to go to school.
What has especially now that you say psychiatry
and and and children. I mean,
do you feel that you have lost something
because of that COVID? You had you didn't
have that time together as students in school

(46:01):
because you had to do it online? Wait
a minute. When did the COVID restrictions come
off? Two two years ago? Yeah. We were,
like, we were halfway through our freshman year,
I think. Or was it? Finally,
when did they said you can Well, it
was so from 2020 to to '23. It
was like we were in seventh grade. They
were like two weeks off and then it
became a whole year. So eighth grade was
online. And then freshman year was all masked

(46:24):
and six feet and little different. Yeah. Yikes.
Yeah. Do you feel, wow, I live through
that. I can talk about it and I
can tell other people about it or is
like, dang it. I wish I wouldn't have
done that and I could have had a
normal life. Or do you how do you
see it?
It's what happened. Right? How many took care
of it? Honestly, it was it was just

(46:44):
draining,
like,
being, like, isolated,
honestly.
I felt, like, alone, but at the same
time, it was, like,
nice being at home all the time.
But then it was kind of like a
breath of fresh air once we finally got
back into school because
I I'm a very in person learner, so
it was really difficult

(47:05):
learning online, and I wasn't doing well in
my classes learning online.
And even, like, going into freshman year, I
still wasn't doing well because I was drained
from
COVID, and I was just I kinda didn't
really care at the time. But then sophomore
year came around, coverage restrictions lifted, and I
was kind of like, okay. I need to
take my education seriously. Cool. And why do

(47:28):
you wanna be the queen?
Honestly, it's not my main goal going into
the pageant. I am just really happy to
be part of this tradition.
But if I were to win queen, I
would really like to show, like, the younger
children who didn't grow up here or, like,
they just moved here or, like, somebody
if they're a freshman and they just moved
here, that even if they weren't from this

(47:49):
town, they don't have a history
that they can participate in this pageant and
they could
possibly win queen. Right on. Right on. Sofia,
I don't think we asked you. Why why
do you wanna be queen?
You you asked me. Yeah. You did.
I'm glad I asked. Okay. It's okay. Forget
I even asked that a second thing.
Are any of you,
Abby Amelia, are you into,

(48:10):
community service? Have you been involved in any
way?
Yeah.
In sports, we'll like, for the sports things
that I do, we'll try and help out
around the community sometimes or we do some
fundraising things for stuff. Or, like, even for
school things, I'll go help decorate with, like,
Sophia. Sophia will invite me and she's like,

(48:30):
oh, come do these community service things with
me. And I'll be like, okay. Yeah. So
I'm always happy to help in the community.
Whenever I hear it, I'm happy to help
whenever with anything.
The town's small enough, you could walk. Pretty
Yeah. Beware. Yeah. If you've gotta be unless
you live way outside of town or up
a river. Right? Mhmm. Or none of you
live here? And most everybody lives in Brookings,

(48:51):
but you can also live in Harbor. That's
right. Because Harbor is it's called Brookings Harbor
actually. Right?
Yeah. We know Tristan Harkins too.
We're connected.
Sofia,
are you involved in community service?
Yes. I am. I'm involved in our National
Honor Society at our high school. So, like,
a week ago, I I believe, we just

(49:12):
did a whole beach cleanup
down at right behind front of my I
forget what it's called. Mill Beach? Yes. Mill
Beach. Like, it's just cleaning up. Yes. It
did. We cleaned that up. And then I'm
also in leadership. So I'm the senior class
vice president. So I'm always helping around, doing
whatever I can at the Elks, a lot
of places. And we're also required to have
twenty five hours to pass the class each
semester, so fifty in total. So I'm involved.

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Wow. Very, very good. How about you, Abby?
Are you involved? I'm also in National Honor
Society.
And, you know, we have, like, a certain
amount of hours that we have to get.
But I really like to,
go beyond that and do more
because service shouldn't be something that you're, like,
required to do. It should be something that
you want to do. Yeah. Right. And I

(49:56):
kind of preach that, honestly.
I actually,
I went to a leadership conference in Chicago
in January
right after I had a foot surgery, actually.
Oh, wow. It was it was very interesting.
And we brought back a lot of valuable
things to,
introduce to our National Honor Society
because there's not a lot of commitment.
And I was kind of just preaching that,

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everyone should want to do a service and
want to go outside of the box and
not just do what they're required to do.
And yeah. Cool.
Very. Then you started
did you start new projects? Or how do
you even get involved? I mean, I understand
What is National Honor Society? Is that you
have to have good background? You have to
it's like a grade requirement, and it's really

(50:40):
just like community service. A lot of actually,
what I learned at that conference is a
lot of National Honor Societies,
like, they do everything with the school. They
do what our leadership does, and they just
plan all the school events
and everything. But what we kind of do
is just more community service.
Cool.
Back to you, Sofia. Why would you like
to be the queen? No.

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I didn't. I was no answer against it.
Had to shake it up a bit.
Alright.
Where do you you ask you. No. You
go. Oh, you want me? I say Amelia?
Okay. Amelia, where do you see yourself? You're
you're wait a minute.
Sofia, you're 17? Mhmm. Are you homeschooled or
you're going to high school too? High school.
Okay. Alright. But back to Amelia, you're 18.

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Where do you see yourself in five years?
When you are 20 let's see. I got
my math. Oops. '24. No. '22. No. '23.
Where do you see yourself at 23?
Hopefully as an aesthetic nurse. So, like, doing
lip filler and all that stuff.
I actually just did a job shadowing. I'm
in this class called medical internship. So I
get to go around and job shadow all

(51:46):
these
medical jobs and, like, all these different places
to see what I'm really interested in. And
Wow.
Anesthetic nurse just really caught my eye.
But who knows? I could change. I could
so you have to become an RN to
do an aesthetic nurse. So I could become
an RN and decide I don't wanna do
that, and I'll maybe work in a hospital

(52:06):
or something like that. So Very cool. RN
is is a is a is a awesome
job, actually. They need more RN. We need
more RNs. It is actually, it's a it's
a very good education.
Yep. So if you're good in high school,
most likely you'll be good in that. And
it's it's it's studying. But if you know
how to study, you can do it. It's
not un undoable.

(52:28):
But it is very good. I mean, nurses
go through this rigorous program,
and sometimes it is really underrated by
some patients
thinking they're just,
I don't know, secretaries or so. They're not.
Nurses is a very
deep subject. Yeah. You
rely on nurses

(52:49):
extremely much. I don't know your nurses are
your besties, as you call them. Right. Yeah.
Your besties
doctors. Okay. Sofia, where where do you see
yourself when you're twenty seventeen plus five, miss?
22. 20 two. Okay. I see myself with
a master's degree in sonography,
and I'm either gonna be working in a
hospital or traveling with that job. Stenography.

(53:10):
Sonography. Sonography. Ultrasound. Ultrasound. Ultrasound. Yes. It's just
kinda higher up then, but yeah. It's just
Sonography.
Stenographer.
I thought it was stenographer.
What is a stenographer? A person that writes
a short answer? Like, like, Michelle.
She's a former right? Okay. Well, I didn't
know. Beat me up. Nobody does that. Beat
me up later. Darn it. Ain't my chance
to shine. So

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Sonography. Okay. Go ahead. Abby, where do you
see yourself when you are 23?
Alright. So,
hopefully, with my master's in psychology.
And then from there, I'll work as a
psychologist
while I try to get into med school.
And once I'm in med school, I'll have
to get my psych MD to actually become
a psychiatrist.
And I don't I'm not sure if I'll

(53:54):
be in Reno. I'm I really wanna end
up in Seattle.
Honestly. I really like Seattle. I like what
they're doing
with the mental health field. They're very experimental
right
now, and they're kind of shying away from
just, like, all the,
drugs and medications that they use to
take care of mental illnesses, and they're

(54:14):
taking a more,
natural route with it.
Natural and counseling. Mhmm. Right? So,
but that's where we are I personally feel
short on Mhmm. In having counselors. So psychologists
and psychiatrists really should work together. Yeah. Yeah.
It it best scenario is if you learn
both or at at least have two people

(54:36):
who work together. Yeah. Because it you most
likely need both. And and psychology
also is often underrated
Yeah.
Which is sad.
But it is super important
for us. And and remember, never break someone's
heart
because he only had one heart.
Break their bones instead because they had got

(54:57):
206 of them.
Yeah. That's what I said. Hey. What did
the cows say to the leather chair?
Hi, mom. Hey. Are we alright at you
in sculpture. Okay.
Hey. Are we alright? I know we are
not. We're not. Guess we are? Oh, we
are? Yeah. Okay. Ladies, wow. This has been
amazing. We've had six of you. There's seven

(55:17):
altogether. Right? So one of them wasn't able
to make it. Who who couldn't make it?
Kylie. Alright, Kylie. Shout out to Kylie. Kylie,
anybody know her last name? Brissette. Brissette? Brissette.
Brissette. Okay. Kylie Brissette. Do you have any
shout outs you wanna give to anybody?
No. Also okay. Family members of these three
ladies Say mom, dad. Loves you so much.
Shout out to them. Great ladies here. Alright.

(55:39):
We have had wonderful time here. Our second
annual
pageant review, which is gonna be heard on
KZZH
next week,
in Humboldt and I'm wearing two glasses. Sorry
about that. And, KFUG in Crescent City. So
you are gonna be able to hear these
shows again. Also, everybody can hear this show
at your leisure by going to kciw.org,
and you go to past shows. And then

(56:01):
you'll
scroll down alphabetically to Doc Anjoc. She's first.
And then,
Ladies first. It'll be the top it'll be
the top posting of this show, and it's
will be posted at 05:01.
It'll be on the air for you to
come back and listen to it. Your leisure
and hear how you did. You did all
exceptionally well. The three of you six of
you. Amelia and Sofia and Abby, thank you

(56:22):
so much for being on the radio. I
hope this is the first time on the
radio for all of you. And you guys.
Okay. Good. And then our other guests that
were lineup with Danielle now I got too
many names on my my hand my head
right now, but that's okay.
We thank you one and all for coming
in and being on the show. My voice
wasn't too scratchy? Oh, no. You're fine.
Thank you. Thank you for putting up with

(56:42):
the doctor. I was the serious one throughout
this whole conversation. Yeah. We're now in We
are in fun time quarter. Okay. Give us
some good Alright. Give us good quotes. It's
all you, doc. Okay. So yesterday was Earth
Day. So we have some quotes about that.
We do? Yeah. Well, I do.
The Earth is getting hotter than my ex's
temper. Let's cool it down.

(57:04):
Wow. That's that's kinda risque for you. Woah.
I know. But it was a good one.
Okay. Give us another one. K. Another one.
Keep the earth clean.
It's not Uranus.
Just a bit too. Okay. What? Say what,
doctor?
Say that one again. I'm sorry. Keep the
earth clean. It's not
Uranus.

(57:26):
Oh, my. Do you know? Okay. Go to
the next one. Reduce, reduce, release, whatever that
other one. Reduce, reuse, recycle, and repeat until
it's second nature.
Okay. There we go. I've said this one
before. It's one of my favorites.
Ray Ray Simon always tells me to say
it. He says, cremation
is my last chance for a smoking hot
body.

(57:49):
Very funny.
Thank you. Thank the Earth. It's the only
planet with chocolate.
Thank the Earth. It's the only planet with
chocolate that we know of. That we know
of. Right? What's the Albert Einstein one? I
like that one. The next one. Look deep
into nature and then you will understand everything
better.
Albert Einstein. And the next one? I'll do
it. Listen to this. I have another one.
Do it. We still do not know one

(58:11):
thousandth
of 1%
of what nature has revealed to us.
Also, Albert Einstein. Oh, pretty darn good. Hey,
speaking of Einstein and physics and stuff, what's
the most terrifying
word to hear in nuclear physics?
Pray tell. Oops.

(58:34):
I told you one of her patients is
the invisible man. He she's still waiting to
be seen. I told you. My grief counselor
is so good that he died the other
day. Nobody cares.
That one is actually actually very good. But
guess what?
I asked Siri why am I still single.
And guess what she did? She activated the
self portrait camera. Well Darn it. Okay. She

(58:55):
just took my phone away from me. Boyfriend.
Okay. You have been listening to the Doc
and Chuck radio variety show
on KCOW
one hundred point seven FM in Brookings, Oregon.
We sure hope you have enjoyed
our fantastic
show with the six princesses
today. Right. Right. We have. Thank you all

(59:15):
ladies for coming in and illuminating us. We
also wanna thank Tom Bozek, Ray Simon, and
Michael Gorse. Thank you, Michael Gorse, out there
for shuffling everybody in and out. Thank you
for all you do. Everybody, you can email
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